Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Title
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‘I prefer a dry red thanks’: a consumer behavioural study of resident Auckland Chinese wine consumption and wine-related tourism
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Chinese people may be distinctly visible when they are visiting New Zealand wineries and experiencing a wine tasting of a local Sauvignon Blanc at the cellar door. When the researcher was visiting New Zealand wine regions ... -
I Shop, Therefore I Am: The Meaning of Fast and Slow Fashion Consumption
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The contemporary fashion system is dominated by fast fashion business models that encourage unsustainable production practices and continuous consumption. Resulting environmental and social externalities, such as environmental ... -
I understand it well, but I cannot say it proper back: language use among older Dutch migrants in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The purposes of this study were (a) to examine two groups of healthy older Dutch English bilingual migrants in a New Zealand setting to investigate whether they were showing signs of L2 attrition with accompanying L1 ... -
"I want to be a forensic scientist playboy bunny"
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The moving image work I want to be a forensic scientist playboy bunny offers a creative consideration of contemporary female representation. This thesis considers how a typographic discourse might communicate the current ... -
I'm torturing myself: a thematic analysis of psychoanalytic literature on the internal persecutory experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Psychotherapists are familiar with working with clients who persistently self-sabotage and mentally torture themselves. This is inevitably re-enacted in the therapeutic setting and, through the process of projective ... -
Ice flowers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Ice Flowers is the draft of a post-apocalyptic dystopian novel which forms the thesis part of a Master of Creative Writing project. It is accompanied by the exegesis Love in a Cold Climate, which frames the creative work ... -
ICT and the New Zealand outbound retail travel industry: strategic adaptation to the threat of disintermediation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Disintermediation is the displacement of market intermediaries within the supply chain allowing for consumers to engage directly with suppliers to purchase product. Widespread disintermediation of travel intermediaries was ... -
ICT in community-based lifelong learning center: model for northeast Thailand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This thesis investigates how rural and remote communities in northeast Thailand harness information and communication technologies (ICTs) for community development and develops a new model of ICT-based lifelong learning ... -
Identification and genotyping of Campylobacter spp. strains isolated from a captive wildlife population in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The Auckland Zoological Park holds 120 species and over 850 animals within a 17-hectare park in central Auckland. Species include non-primate mammals, avians, primates and reptiles, including a mixture of exotic and native ... -
Identification of fall-risk factor degradations using quality of balance measurements
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Falls concern a third of the people aged over 65y and lead to the loss of functional ability. The detection of risks factors of falls is essential for early interven- tion. Six intrinsic risk factors of fall: vision, ... -
Identification of novel compounds in Undaria pinnatifida with anti-cancer potential
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)In New Zealand, the rate of registered cancer cases increased significantly in recent years especially for breast, melanoma, colorectal cancer and lung cancer (Ministry of Health, 2008b). The success rate of cancer ... -
Identification, transport and treatment of adhered deleterious substances of stormwater in an urban catchment
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This thesis develops and presents a practical, rapid and cost effective method of assessing the most efficient strategy to limit sediment and associated contaminants from entering and impacting on Auckland’s waterways. ... -
Identifying an effective framework for usability evaluation of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning System in Educational settings
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)A review of previous studies has highlighted a gap between Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) system usability evaluation (UE) in educational collaborative teaching and learning settings and groupware UE in ... -
Identifying Polymorphic Malware Variants Using Biosequence Analysis Techniques
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Modern antivirus systems (AVSs) are not able to detect new polymorphic malware variants until they emerge, even when signatures of one or more variants belonging to a specific polymorphic malware family are known. Polymorphic ... -
Identifying the Characteristics of Usability That Encourage Prolonged Use of an Activity Monitor
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Together with the use of rapid prototyping techniques and efforts to reduce the production cost, wearable and mobile electronic devices brought to the market faster than ever, with less time spent on actual usability testing ... -
Identifying the motivational factors of international students in the hospitality workplace: An insight into motivating and retaining part-time hospitality employees
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The New Zealand export education levy annual report shows that there were 106,955 international students in New Zealand in 2016 (Ministry of Education, 2016), and it is estimated that tuition paid by international students ... -
Identity/ambivalence: The deployment of apple light in considering identity in contemporary portrait photography
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This project considers the ambivalence and dislocation of both cultural and personal belonging in identity, through an investigation of the aesthetics of Apple Light [a contemporary portrait lighting system]. This ... -
The Ideology of Falun Gong: A Critical Discourse Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)The present study was influenced by Heather’s (2000) study of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and three key concepts in religious discourse: intertextuality, consumerism and psychology of language (identity and commitment). ... -
Idiosyncratic volatility and expected return in the Australian market
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)After Ang, Hodrick, Xing and Zhang (2006) found a negative relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and return, researchers have extensively debated the relationship between the two. Previous literature however has ... -
Illuminativa - the coalescence of light and craft thinking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This project constitutes a practice-led investigation of light as a metaphor for divine wisdom and how it might interact conceptually, physically and creatively with manual craft. The genesis of the project lies in Saint ...