Faculties: Recent submissions
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Kainga: Healing Home with Indigenous Knowledge
(New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) Inc., and supported by the School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This article, which is based on a keynote speech delivered at the 2011 Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, firstly briefly elaborates the concepts, pōrangi, wairangi, haurangi, and ... -
Shifting Ground: Reflecting on a Journey of Bi-cultural Partnership
(New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) Inc., and supported by the School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The return to Otautahi | Christchurch in 2015 provided an opportune moment for us to participate, observe, ponder, and reflect on the partnership agreement between Waka Oranga and the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists ... -
Nursing Students As Agents of Change: Empowering Patients Using Mobile Technology in Health Promotion
(Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre, 2014)Nursing students from AUT University perform health assessments in the workplace as a part of their clinical learning experience. In this study, the authors evaluated the use of iPad mini’s and a Vodafone Pocket Wi-Fi (3G ... -
Coordination in Distributed Agile Software Development: A Systematic Review
(Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2017)Agile methods incorporate many techniques that support coordination in co-located software development teams. However, these benefits do not necessarily transfer to a distributed context. Even though ... -
IO Vision - an Integrated System to Support the Visually Impaired
(Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2017)There are many navigation systems for the visually impaired but few among them provide seamless integration of indoor -outdoor navigation. This paper reviews navigation systems that are currently ... -
“You expect them to listen!”: Immigrant Teachers’ Reflections on Their Lived Experiences
(Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016)The stories shared by the immigrant teachers capture some of their personal and professional lived experiences in their new teaching environment. The hermeneutic narrative approach of the study of seven immigrant teachers’ ... -
I Know How to Add Them, I Didn't Know I Had to Add Them
(Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015)Ten non-English speaking immigrant students shared their lived experiences in their secondary school mathematics classrooms in New Zealand. Through the voices of these students some understandings of the challenges they ... -
Measuring the Burden of Gambling Harm in New Zealand
(New Zealand Ministry of Health, 2017)Project overview The Ministry of Health engaged Central Queensland University’s (CQU) Experimental Gambling Research Laboratory and Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT) Gambling and Addictions Research Centre to ... -
Assessment of a Solar Parabolic Trough Power Plant with Grid Integration in Egypt
(Australian PV Institute (APVI), 2018)Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is a promising technology for generating efficient renewable solar energy in countries with high Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI). Egypt as one of those countries could harness the sun’s energy ... -
Structural Deformation of Sandwich Composite Heliostats
(Australian PV Institute (APVI), 2018)The cost of heliostats has a significant influence on the cost of central tower concentrating solar power systems. To address this issue there is a need for new innovative heliostat designs that can reduce the heliostats’ ... -
The Effect of Wind on the Performance of the Three Short Natural Draft Dry Cooling Towers in an In-line Arrangement
(Australian PV Institute (APVI), 2018)Natural draft dry cooling tower (NDDCT) are a favourable choice for the cooling system of concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) plants located in arid regions with high solar radiation. However, additional cooling towers ... -
Improving Thermal Comfort Regulating Potential of a Naturally Ventilated Residential House
(Australian PV Institute (APVI), 2018)Maintaining the indoor thermal comfort characteristics of a house by modulating natural ventilation is particularly challenging, as the solution is not explicit. Determining a solution requires solving the complexity, ... -
Vegetables: New Zealand Children Are Not Eating Enough
(Frontiers Media, 2019)We know that eating a variety of vegetables every day is associated with favorable health across the lifecourse. Internationally, food-based dietary guidelines encourage the consumption of a variety of vegetables and fruit ... -
Reclaiming Slowness in Journalism: Critique, Complexity and Difference
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)This article outlines an argument for the value of slowness in journalism. It makes an initial argument that our experiences of modernity are not singular experiences of speed and geographical dislocation but increasingly ... -
Keep Fit: Marginal Ideas in Contemporary Therapeutic Exercise
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)Exercise has a long history as a therapeutic modality and has existed, in some form, in all cultures throughout recorded history. In recent years, therapeutic exercise has taken on new significance as a relatively low cost ... -
Maximizing Photovoltaic Array Energy Usage Within a House Using Model Predictive Control
(IEEE, 2017)In this study, the problems of modeling, energy dispatching and Photovoltaic (PV) array energy priorities for a grid connected residential house with PV array and battery storage using model predictive control (MPC) have ... -
N-butanol Subfraction of Brassica Rapa L. Promotes Reactive Oxygen Species Production and Induces Apoptosis of A549 Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells Via Mitochondria-dependent Pathway
(MDPI AG, 2018)Brassica rapa L., an edible and medical vegetable, has been traditionally used in Uyghur folk medicine to treat coughs and asthma in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. In this study, we prepared an n-butanol ... -
Investigation of Different Molecular Weight Fucoidan Fractions Derived from New Zealand Undaria pinnatifida in Combination with GroA Therapy in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
(MDPI AG, 2018)Fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide extracted from brown seaweeds, has been shown to possess various antioxidant, anticoagulant, antiviral, and anticancer functions. In this study, we focused on low molecular weight fucoidan ... -
Fucoidan Extracted From New Zealand Undaria Pinnatifida – Physicochemical Comparison Against Five Other Fucoidans: Unique Low Molecular Weight Fraction Bioactivity in Breast Cancer Cell Lines
(MDPI AG, 2018)Fucoidan, the complex fucose-containing sulphated polysaccharide varies considerably in structure, composition, and bioactivity, depending on the source, species, seasonality, and extraction method. In this study, we ...