University of Waikato Research

• The effects of promotional content on the nutritional quality of children’s breakfast cereals from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom , Canada and the United States. 

  Chepulis, Lynne; Everson, Nadine; Wu, Jason H.Y.; Mearns, Gael (2019)

  Breakfast is considered to be an essential meal for children, offering valuable nutrition for growing bodies. However, the nutritional value of pre-packaged children’s cereals has been questioned recently, particularly as ...

  

• A review of Automatic end-to-end De-Identification: Is High Accuracy the Only Metric? 

  Yogarajan, Vithya; Pfahringer, Bernhard; Mayo, Michael (Taylor & Francis Inc, 2020)

  De-identification of electronic health records (EHR) is a vital step towards advancing health informatics research and maximising the use of available data. It is a two-step process where step one is the identification of ...

• Sexual health practices of 16 to 19 year olds in New Zealand: an exploratory study. 

  Ellis, Sonja J.; Aitken, Robyn (2020)

  INTRODUCTION New Zealand sexual health surveillance data suggest that young people aged 15-19 years are at considerable risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections. Although there is an established body of international ...

  

• Green and economic fabrication of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanorods as a broadband UV blocker and antimicrobial agent 

  Taghizadeh, Seyedeh-Masoumeh; Lal, Neha; Ebrahiminezhad, Alireza; Moeini, Fatemeh; Seifan, Mostafa; Ghasemi, Younes; Berenjian, Aydin (MDPI, 2020)

  Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles have gained widespread interest due to their unique properties, making them suitable for a range of applications. Several methods for their production are available, and of these, controlled ...

  

• Comparing high dimensional word embeddings trained on medical text to bag-of-words for predicting medical codes 

  Yogarajan, Vithya; Gouk, Henry; Smith, Tony C.; Mayo, Michael; Pfahringer, Bernhard (Springer, 2020)

  Word embeddings are a useful tool for extracting knowledge from the free-form text contained in electronic health records, but it has become commonplace to train such word embeddings on data that do not accurately reflect ...

  

• Bringing violence into the open 

  Smith, Kelly (2019)

  This paper shows the situation of family violence in New Zealand, reasons for failure to report of violence, and how to prevent it.

  

• A comparison of beach nourishment methodology and performance at two fringing reef beaches in Waikiki (Hawaii, USA) and Cadiz (SW Spain) 

  Muñoz-Perez, Juan J.; Gallop, Shari L.; Moreno, Luis J. (MDPI AG, 2020)

  Fringing reefs have significant impacts on beach dynamics, yet there is little research on how they should be considered in beach nourishment design, monitoring, and conservation works. Thus, the behavior and characteristics ...

  

• The Trap of Incrementalism in the Political Inclusion of Children. 

  Munn, Nicholas (2019)

  Thirty years on from the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the international norm for the age of political majority remains set at 18 years of age. With few exceptions, those under 18 are denied access to the single ...

  

• The role of women in nation-building: Rocking the Boat at the Risk of making it Capsize? 

  Williamson, Myra Elsie Jane Bell (2019)

  I have been in exile for a long time, and I was amazed at the resilience, intelligence, strength and ability of the Afghan women that I met who came from inside the country and around the world. These women, I promise, can ...

  

• Welfare words: Critical social work and social policy by Paul Michael Garrett [Book Review] 

  Smith, Kelly (2019)

  This article reviews the book, "Welfare words: Critical social work and social policy", by Paul Michael Garrett

  

• Prevalence of internet addiction and gaming disorders in Southeast Asia: A meta-analysis. 

  Chia, Doris X. Y.; Ng, Charis W. L.; Kandasami, Gomathinayagam; Seow, Mavis Y. L.; Choo, Carol C.; Chew, Peter K. H.; Lee, Cheng; Zhang, Melvyn W. B. (2020)

  This meta-analytic review aimed to examine the pooled prevalence rates of Internet addiction and gaming disorders in Southeast Asia. Several databases including PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane ...

  

• Respecting and recognising Indigenous rights when challenged by commercial activities 

  Toki, Valmaine (Queensland University of Technology, 2018)

  The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was hailed as a triumph among Indigenous peoples, signalling a long-awaited recognition of their fundamental human rights. Despite this, many violations ...

  

• Groundwater management in coastal areas through landscape scale planning: A systematic literature review 

  Braga, Armando César Rodrigues; Serrao-Neumann, Silvia; De Oliveira Galvao, Carlos (Springer, 2020)

  Groundwater is one of the main resources for social-ecological systems. As part of the total water cycle and deeply connected with land use, groundwater management faces many challenges, especially in coastal areas. Landscape ...

• A dose response study to assess the effects of New Zealand Pine Bark extract on glycaemic responses in healthy participants. 

  Lim, Wen Xin Janice; von Hurst, Pamela; Gammon, Cheryl; Chepulis, Lynne Merran; Page, Rachel (2019)

  Background: The current estimation of 451 million people diagnosed with diabetes is expected to increase to 693 million by 2045. Plant extracts have been shown to improve glycaemic control in humans. However, evidence is ...

  

• F-Lingo: Integrating lexical feature identification into MOOC platforms for learning professional and academic English 

  Fitzgerald, Alannah; König, Jemma Lynette; Witten, Ian H. (IEEE, 2019)

  F-Lingo is a chrome extension that works on top of the FutureLearn MOOC platform to support content-based language learning of domain-specific terminology for professional and academic purposes.

  

• Alternative food networks and opportunities for transformation towards a sustainable and resilient urban food system 

  Vieira, Leticia Canal; Serrao-Neumann, Silvia; Howes, Michael (2020)

  Food systems are suffering from pressures related to population growth, increased urbanisation, climate change, and resource scarcity. These pressures are exacerbated by globalisation, with consumers concentrated in urban ...

  

• When salient science is not enough to advance climate change adaptation: Lessons from Brazil and Australia 

  Serrao-Neumann, Silvia; Di Giulio, Gabriela; Low Choy, Darryl (Elsevier BV, 2020)

  Increased social and environmental vulnerability to extreme climatic events and inherent aggravation of environmental and social problems has placed climate change adaptation as an urgent challenge for decision-makers. ...

• De-mythologizing and re-branding the traditional drink kava 

  Aporosa, S. 'Apo' (Research Outreach, 2020)

  Kava, a plant lacking seeds or a means to self-propagate, is believed to have first originated in Northern Vanuatu thousands of years ago. Those origins add to kava’s spiritual significance and recognition as a ‘plant of ...

  

• Extending randles’s battery model to predict impedance, charge-voltage, and runtime characteristics 

  Hasan, Rahat; Scott, Jonathan B. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  The impedance of a battery can be modelled with an elegant fractional-capacitor or “constant phase element” (CPE) equivalent circuit and a series resistor. In this manuscript, we present new evidence that suggests that a ...

  

• Speedometer monitoring when driving with a speed warning system 

  Lehtonen, Esko; Malhotra, Neha; Starkey, Nicola J.; Charlton, Samuel G. (Springer Open, 2020)

  Aim The study investigated how a speed warning system influence drivers’ speedometer monitoring, and how drivers respond when they receive a speed warning. With a speed warning system, drivers may pay more attention to ...

  

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