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Negative political communication on social media and the gender gap: A study of men's and women's reactions to presidential candidate attacks on facebook in 2012 and 2016
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-09-01)Do men and women respond differently to negative political communication? Only a limited collection of studies into the effects of negative campaigns have investigated this research question, and the conflicting results ... -
Teachers’ understandings of the role of translation in vernacular language maintenance in Malekula: some early thoughts
(Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)Existing research concerning literacy in the Pacific indicates three key considerations: (1) Traditional print literacy levels are low (Toumu’a 2016), (2) the development of culturally and linguistically relevant quality ... -
The influences of sonic sensory awareness through the production and consumption of screened nature documentaries
(University of Otago, 2017)Multiple commercial and technological factors influence the soundscapes experienced by audiences of nature documentaries. As a genre, nature documentary is a consensual term for fauna and wildlife screened programmes whose ... -
Equity of travel required to access first definitive surgery for liver or stomach cancer in New Zealand.
(2022)In New Zealand, there are known disparities between the Indigenous Māori and the majority non-Indigenous European populations in access to cancer treatment, with resulting disparities in cancer survival. There is international ... -
Establishing conversion of the 16-item Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly scores into interval-level data across multiple samples using Rasch methodology
(Wiley, 2023-02-13)BACKGROUND: The 16-item Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE-16) is a well-validated and widely-used measure of cognitive changes (CCs) among older adults. This study aimed to use Rasch ... -
Understanding Game Actions: The Development of a Post-Processing Method for Audio-Visual Scene Analysis
(IEEE, 2016-01-01)This paper introduces a video processing method designed specifically to give researchers access to players' behaviors within any commercially available off-the-shelf PC game. Insights into players' experiences with videogame ... -
Speaking and writing English
(Blackwell/Wiley Press, 2020)The study of spoken English is exciting, challenging, and controversial: exciting, because new and unexpected constructions keep turning up; challenging, because some syntactic constructions of spoken language resist ... -
Louisa Alice Baker
(The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd, 2019)Louisa Alice Baker was the first professional New Zealand woman novelist, publishing seventeen books between 1894 and 1913. Most of her fiction was set in the New Zealand she lived in from the ages of 7 to 38, but all of ... -
"Delicate, petite & other things I'll never be": trans-punk anthems and love songs
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020-01-02)Punk’s dogged durability continues to be driven by a communal ethos that once embodied inclusivity, resistance, challenge, and transformation. The precipitous absorption and integration of punk into the mainstream ran the ... -
The use of heaps as quantifier and intensifier in New Zealand English
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-12-11)This article documents novel uses of the noun heaps in New Zealand English, namely as quantifier and intensifier, by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpus data. Closely following in the footsteps of lots, ... -
Examining and enhancing the reliability of the Arabic version of the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Background Clinical perfectionism has been implicated among risks for developing depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. This study aimed to translate the widely used Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire (CPQ) into ... -
Gender and Climate Change vulnerability: A Case Study of a Coastal Community in Pramuka Island, the Seribu Islands
(Springer, 2023)Climate change poses a significant threat to people’s lives and livelihoods around the globe, and communities of small low-lying islands of the developing world are especially vulnerable. As a growing scholarship demonstrates, ... -
Investigating Predictors of Psychological Distress for Healthcare Workers in a Major Saudi COVID-19 Center.
(2022-04-07)This study investigated the relationship between fear of COVID-19, previous exposure to COVID-19, perceived vulnerability to disease, sleep quality, and psychological distress among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Taif city ... -
The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020-05-20)Among the chief qualities of The Crucible, apart from the charming writing style, is its ability to bring to light, in a highly readable form for a non-expert audience, the complex problems that researching language raises. ... -
Development and validation of the Awareness Outcomes Measure (AOM) using Rasch approach
(Springer, 2023-01-24)ABSTRACT Objectives: Awareness is a key component of concepts related to well-being, such as mindfulness and authenticity. Similarly, interventions to enhance mindfulness and well-being often focus on developing awareness. ... -
A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change. The bilabial trills of Vanuatu’s Malekula Island
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2023-02-07)This paper demonstrates that unexpected sound changes are best explained by an approach that accounts for different motivations: phonetic, structural and social. Here, we focus on a multifaceted investigation of the ... -
A pilot study of application of the Stroke Riskometer mobile app for assessment of the course and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 among hospitalised patients
(Karger Publishers, 2023-01)Early determination of COVID-19 severity and health outcomes could facilitate better treatment of patients. Different methods and tools have been developed for predicting outcomes of COVID-19, but they are difficult to use ... -
Implications for COVID-19 vaccine uptake: A systematic review
(Elsevier BV, 2023-03)Abstract Background Globally, increasing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination coverage remains a major public health concern in the face of high rates of COVID-19 hesitancy among the general population. We must ... -
The Prevalence and Targets of Cyberbullying Behaviours: An Observational Approach
(2022)The online environment has few boundaries and is evolving quickly, which may enable a greater prevalence of negative behaviour, like cyberbullying. Most cyberbullying researchers have used self-report methodologies, focussed ... -
The finger continues to point to the moon
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023)Mindfulness: A Finger Pointing to the Moon—this was the title of the editorial that inaugurated the very first issue of Mindfulness (Singh, 2010). The Founding Editor-in-Chief, Nirbhay Singh, chose a reference to this ...