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New Zealand National Gambling Study: Qualitative Phase. NGS Series Report Number 8
(Gambling and Addictions Research Centre (GARC), Auckland University of Technology (AUT) for the Ministry of Health, 2019)STUDY AIMS: This study sought to enhance understanding of: (1) Why and how people transition between gambling risk levels, (2) The inter-related behaviours for why people increase or decrease their gambling participation ... -
The 'Tricky Dance' of Advocacy: A Study of Non-legal Mental Health Advocacy
Advocacy in compulsory mental health settings is complex and contested, incorporating legal, non-legal, representational and best interests advocacy. This paper presents an approach to non-legal representational advocacy ... -
Journalists as First Responders
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Covering terrorist attacks has posed numerous challenges to mainstream media across the world. Bringing information to the public quickly remains a primary goal for news media, but the journalistic duty to tell the truth ... -
Evaluation of the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) in a Gambling Treatment Setting
(Auckland University of Technology, Gambling and Addictions Research CentreGambling and Addictions Research Centre (GARC), Auckland University of Technology (AUT) for the Ministry of Health, 2019)No abstract. -
A Mixed Methods Analysis of Gambling Harm for Women in New Zealand
(Gambling and Addictions Research Centre (GARC), Auckland University of Technology (AUT) for the Ministry of Health, 2019)The World Health Organization (WHO) supports multiple layers of gender analysis in health research and policy, accounting for personal and community-level impacts of gender, and investigation of the interactions between ... -
Towards an Integrative Definition of Scaling Social Impact in Social Enterprises
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Scaling social impact is a key concept in the social enterprise literature. While central, the wide range of meanings and the lack of conceptual uniformity detract from its usefulness. To tackle this issue, this paper ... -
Cryptocurrencies and Consumer Rights in New Zealand: Risky Business?
(Elsevier, 2018)Analysis of the technological, legal, socio-economical, and ethical implications of cryptocurrencies is quickly producing a vast and often interdisciplinary body of literature.Depending on its perceived nature, different ... -
The Effectiveness of Real-time Haptic Feedback Gait Retraining for Reducing Resultant Tibial Acceleration With Runners
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Objectives To examine the effectiveness of real-time haptic feedback gait retraining for reducing resultant tibial acceleration (TA-R) with runners, the retention of changes over four weeks, and the transfer of learning ... -
New Zealand Building Project Cost and Its Influential Factors: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
(Hindawi, 2019)Construction industry significantly contributes to New Zealand's economic development. However, the delivery of construction projects is usually plagued by cost overruns, which turn potentially successful projects into ... -
Energy Savings Using Direct Current (DC) from Photovoltaic (PV) System in a Residential Home
(IEEE, 2019)The conventional AC nanogrid with photovoltaic (PV) system has suffered from power loss caused by power conversion from DC to AC and back to DC for most of the end use in a typical residential home. To overcome the problem, ... -
Feasibility Study to Install a 1 MW Grid Connected Solar Plant in Wairoa-Mahia Peninsular, New Zealand
(IEEE, 2019)This study intends to investigate the voltage drop issue along the Mahia distribution network (11kV line) and further assess the feasibility of developing a grid tied 1MW solar farm in Wairoa District, New Zealand. The ... -
Low Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Disaggregation of Air Conditioning Unit and Electric Vehicle Charging
(IEEE, 2019)Energy monitoring is inevitable towards achieving energy efficiency and conservation. Load disaggregation is one of the techniques towards effective energy monitoring. In the said domain, Non-Intrusive Appliance Load ... -
Application of Dynamic Thermal Rating: Overhead Line Critical Spans Identification Under Weather Dependent Optimized Sensor Placement
(Elsevier, 2019)Dynamic thermal rating (DTR) for an overhead transmission line is a viable and cost-effective technique based on real weather conditions to mitigate congestion and avoid load shedding for reliable transfer of the required ... -
The Effect of Propagation Models on IEEE 802.11n over 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz in Noisy Channels: A Simulation Study
(IEEE, 2020)IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (also called Wi-Fi) are widely used as Internet access technologies due to its availability, high-speed, low-cost, and standardization world-wide. While the performance of Wi-Fi has ... -
Into the Light: Sexuality, Erasure and Recollection
(Routledge, 2019)Stories of war are constructions. When filmmakers create narratives based on facts, they often need to verify technical details and seek out visual and social contexts for events and the characters who experience them. ... -
Macrosegregation in Dissimilar-metal Fusion Welding
(Elsevier, 2016)Solute segregation on a macroscopic scale in a weld between two dissimilar metals or alloys has long been recognized, but fundamental understanding of macrosegregation in dissimilar-metal welding is still lacking. Two ... -
Blood Group O→A Transformation by Chemical Ligation of Erythrocytes
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)Agglutination of red blood cells (RBCs) remains the only practical method for routine use for ABH typing in clinical practice. However, exact mechanistic details of agglutination are not yet thoroughly studied. In this ... -
Kia Kaua Te Reo E Rite Ki Te Moa, Ka Ngaro: Do Not Let the Language Suffer the Same Fate As the Moa
(The Royal Society, 2020)More than a third of the world's languages are currently classified as endangered and more than half are expected to go extinct by 2100. Strategies aimed at revitalizing endangered languages have been implemented in numerous ... -
Applying Visual Cryptography to Enhance Text Captchas
Nowadays, lots of applications and websites utilize text-based captchas to partially protect the authentication mechanism. However, in recent years, different ways have been exploited to automatically recognize text-based ... -
Quadriceps Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition: The Effects of Experimental Knee Joint Effusion on Motor Cortex Excitability
(BioMed Central, 2014)Introduction Marked weakness of the quadriceps muscles is typically observed following injury, surgery or pathology affecting the knee joint. This is partly due to ongoing neural inhibition that prevents the central nervous ...