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Hearing their voices : the perceptions of children and adults about learning in health education
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Children were the central focus of this study which was grounded in a belief that children’s voices should be listened to and heard, in particular about their perceptions about their health and health education in schools. ... -
Exploring Timorese family funds of knowledge and their use in education
(The University of Waikato, 2018)There are many factors that contribute to children’s development, including their social and cultural background. Families play a significant role in children’s development and the funds of knowledge that reside within a ... -
Utility Exchanger Network Design for Non-Isothermal Utility Considering Process Control
(2018)This paper investigates a preliminary control strategy based on bypass control loop of Utility Exchangers Network (UEN) for non-isothermal utilities in a Total Site Heat Integration (TSHI) system. Few details on the design ... -
Transferring sentiment knowledge between words and tweets
(IOS Press, 2018)Message-level and word-level polarity classification are two popular tasks in Twitter sentiment analysis. They have been commonly addressed by training supervised models from labelled data. The main limitation of these ... -
Hyperthermic resistance training in semi-professional rugby athletes
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Resistance training muscle adaptations may be enhanced under increased environmental temperatures (>30 °C). Training in the heat has been widely used to enhance performance adaptations in a range of populations from untrained ... -
Extended residence times for foraminifera in a marine-influenced terrestrial archaeological deposit and implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
(Elsevier, 2016)Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating and taphonomic grading was undertaken on foraminifera preserved in the archaeological shell matrix site of Thundiy, Bentinck Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, ... -
Mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation of offshore islands in northern Australia? A reassessment of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
(Elsevier, 2015)Claims for mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation at the shell matrix site of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, are reassessed through an analysis of the excavated assemblage coupled with new ... -
Are flow-vegetation interactions well represented by mimics? A case study of mangrove pneumatophores
(Elsevier, 2018)Arrays of real mangrove pneumatophores (i.e. aboveground pencil roots) and artificial dowel mimics were constructed in a laboratory flume to examine differences in canopy flow dynamics. Compared to the uniform-height dowel ... -
How Māori precariate families navigate social services
(Massey University Press, 2017)We are living in a period in which the increasingly precarious nature of employment and welfare support systems has dramatically amplified the hardships faced by many people.¹ Correspondingly, much still needs to be written ... -
The cost-effectiveness of active surveillance compared to watchful waiting and radical prostatectomy for low risk localised prostate cancer
(2017)Background Radical prostatectomy is the most common treatment for localised prostate cancer in New Zealand. Active surveillance was introduced to prevent overtreatment and reduce costs while preserving the option of radical ... -
Comparative importance of training stimuli in avian aversion training for the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Dogs are the most significant threat to adult kiwi (Apteryx spp.), and kiwi aversion training (KAT) has been developed to reduce the likelihood of dogs harming and killing kiwi. In KAT, dogs are presented with a range of ... -
Bridging the transition from Year 6 to Year 7: A New Zealand context
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The purpose of this study was to investigate the processes in place for vulnerable students when transitioning from Year 6 at primary school, to Year 7 at intermediate or middle school. Specifically, it investigates what ... -
Professional learning in mathematics with primary-trained teachers: A flipped approach
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Teachers of mathematics in New Zealand are critical to the success of their students. In order for teachers to improve student outcomes, it is important for them to have the necessary skills and knowledge relating to ... -
Future time perspectives and career commitment. Does age influence this? A quantitative examination of a New Zealand working population.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The inability to commit to a career can have long-term negative consequences on the quality of life of individuals. Those who have obtained career success have been found to possess high levels of future time perspective, ... -
The dynamics of expanding mangroves in New Zealand
(Springer, 2018)In contrast to the global trend of mangrove decline, New Zealand mangroves are rapidly expanding, facilitated by elevated sediment inputs in coastal waters as a consequence of large-scale land use changes following European ... -
The development of guidelines for indigenous research ethics in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
(Vaartoe Centre for Sami Research, Umea University, 2016)The development of Indigenous frameworks for research ethics has been a key component of progressing Indigenous aspirations for research around the world. They have provided a focal point for challenging approaches to ... -
A Review on the Use of Hydroxyapatite-Carbonaceous Structure Composites in Bone Replacement Materials for Strengthening Purposes
(MDPI, 2018)Biomedical materials constitute a vast scientific research field, which is devoted to producing medical devices which aid in enhancing human life. In this field, there is an enormous demand for long-lasting implants and ... -
Application of Onset Theory to Onset of Transverse Cracking in Fabric Composites
(2015)A paper presented at ICCM-19 included a methodology for application of Onset Theory to the prediction of microcracking in the transverse plies of orthogonal [0/90] fabric laminates. This paper applies the methodology to ... -
Female athlete health: The silent risks of high performance
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Despite female athlete health becoming a growing area of interest in sport science reasearch, there are still gaps to be filled in the literature. Low energy availabilty (LEA) and iron deficiency are two prevalent issues ... -
Designing, measuring and modelling a small-scale coil and stimulation circuit for transcranial magnetic stimulation
(2018)In Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) rapid electromagnetic (EM) fields are applied to the brain, via an external current-carrying coil. This technique has been tried for many neurological disorders such as stroke, ...
