Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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M-learning About Tongan Food: A Concept of a Culture-specific App for Learning About Tongan Food Culture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This study discusses how an app can assist New Zealand-born and raised Tongans to continue learning about Tongan food culture. As Tongans have immigrated to overseas countries for a better life, the majority have settled ... -
Machine crafted: 3-dimensional machine knitted forms
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Unrealised design capacity in computerised seamless knitting technology is highlighted in emerging research. The adoption of this technology, both in New Zealand and internationally, is largely driven by the economic gains ... -
Magnitude of Postactivation Potentiation response in elite rowers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Postactivation Potentiation (PAP) has been proposed as a means by which to achieve greater physiological and mechanical power through the manipulation of previous contractile work. However, there is a lack of applied PAP ... -
Mainstream Early Childhood Teachers and Their Understandings of Pacific Education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Abstract This research explores the views of eight mainstream early childhood teachers and their understandings of Pacific education. Pacific children in education continue to fall within the underachievement statistics ... -
Maintaining a Movie Tourism Business as a Flagship Attraction: A Case Study of Hobbiton Movie Set
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Attractions are key features at tourist destinations; they are the most important component of tourism supply (Henderson, 2000). Despite this, only a small amount of academic literature focuses on site locations of movies ... -
Maintaining enjoyment of life in the process of living with high cholesterol : a grounded theory study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)Hypercholesterolaemia (high cholesterol) is a risk factor for atherosclerosis, a major contributor to cardiovascular disease. Much has been written on managing high cholesterol levels including the use of drug therapy and ... -
Maintaining Friendships Through Computer- Mediated Communication: An Investigation of University Students’ Use of Asynchronous and Synchronous Communication
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This study investigates the ways in which university students maintain their existing friendships through different forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC). It aims to contribute to a greater understanding about ... -
Maintaining the Panjabi Language and Culture: Auckland’s Sikh Gurdwaras and the Home Domain
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)New Zealand is home to approximately twenty thousand Sikhs, a cultural community with its first arrival in 1890, which has grown significantly since 2001, particularly in the Auckland region. This Auckland case study ... -
Major sports events and their ability to benefit local sports clubs: A case study of the Auckland professional tennis tournaments
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Tennis clubs suffer as participation declines. The increasing popularity of the casual ‘pay-for-play’ concept results in further decrease in membership for complacent sport clubs. Yet strategic documents from government ... -
Making Frogshark: participant observation of ‘indie’ game development cultures
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The democratization of project ‘greenlighting’ and funding allocation over the last decade (Irwin, 2008) has given rise to an ‘indie movement’ in the burgeoning game development industry. Within this ever changing ‘indie ... -
Making sense of no body
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This Masters in Art and Design investigates a performance strategy for the deterritorialization of the body, mind and space as they intersect the digital screen image. The reconfiguration of the sensing system as the body ... -
Malanga: the voice of positive dissonance
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Malanga is a creative practice thesis that proposes the notion of positive cultural dissonance. This construct questions the nature of identity loss experienced by young urbanised Pacific people in Auckland, New Zealand. ... -
Malware motif identification using Bio-inspired Data Mining
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The application of data mining techniques into biological data is well established. The aim of this thesis is to explore the effects of giving amino acid representation to problematic machine learning data and to evaluate ... -
Mana whenua, mana moana: Tūhourangi and Lake Rotokākahi
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Mana whenua and mana moana are cultural concepts that are intrinsically linked to Māori cultural and environmental landscapes and identity. These physical landscapes embody ancestral legacies validating tūrangawaewae rights ... -
Manaaki Tāngata: The application of Kaupapa Māori as an ideological base for a care-giving programme for Māori youth and whānau at risk
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Since British colonisation and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Māori have consistently endured social disparities which have disadvantaged whānau (family, extended family) hapū (sub-tribe) and iwi (tribe) ... -
Managerial Facilitation of Innovative Knowledge Transfer and Acquisition in a Foreign Subsidiary in New Zealand: Addressing Organizational Cultural, Behavioral, and Technological Challenges
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The aim of the research was to investigate the synergistic mechanism managers and employees deploy in leader-follower relationships and to facilitate innovative knowledge transfer and acquisition in a foreign subsidiary ... -
Managing change as a Minister of the Crown
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)During my years as a Cabinet Minister in New Zealand, the relationship between a Minister and his key officials was strongly modelled on the Westminster system as then applied in Britain. As in Britain, the ministers were ... -
Managing cross-cultural negotiations in the current Northern Iraq international business environment: an exploratory study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This study investigates factors that impact cross-cultural negotiations in the current international business environment of northern Iraq. In spite of considerable political volatility between the Kurdish regional government ... -
Managing disequilibrium: A grounded theory study of therapists working in groups with people with eating disorders
(Auckland University of Technology, 2003)This study has used a qualitative grounded theory research methodology to systematically identify what happens for therapists who facilitate groups for people with eating disorders. Eight therapists who had worked in groups ... -
Managing employee customer service interpersonal exchanges in the hospitality industry: a New Zealand hotel case study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The continued growth of service industries and the development of the experience economy has highlighted the need for employees to have extensive social and interpersonal skills. The need for employee interpersonal skills ...