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The influences of quality attributes and socio-demographics on Chinese consumers' general and online consumptions of Canadian, US and Australian lobsters
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2021)Purpose This study explores the influence of quality attributes and socio-demographics on Chinese consumers' general and online consumption of three origin-specific lobsters: Canadian, United States and Australian. D ... -
Chinese consumers and shellfish: Associations between perception, quality, attitude and consumption
(Elsevier, 2018)This study explores the associations between Chinese consumers’ product attribute perceptions and their quality perceptions, attitudes and consumptions toward shellfish. It also presents information regarding their ... -
Perceptions of Chinese traditional food and European food among Chinese consumers
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Chinese consumers’ perceptions in relation to both Chinese traditional and European food. Design/methodology/approach A web-based free word association test was administered ... -
On ensemble techniques for data stream regression
(IEEE, 2020)An ensemble of learners tends to exceed the predictive performance of individual learners. This approach has been explored for both batch and online learning. Ensembles methods applied to data stream classification were ... -
Towards embedding data provenance in files
(IEEE, 2021)Data provenance (keeping track of who did what, where, when and how) boasts of various attractive use cases for distributed systems, such as intrusion detection, forensic analysis and secure information dependability. This ... -
Importance of environmental factors over habitat connectivity in shaping bacterial communities in microbial mats and bacterioplankton in an Antarctic freshwater system.
(2021)Freshwater ecosystems are considered hotspots of biodiversity in Antarctic polar deserts. Anticipated warming is expected to change the hydrology of these systems due to increased meltwater and reduction of ice cover, with ... -
The history of number words in the world's languages-what have we learnt so far?
(Royal Society Publishing, 2021)For over 100 years, researchers from various disciplines have been enthralled and occupied by the study of number words. This article discusses implications for the study of deep history and human evolution that arise from ... -
Consumer adoption of online-to-offline food delivery services: A conceptual model
(Springer, 2020)There is a dramatic growth in the market of Online-To-Offline food delivery services (O2O-FDS) recently. A need exists for the stakeholders of food and catering industries to better understand the market of O2O-FDS in order ... -
General image, perceptions and consumer segments of luxury seafood in China: A case study for lobster
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2018)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Chinese consumers’ perceptions towards a luxury seafood – lobster, and identify the important perceptions that influence Chinese consumers’ general image of lobster. It also ... -
Motives for luxury seafood consumption in first-tier cities in China
(Elsevier, 2020)This study explored Chinese consumers’ choice motives, motive dimensions, segmentation, and species preferences on luxury seafood consumption. A web-based survey was administered to 967 luxury seafood eaters from three ... -
Lignin oxidation products in soil, dripwater and speleothems from four different sites in New Zealand
(Copernicus GmbH, 2021)Lignin oxidation products (LOPs) are widely used as vegetation proxies in climate archives, such as sediment and peat cores. The total LOP concentration, Σ8, provides information on the abundance of vegetation, while the ... -
CS-ARF: Compressed adaptive random forests for evolving data stream classification
(IEEE, 2020)Ensemble-based methods are one of the most often used methods in the classification task that have been adapted to the stream setting because of their high learning performance achievement. For instance, Adaptive Random ... -
Strengthening belonging and identity of refugee and immigrant children through early childhood education
(TLRI, 2020)This project explored the role of early childhood education (ECE) and pedagogical strategies in supporting a sense of belonging and identity for refugee and immigrant children and families in Aotearoa New Zealand. We used ... -
TATAU: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing [Book review]
(Pacific Affairs, 2021)This book is a homage to tatau, honouring its deep socio-political significance and central mediating role in Sāmoan culture, past and present. As much as this is a social anthropological account, however, it is also a ... -
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary: Terraqueous Territorialization and Māori Marine Environments
(Pacific Affairs, 2021)This paper interprets the disrupted establishment of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, a 620,000 square kilometre marine protection area, as a crucial moment in Pacific frontier making. The development of large-scale protected ... -
To send or not to send nudes: New Zealand girls critically discuss the contradictory gendered pressures of teenage sexting
(Elsevier, 2021)Drawing on principles of participatory action research, we conducted workshop interviews with New Zealand secondary school girls about the dynamics of sexting between girls and boys. We worked with seven small groups of ... -
Red Sea fish market assessments indicate high species diversity and potential overexploitation
(Elsevier BV, 2021)In many parts of the world, particularly remote and underdeveloped regions, reports of fisheries catch, effort, and landing data are limited. In order to implement effective fishing regulations to protect natural stocks, ... -
Chinese consumers and European beer: Associations between attribute importance, socio-demographics, and consumption
(Elsevier, 2017)The demand for western alcoholic beverages in China has increased tremendously in recent years. However, there is still a lack of understanding with regard to the behaviour of Chinese consumers towards European beer, which ... -
Psychosocial support needs of women with breast cancer in the Waikato region
(New Zealand Medical Association, 2019)Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women and the third most common cancer in New Zealand. Despite improved survival rates, significant psychosocial distress is experienced by breast cancer patients. ... -
The effectiveness of a 17-week lifestyle intervention on health behaviors among airline pilots during COVID-19
(Elsevier, 2020)PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a 17-week, 3-component lifestyle intervention for enhancing health behaviors during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: A parallel-group ...
