• Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an In-service Training Programme for Critical Care Nurses in Malawi 

  Gundo, Rodwell (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Background: Critical care nursing is a specialty which deals with the care of critically ill patients with potential or actual life-threatening illness. The critical illness of the patients and the extensive use of technology ...

• Understanding and Managing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in an Adult Male Prison 

  Mitchell, Tracey (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  The prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in prison populations has been found to vary considerably. Prisoners who have experienced TBI are reported to be less likely to be able to comply with prison rules and complete ...

• Numerical and Experimental Investigation of a New Load-sharing Implant for Early-onset Knee Osteoarthritis 

  Saeidi, Mehdi (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the major causes of musculoskeletal impairment in adults. This disease is mainly characterised by progressive degeneration of the articular cartilage and, to date, there is no known cure ...

• Backward Running Training: Applications for Improving Athleticism in Male High-school Athletes 

  Uthoff, Aaron (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Novel training methods such as backward running (BR) may promote unique adaptations to athletic performance compared to more traditional training methods, like forward running (FR). While advocates have recommended BR for ...

• An Investigation Into the Human Upper Airways Humidification 

  Grau Bartual, Sandra (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  This research focuses on the analysis of the human upper airway humidification looking on one hand at the natural humidification or air conditioning process and on the other hand at the external humidification. Lung ...

• Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: An Exploration of the Relationship between Representations of Femininity and Different Depictions of Baking, Cake, and Sweet Food in Contemporary Australian Cookbooks 

  Cedro, Carmel (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Cookbooks are widely published, highly consumed products that have been largely overlooked as contextual and influential objects of material culture. Little scholarship has focused on a group of cookbooks from a particular ...

• The Experience and Meaning of Recovery-oriented Practice for Nurses Working in Acute Mental Health Services: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study 

  Solomon, Bernadette (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  New Zealand mental health policy and service provision has shifted from a focus on the management of symptoms and risk to a broader focus on the recovery of psychological, social, cultural, and physical well-being. However, ...

• The Implementation and Impact of Sensory Modulation in Aotearoa New Zealand Adult Acute Mental Health Services: Two Organisational Case Studies 

  Azuela, Gilberto Flores (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Background: Sensory modulation is an emerging approach that aims to reduce distress and agitation in mental health service users, and potentially avoid the necessity for coercive practices such as seclusion and restraint. ...

• Epidemiology and Physiological Impact of Aerial Phytophthora pluvialis in New Zealand and Oregon Forest Systems 

  Gomez-Gallego, Mireia (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Forest health is threatened by invasive plant-infecting fungi and fungal-like organisms, whose frequency has increased with international trade in recent decades. While planted forests are particularly vulnerable to invasive ...

• The Implementation of Authentic Strategy in Service Organisations: The Case of Environmental Strategies 

  Morrow, Jeremy (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  This study examines the research question: in what ways do service organisations implement green differentiation strategies in a way to ensure internal stakeholders perceive these as authentic strategies? This research ...

• Community Integration After Traumatic Brain Injury: Conceptualisation and Measurement 

  Shaikh, Nusratnaaz (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Community integration remains the ultimate goal of rehabilitation for persons affected by Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). A number of studies have presented different definitions of community integration over the past few ...

• A Strict Quality of Service MAC Framework for Emergency Traffic in Wireless LANs 

  Memon, Shuaib Karim (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  The increasing usage of wireless local area networks (WLANs) in distributed emergency services (e.g., for natural or manmade disasters, telemedicine, and health care) and other time-critical applications requires an efficient ...

• Hobbling the News: A Study of Loss of Freedom of Information As a Presumptive Right for Public-interest Journalists in Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Treadwell, Greg (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Public-interest journalism is widely acknowledged as critical in any attempt at sustaining actually-existing democracy and is reliant on access to State-held information for its effectiveness. The success of Aotearoa New ...

• Intensive Care Nurse Work Wellbeing: A Mixed Methods Study 

  Jarden, Rebecca Jane (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Intensive care nursing is a professionally challenging role. This is elucidated in the body of research focusing on nurses’ illbeing, including aspects such as burnout, stress, moral distress, and compassion fatigue. In ...

• Investigation Into Nasal Saline Irrigation Within a Healthy Human Nose 

  Salati, Hana (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Nasal saline irrigation is a therapy that bathes the nasal mucosa with a liquid saline solution to treat inflammatory nasal and paranasal disease or manage post nasal and sinus surgery recovery. Saline irrigation is thought ...

• Haunting Minnie Dean: A Heuristic Inquiry Into Baby Farming, Psychological Infanticide and Closed Stranger Adoption 

  Sherwood, Violet (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  In this study I use the methodology of heuristic inquiry and methods from imaginal psychology to explore the relationship between 19th century baby farming, and my experience of psychological infanticide through closed ...

• Everyday Urban Neighbourhood Participation in Advanced Age 

  Conaglen, Jo (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Designing public polices and urban neighbourhoods that address ageing issues require a deep understanding of neighbourhood participation from the perspective of lived experience. The aim of this study was to understand the ...

• Advanced Analysis of Supercapacitor-Assisted Low-Dropout (SCALDO) Regulator 

  Kahambiliyawaththa Subasinghage, Kasun Weranga (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  DC-DC converters can be found in three basic forms which are the linear regulators, the switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) and the charge pumps. The combinations of these topologies are prevalent in power management circuits ...

• Decision making and contraception: Perceptions and experiences of Thai-Isan adolescents 

  Chanthasukh, Sansanee (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, ...

• “Sex…is a good thing”: Creating a space for the voices of young Zimbabweans to shape school-based HIV prevention-orientated sexuality education 

  Maibvisira, Carol (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  There are gaps in research exploring young people’s strategies for school-based HIV prevention-oriented sexuality education (herein referred to as sexuality education), including in African contexts like that of Zimbabwe. ...

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