Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Sean Spicer is the News: The Relationship Between Sean Spicer and The White House Press Corps
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This research concerns the relationship between former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and the White House press corps, analysed through the reportage of the daily White House press briefing. This relationship can ... -
Searching for magic in Dog Town: a photographic journey
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This project began as an exploration of Henry F. Talbot’s 1839 description of his new photographic process as “a little bit of magic realized”. It examines the role of sympathetic magic and the participation of non-human ... -
Searching for the Digital Fāgogo: A Study of Indigenous Samoan Storytelling in Contemporary Aotearoa Digital Media
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This research analyses the manifestation of fāgogo – an indigenous form of Samoan storytelling – in the digital media of Aotearoa. It argues that digital media and their associated frameworks have the potential to supplement ... -
Searching the Literary Spectrum for Place and Space
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis explores the diverse and dynamic nature of creative works that exist on the spectrum between the novel and short story genres. In my exegesis I discuss the unique characteristics of the novel and short story, ... -
Season of La Niña - a fictive memoir
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Season of La Niña is a fictive memoir about a New Zealand flamenco dancer’s encounter with the gypsy flamenco sub-culture in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain. The text follows her struggle to learn the art form, her ... -
Seat Comfort Issues in Economy Class and Their Effect on Long-Haul Passenger Satisfaction and Future Re-flying Intentions
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Background. Seating is one of the major factors that can affect airline passengers’ comfort or discomfort in-flight and their behavioural re-purchase intentions. There has been a rise in dis/comfort issues in economy class ... -
Second Ave
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Second Ave is an Adult fiction novel set during a decade in the surly 1970s in a grunty little neighbourhood in Auckland. Dad reckons he’s living in paradise cause he’s moved the family to Second Ave where the Tip Top ... -
Second-generation migration: An exploration of New Zealand born Tongan experiences as secondary school students in Tonga
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This study explores the experiences of New Zealand born Tongan, young adults, who studied in a Tongan high school in their youthful years. This study was spurred on by my brother’s experience of being sent to Tonga by my ... -
Secondary school first XV rugby players’ perceptions of the coaching environment: A qualitative descriptive study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Sport provides a number of physical, social and psychological benefits for youth. These benefits do not come from sport participation on its own, as the effects are mediated by the actions and interactions of significant ... -
Security & Privacy Awareness & Concerns of Computer Users Posed by Web Cookies and Trackers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Web-cookies are an essential element across every website. Despite its importance for the growth and development of websites, cookies are associated with severe security and privacy risks. In numerous empirical studies, ... -
Security Intelligence and the public interest
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Abstract: The attacks of September 11 2001 created an iconic moment where our history can be defined as the pre and post 9-11 period. The impact that this event had on how states organise their national security intelligence ... -
Security Mechanisms Over Delay Tolerant Infrastructures
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The motivation of this research is to seek a flexible encryption and authentication method to facilitate the secure delivery of data through a Delay-Tolerant Network Infrastructure. This work will demonstrate a proof-of-concept, ... -
See You on the Otherside
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)See you on the Otherside is the tale of a man who’s unable to escape the past that plagues his mind. However, the events of his past are not as they seem, or more importantly, not as he leads the audience to believe. But ... -
Seeing the funny side: focusing on Cook Islands humour in the experience of the religious pageant Nuku.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This multi-media art project investigates the notion of Cook Islands humour, and subsequently place, through the context of the religious pageant Nuku. This pageant has been practiced annually in the Cook Islands for over ... -
Seeing the world through orthopaedic eyes: the experience of being an orthopaedic nurse: a hermeneutic study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)This study explores the experience of being an orthopaedic nurse. As an orthopaedic nurse I had concerns that the validity of orthopaedic nursing as a unique scope of practice was being questioned. In this thesis, the case ... -
Seismic Damage Avoidance Design of Moment Resisting Frames Using a New Self‐Centering Friction Connection System
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Moment-resisting frames are one of the efficient lateral-load resisting systems in terms of providing architectural freedom in design and widely distributing the seismic forces within the structure and into the foundation. ... -
Selective commitment: player choice and dedication to end states in games
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)There are noticeably two types of player commitments in video games, one in which the player is forced into a linear progression towards certain values, or a dominant strategy that conducts the players values. But some ... -
Selective Laser Re-melting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is heavily employed in a wide variety of applications today. Initially, the different processes have been used for concept modelling and rapid prototyping but are now capable of ... -
Self-efficacy in the Classroom: A Socio-cultural Perspective on the Contributing and Detracting Factors
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This thesis is an investigation into both self-efficacy and cultural capital in New Zealand classrooms. I believe that there is a useful intersection to be found between these two concepts, and through this thesis I aim ... -
Self-organising Maps (SOMs) in Software Project Management
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Although numerous researchers have devoted much time and effort to the issue, generating a reliable and accurate cost estimate at an early stage of the development life cycle remains a challenge to software engineers. In ...