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Spatial Hypermedia as a programming environment
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis investigates the possibilities opened to a programmer when their programming environment not only utilises Spatial Hypermedia functionality, but embraces it as a core component. Designed and built to explore ... -
Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study
(The University of Waikato, 2018)For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with ... -
Hei oranga mo ngā wāhine hapū (o Hauraki) i roto i te whare ora
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This thesis had four-main objectives. In the first instance, it aimed to improve understanding of psychosocial variables which may mediate the quality of Māori childbirth experience, namely: social support, coping strategies, ... -
Art, the aesthetics, and ethics of tattooing at flax roots tattoo studio
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Flax Roots Tattoo Studio, a tattoo business in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, offers clients different styles of tattooing to choose from, i.e. Moko, Traditional European, Portrait, and Traditional American. Tattoo artists ... -
Street-level bureaucracy and occupational therapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. A genealogical critique.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)As a human science that is also part of administering and supporting bureaucracy, occupational therapy functions in multi-layered networks of power that support many different social structures. Occupational therapists’ ... -
Surface tension : place/poverty/policy : from "poverty" to "social exclusion" : implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999
(The University of Waikato, 1999)This dissertation addresses four substantive issues or arguments that are linked in an interdisciplinary discussion informed by contemporary feminist and cultural geographies, feminist political philosophy, policy studies ... -
The effects of common carp on zooplankton communities using morphological and molecular techniques
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Understanding the factors causing a decline of water quality is important to ecologists, but particularly challenging given the complexity of natural systems. New Zealand’s freshwater ecosystems are under threat from ... -
Context-aware framework for analysis of horse-race videos
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Today sports analysis systems draw the attention of many commercial entities and are providing many opportunities for computer vision researchers to study and develop automated sports analysis systems. The primary objective ... -
Examination of IPO Mispricing in Four Markets
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The apparent anomaly that initial public offerings (IPOs) are mispriced across time and markets has been a focus of academic research for over four decades. Previous studies on the subject have focused on the underpricing ... -
Negotiating fairness and diversity : Stories from an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A number of research studies have utilised ‘working theories’, a key learning outcome of Te Whāriki, the Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum, as a lens to explore pedagogy in early childhood education. The perceived gap that ... -
Secondary education expansion in Tanzania: Policy and practice implications for teachers’ sense of efficacy
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Since the introduction of Tanzania’s secondary education expansion policy in 2004 student performance has declined significantly. This trend led me to hypothesise that there may have been a decline in teacher efficacy. The ... -
Prison education in Tanzania: An exploration of policy and practice
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This study is one of very few research-based investigations regarding prison education in Tanzania. It provides rich data that help to address the literature gap on prison education policies and practices in African ... -
Social perception and neuropsychological deficits in mild cognitive impairment
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Social perception is an important aspect of social communication. Accurate recognition of emotion is crucial to understanding how others are feeling, which in turn is important in developing and maintaining meaningful ... -
Integrated Reporting in Sri Lankan PLCs
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis focuses on the Integrated Reporting (IR) adoption decision by Sri Lankan Public Listed Companies (PLCs) from different perspectives. The thesis adopts an institutional theory with special reference to institutional ... -
Stories from the inside: A narrative analysis investigating the professional lives of three New Zealand secondary school heads of English departments
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This research is a narrative analysis based on an investigation into the professional lives of heads of English departments (HODs) in three New Zealand secondary schools. The main data collection methods of interviews and ... -
Sugar and spice: wealth accumulation and the labour of Indian women in Fiji, 1879-1930
(The University of Waikato, 1990)This thesis examines the connection between the fact of 'femininity' of Indian women workers and the accumulation of wealth in Fiji over a period of fifty-one years, 1879-1930. This was the period during which sugar became ... -
The Shifting Sands of Transparency: Sustainability reporting in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2018)By 2013, nearly 95% of the 250 largest companies in the world, and 71% of the top 100 companies across the Asia Pacific region used sustainability reporting as a tool to inform and manage the impacts of their activities ... -
The employment of knowledge visualisation to facilitate tacit knowledge sharing
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This research explores how knowledge visualisation can support the sharing of tacit knowledge. One research question guides the study: How can knowledge visualisation facilitate tacit knowledge sharing? The research ... -
Léonce de Saint-Martin: Organist and Composer
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This study examines the life and work of the largely forgotten organist Léonce de Saint-Martin and the role he played in the life of Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris. The Study consists of two parts: A) Performance The ... -
Feelings of home and belonging amongst Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds who live in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis focuses on the everyday home geographies of Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines feelings of being at home and belonging for 37 resettled Bhutanese women and ...
