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The Association Between Sport Specialisation and Movement Competency in Youth: A Systematic Review
(Sage, 2021)Negative long-term outcomes have been reported following sport specialisation including increased injury risk. The underlying mechanisms remain unclear; however, fewer exposures to broad ranging movement patterns and ... -
Sound and Vision in the Opening Titles of Māori-language Television News: A Multimodal Analysis of Cultural Hybridity
Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. British settlers arrived in the 19th century with their tradition of the newspaper, and this led to a thriving Māori-language press. Today, news in te reo Māori, the ... -
Heeding the Call of Covid-19
(WellBeing International Publications, 2021)We are grateful to all of our commentators. They have provided a wide range of valuable perspectives and insights from many fields, revealing a broad interest in the subject matter. Nearly all the commentaries have helped ... -
Putting Your Health in Your Own Hands: A New Strategy for Primary Stroke Prevention
(Longdom, 2015)As evidenced by the increasing stroke burden worldwide, currently used primary stroke prevention strategies are not effective enough. One of the main reasons for insufficient effectiveness of the currently used primary ... -
Use of a Novel Polymer-coated Steel As an Alternative to Traditional Can Manufacturing in the Food Industry
(MDPI, 2021)Metal containers (both food and beverage cans) are made from huge steel or aluminum coils that are transformed into two-or three-piece products. During the manufacturing process, the metal is sprayed on both sides and the ... -
Fatigue of Commercially Pure Titanium Dental Implants
(Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, 2016)Failure of two commercially pure titanium dental implants was analysed. The implants fractured at the abutments after only three years use. One abutment failed at the junction of the threaded and unthreaded areas, the other ... -
Happiness Lost: Was the Decision to Implement Lockdown the Correct One?
(University of Pretoria, 2021)Background: Amid the rapid global spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, likely with severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a ... -
New Zealand National Gambling Study: Correspondence Between Changes in Gambling and Gambling Risk Levels and Health, Quality of Life, and Health and Social Inequalities
(Gambling and Addictions Research Centre, AUT University, 2020)Summary This study provides a statistical analysis of the four data collection years (2012 to 2015) of the National Gambling Study in order to assess how changes in gambling risk levels are associated with changes over ... -
Changes in Transfusion Science Over the Past 25 Years
(New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Science, 2021)No abstract. -
The New Zealand Care Workforce Survey 2019 Report
(New Zealand Work Research Institute, AUT University, 2021)The 2019 report of the Care Workforce Survey is authored by Associate Professor Katherine Ravenswood, Dr Julie Douglas (from our Care/Work Research Group) and Tanya Ewertowska. It continues on from the previous Aged Care ... -
Barriers and Facilitators to Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis in New Zealand: A Qualitative Study
(BioMed Central, 2020)BACKGROUND: New Zealand (NZ) has high rates of colorectal cancer but low rates of early diagnosis. Due to a lack of understanding of the pre-diagnostic experience from the patient's perspective, it is necessary to investigate ... -
Hā Ora: Secondary Care Barriers and Enablers to Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer for Māori Communities
(BioMed Central, 2021)BACKGROUND: Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand. Māori communities in particular have higher incidence and mortality rates from Lung Cancer. Diagnosis of lung cancer at an early stage ... -
What Motivates People to Commence a Graduate Entry Nursing Programme: A Mixed Method Scoping Review
(BioMed Central, 2021)Background The global deficit of nurses demands urgent attention in the recruitment and education of this future workforce. Graduate entry nursing (GEN) programmes are one option for people with undergraduate degrees who ... -
How Social Entrepreneurs Respond to Enterprise Failure
Given that little research examines how social entrepreneurs respond to venture failure, the first aim of this conceptual paper is to explore the cognitive, affective and behavioural responses of social entrepreneurs to ... -
Fine-dining in Prisons: Online Tripadvisor Reviews of The Clink Training Restaurants
(Elsevier, 2021)This study evaluated customer reviews about The Clink restaurants to understand how they are rated and what experience is gained by fine dining in a prison. The Clink Charity runs training restaurants in four U.K. prisons ... -
Can International Human Rights Law Smash the Patriarchy? A Review of ‘Patriarchy’ According to United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures
(Springer, 2021)This article interrogates whether and how the concept of ‘patriarchy’ is used by UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies (treaty bodies) and special procedures to interpret state obligations to respect and ensure women’s ... -
Online Inertia Estimation for Power Systems With High Penetration of RES Using Recursive Parameters Estimation
Low and time‐changing inertia values due to the high percentage of renewable energy sources (RESs) can cause stability problems in power systems due to rapid frequency instabilities. Inertia monitoring will assist operators ... -
Harnessing the Potential of Vulnerability Assessments for Managing Social-ecological Systems
The concept of vulnerability has broadened from initial applications in the fields of risk and hazards, human ecology and resilience to include the management of social-ecological systems (SES). We review how this concept ... -
COVID-19 Antibody Screening With SARS-CoV-2 Red Cell Kodecytes Using Routine Serologic Diagnostic Platforms
(Wiley, 2021)BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major global impact, and the resultant response in the development of new diagnostics is unprecedented. The detection of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 has a role in managing ... -
Design and Analysis of a Reconfigurable Gilbert Mixer for Software-Defined Radios
A reconfigurable gm-boosted, image-rejected downconversion mixer is presented in this paper using the SiGe 8 HP technology. The proposed mixer operates within 0.9–13.5 GHz that is suitable for software-defined radio ...