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Prospects of climate resilient infrastructure in the low-income informal settlements of Dhaka - A community approach
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis focuses on the prospects of climate resilient infrastructure in the low-income settlements of Dhaka city. Numerous research findings show that low-income communities of Dhaka are living in the hazard prone areas ... -
No explanation required: Entrenchment and perception of Māori loanwords in a diachronic newspaper corpus of New Zealand English
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Māori loanwords are uncontestably the most notable feature of New Zealand English (Gordon, 2005; Macalister, 2006b). Although frequencies of Māori loanwords are reported to be increasing in recent years (Macalister, ... -
Supporting interactive system testing with interaction sequences
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Despite extensive research into the modelling and testing of interactive systems, existing strategies do not adequately cover all parts of an interactive system. These existing strategies model and test either the functional ... -
Dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in China
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A key contribution of environmental economics to policy making has been to provide empirical indicators of sustainable economic development. An economy is (weakly) sustainable if it saves more than the combined depreciation ... -
Testing for Bubbles in Time Series Data Using Long Historical Series
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The concept of asset price bubble has drawn a large amount of academic attention. A bubble is commonly defined as where the asset price is not justified by expectations of the fundamentals. The empirical characteristics ... -
Bovine blastocyst development depends on threonine catabolism
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2018)Increasing evidence suggests that pluripotency is a metabolically specialised state. In mouse, inner cell mass (ICM) cells and ICM-derived pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) critically depend on catabolising the amino acid ... -
Is peer review in academic publishing still working?
(Routledge, 2018)Peer review is central to academic publishing. Yet for many it is a mysterious and contentious practice, which can cause distress for both reviewers, and those whose work is reviewed. This paper, produced by the Editors’ ... -
The two-way relationship between international migration and institutional quality in the migration and development nexus
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The two-way relationship between international migration and institutional quality is at the core of migration and development interconnections. Migration decisions are shaped by various types of institutions, and subsequently ... -
Brokering practices among international EAL students at a New Zealand university
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The numbers of international students enrolled in higher education in Anglophone countries have increased in the past decade, with the majority of students originating from Asian countries such as China. While it is in the ... -
Counselling in the context of suicidal ideation in Malaysia
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Counselling is particularly challenging in the context of potential harm through suicide. This is a time when it is clear that responsibilities for and influences on practice go beyond the client in the room. Socio-cultural ... -
Primary school physical education: Professional learning as a partnership between a specialist and generalists
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The quality of physical education (PE) lessons delivered by generalist primary school teachers is recognised across the literature as inadequate. As a secondary PE teacher, I became acutely aware of the challenges faced ... -
MaxGain: Regularisation of neural networks by constraining activation magnitudes
(Springer, 2019)Effective regularisation of neural networks is essential to combat overfitting due to the large number of parameters involved. We present an empirical analogue to the Lipschitz constant of a feed-forward neural network, ... -
Te Kotahitanga Phase 3 School Reform: The impact of a professional development programme within a large, multi-cultural, secondary school in New Zealand.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis examines the impact of Te Kotahitanga on leaders, teachers and Māori students within the context of a large, multi-cultural, secondary school in New Zealand. This school was one of twelve secondary schools ... -
Added sugar in packaged/processed fruit and vegetable products
(2017)Both Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and prediabetes are prevalent in New Zealand affecting approximately 7% and 26% of adults, respectively. ¹ Dietary recommendations for both groups include consuming less sugar in an ... -
The nutritional content of supermarket beverages: a cross-sectional analysis of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK
(2018)Objective To compare the nutritional content, serving size and taxation potential of supermarket beverages from four different Western countries. Design Cross-sectional analysis. Multivariate regression analysis and ... -
Introduction to tephra-derived soils and farming, Waikato-Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand. University of Wisconsin-Platteville Education Abroad Program: Winterim Field Trip (15-17 January, 2019).
(School of Science (Earth Sciences), University of Waikato, 2019)This tour guide describes the origin of tephras and tephra-derived soils in North Island, New Zealand, including via upbuilding pedogenesis, and their mineralogical and other properties relevant to farming and orcharding ... -
New Zealand's national security framework: A recommendation for the development of a national security strategy
(The University of Waikato, 2018)New Zealand’s national security system is based upon a collection of siloed plans and policies. New Zealand has adopted an ‘all-hazards/all-risks’ approach to national security that is based upon a reactive system. There ... -
Steps to improve gender diversity in coastal geoscience and engineering
(2018)Robust data are the base of effective gender diversity policy. Evidence shows that gender inequality is still pervasive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Coastal geoscience and engineering (CGE) ... -
Charles Gould: a farmer living near Te Aroha
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Coming from a wealthy family and with a brother who became a successful businessman, Charles Gould left the South Island to settle in Waitoa with every prospect of making a success of the large estate he had acquired. ... -
The preservation of last-glacial (>50 to 40 ka) colluvium on low-relief surfaces in Alishan, an actively uplifting mountain in southwestern Taiwan
(Elsevier, 2018)Geomorphic studies on the Taiwan orogen have long focused on the rapid erosion and efficient sediment transport in response to active tectonic uplift and frequent earthquakes/heavy rains. Little attention has been paid to ...
