Browsing by Type of Research "Other"
Now showing items 1-20 of 233
-
The absent elephant in the 2016 : Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel Report
(Re-Imagining Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2016-04)Sometimes the most interesting thing about a new policy document or report is not what is present in the document but what is absent. On receiving the report Investing in New Zealand’s Children and Their Families I used ... -
Adult education : New Zealand, to 2012
(Australian & New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES), 2013-11-07)Adult education, New Zealand, to 2012. In its broadest sense, adult education refers to the education of anyone beyond school-age. Historically, the sector has constantly evolved as elements of its provision have matured ... -
Akoaga : efficacy, agency, achievement and success in the tertiary sector : focus on students and parents from Pasifika communities
(Unitec ePress, 2011-01-01)The term akoaga has a pan-Polynesian origin and meaning. In the Samoan language, the term can be broken into two root words, ako and aga. Ako or ato means basket and aga means measurements associated with weaving. -
All the suffering on our backs : rugby, religion and redemption amid the ruins
(Unitec ePress, 2014-12-22)New Zealand’s All Black rugby team is a national icon, an affirmation of the manly, self-reliant and resilient virtues which New Zealanders like to think they possess. In times of national peril, economic uncertainty and ... -
Analysis of PGF ORS and SRS data 2011-2014. Report for the Problem Gambling Foundation – July 2015
(New Zealand Problem Gambling Foundation, 2015-07)This analysis is based on data collected between 2011 and 2015. All clients in the database started after 31/12/2010 and none started after 31/12/2014, although data up to April 2015 from clients who had started in 2014 ... -
Analysis of the Australian data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the Sydney release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the Regent Hotel, Sydney, 4th August, 1998
(1998-08)Are Australian children unique or are they similar to other children in Asia? In my short review of the truly massive amount of data collected in the Cartoon Networks New GenerAsians survey, I can only touch upon, in a ... -
Analysis of the Hong Kong data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians Survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the Hong Kong release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the New World Harbourview Hotel, Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1998
(1998-06)As a researcher on the impact of television on children, I'm interested in the relationship between watching TV and other activities. -
The anti-mandate movement: motorbike helmets and neo-liberalism
(Re-imagining Social Work in Aotearoa, 2022-01-20)What I am aiming to do in this piece is to connect some threads that I don’t see commonly linked and raise some questions about who benefits from the anti-mandate movement and the potential position of social work in ... -
The Application of Quality of Life Metrics
(Springer, 2014)The current “resilience gap” is how it can be enabled in reality from its apparent idealistic grounding? This chapter accepts that a first step should be the establishment of a suitable metric for resilience measurement. ... -
Applied practice : theoretical and pedagogical foundations
(Unitec ePress, 2017-04-04)Applied Practice is an overarching term embracing a wide range of pedagogies that employ one or more forms of work experience for learning, including cooperative education (or co-op), professional practice, internships and ... -
An assessment of risk pathways for the spread of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) and rainbow skinks (Lampropholis delicata) by commercial businesses in the eastern Rodney district, New Zealand to the islands of the Hauraki Gulf
(Auckland Council Biosecurity-Environmental Sciences Division, 2015)The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park encompasses an area of over one million hectares and includes a group of islands, some of which are classified as ‘pest-free’ (Department of Conservation, DOC, n.d.). Due to historical, ecological, ... -
Autonomous language learning study guides : Useful tools in the self-access language learning environment.
(International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), 2014)This paper reports on a recent trial of Autonomous Language Learning (ALL) guides, at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT), in Christchurch and Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. ... -
Baetsch in the city - Vienna, Austria
(2012-09)The objectives were to create a building that at once is both familiar and strange, and to use materials gathered by the local people from the surrounding environment and to use this process to facilitate storytelling and ... -
Biologically Inspired Techniques for Data Mining: A Brief Overview of Particle Swarm Optimization for KDD. Alam
(Information Science Reference, 2014-02-02)Knowledge Discovery and Data (KDD) mining helps uncover hidden knowledge in huge amounts of data. However, recently, different researchers have questioned the capability of traditional KDD techniques to tackle the information ... -
Biosecurity awareness of ferry passengers travelling to islands in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand.
(Auckland Council Environmental Sciences (Biosecurity), 2016)Protection of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, particularly those that are ‘Pest Free’, from the impacts of invasive organisms is vital for the ongoing management of New Zealand native species. It is well known ... -
Breeding biology of laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguinea) in New Zealand
(2011)In the last year we have identified six nesting areas from which we have collected nest debris and behavioural observations. From this data we have identified all animal remains within the debris. In addition, we identified ...
