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"Back on your feet in no time": measuring the mobility levels of older adults during acute medical hospital stay
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Aim The main aim of this study was to describe the mobility levels of older adults during acute medical hospitalisation at Wellington Regional Hospital, New Zealand. The secondary aims were to explore associations between ... -
Backpackers: the next generation?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)New Zealand has a well-established network of accommodations, transportation, and visitor activities developed specifically for backpackers. These tourists account for almost ten percent of the country’s international ... -
Bad Faith: the road to denouement in a short film
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This project is about storytelling. It explores the potential of narrative by applying Jean Paul Sartre’s notion of Bad Faith (1969) to an animated short film. The work employs a linear narrative that is played out inside ... -
Bakara Kisses
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Bakara Kisses (working title) is a fictional town in Java, Indonesia, that is the 1997 setting for a story of a ‘rite of passage’ - involving youths from three contrasting social realities - in the final year of President ... -
Balancing the desirable with the feasible: a study of how marketing and operations need to work together to ensure that branding promises can be delivered in practice.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)The concept of student as customer and marrying the concept of treating the student as a customer whilst delivering tertiary education which is both effective and rigorous is an issue which is currently being strongly ... -
Balancing Work and Motherhood: Looking at the Experiences of Working Mothers in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This study investigates how women in Aotearoa/New Zealand balance work and family. The objective of this study is to determine what could be changed or improved to support women as mothers and workers in Aotearoa/New ... -
Baling Hou: a photographic exploration of the Chinese post-80s generation in the urban cities of China
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The aim of this practice-led research is to create a body of photographic work that explores the characteristics of the Baling Hou [八零后] and their life in urban China. Baling Hou refers to the generation born in the 1980s ... -
Banknote Recognition in Real Time Using ANN
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Financial institutions have adopted various automated banking systems using currency recognition as their main activity, which makes automated currency recognition of significant interest. However, after the review of the ... -
Banknote Serial Number Recognition Using Deep Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Deep learning has been broadly applied to pattern classification, object detection, image segmentation, speech recognition, and other fields in recent years. Convolutional neural networks take dominant role in the field ... -
Barriers and attractors for Māori in tertiary education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Māori are under-represented across all levels of education in New Zealand. Although this trend has improved over time, a gap remains between tertiary education and Māori participation rates. One question is whether ... -
The Barriers and Facilitators to Deliver Oral Care for Older Adults in Hospital Settings
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Hospitalised older adults often experience deconditioning and frequently develop aspiration pneumonia. These form a potential vicious cycle that is connected by swallowing dysfunction (dysphagia) and sarcopenia during ... -
Barriers to strategy implementation: A case study of Air New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)The ability to implement strategies successfully is important to any organisation. Despite the importance of the implementation process within strategic management, this is an area of study often overshadowed by a focus ... -
Barriers to strategy implementation: a case study of Air New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)The ability to implement strategies successfully is important to any organisation. Despite the importance of the implementation process within strategic management, this is an area of study often overshadowed by a focus ... -
Beach burial of cetaceans: implications for conservation, and public health and safety
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)Every year hundreds of cetaceans strand on New Zealand beaches. Options for dealing with disposal of their carcasses are few, creating significant problems for the Department of Conservation (DOC). More often than not their ... -
Becoming Known As Whole Persons in Clinical Encounter
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This study sought to shed light on the unique essence of the clinical encounter in a biomedical context when whaiora (those seeking wellness) and healthcare students are invited to a whole person mindbody encounter (wpmbe). ... -
Becoming – Pakeha: questioning the use of native birds in representation as a means of exploring New Zealand post-settler identity in visual art
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The depiction of birds by artists such as Don Binney, Bill Hammond, Michael Parekowhai and Grant Whibley has served as metaphors in the conceptual systems of post-settler New Zealanders’ expression of identity. This project ... -
Becoming: A design process disrupted
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This practice-led study, ‘Becoming’, has developed a multidisciplinary framework for reflecting upon the possibilities of a fashion designer’s process in the contemporary environment. Hypothesising a disruptive reaction ... -
Beef Hydrolysis by Tamarillo Fruit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Meat is an excellent source of nutrients, it contains a high amount of protein and more essential amino acids than plants and other vitamins and minerals required in humans. It has been recommended that protein hydrolysates ... -
Behaviour Anomaly on Linux Systems to Detect Zero-day Malware Attacks
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Internet-connected devices have been the subject of cyber threats due to the gain malicious actors can get by compromising these systems. Endpoint protection is available on these systems, protecting if the malware signature ... -
Being and thing become space[s]
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This research explores notions of embodiment and aesthetics of interaction within the context of the construction of meaning for interactive art. While investigating notions of the construction of meaning, this research ...