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Multilingual information service system for tourists
(2011)Globalization and the continued increase in international travel and commerce have made automatic speech-to-speech translation systems an attractive area of research and development. With handheld devices becoming more ... -
Multiscale wind power generation prediction
(2020-10-09)OBJECTIVE: • To come up with good forecast model for Wind Power Generation for hour and day ahead . • As NZ is looking at increasing the share of wind power from 5% towards 20%. • The increase towards 20% will cause ... -
A museum of New Zealand architecture
(2014)“A Museum of New Zealand Architecture” explores the possibility of creating a museum that exhibits various examples of New Zealand architecture. New Zealand architecture needs more exposure in the public domain for its ... -
Museum of space : a study of the limits of metaphorical representations of various theories of space that can be achieved in architecture
(2012)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: How are architectural representations of spatial concepts possible? How can spatial theories inform an architectural project? Space is the subject of this thesis. Mankind’s quest to understand ... -
A museum of the West
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the natural history significant to the Waitākere Ranges be best articulated through a Source-Community approach to architecture? ABSTRACT: The Waitākere Ranges, just west of Auckland City, ... -
Museum of water: How can a water museum articulate New Zealand's tangible and intangible connection to water?
(2021)This project explores the design of Aotearoa's first water museum located along Te Awa Tupua (The Whanganui River), the first river in the world to be granted personhood status. The museum will help preserve and showcase ... -
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Musical education at the Dengzhou Boys' School and the work of Julia B. Mateer
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in BeijingMusic in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2015)The education of Chinese students in mission schools, particularly that which occurred at Chinese boarding schools during the latter part of the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, has been covered ... -
My female body
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)Before I learnt about my feminism, I thought I was just loud and sexually confident. In 2017 I am still loud and sexually confident, but I also have research and embodied experiences to justify this. Understand this. With ... -
My history is not mine : a speculative allegorical approach to experiential architecture
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This design-led research investigation focuses on architecture as a representation of cultural loss. Globalisation has spread Eurocentric modernist architectural principles across most cultures. In a very real sense, many ... -
The mycorrhizal communities of Lophomyrtus bullata Burret (Myrtaceae) within three natural forest associations of New Zealand
(New Zealand Ecological Society, 2023-10-24)The widespread endemic tree Lophomyrtus bullata (ramarama; Myrtaceae) is in serious decline. Lophomyrtus bullata is now considered threatened due to the ongoing spread of Austropuccinia psidii, a rust fungus causing myrtle ... -
The mystery of the god Io
(Irukandji Press, 2022-02)...These facts have fed an enduring controversy over the authenticity of the Māori god Io. This is a complicated and extensive debate.* Skeptics believe that Io was either an accidental or intentional colonial construct ... -
Narratives of relatedness in ecological sustainability in early childhood education in Aotearoa
(New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2010-01-01)This paper provides an overview of the context and some preliminary findings from a current two year Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) funded study, “Titiro whakamuri, hoki whakamua: We are the future, the ... -
Narratives of relatedness in ecological sustainability in early childhood education in Aotearoa.
(New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2014)This paper provides an overview of the context and some preliminary findings from a current two year Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) funded study, “Titiro whakamuri, hokiwhakamua : We are the future, the ... -
The National Library and Archives of Cambodia: A design proposal for an addition to the existing National Library of Cambodia enabling it to encourage and sustain the continued growth and re-emergence of knowledge and culture in Cambodia.
(2011)April 17, 1975. The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, took over Phnom Penh. The library was promptly closed; it had no place in a world where knowledge, literature, traditions, art and culture were actively sought out for ... -
Native and Invasive : the changing fate of the spur-winged plover (Vanellus miles novaehollandiae) in New Zealand.
(2014-11)Study Aims: • Describe the pattern of spread across New Zealand • Identify possible factors associated with the spread • Relate this to the spread of invasive species Abstract from 2014 conference programme: "The ... -
Natural hazards, climate change and sea level rise : development strategies for low-lying coastal land in New Zealand : proactive or reactive
(International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), 2017-10)Policy 26 of The New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010 requires New Zealand’s central and local government to provide where appropriate for the protection, restoration or enhancement of natural defences that protect ... -
A naturalistic inquiry of the relationship between learner beliefs and learner autonomy
(Independent Learning Association, 2013)Learner autonomy has received increasing attention in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Many educators believe that the ultimate goal of teaching is to help students become life-long, independent learners. ... -
Nature and architecture : an urban library. A study of the process of designing a new type of public architecture in the urban park context.
(2015)Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the architecture industry has experienced an enormous revolution of its own. The application of new materials and industrialized production methods created plenty of ... -
Nature and her simple truths
(2011)How could the 'architect' approach the issue of uniting the site and wider landscape with the imposition of the man made form? ... Buildings that appear to be intrinsically part of their place have an integration which ...