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The Impacts of Information-seeking Strategies and Social Presence on the Interaction between Customers and Conversational Agents
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Many organisations in different industries have jumped on the bandwagon and implemented conversational agents (CAs) to support customer service operations. Although CAs are found to offer many benefits to their customers, ... -
Improving Assessment Inter-rater Reliability of a Nursing ePortfolio: An Integrative Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ) are responsible in ensuring all nurses are registered, competent, safe and fit to practice, to protect the health and safety of the New Zealand public. The approval of Professional ... -
The Effect of Doxorubicin on ABC Transporter Gene Expression in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Breast cancer is the single foremost killer of women in the world today, and of this triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most clinically aggressive kind. TNBC impacts roughly 15% of the worlds breast cancer cases ... -
Digitally Naive to Digital Natives: Changes in the Social Media Landscape from the Perspective of Women in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)With social media usage creeping into the everyday lives of a global majority, it has become increasingly important to understand a user’s engagement with these new-age digital channels and recognise the level and type of ... -
Domestic Tourism Experience of Indian Nationals Studying in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2017) stated that the number of international students escalated from 1.3 to 5 million over a span of 24 years (1990-2014). Apart from paying fees, international ... -
24 GHz Flexible Antenna for Doppler Radar based Human Vital Signs Monitoring
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Noncontact monitoring of human vital signs is an emerging research topic in recent years. A key approach to this monitoring is the use of the Doppler radar concept which enables real-time vital signs detection, resulting ... -
Cross-Agency Communication and Information Exchange in Disaster Healthcare
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)In disasters, emergency management and health agencies usually play the biggest roles in providing healthcare services to the victims. Despite these agencies having common goals and operational similarities, post-disaster ... -
Emerging Technologies: Perspectives of New Zealand Public Relations Practitioners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This study investigates New Zealand public relations practitioner perspectives of emerging technologies as of the year 2020. In order to do this, practitioner perspectives, ethical challenges and uses of emerging technologies ... -
Hybrid Mythology and Personal Nostalgia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)I aim to produce a short-animated film consisting of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional components. The narrative will be based on hybrid myths, fables, and urban legends that I discovered as a child. Considering ... -
Population Analysis and Subgroup Diagnosis of Lettuce necrotic yellows virus in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Lettuce is a key economic crop in New Zealand (NZ). However, recently NZ has experienced increased crop losses of up to 50 %. These losses were due to necrosis symptoms on leaves, which were strongly associated with the ... -
The Land of Milk and Honey? An Investigation into the Working Experiences of International Students in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Labour markets within New Zealand, as with other similar economies, have overcome labour shortages through worker migration schemes, seasonal work programmes, or limited entitlements to work. However, significant numbers ... -
Seeking Shared Understanding: A Review and Lexical Analysis of the Digital Entrepreneurship
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Given the emerging prominence of digital influences across all industries, it seems likely entrepreneurial ventures that embrace digital technologies as core to their business will become even more ubiquitous in the future. ... -
Metabolic Implications of Environmental Heat Stress for Endurance Athletes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Carbohydrates and fats are the primary substrates used to fuel energy metabolism during exercise, and endogenous carbohydrate availability may be an influential physiological characteristic in some endurance events. Substrate ... -
Plasmacytoma Variant Translocation 1 Gene (PVT1) as a Potential Novel Target for the Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is clinically characterized by the development of proteinuria with a subsequent decline in glomerular filtration rate which progresses over time. It is a common complication in patients with ... -
Sustainable Tourism in Antarctica: A Case Study of Tourism’s Impact on the Ecosystem of Antarctica
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)With the development of technology and infrastructure and increasing interest in the polar areas, Antarctic tourism has grown fast in recent years. Antarctica is inevitably facing more difficult and complicated challenges; ... -
The Knowledge, Attitudes and Barriers amongst Health Professionals Regarding Acute and Chronic Pain Management in Children: An Integrative Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Pain is one of the most common causes for people to seek healthcare and the management of pain is challenging. Both acute and chronic pain is highly prevalent in children presenting to healthcare facilities. Health ... -
The Impact of Sugar-labelling on Consumer Purchase Intention for Canned Beverages
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The increasing rates of worldwide obesity and diet-related diseases, plus the rising numbers of health conscious consumers has prompted policy makers, regulators and consumer guardians to adopt package labelling that is ... -
Impact of Differences Between Local GAAP and IFRS on Accounting Practice in an Emerging Market, Vietnam
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the differences between International Accounting Standards (IAS) / International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Vietnamese accounting regulations in the ... -
The Sustainability Reporting of New Zealand Manufacturing Firms and Compliance with GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Purpose – This dissertation is designed to answer the question of what New Zealand manufacturing companies are currently doing to report their sustainability performance and how these reporting practices compare to the ... -
A Lonely Courage Behind Enemy Lines
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)To Catch A White Mouse is the draft of a novel targeting young adults (13-16-year-old readers). It is a historical tale written in modern day language about a strong female character set mostly in Europe during WWII. I ...