Faculties
The research activities within each of AUT’s five faculties are overseen by an Associate Dean of Research who works closely with the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise. We encourage you to explore the broad suite of research activities from each faculties. Full text digital files are available open access for all items.
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When Maintaining Relationships and Social Connectivity Matter: The Case of New Zealand Midwives and COVID-19
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)New Zealand’s response to COVID-19 was go hard and go early into Level 4 lockdown on 25 March 2020. This rapid response has resulted in low rates of infection and deaths. For New Zealand midwives, the sudden changes to how ... -
Low-cost Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) With Multispectral Sensor for Mapping and Classification of Intertidal Biogenic Oyster Reefs
The upsurge in the development of RPAS technology for low altitude remote sensing and miniaturized sensors for enhanced imaging, have led to an increase in marine ecological applications. However, the ubiquity of RPAS ... -
Impact of People Movement on Wi-Fi Link Throughput in Indoor Propagation Environments: An Empirical Study
(MDPI, 2021)There has been tremendous growth in the deployment of Wi-Fi 802.11-based networks in recent years. Many researchers have been investigating the performance of the Wi-Fi 802.11-based networks by exploring factors such as ... -
Physical Activity, Cognition and Academic Performance: An Analysis of Mediating and Confounding Relationships in Primary School Children
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background: Exploring the relationship between physical activity, cognition and academic performance in children is an important but developing academic field. One of the key tasks for researchers is explaining how the ... -
Active Transportation and Public Transportation Use to Achieve Physical Activity Recommendations? A Combined GPS, Accelerometer, and Mobility Survey Study
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Accurate information is lacking on the extent of transportation as a source of physical activity, on the physical activity gains from public transportation use, and on the extent to which population shifts in ... -
A Cross-sectional Description of Parental Perceptions and Practices Related to Risky Play and Independent Mobility in Children: The New Zealand State of Play Survey
(MDPI, 2019)The potential for risky play and independent mobility to increase children’s physical activity, and enhance cognitive development and emotional wellbeing has been recognised for some time. The aim of this study was to ... -
Accelerometer Data Reduction in Adolescents: Effects on Sample Retention and Bias
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background Accelerometry is increasingly being recognized as an accurate and reliable method to assess free-living physical activity (PA) in children and adolescents. However, accelerometer data reduction criteria remain ... -
Pedometer-determined Physical Activity and Active Transport in Girls
(BioMed Central, 2008)It is well established that the risk of insufficient physical activity is greater in girls than in boys, especially during the adolescent years. The promotion of active transport (AT) to and from school has been posited ... -
Dynamic Accuracy of GPS Receivers for Use in Health Research: A Novel Method to Assess GPS Accuracy in Real-world Settings
(Frontiers Media, 2014)The emergence of portable global positioning system (GPS) receivers over the last 10 years has provided researchers with a means to objectively assess spatial position in free-living conditions. However, the use of GPS in ... -
Are Children Participating in a Quasi-experimental Education Outside the Classroom Intervention More Physically Active?
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Education outside the classroom (EOtC) is a curriculum-based approach to teaching that has shown positive associations with children's physical activity and academic learning in small-scale case studies. The ... -
How Many Steps/Day are Enough? for Children and Adolescents
(BioMed Central, 2011)Worldwide, public health physical activity guidelines include special emphasis on populations of children (typically 6-11 years) and adolescents (typically 12-19 years). Existing guidelines are commonly expressed in terms ... -
Modifiable Risk Factors for Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents From São Paulo, Brazil
(BioMed Central, 2011)Background Brazil is currently experiencing a nutrition transition: the displacement of traditional diets with foods high in saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol and an increase in sedentary lifestyles. Despite these ... -
The Good Girls: Locked Up, Locked Out and Locked Down
(SML, 2021)On the 24thth March 2020, the New Zealand Prime Minister announced the country would go into a Covid-19 lockdown. Two days later a new reality dawned with all businesses, organisations and educational institutions closed, ... -
Biomechanics and User Testing of the Impact of IRB Modifications on Tibial Loading: Technical Report #8 to Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ)
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Performance-based Aid, Enhanced Advising, and the Income Gap in College Graduation: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial
(SAGE Publications, 2021)Income gaps in college enrollment, persistence, and graduation raise concerns for those interested in equal opportunity in higher education. We present findings from a randomly assigned scholarship for low-income students ... -
Critical Assessment of Three Decades of Breast Cancer Research in Yemen: Systematic Review
Objective: The aim of this review is to critically assess three decades (1989 to 2019) of breast cancer research in Yemen and to identify the gaps in, and need for, breast cancer research in Yemen. Methodology: A search ... -
The Time-free Comparison Model for Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
(Springer Nature, 2020)This paper describes a new comparison-based model for fault diagnosis in wireless ad hoc networks. Fault diagnosis is crucial for ensuring the dependability of systems. Wireless ad hoc networks are highly prone to faults ... -
A Multi-channel MAC Protocol With Retrodirective Array Antennas in Flying Ad Hoc Networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)In this paper, we propose a multi-channel medium access control (MMAC) protocol for the exploitation of retro-directive array antennas in Flying Ad Hoc Networks (named FA-MMAC). This FA-MMAC employs multiple channels and ... -
A Cloud-based Traffic Flow Framework for Tactile Internet Using SDN and Fog Computing
(IEEE, 2019)Tactile Internet (TI) is an emerging area of research which is still in its infancy, and facing many issues and challenges. One of the main challenges in TI is to achieve a round trip time (RTT) or latency of 1ms or less. ... -
A Network Selection Method for Handover in Vehicle-to-infrastructure Communications in Multi-tier Networks
(Springer Verlag, 2018)Network selection is very important for a successful handover in a multi-tier heterogeneous networks. However, the primary challenges currently faced by research community is the lack of availability of network information ...