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The Naughty Nineties movable book prototype (1981), and the paper-engineering roll-on effect in tertiary teaching
(Otago School of Art and the University of Otago Centre for the Book, 2014)‘Movable books’ is the term that best encompasses the wide range of paper-engineered books, and includes those with pop-up mechanisms. Movable books epitomise the work of art in book form and date back many hundreds of ... -
The New Zealand qualifications framework - a case of the emperor has no clothes?
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The perceptions of retentions as held by clients, contractors and subcontractors
(The Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA), 2013)The payment mechanism of construction projects is different compared to other industries. For every payment made to a contractor or subcontractor a sum of money is held back. This deduction is a phenomenon peculiar to the ... -
The quality of service paradigm as the focus of net-centric computing: a postgraduate course
(NACCQ, 2004)In the past three years a new postgraduate elective course on Net-centric computing was developed for a Master’s degree in Information Technology. The course evolved around the core subject topics included in the Computer ... -
The regulatory framework for effective post-disaster reconstruction in New Zealand
(Information and research for reconstruction (i-Rec), 2006)New Zealand has extensive infrastructure networks and localised, dense urban populations that make it vulnerable to natural disasters. When they occur, the effects can be devastating on the natural and built environment. ... -
The relationship between construction sector and the national economy of Sri Lanka
(Springer, 2012)The causal relationship between construction and a country’s economy has received much attention in the past. However, the results provide contrasting views on the nature of this relationship. This paper therefore investigates ... -
The role of joint interface on tensile-shear fracture strength of friction stir lap diffusion al-to-steel welds
(TWI, 2012)Friction stir lap diffusion welding (FSLDW) of Al-to-steel experiments were conducted followed by mechanical testing and metallurgical examination of the welds to study the formation of microstructure at the interface ... -
The role of Kemeny's constant in properties of Markov chains
(MSM Conference, 2011)In a finite m-state irreducible Markov chain with stationary probabilities {πi} and mean first passage times mij (mean recurrence time when i = j) it was first shown, by Kemeny and Snell, that the sum, over j, of πj and ... -
The role of technology support centres in stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation in SME clusters
(University of Essex, 2006)The Innovative Product Development Centre (IPDC) was established at the University of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region of the UK with a mission “to help small and medium sized companies improve their business, ... -
The school-tertiary interface in mathematics: teaching style and assessment practice
(Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Inc., 2012)Issues arising in the transition from secondary school to tertiary mathematics study are increasingly coming under scrutiny. In this paper, we analyse two practical aspects of the school–tertiary interface: teaching style; ... -
The semiotics of business signage: how typography is used in impoverished and deprived areas of New Zealand
(Common Ground Publishing LLC, 2014)There is no disputing the fact that the Auckland Central Business District (C.B.D) is well positioned within the multinational corporate world community. While walking through the streets of Auckland’s C.B.D, one could ... -
The skill sets required for managing complex construction projects
(The Institute for Business and Finance Research (IBFR), 2011)Very few projects comprise the unique character that construction projects have. The product from construction processes are rarely similar with each having unique set of characteristics and qualities that set them apart ... -
The SMOL case: the SoDIS approach to teaching "electronic transactions security"
(AUT UniversityNACCQ, 2006)There is an increasing vulnerability of businesses to attacks on their systems, which has given rise to an increased interest in areas such as information security and risk management. In the project discussed here, the ... -
The South Pacific media:politics, ownership and control
(Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS) / Critical Asian Studies, 1995)Two transnational media conglomerates own or control all the major circulation newspapers in the South Pacific. Through their subsidiaries Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Ltd and French media magnate Robert Hersant's ... -
The suitcase, the samurai sword and the pumpkin: Asian crime and news media treatment
(Pacific Media Centre, 2008)In 2005 and 2007, two high profile crimes were reported in the New Zealand media. The first case involved the murder of a young Chinese student, Wan Biao, whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase. The second ... -
The synthesis of hybrid mechanisms using genetic algorithms
(Mechanisms & Machines Research Group, Liverpool John Moores University, 1997)This thesis presents a novel design methodology for the synthesis of hybrid mechanisms using Genetic Algorithms. GAs are a search and optimisation method which model the mechanics of population genetics to give a truly ... -
The trapezoidal method of steepest-descent and its application to adaptive filtering
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2010)The method of steepest-descent is re-visited in continuous time. It is shown that the continuous time version is a vector differential equation the solution of which is found by integration. Since numerical integration has ... -
The UK snagging process: a benchmark for residential construction
(Research Publishing Services, 2012)The residential construction sector is under pressure to meet an ever increasing customer expectation of quality improvement on their development projects. But not all completed residential projects turn out on a clean ...