Browsing by Type of Research "Doctoral Thesis"
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The academic identity of students in early childhood field-based initial teacher education
(2016)Student academic identity is defined as the appropriation of academic values and practices within a sense of self, reflecting the willingness and commitment to the practices of the academic community (White & Lowenthal, ... -
The case of Tapatoru: Building the capability of foundation educators through professional standards
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS How isTapatoru being used to inform capability building? What are the organisation and individual drivers for the use of Tapatoru? What enables and inhibits organisational and individual use of ... -
Computational land use management of public spaces in New Zealand
(2017)Land management is the process of managing the use and development of land resources, in both urban and rural settings. In all modern states, some land is held by central or local governments. This is called public land. ... -
Computer monitoring trends in recreational fishing effort
(2016)Annual estimates of removals from fish stocks are a fundamental requirement for any fisheries management regime. The surveillance of maritime boat ramp aims to balance the sustainability of fisheries stocks and the impacts ... -
Critical comparison of statistical and deep learning models applied to the New Zealand Stock Market Index
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1. What are the critical fundamental determinants of the NZX 50 Index movements? 2. How can effective forecasting models based on HWES and ARIMA methodologies be devised and applied with high precision ... -
A curriculum for entrepreneurial creativity and resourcefulness in New Zealand
(2010-11-08)This thesis asks: ‘How can tertiary education nurture entrepreneurial creativity?’ Entrepreneurship is considered to be a vital determinant of economic growth and the entrepreneur is understood as someone who innovates and ... -
Deep correlation learning for urban air quality: Analysis and prediction in New Zealand
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: • RQ1: Can we relate all the variables involved in air-quality monitoring to establish which ones have dependencies on the others? • RQ2: Can we further model this inter-relationship and automate ... -
Developing a navigation model for optimizing social comfort for side-by-side robotic wheelchairs
(2018-01)Side-by-side robotic wheelchairs have significant direct benefits for users and lessening the burden on caregivers. The autonomous navigation function for side-byside robotic wheelchairs has attracted the attention of many ... -
Embodied creativity: Creative play as a catalyst for adult learning, spirituality and a ludic (playful) mindset
(2022)In my research, I explored and investigated the potential of creative play to enrich adult learning, creativity, spirituality, liturgical worship, and ministry formation, in an Anglican theological college setting ... -
An examination of the complex web of influences on the educational achievement of Samoan and Tongan male students in Auckland secondary schools
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. What key values and strategies do Samoan and Tongan parents identify as supporting educational achievement for their children, with specific reference to boys? 2. What factors external to schools ... -
An excellent adventure: Investigating the stories of Tertiary Teaching Excellence awardees
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1, How does the concept of excellence unfurl in the narratives of Tertiary Teaching Excellence awardees? 2. How do these practitioners embody, convey, and foster that excellence in their practice? ... -
From industry professional to academic leader : identity migration in New Zealand polytechnics
(2015)Academic staff in New Zealand polytechnics are mostly industry professionals who have been recruited directly into higher education with little or no background in academia. They have effectively immigrated to a new ... -
The historical development of Vietnam National University, Hanoi from a Bourdieusian perspective
(2009)This study into the historical development of a specific university, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-Hanoi), aimed to produce insights into and theorise the development of this institution of higher education. In ... -
Identity, culture and television in France
(2001)This thesis is a study of identity and culture through the prism of television and policy. It examines the relationship between national culture and identity, nation-state and mediated communication with the intention to ... -
Improving network performance : an evaluation of TCP/UDP on networks
(2014)Computer networks are complex - they are a heterogeneous environment in which numerous services, such as electronic mail, web browsing, voice and multimedia data, traverse the globe daily. The needs and demands of end users ... -
Incremental and parallel learning algorithms for data stream knowledge discovery
(2018-02)Incremental and parallel are two capabilities for machine learning algorithms to accommodate data from real world applications. Incremental learning addresses streaming data by constructing a learning model that is updated ... -
Making war real: The discourse of professional journalism and the Iraq War, 2003
(2009)As this thesis argues, the pursuit of professionalism in journalism should be understood as a discourse that hegemonises the discursive formation of journalism and produces news that fulfils professional needs. Professionalism ... -
Product stewardship: Linking waste back to primary production
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: In what ways are regulated Product Stewardship schemes likely to contribute to waste reduction in New Zealand? a. How do organisations explain and make sense of Product Stewardship? b. How do people ... -
SAP®’s Univariate Sales Forecasting Functionality: An Empirical Study
(2007)The accuracy of sales forecasts is a major determinant of inventory costs and service level driven revenues. Failure to establish future customer demand without a reasonable degree of certainty often leads to poor levels ... -
Support Vector Machine (SVM) aggregation modelling for spatio-temporal air pollution analysis
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. Dealing with long term historical data of spatio-temporal is always challenging. SVM ensemble and other methods are used to handle long term historical data, but these methods result in slow ...
