Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Title
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D5
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)D5 is a 3D animation set in a virtual world occupied by the central character, “Ben_1167”, a digital copy of a person created from databased information involved in the application and subsequent use of a credit card. The ... -
Daily analysis of institutional and individual trading and stock returns: evidence from China
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This dissertation examines the impact of institutional (and individual) trading on stock prices in China. Previous literature suggests three alternative hypotheses for this impact: price pressure, informed trading, and ... -
Daily Value-at-Risk models at financial crisis period: evidence in Australia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)Over the past decades portfolio and risk management techniques had adapted to increasingly complex financial instrument. Within the different forms of financial risk measurement tools, Value at Risk (VAR) which provides ... -
Dance and stillness: a phenomenological hermeneutic inquiry into the experience of stillness: presented through the medium of dance performance and written exegesis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)This thesis explores the subject of stillness: specifically the stillness that occurs in the midst of movement, turbulence or chaos. It is found in the midst of movement and can also be conceived as that which frames, or ... -
Dance costumes: A new perception
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)This thesis of practice based research is divided into 80% practical work presented in a theatrical atmosphere and 20% exegesis. It examines contemporary dance costumes from a new perception. The work revolves around an ... -
Dance into the Unknown. A Heuristic Inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)We live in a society that places great value on rational thought and verbal communication. This bias is embedded in mainstream approaches to mental health and wellbeing. However, increasingly contemporary psychotherapeutic ... -
Darkness Within
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Darkness Underneath is an exegesis accompanying my creative thesis, Darkness Within, a young adult novel about a group of people going through major life changes following the death of Violet, a young woman who committed ... -
Data and Process Modelling: Investigating the Gap Between Education and Industry Expectations in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)System Analysis and Design is a core course that is normally taught in the second year of the undergraduate Information System/Information Technology/Computing curriculum. It is an essential course that prepares students ... -
Data as Currency: Consumer Vs. Marketer Insights into the Value of Private Data
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Data is one of the most powerful resources in the digital world. Marketers and businesses such as mobile application platforms could not provide their services without utilizing the consumer, geographic, and usage data ... -
Data format for RFID Data using a Data-on-Tag approach
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)RFID tags can store more than just a tag ID. Data on an RFID tag can be updated through local processing. This is in contrast to the EPC global standard of data-on-network. In order to illustrate this concept of data-on-tag, ... -
Data mining log file streams for the detection of anomalies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Log files play an important part in the day to day running of many systems and services, allowing administrators and other users to gain insights into operational, performance or even security issues but it is now impractical ... -
A Daunting Journey: Accessing a Lead Maternity Care Midwife
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)One outcome measure of quality maternity care is the rate of stillbirth and neonatal death. To enhance health outcomes for women and babies in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health and the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality ... -
The dawn of new age tourism: An analysis of Aotearoa
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This thesis studies New Age tourism and New Age tourists in New Zealand. In order to better understand this phenomenon, the research reviews literature pertaining to spirituality, religious tourism, pilgrimage and sacred ... -
(De)constructing Tongan Creativity: a Talanoa about Walking in Two Worlds
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The growing number of Tongan creators searching for a place of belonging and acceptance between the two worlds Tonga and Aotearoa New Zealand has contributed to cultural spaces shifting in terms of identity negotiation, ... -
Dealing with complexity: elaboration of a suitable information system development at AUT Business School using soft systems methodology
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)As a result of an initial assessment of Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT) application for accreditation to AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), one of the single most ... -
Dear diary: an investigation of emotionally engaging computer-game narratives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Beginning with an analysis of design principles utilised in the computer-game medium in relation to its interactive nature as well as other storytelling disciplines, this project aims to investigate how emotional narrative ... -
Death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness and the existential psychotherapy of Irvin D. Yalom
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)This dissertation examines the work of existential psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom. Yalom is acknowledged and respected globally for his contributions to contemporary psychotherapy; both for his theoretical understanding ... -
Debt sources: Empirical determinants and their impact on corporate financial policies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Different debt sources have different characteristics, which can have different impact on various corporate financial policies. Understanding a firm’s choice of debt sources and how this choice affects the firm’s value ... -
Deciding what belongs: how psychotherapists in Aotearoa New Zealand attend to religion and/or spirituality
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Since the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, declared religion to be an illusory refuge for those who could not face the realities of existence, the relationship between psychotherapy and religion and/or spirituality ... -
Decision making and contraception: Perceptions and experiences of Thai-Isan adolescents
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Adolescent pregnancy became a nationally recognised public health priority in Thailand in 2008, at first National Health Assembly of Thailand. The prevalence of contraceptive use by Thai adolescents still remains low, ...