• Mechanical Charaterisation, Analysis and Modelling of Particulate Nanocomposites Printed Using Photopolymer Extrusion Technique 

  Asif, Muhammad (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  A new photopolymer extrusion 3D printing technique is proposed in this research. This hybrid 3D printer combines the strengths of two well established and commercial 3D printers i.e. fused deposition modelling (FDM) and ...

• Disaster e-Health Scope and the Role of RFID for Healthcare Purposes 

  Madanian, Samaneh (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Disasters, either natural or manmade, are sudden and mostly unpredictable. They are of such enormous scale that it is necessary for societies to embark upon special planning and preparedness before disasters strike to ...

• Struggling to Make the World a Better Place: Exploring Some Experiences of Activists in the Auckland Progressive Youth Movement (1965-1977) 

  Lee, Barry (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  The 1960s and 1970s were an unprecedented period of social activism and protest in Aotearoa New Zealand and many other countries. The thesis traces the development of the two major movements of the time, those against the ...

• Sustaining Primary Care Responses to Intimate Partner Violence 

  Gear, Claire (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Globally, one in three women will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime. The impact of violence on health and wellbeing is significant, yet, recognition of the relationship between intimate partner violence ...

• In Situ Leaf Growth Measurements Using Digital Image Analysis 

  Hilty, Jonas (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Plant growth is a broad topic that is of interest in many different research fields from the basics of plant functioning, to agricultural research, and ecology. In this thesis, I first distinguish different aspects of plant ...

• Is Social Capital an Effective Director Attribute? An Empirical Analysis of Board of Directors’ Social Connectivity and its Contribution to New Zealand Stock Exchange Firms 

  Andersen, Angela (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Corporate directors are required to have an adequate set of capabilities to meet an increasingly diverse range of board responsibilities. Social capital, the value that resides in relationships with others, is an attribute ...

• Investigating the Social-ecological Trade-offs Between Removing and Preserving Mangroves in New Zealand 

  Dencer-Brown, Amrit (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  How we perceive and interact with the natural world will govern our future in times of great environmental change. In New Zealand, the indigenous mangrove species Avicennia marina (subsp.) australasica has expanded within ...

• Modelling of Spatiotemporal EEG and ERP Brain Data for Dynamic Pattern Recognition and Brain State Prediction using Spiking Neural Networks: Methods and Applications in Psychology 

  Gholami Doborjeh, Zohreh (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  This thesis aimed to improve modelling and understanding of spatiotemporal brain data underpinning human behaviour with the use of a brain-inspired artificial intelligence technique: spiking neural networks (SNN). These ...

• The Benefits of Resistance Training with and Without Weightlifting for Athletic Performance in Adolescent Males 

  Pichardo, Andrew (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Children and adolescents should engage in a variety of activities to develop muscular strength and motor skill performance in tasks such as running, jumping, and throwing. Resistance training and weightlifting are safe and ...

• Moving Towards Mental Wellness by Shifting Cultural Connectedness: A Grounded Theory Study 

  Rajendra, Kaberi (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  New Zealand’s population is increasingly ethnically diverse, including rapid growth in the number of South Asian immigrants. With this changing population, there is mounting evidence that the health outcomes for South ...

• Learning to Live in a Different Culture: A Phenomenographic Study of the Adaptation Experiences of Cultural-immersion Study-abroad Sojourners 

  Hitchcock, Leo (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  This thesis investigates the learning required for study abroad sojourners to live effectively inside another culture. To live effectively in another culture, the research participants tracked in this thesis had to learn ...

• Distributed Trust-based Routing Decision Making for WSN 

  Khalid, Nor Azimah (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  This thesis describes novel approaches to deal with routing in distributed wireless sensor networks (WSNs) decision making and proposes new distributed protocols based on trust. The trust is defined as the level of belief ...

• How Low Do You Need to Go? Exploring the Variability in the Effects of Keto‐induction and Individual Outcomes From Low‐carbohydrate Diets 

  Harvey, Cliff (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Low-carbohydrate diets (LCDs) and very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets (VLCKDs) are increasingly used for the management of a range of health conditions and in the general population for weight-loss and maintenance. ...

• Goodwill Accounting Under the IFRS Impairment-only Approach? An Asia-Pacific Study 

  Nguyen, Canh Tien (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)-based goodwill impairment approach is implemented, and to evaluate the role of national enforcement arrangements in this ...

• An Assessment of Selected Sensorimotor Parameters and Muscle Performance in Hand Osteoarthritis for the Development of Treatment 

  Magni, Nicoló Edoardo (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Symptomatic hand osteoarthritis (OA) affects twenty percent of people over the age of 70. Its socioeconomic burden is increasing and despite severe repercussions on people’s quality of life, it has not received as much ...

• Planning and Decision-making for International Undergraduate Education: A Study of Vietnamese Families 

  Pham, Minh Le (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Every year, thousands of Vietnamese students finish high school and travel to foreign countries for tertiary education. For these teenagers, this is one of the first major decisions in their lives, as they must leave ...

• Life History of the Long-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas edwardii); Insights From Strandings on the New Zealand Coast 

  Betty, Emma (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Extensive research has been conducted on long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) populations in the North Atlantic, based predominantly on samples collected from drive fisheries. However, the species remains poorly ...

• Safeguarding the Human Rights of Civilian Population in an Environment of Economic Sanctions: A Study on the Boundaries of International Law 

  Tayebi, Leila (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  Iran has been the target of the United Nations Security Council economic sanctions, imposed under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, from 2006 to 2015. This research aims at understanding and addressing the impacts of the ...

• Construction of Image and Attitudes Toward Global-local Brand Alliances: The Effects of Globalness and Localness 

  San Jose Iglesias, Rafael (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  There is an inherent tension between globalization and localization leading many multinational corporations to decide to focus on either global brands or local brands. By opting for global brands, corporations may lose ...

• Rewiring the Brain After Stroke: A Novel Neuromodulatory Intervention to Improve Neuromuscular Control 

  Olsen, Sharon (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

  A stroke can have devastating consequences for an individual’s gait and mobility, and difficulties often continue well after discharge from rehabilitation. Increased knowledge about the role of neural plasticity in stroke ...

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