Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Title
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This Was Now Here! Filmic exploration of hidden meaning imbued in the architectural model
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This visual arts research project utilises filmic explorations of scale models to investigate the nature of Colonial Nelson Civic buildings as architectural spaces of implicit and hidden power, with the notion that governance ... -
Thoughts Become Things: A Grounded Cognition Approach to Imagery Use in the Power Clean
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)While it is widely argued that personalised imagery scripts are beneficial to performers, theory and data to support this contention is sparse. The current study aims to address these issues by investigating: Firstly, what ... -
Three Essays on Equity, Volatility and Commodity Derivatives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This thesis provides a comprehensive study on option markets, with a focus on Leveraged Exchange Traded Fund (LETF) options, volatility options and crude oil options. Study of LETF option market is carried out using a ... -
Thrive: Accentuating the Positive in the Emergency Department
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The Emergency Department is a melting pot of almost every aspect of humanity. It can be a place of pain, disease, despair, and death. It can be a place of overloaded systems where increasing patient numbers and need can ... -
Thrombocytopenia in Healthy Term Infants: Incidence and Clinical Outcomes at Middlemore Hospital, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is caused by the destruction of an infant’s platelets by maternal allo-antibodies developed in utero against paternally acquired antigens on the foetus’ platelets. It can be ... -
Through my body to your body and back
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This Masters of Art & Design, Through My Body To Your Body And Back, is a multi-channel sound installation and performance incorporating notions of the body as both a singular entity and a being of multiplicity and ... -
Through the eyes of Tangaroa
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)The key concept for this multimedia project was to undertake a voyage in art form which set out to examine issues related to the representation and perception of the ancient Rarotongan god Tangaroa, from traditional context ... -
Through the Nether: A Critical Examination of Minecraft as a Social Construct
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Minecraft has become one of the defining video games of the 2010s, selling over 144 million copies, and receiving critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Minecraft’s open-world sandbox gameplay. This thesis is concerned ... -
Thwarted Access: Navigating a Way Towards Enhancing Collaboration Between Public Health and Primary Care Practitioners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Many of the most urgent public health difficulties cannot be addressed by single agency interventions (Procter, Brooks, Wilson, Crouchman, & Kendall, 2015; Rawaf et al., 2018; World Health Organization, 2008); instead ... -
Tia E Lili Ke Mau. Regeneration of Vagahau Niue: A case study of Niue youth through the Ekalesia in Niue and in Auckland, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)As languages evolve and change at a rapid pace globally, efforts for the revitalisation of endangered Indigenous languages have become increasingly present in Pacific migrant communities. This is certainly the case with ... -
Tidal variation of chlorophyll-containing pigments in a temperate tidal salt-marsh lagoon
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)A literature review revealed a lack of data on primary productivity in New Zealand Estuarine waters. Water samples were collected and analysed for spectral absorption properties from a tidal salt-marsh mangrove lagoon over ... -
Tihei Mauri Ora: A Conversation in Paint
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)This project engages with a new construct that recognises the concerns of indigenous shared knowledge’s which not only privileges the mahi (work) produced, but shares the site alongside a dominant culture of reading, which ... -
Time-Motion analysis and physiological profile of elite New Zealand touch players during competition
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)Background: Currently, New Zealand elite Touch players are ranked in the top two countries around the world in all three playing grades (Men's, Women's and Mixed). As of January 2010, New Zealand holds the mantle of World ... -
Tipping in top Auckland restaurants: does it help?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)The practice of tipping in restaurants or the addition of service charges onto the bill at the end of the dining experience is the norm in many countries throughout the world. It is not normal to tip in New Zealand, however ... -
Tirohanga Taiohi: Taiohi perspectives on gambling among whānau, hapu, iwi and urban Māori communities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)In Aotearoa, New Zealand, the cultural milieu has been re-shaped by commercial gambling. Urban taiohi Māori experience diverse realities and for many ‘gambling is a fact of life.’ Commercial gambling was viewed as a good ... -
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(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This practice-led PhD project develops new modes of art research at the intersection of science and the poetic, where the continuity of discourse (idea and aesthetic) is shown to be porous and illusory. Relations of ... -
To Be Seen and Heard: The Lived Experience of Pasifika Students Participating in Psychotherapy Training in Aotearoa, New Zealand an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The focus of this research was the lived experience of self-identified Pasifika students; exploring their ethnic identity and experience of psychotherapy training. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used ... -
To compare the accuracy of the Broselow-Luten Tape and APLS, Theron and Shann’s formulae in prediction of weight in children aged 5 to 10 years in Auckland
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Paediatric weight estimation methods commonly used in emergency situations tend to underestimate the weight of most children. This study aims to test the accuracy of four weight estimation methods used in New Zealand to ... -
To Determine the Validity of the Sebia HbA1c Assay for Identifying Variant Haemoglobin Disorders
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The purpose of this research is to determine if the Sebia HbA1c programme can be used to accurately identify patients with a variant haemoglobin chain. While this method is not currently validated as a diagnostic test for ... -
To disclose or not to disclose: is that the question? Therapist self-disclosure – understandings, types and influences
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)To disclose or not to disclose: Is that the question? This dissertation suggests that the question is in fact far more complicated, as therapist self-disclosure challenges therapists to consider what will be most beneficial ...