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Learning linkages between projects and work placements in engineering education
(The University of Waikato, 2023)This research study investigated the combined learning linkages of engineering projects (Problem-Based Learning [PBL]) and work placements (Work-Integrated Learning [WIL]) in engineering education in New Zealand. The ... -
František Jiránek and the Italian Connection: A study of the influence of Antonio Vivaldi on the bassoon concertos of František Jiránek.
(The University of Waikato, 2023)The concertos of Antonio Vivaldi rapidly transformed not only Venetian and Italian music but influenced composers across the rest of Europe as well. The older generation of composers felt the need to integrate at least ... -
The use of mobile technology apps when teaching and learning geometry in Sri Lankan secondary schools
(The University of Waikato, 2023)In the last decade, there has been rapid development of digital technologies (DT), and their adoption in mathematics education has been widely discussed in the research literature. The Sri Lankan curriculum stipulates the ... -
Semantic Context Produces Overconfidence in One’s Ability to Perform Highly Specialised Skills
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Some research suggests people are overconfident because of their personality characteristics, a lack of insight, or because overconfidence is beneficial in its own right (Dunning et al., 2003; Johnson & Fowler, 2011; Paulhus ... -
Uia ngā Pou o te Whare Ask the Posts of the Whare: (Re)storying the Whare in Curriculum
(The University of Waikato, 2023)This research investigated the construction of whare tapawhā discourses in national curricula since 1999 and (re)presents other Māori perspectives of how a whare (house, building, school of learning, curriculum) can be ... -
The Coherence of Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Memories: A Tale of Equivalence
(The University of Waikato, 2023)There is contention in the scientific literature about the mechanisms by which our memories for traumatic events operate. In one view, the extremely negative nature of traumatic events results in incomplete encoding, leaving ... -
"The Milk of Human Kindness?": Responding to Precarity and Hunger with the Private Sector and a Return to Charity.
(The University of Waikato, 2023)This research investigated the phenomenon of free school milk in Aotearoa New Zealand as an exemplar for broader shifts in understandings of poverty and hunger, responsibility and citizenship. The provision of free milk ... -
Psychopathic traits in managers: Implications for employees' motivation, performance, and well-being at work.
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Psychopathy is a form of personality pathology that has captured the attention of researchers for decades. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have become interested in looking at psychopathy in the organisational ... -
Maximising Performance in Female Rugby Sevens Athletes
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Rugby Sevens is a field-based team sport contested by two teams of seven players over two 7-minute halves. Rugby Sevens matches are played in a tournament format with teams playing five to six matches over two to three ... -
Studies of source area hydrology under indigenous forest and pastoral agriculture in the Hapuakohe Range, North Island, New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 1984)This thesis describes a systematic study of hillslope runoff processes and stream flow processes from two forms of land use characteristic of the New Zealand steep land environment: indigenous forest (podocarp-hardwood ... -
Feminism and education in post-war New Zealand: a sociological analysis
(The University of Waikato, 1985)For the purposes of this thesis, feminism has been viewed as both a set of social theories which identify, describe and account for the contradictions experienced by women in their everyday lives and the social movement ... -
Two thermostable hemicellulases and their effects on wood pulps
(The University of Waikato, 1992)Two hemicellulases, cloned from a thermophilic anaerobe (isolate TP8 6.3.3.1) were partially purified and characterised. The ability of these enzymes to hydrolyse the hemicellulose components of various types of pulps and ... -
Aro mai aro atu: Raising Māori-medium students' academic oral language proficiency
(The University of Waikato, 2022)From the early 1860s, colonial governments worked systematically to eradicate the language and culture of the indigenous people of Aotearoa / New Zealand, and, by the late 1960s, the death of the Māori language was being ... -
Impact of migration costs, microcredit, and remittances on cross-border labour migration decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian household survey
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Over the past two decades, the migration of Cambodian workers has contributed to poverty reduction and economic development. However, it has also constituted a substantial challenge, in view of the significant increase in ... -
Mill wives: a study of gender relations, family and work in a single-industry town
(The University of Waikato, 1985)The experiences and everyday practices of wives of production workers in a town with one dominant industry that imposes a variety of demands on workers and their spouses is the focus of this thesis. The town is Kawerau, ... -
Algorithmic mapping of software-defined networking pipelines
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Networks with a consistent software stack reduce the complexity of monitoring, testing and automation, and reduce the mental burden on operators. However, when network software is bundled with the hardware, operators face ... -
Problem solving in physics: an interactive computer-assisted environment
(The University of Waikato, 1993)The thesis reports the development and trial of an interactive computer-assisted environment program. A rotational dynamics problem of considerable difficulty was chosen for program development involving a selection process ... -
Radiocarbon analysis of a novel bone sample type: snapper and barracouta bone from New Zealand archaeological sites
(The University of Waikato, 1998)This dissertation investigates the potential of fish bone, specifically barracouta (Thyrsites atun) and snapper (Pagrus auratus), for routine radiocarbon analysis. Of particular interest to this study is the perceived ... -
The ecology of the lucerne flea, Sminthurus viridis, in the South-Auckland/Waikato area
(The University of Waikato, 1985)Lucerne flea, Sminthurus viridis L., is an annual pest in pastures in the Auckland/Waikato area. It damages legumes, particularly white clover, from late autumn until early summer, with a peak in infestation in spring. No ... -
Compression and cryptology
(The University of Waikato, 1997)Currently data compression and encryption are carried out as two separate activities. A simpler communication system would result if these two activities could be combined. The security properties of lossless data compression ...
