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The informal sector’s contribution to the economic wellbeing of people in Timor-Leste
(The University of Waikato, 2019)It is widely believed that the informal sector is growing in the modern global economy. When studying who occupies this informal sector and the nature of their business, the universal tendency is to describe the informal ... -
Advancing NZ hospital seismic readiness: creating a post-earthquake functionality dashboard
(2022)Continued functionality of critical infrastructure systems, such as hospitals, shortly after an earthquake is expected. However, experience indicates that there may be some disruption due to damage, outages, or access that ... -
Rats, plagues, and children, Oh My! Multimodal representations of the past in historical games
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)Since their inception, Game Studies and its sub-discipline Historical Game Studies have stressed the pedagogical potential of (historical) games for learning. Today, popular off-the-shelf historical digital games such as ... -
Evidence, interests and argumentation: an environmental policy controversy in a small New Zealand town
(OpenEdition, 2021)This article examines interactions between different forms of authoritative knowledge and evidence in a public dispute over an environmental problem. It draws on a case set in a small coastal town in New Zealand where the ... -
A review of 3D/4D printing of poly-lactic acid composites with bio-derived reinforcements
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Poly-lactic acid (PLA) has become a commonly used polymer for additive manufacturing because of its bio-derived nature, useful mechanical properties, and excellent processability. Reinforcing PLA with bio-derived materials ... -
Fictions and the scope of the artist in the novels of Janet Frame
(The University of Waikato, 1986)Art and the initiation of the artist into the skills of her craft, along with the fiction making habits of all human beings, are identified in this study as major concerns in Janet Frame’s novels. Time and change, rituals, ... -
Morphological evolution of creek networks in 10 restored coastal wetlands in the UK
(Nature Portfolio, 2022)Coastal wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services including flood protection and carbon storage, but are being lost rapidly worldwide to the combined effects of sea-level rise, erosion and coastal urbanisation. Managed ... -
A capabilities approach to freedom of employment: Hierarchical capabilities
(The University of Waikato, 2021)When people in New Zealand are unhappy with their current employment, they are often advised to find a new job. Implicit here is the assumption that a new job will be better, but it is not entirely clear that this is always ... -
Habitat provision is a major driver of native bird communities in restored urban forests
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022)Urbanization, and the drastic loss of habitat it entails, poses a major threat to global avian biodiversity. Ecological restoration of urban forests is therefore increasingly vital for native bird conservation, but control ... -
Power, participation and everyday politics within state-led urban renewal in Hong Kong
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This thesis identifies and examines the ways power, participation, and everyday politics shape urban renewal outcomes in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a long history of state-led urban renewal, which continues to lead to ... -
Synthesis and characterisation of low-cost biopolymeric/mineral composite systems and evaluation of their potential application for heavy metal removal
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Heavy metal pollution and waste management are two major environmental problems faced in the world today. Anthropogenic sources of heavy metals, especially effluent from industries, are serious environmental and health ... -
Erased: Representations of women's bodies in chronic invisible pain
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Stories of pain stretch metaphors and similes. They infuse verbs into the narrative—it stabs, it burns, it aches—in a desperate attempt to describe what the pain is doing in the body. There is a critical need for accurate ... -
On the latency impact of remote peering
(Springer, 2022)Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) play an essential role in the Internet, providing a fabric for thousands of Autonomous Systems (ASes) to interconnect. Initially designed to keep local traffic local, IXPs now interconnect ... -
Predicting glucose level with an adapted branch predictor
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Background and objective Diabetes mellitus manifests as prolonged elevated blood glucose levels resulting from impaired insulin production. Such high glucose levels over a long period of time damage multiple internal ... -
Riparian reforestation on the landscape scale – Navigating trade‐offs among agricultural production, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity
1. Stream–riparian networks are subject to multiple human pressures that threaten key functions of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, drive habitat and diversity losses, affect riparian connectivity and cause stakeholder ... -
Examining the effects of policy design on affordable unit production under inclusionary zoning policies
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Problem, research strategy, and findings: Evidence suggests that inclusionary zoning (IZ) correlates with affordable housing and mixed-income communities; however, what effect the policy design has on affordable housing ... -
Depth-differentiated, multivariate control of biopore number under different land-use practices
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Earthworms and (tap-)roots impact the soil structure by creating large biopores, affecting infiltration capacity, seepage, nutrient cycling, and soil aeration. Despite the importance of biopores for the functions of soils ... -
Abundance, behaviour and habitat requirements of the banded kokopu Galaxias fasciatus Gray (Pisces: Galaxiidae).
(The University of Waikato, 1998)The native freshwater banded kokopu (Galaxias fasciatus Gray) is generally regarded as a nocturnal predator of small native forest streams. Current methods for determining absolute abundances of this species in these ... -
Experiments in cross-domain few-shot learning for image classification
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Cross-domain few-shot learning has many practical applications. This paper attempts to shed light on suitable configurations of feature exactors and ‘shallow’ classifiers in this machine learning setting. We apply ResNet-based ... -
Evidence for individual variation and the role of personality in the assessment strategies of Teleogryllus commodus contests
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Evolutionary game theory and assessment strategy models have been used to try to understand animal decision making processes during male-male contests. However, this has often led to mixed or inconclusive results. This may ...
