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UHF RFID Reader Antenna Applications of Non-Conventional Radio-Frequency Materials
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Antennas are complicated passive devices, found in transceivers which transform the electrical signals into electromagnetic radiation in the form of propagating radio waves. While there is a wide range of antennas, this ... -
Ultrasound Imaging for the Examination of Diaphragm Thickness in Females With Breathing Pattern Disorders
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This research examined diaphragm thickness and diaphragm thickening fraction, using ultrasound imaging (USI), in females with breathing pattern disorders (BPD) and healthy female controls. The diaphragm is the key muscle ... -
Ultrasound imaging of the distal radioulnar joint: a new method to assess ulna radial translation in forearm rotation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)The current study was conducted to establish normal values of Distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) translation using ultrasound imaging (USI). Repeatability of quantifying DRUJ translation of the forearm in various positions ... -
Un-familiarizing the Ordinary: Redesigning the Everyday Experiences of Urban Dwellers Within Their Natural Surroundings
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Un-familiarizing the Ordinary: Redesigning the Everyday Experiences of Urban Dwellers with their Natural Surroundings is a practice-based research commenced through the Masters of Design programme within the department of ... -
Un/making Home: Spatialising Diasporic Rituals and the Poetics of Bread-making
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Un/Making home: spatialising diasporic rituals and poetics of breadmaking investigates place-making as a daily practice of domestic rituals. In this practice-led research, my family’s ritual of bread-making has been ... -
Uncanny Encounters: Staging the Everyday
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This practice-led research project investigates how painting, functioning as a metaphorical stage, provides a contextual ‘platform’ for the relationship between an audience and the ‘performance event’ of paint on canvas. ... -
Uncertainty-Seeking in Purchasing Mysterious Products: The Mediating Effect of Sensation-Seeking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)How does uncertainty affect consumer decision-making? Insights from the extant literature inform scholars that uncertainty ought to result in unfavorable consumer responses. Nevertheless, industry practitioners have witnessed ... -
The unconscious influences of developmentally arrested symbol formation on the therapeutic relationship with a client diagnosed with borderline personality disorder: A Kleinian perspective
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This dissertation is a modified systematic literature review with the purpose of exploring the following two questions. Firstly, what is Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal’s theory of symbolisation? This question is discussed ... -
The unconscious ruin: drawing minor architecture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The citizen subject, simultaneously estranged and yet embraced as an entity, insatiably commodified and marketed to, increasingly experiences urban place as a terrain vague – a place without coherent reference or broader ... -
Uncovering "regimes of truth": locating and defining discourses associated with hydro-electric development in New Zealand
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Uncovering strategic entrepreneurship: an examination of theory and practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)The combination of entrepreneurship and strategy is gaining increasing recognition as a pathway for growth within both individual organisations and national economies. Hence the benefits emerge from both a micro and macro ... -
Under 5 Energize: Improving Child Nutrition and Physical Activity Through Early Childhood Centres
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Rising obesity rates among young children and disproportionate effects on Māori, Pacific and socioeconomically deprived children require preventative action that is equitable and effective. As most children in NZ attend ... -
Under a big sky
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)The exegesis will elaborate on the research process undertaken to write a collection of short fiction. The creative work is a collection of ten stories linked thematically by an archaeological approach to character psychology, ... -
Under the surface: reflections on workers’ narratives from below the minimum wage
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This research project is concerned with workers’ narratives, specifically those who have been employed in paid work below the national minimum wage in New Zealand. As a graphic designer who has direct experience of ... -
Undercover Activist
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Underlying Factors That Influence Competitive Sport Withdrawal Among Youth Athletes: A Qualitative Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Competitive sport withdrawal among youth athletes in New Zealand is prevalent, so it is therefore important to better understand it. The purpose of this study was to (1) identify withdrawal factors and (2) explore how those ... -
Understandability and transparency of the financial statements of charities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)Access to charities' financial statements has recently become possible in New Zealand due to the development of a Charities Register. However, the ability to discharge accountability through financial statements depends ... -
Understanding an Enterprise Architect’s Business Capability Modelling Practice Through the Lens of Actor-Network Theory
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Drawing on actor-network theory, its four moments of translation, and the concept of epistemic objects, this study obtains an in-depth understanding of the actual practice of business capability modelling of an enterprise ... -
Understanding and Diagnosing Hyperinsulinaemia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Traditionally, insulin resistance is thought to be the precursor to many metabolic diseases. It is now believed that compensatory hyperinsulinaemia, previously thought to be a symptom of insulin resistance, may independently ...