Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Machinability and microstructural studies on phase transformations in Austempered Ductile Iron
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) is a type of nodular, ductile cast iron subjected to heat treatments - austenitising and austempering. The heat treatment gives ADI its unique ausferrite microstructure through which ADI gets ... -
Machine crafted: 3-dimensional machine knitted forms
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Unrealised design capacity in computerised seamless knitting technology is highlighted in emerging research. The adoption of this technology, both in New Zealand and internationally, is largely driven by the economic gains ... -
Magnitude of Postactivation Potentiation response in elite rowers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Postactivation Potentiation (PAP) has been proposed as a means by which to achieve greater physiological and mechanical power through the manipulation of previous contractile work. However, there is a lack of applied PAP ... -
Mainstream Early Childhood Teachers and Their Understandings of Pacific Education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Abstract This research explores the views of eight mainstream early childhood teachers and their understandings of Pacific education. Pacific children in education continue to fall within the underachievement statistics ... -
Maintaining a Movie Tourism Business as a Flagship Attraction: A Case Study of Hobbiton Movie Set
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Attractions are key features at tourist destinations; they are the most important component of tourism supply (Henderson, 2000). Despite this, only a small amount of academic literature focuses on site locations of movies ... -
Maintaining competitiveness: the case of New Zealand small-medium technology manufacturers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The purpose of this study was to understand how New Zealand small-medium sized firms within the high technology manufacturing industry maintain their international competitiveness through offshore sourcing to China. This ... -
Maintaining enjoyment of life in the process of living with high cholesterol : a grounded theory study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)Hypercholesterolaemia (high cholesterol) is a risk factor for atherosclerosis, a major contributor to cardiovascular disease. Much has been written on managing high cholesterol levels including the use of drug therapy and ... -
A Major Left Wing Think Tank in Aotearoa: An Impossible Dream or a Call to Action?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Despite the worldwide proliferation of think tanks since the 1970s and the development of a small number of think tanks locally, no substantial left wing think tank exists in Aotearoa. This research was driven by my desire ... -
Major sports events and their ability to benefit local sports clubs: A case study of the Auckland professional tennis tournaments
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Tennis clubs suffer as participation declines. The increasing popularity of the casual ‘pay-for-play’ concept results in further decrease in membership for complacent sport clubs. Yet strategic documents from government ... -
Making Frogshark: participant observation of ‘indie’ game development cultures
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The democratization of project ‘greenlighting’ and funding allocation over the last decade (Irwin, 2008) has given rise to an ‘indie movement’ in the burgeoning game development industry. Within this ever changing ‘indie ... -
Making sense in Zephaniah: an intertextual reading
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The question this thesis answers is, “How does an intertextual reading contribute to interpreting the book of Zephaniah?” To answer this question the thesis examines the ways in which Zephaniah takes up other texts as it ... -
Making Sense of a Wildlife Tourism Experience: A Study of Guide-visitor Interactions
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Interpretation plays an important role in making visitors aware of the welfare and conservation status of wildlife when participating on a wildlife tour. Guide visitor interaction during wildlife tours provides the opportunity ... -
Making sense of no body
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This Masters in Art and Design investigates a performance strategy for the deterritorialization of the body, mind and space as they intersect the digital screen image. The reconfiguration of the sensing system as the body ... -
Making Sense of Pedagogical Knowledge Media: An Analysis of How Modal Composition Influences Epistemological Beliefs
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This doctoral thesis is about knowledge and knowing. It considers how the medium by which knowledge is stored and shared influences perceptions about the value and validity of knowledge. The analysis is based on the idea ... -
Malanga: the voice of positive dissonance
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Malanga is a creative practice thesis that proposes the notion of positive cultural dissonance. This construct questions the nature of identity loss experienced by young urbanised Pacific people in Auckland, New Zealand. ... -
Malcolm Ross: from the peaks to the trenches
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)In April 1915 a journalist named Malcolm Ross was appointed New Zealand’s official war correspondent to cover the actions of the country’s troops wherever they might be fighting during World War I. Few today appear to have ... -
A malu i fale le gagana, e malu fo'i i fafo. The Use and Value of the Samoan Language in Samoan Families in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)New Zealand census data indicates Samoan language use has declined rapidly in the last 20 years, particularly among the New Zealand-born Samoan population. The aims of this qualitative and family-based study were to identify ... -
Malware motif identification using Bio-inspired Data Mining
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The application of data mining techniques into biological data is well established. The aim of this thesis is to explore the effects of giving amino acid representation to problematic machine learning data and to evaluate ... -
Mana reo: The Learning Worlds of Endangered Language Learners - te reo Māori
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Endangered languages create learning and social contexts that are different from learning dominant majority languages. As a field with its roots in the Anglo-American tradition there is huge scope for SLA to be more inclusive ... -
Mana Wāhine in Information Technology: Ngā Kaiwhatu Kākahu Me Te Kākahu
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This thesis argues for an Indigenous women’s cultural construction of information technology (IT). In Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori women have established Mana Wāhine discourses, principles, theories and practices (Evans, ...