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The Mediating Role of Boundary Flexibility in the Workload and Work Fatigue Relationship among New Zealand-Based Midwives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This dissertation adopts an organisational behavioural (OB) and management approach to explore the effects of boundary flexibility on role demands and personal wellbeing among New Zealand (NZ) midwives. The paper reviews ... -
Exploratory Research on the Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction of Chinese Guests Towards Serviced Apartments in Auckland, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction have always been a topic of academic research, and it has increasingly been paid more attention because it directly affected customer experiences (Lu et al., 2015). Previous studies ... -
Travelling With Hanfu: A Social Media Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Travelling for Artistic Photographs
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Travelling with Hanfu is a new form of travel that has become popular among young people in contemporary China in recent years. Such travellers dress up in Hanfu (the traditional costume of the Han people) to visit tourist ... -
Service Design to Assist Caregivers of Adults With Learning Disabilities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This project investigated a design solution to assist the caregivers of adults with learning disabilities (McRae et al.) in Thailand. The problems associated with LDs are increasing annually. The bulk of primary caregivers ... -
Satisfaction Factors of Tourists Staying in Queenstown’s Airbnbs: An Exploratory Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Because satisfying customers is a persistent goal of the hospitality industry, many studies have aimed to determine the key factors of guest satisfaction. More recently, with the emergence of the sharing economy, Airbnb ... -
Digital Technologies and the Senior Geography Classroom: Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact on Teaching and Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)With the dawn of the 21st century, there was a great expectation that a digital revolution would take place and transform the classroom. This technological change would see students take control of their learning and the ... -
Paralolla: An Investigation into Gender and Empowerment in Gaming
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)From Alice in Wonderland to Coraline: Paralolla examines the precedents of the heterotopia in fictional media to critically fabricate a digital game-based experience addressing the pressures surrounding gender identity for ... -
A Qualitative Descriptive Study: Understanding Flood and Storm Risk Communication, Perceptions, and Interpretations of Myanmar Migrants in the Context of Auckland, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Migrant groups are viewed as particularly vulnerable in conditions of increased disaster risk. This represents a key consideration for disaster risk reduction planning in urban areas with large, diverse populations ... -
Genome Analysis and Geographical Distribution of a Novel Emaravirus in Karaka
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Chlorotic spot symptoms were observed on a specimen of a tree endemic to New Zealand, karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus), leading to an investigation of the potential viruses associated with the symptoms. RNA-seq analysis ... -
Historical Trauma Theory: The Implications for Nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Historical Trauma Theory conceptualises Indigenous distress in response to colonisation, and is unique in that it focuses on the collective and multigenerational trauma of colonisation from an Indigenous worldview. Historical ... -
Investigating Consumer’s Fear of Missing Out and Social Media Fatigue: An Extended Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The information age has brought about the emergence of many digital tools. One of the tools is social media network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, that have increasingly gained popularity worldwide. A ... -
The Scent of Blue Memories: Multisensory Exploration in Animated Autoethnography
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This thesis discusses the experience of worlds within a film, which can be understood as a multisensory exploration that reveals animation as being more than simply an audio-visual medium, and how such a film can resonate ... -
Acting and Its Double: A Practice-led Investigation of the Nature of Acting Within Performance Capture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This research deepens our understanding, as animators, actors, audiences, and academics, of how we see the practice of acting in performance capture (PeCap). While exploring the intersections between acting and animation, ... -
A Phenomenological Narrative Inquiry Into How People Chose Their Career in Environmental Planning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Planning is concerned with people and places, giving consideration to environmental, social, and economic issues. Planning aims to meet current needs and to anticipate future issues, enabling people and societies to thrive. ... -
Lightweight Composite Structure for Solar Central Receiver Heliostats
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Of all Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies available today, central tower CSP systems are moving to the forefront as they have the capability to become the technology of choice for the generation of renewable ... -
Using Surrealist Aesthetics to Explore a Personal Visual Narrative about Air Pollution
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)“Using Surrealist Aesthetics to Explore a Personal Visual Narrative about Air Pollution”, is a practice-based research project focusing on the production of a poetic short film that incorporates surrealist aesthetics with ... -
Wildlife Tourism Resources Development: A Case Study of Beijing Wildlife Park
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)In this era of mass tourism, and to produce social and economic benefits, the positive and negative aspects of animal tourism resources need to be explored. Following the principles of protecting the environment, public ... -
Methods for Deep Transfer Learning and Knowledge Transfer in the NeuCube Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Network
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)With the increasing number of computational systems based on continuous streams of information, progressively learning and accommodating new knowledge in a more efficient manner becomes a long-standing challenge. This ... -
Genomic Characterisation and Comparison of Antibiotic Resistant and Sensitive Helicobacter Pylori in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Helicobacter pylori is an important and prevalent human pathogen present in approximately 50 % of the world’s population; causing a range of clinical outcomes from chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers to gastric carcinoma ... -
Tuning in to Employees' Experiences of Ongoing Change: An Investigation of Employees' Tri-Dimensional Attitudes to Change and Work-Related Outcomes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Turbulence and uncertainty are the signatures of today’s dynamic business environment. Extensive research has focussed on employees’ reactions to planned change contexts (Bouckenooghe, 2010; Oreg et al., 2011). Nevertheless, ...