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Evaluation of granular media to wastewater treatment; advanced primary treatment utilising modified pumice, titanomagnetite and ceramic nozzles.
(The University of Waikato, 2002)The treatment of wastewater to higher standards is becoming increasingly important as legislation and public perception demand reduced impact of human activity on the environment. Filtration of primary treated effluent ... -
Discursive positioning in theory and practice: a case for narrative mediation
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This is a study of the usefulness of the concept of ‘discursive positioning’ in the practice of mediation and in the analysis of what happens in mediation. Mediation, as typically practised, has developed within the general ... -
The writing of competing histories of Hong Kong, with special reference to the perspectives from Britain, Mainland China and Hong Kong
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The thesis covers the competing perspectives on Hong Kong history, with a special focus on how British colonial historiography and Mainland Chinese patriotic historiography wrote the history of Hong Kong. It is found that ... -
Dogs' scent detection performance with rapidly changing targets
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Scent detection dogs trained to detect one target scent are sometimes needed to detect a different target. Recent studies have demonstrated that scent detection animals can be trained to detect multiple scents simultaneously. ... -
Te Mātāpuna o Te Waihou: When the river speaks: Te Waihou river rights and power-sharing in the currents of cultural inequality.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)National fresh water management in Aotearoa New Zealand is a subject of political contention for hapū that claim customary rights over natural water resources. Waterways continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate under ... -
Learning through cooperative education work placements in science and technology
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Cooperative education (co-op) is a strategy of education that includes a requirement for successful completion of both formal classwork and work placements to gain a qualification. The work placements immerse the student ... -
Asynchronous communication technology: an organisational perspective on efficacy and use
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This thesis begins with a statement that the literature has suggested great promise for Asynchronous Communication Technologies (ACT’s) such as electronic mail and related technologies. An ideology of democracy is made ... -
Fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapour at a Waikato peat bog
(The University of Waikato, 2003)New Zealand wetlands are threatened entities and the remaining 15% of pre-European freshwater wetlands are important refuges for plant and animal species, while also providing historical information on past environmental ... -
Demystifying a relationship between voluntary work and Māori
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is to provide evidence that critically reviews the relationship between Māori and voluntary work in social service organisations. Since colonisation very little research has been initiated that ... -
The utility of the psychopathy checklist- screening version for predicting serious violent recidivism in a New Zealand offender sample
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This study set out to evaluate the ability of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL: SV) to predict criminal reoffending by New Zealand offenders convicted of previous serious violent offences. Psychopathy has ... -
What about the violent offenders?: The possibilities and problems of prison abolition in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis engages with the issues of mass incarceration and violence in the developing field of research on post-prison societies. Rather than restating the abolitionist argument, this thesis seeks to address three key ... -
Incorporating high-quality surfing breaks into multi-purpose reefs
(The University of Waikato, 2000)The studies presented in this thesis have focussed on surfing. Bathymetries, aerial photographs and wave vortex information at natural surfing breaks were measured and collected. These data were applied to understand the ... -
“You’re not coming out – you’ve been there all along and just no one’s looked”: Māori LGBT+ youth and identity exploration
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This research is a Masters-level project on Māori LGBT-plus (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other) youths’ experience of exploring their gender and sexual identities, highlighting how whānau (loosely, ‘extended ... -
Cue word guided question generation with BERT model fine-tuned on natural question dataset
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis aims to develop an efficient question generator for an automated tutoring system. Given a context passage with an answer, the question generator asks questions to help the reader learn new material. By utilizing ... -
Addressing disparities by listening to Māori whānau: Lessons for Kāhui Ako
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This research involved interviewing five Māori whānau, with children attending four of six schools across a Kāhui Ako, to identify the extent to which their children were enjoying and achieving education success as Māori. A ... -
Let me be understood: A behavioural investigation of effective functional communication skills within a New Zealand special education high school.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Effective functional communication skills are socially significant behaviours that afford individuals the ability to self-advocate and realise their full range of human rights. The aim of this study was to describe ... -
Modelling heat transfer during chilling and freezing of packaged foods in industrial refrigeration facilities
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Industrial refrigeration equipment companies are continuously looking for ways to optimise the design of chilling and freezing tunnels in order to minimise food quality loss and increase the energy efficiency of the ... -
Iwi cultural identity: The praxis of tūpuna narrative
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This research is a narrative-based study of tūpuna narrative practices. As a privileged medium tūpuna narratives construct the conditions of iwi praxis which leads to mana-motuhake: the political independence and ... -
Makahiki – Nā Maka o Lono utilizing the Papakū Makawalu method to analyze mele and pule of Lono and the Makahiki
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This paper seeks to affirm Papakū Makawalu as a Hawaiian methodology that can be utilized to understand moʻolelo, mele and pule. Papakū makawalu is a name given to the process of deconstructing, analyzing, and reconstructing ... -
Turning waste into useful materials: fabrication of titanium alloy matrix composite from the Ti-6Al-4V swarf
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The rapid development of various high-precision technologies in the aerospace, military and civil fields has put forward higher and higher requirements for the performance of materials. Traditional titanium alloys have ...
