Browsing by Degree Name "Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)"
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A Case for an Indigenous Court - a realisation of self-determination?
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis searches for appropriate ways to alter entrenched patterns of highly negative outcomes for Māori in the criminal justice system. The statistics demonstrate that proportionately, Māori are much more likely to ... -
A detailed characterisation of the wave climate around New Zealand and its variability
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Ocean waves can cause severe social and economic impacts. Therefore, understanding their behaviour is of paramount importance for the effective management of coastal and ocean hazards. This thesis thoroughly investigates ... -
A Kind of Magic: Identifying and Analysing Queen's Idiolect, 1973-1980
(University of Waikato, 2016)‘A Kind of Magic’ is a musicological study of the British band Queen’s output between 1973 and 1980. The research analyses 90 songs across eight studio albums, and covers the era during which Queen emerged as one of the ... -
A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis ... -
A Mobile Augmented Memory Aid for people with Traumatic Brain Injury
(University of Waikato, 2017)Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when an external mechanical force traumatically injures the brain. The 2010/2011 population-based study shows that the total incidence of TBI in New Zealand has increased to 790 per ... -
A Multi-level Technology Acceptance, Adoption and Implementation Model for Achieving Government-Citizen Dialogue: An Omani Case Study
(University of Waikato, 2014)The number of commercial applications that exploit Web 2.0 social media is increasing rapidly. However, little is known about the challenges that public sector organizations face when they decide to adopt Web or other ... -
A New Form of Authoritarianism? Rethinking Military Politics in Post-1999 Nigeria
(University of Waikato, 2015)Despite the vast research that has been done on the Nigerian military, virtually all of these studies have failed to critically examine the accepted role of the military in the democratising phase. This is important because ... -
A Predictive Model for the Parallel Processing of Digital Libraries
(University of Waikato, 2015)The computing world is facing the problem of a seemingly exponential increase in the amount of raw digital data, and the speed at which it is being collected, is eclipsing our ability to manage it manually. Combine this ... -
A secret ingredient for SMEs performance: Human resource management in cafés and restaurants in Auckland and Waikato, New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)Though entrepreneurship theory has developed extensively over the last few decades, the drivers behind small business performance are underdeveloped in terms of human resource management (HRM) practices, particularly in ... -
A Study on Supported Metal Catalysts Prepared from Colloidal Precursors
(University of Waikato, 2016)When metal nanoparticles are supported on the surface of an inert carrier, the resulting materials can become powerful heterogeneous catalysts capable of accelerating a diverse range of chemical reactions. Though there are ... -
A trajectory of financial inclusion towards economic inclusion: Empirical evidence from LICs-Ghana as a case.
(The University of Waikato, 2017)This study investigates the trajectory of financial inclusion towards economic inclusion in Ghana. The aim is to track the dynamisms and the conduits through which financial inclusion translates into an inclusive-economic ... -
A woman's reckoning: a feminist analysis of the power of the internationally accepted conception and implementation of the United Nations System of National Accounts
(University of Waikato, 1989)The United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA) was the formal and global institutionalization of the development of national accounts over a period of several centuries. Each man responsible for the development is ... -
Absorptive capacity and internationalization of New Zealand high-tech SMEs in the agro-technology sector
(The University of Waikato, 2008)This study investigates the relationships between firm's technology, absorptive capacity and the internationalization process in the high-tech SMEs. The research identifies the most influential factors that affect the ... -
Abundance and Function of Multiple Haemoglobin Isomorphs from Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
(University of Waikato, 2011)Haemoglobins perform the vital physiological function of transporting oxygen from the external environment to the tissues. Poikilothermic rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss = Salmo gairdneri = S. irideus) produce multiple ... -
Academic success amongst a cohort of gifted and talented Māori and Pasifika secondary school boys: Elements that have contributed to their achievement
(University of Waikato, 2015)In recent years Māori and Pasifika students have been the focus of much discussion and a significant amount of research relating to underachievement. Despite this, many Māori and Pasifika secondary school boys are achieving ... -
Access to Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in New Zealand: A Matter of Human Rights
(The University of Waikato, 2009)Scope of work undertaken: This thesis focuses on access to marriage as a fundamental human right, and the premise that there is no justifiable reason, in terms of New Zealand law, why same-sex couples should be excluded ... -
The Acoustic Ecology of the First-Person Shooter
(The University of Waikato, 2007)This thesis contributes to the field of Game Studies by presenting the hypothesis that the player(s) and soundscape(s) in the first-person shooter (FPS) game, and the relationships between them, may be construed as an ... -
Acoustic Vector Network Analyser
(The University of Waikato, 2017)This research aims at increasing the accuracy and precision of characterising acoustic materials by adapting well-known techniques developed for the radio-frequency domain to the acoustic domain. Two novel methods are ... -
Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis
(University of Waikato, 2017)The most popular sentiment analysis task in Twitter is the automatic classification of tweets into sentiment categories such as positive, negative, and neutral. State-of-the-art solutions to this problem are based on ... -
An activity theory analysis of social epistemologies within tertiary-level eLearning environments
(University of Waikato, 2009)In recent years, eLearning or the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in tertiary-level educational environments has experienced phenomenal growth. There is an extensive body of research that has established ...
