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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 ... -
Retirement of Professor Peter Kamp
(Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2020)Petrus Johannes Jozef Kamp, or simply Peter Kamp to his many friends and colleagues, retired on 30 June 2020 after 43 years on the Earth Sciences academic staff in the School of Science at the University of Waikato. Out ... -
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 ... -
Structure from randomness in halfspace learning with the zero-one loss
(AI Access Foundation, 2020)We prove risk bounds for halfspace learning when the data dimensionality is allowed to be larger than the sample size, using a notion of compressibility by random projection. In particular, we give upper bounds for the ... -
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 ... -
Enhancing interactivity: how has design exploration of physically and intellectually interactive picturebooks enhanced shared reading?
(Design Research Society, 2020)Children’s book design can have a significant impact on shared reading practices, interaction, and engagement. We hypothesise that books designed with the intention to specifically enhance the author’s story through ... -
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 ... -
Is it about a typewriter? Brian O’Nolan and technologies of inscription
(2020)This article brings Friedrich Kittler’s media determinism to bear on a selection of works from Brian O’Nolan’s oeuvre. It briefly examines Myles na gCopaleen’s play with posthuman hybrids in Cruiskeen Lawn, seeing his ... -
The HfG Ulm and Sustainable Design: a comparative analysis
(2020)This article presents a comparative analysis between ideas of the HfG Ulm and the contemporary understanding of Sustainable Design. The Ulmer institution, through an innovative curriculum, an articulated discourse and a ... -
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 ... -
Interactive system testing using interaction sequences
(ACM Press, 2018)Interaction sequences (ISeqs) are an abstraction of interactive systems which allow us to inspect the interactive system behaviour. In this research, ISeqs are used to support interactive system testing. In interactive ... -
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 ... -
A diversity-aware model for majority vote ensemble accuracy
(Addison-Wesley, 2020)Ensemble classifiers are a successful and popular approach for classification, and are frequently found to have better generalization performance than single models in practice. Although it is widely recognized that ... -
Investigating the understanding and implementation of Ka Hikitia, in a New Zealand primary school
(The University of Waikato, 2020)In New Zealand, the education system has underserved Māori learners for many years, with various factors contributing to this underperformance. Many of these factors stem from racism and bias, conscious or unconscious, ... -
Climate change is here: Teachers’ and students’ perceptions about education for It
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Climate change is the greatest threat humans have ever faced. The unprecedented anthropogenic activity impacting on the environment is having catastrophic effects across the globe and could continue for thousands of years. ... -
Just take a second to breathe: Empowering youth through mindfulness at Atawhai 2019
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This research was an evaluation of The Kindness Institute’s 2019 Atawhai programme. It examined the effects that exposure to mindfulness-based skills, Māori cultural practices, mentoring, and the creative arts had on a ...
