Doctoral Theses
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The Doctoral Theses collection contains digital copies of AUT doctoral theses deposited with the Library since 2004 and made available open access. All theses for doctorates awarded from 2007 onwards are required to be deposited in Tuwhera Open Theses unless subject to an embargo.
For theses submitted prior to 2007, open access was not mandatory, so only those theses for which the author has given consent are available in Tuwhera Open Theses. Where consent for open access has not been provided, the thesis is usually recorded in the AUT Library catalogue where the full text, if available, may be accessed with an AUT password. Other people should request an Interlibrary Loan through their library.
Theses are protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). The thesis may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:
- Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person.
- Authors control the copyright of their thesis. You will recognise the author’s right to be identified as the author of the thesis, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate.
- You will obtain the author’s permission before publishing any material from the thesis.
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Thwarted Access: Navigating a Way Towards Enhancing Collaboration Between Public Health and Primary Care Practitioners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Many of the most urgent public health difficulties cannot be addressed by single agency interventions (Procter, Brooks, Wilson, Crouchman, & Kendall, 2015; Rawaf et al., 2018; World Health Organization, 2008); instead ... -
Understanding Tactical Behaviour in Netball: Investigating the Interpersonal Dynamics of Turnovers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Understanding tactical behaviour in invasion sports has historically been limited by reductionist approaches that pay little attention to the complex interactions that occur within the performance context. For example, ... -
The Effect of a School Based Sports Injury Prevention Program in Youth Females
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Sport is the leading cause of injury in youth, with the lower extremity being the most common injury location. Additionally, more injuries occur during the period of peak growth and maturation and are more prominent in ... -
Support for Major Sport Event Referendums: A New Zealand Bid for the Commonwealth Games
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)In recent years, referendums have been used to inform decisions to bid on major sport events. Despite the belief that major sport event success is associated with host community support for the event, local residents are ... -
Transformation and Synthesis of Artifact-centric Business Processes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)In today’s dynamic business environment, business process modeling (BPM) has become a fundamental tool in many organizations to gain operational benefits and stay competitive with their rivals. Thus, there is always an ... -
Developing a Digital Forensic Capability for Critical Infrastructures: An Investigation Framework
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Digital forensic science in critical infrastructures is a booming study area of research. It combines cybersecurity practices of industrial control systems in critical infrastructures, with the problems of big data quantities ... -
Recipes for Recovery: A Configurational Approach to Developing and Deploying Interorganisational Trust Recovery Solutions Following Service Failure
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Trust has been described as “perhaps the single most powerful relationship marketing tool available to a company” (Berry, 1995, p. 242). When one party trusts the other, he or she is willing to risk dependence on the other ... -
Low Energy Availability, Disordered Eating Behaviours, Menstrual Function and Exercise in Endurance-trained Women
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The concept of energy availability (EA) recognises that dietary energy expended in one physiological process is not available for supporting others. When EA is low, adaptive mechanisms occur to draw energy away from ... -
Ngā Pūrākau mō Māui: mai te patuero, te pakokitanga me te whakapēpē ki te kōrero pono, ki te whaihua whaitake, mē ngā honotanga. The Māui Narratives: From Bowdlerisation, Dislocation and Infantilisation to Veracity, Relevance and Connection.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Nā te tāmitanga ā tauiwi i te Māori i Aotearoa, tokomaha ngā reanga i noho mōriroriro mai i te reo me te ahurea Māori. Ko tēnei mahi hinonga he whakapakari i te pito mata o te pūrākau mā te whakamahi i ngā hangarau matihiko ... -
Computer Assisted Cardiac Auscultation: Probabilistic Modelling and Psychoacoustic Feature Extraction for Heart Sound Descriptions
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Physicians have been using stethoscopes for over 200 years to listen to the sound produced by the heart, but the diagnostic accuracy of this practice has been called into question by studies that have found the clinical ... -
Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Glaucoma Detection
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Deep learning based on computer vision and machine learning is an emerging technology in both the medical imaging industry and academia. Despite the existence of some commercial glaucoma detection systems such as retinal ... -
What Undergraduate Nurse Education Actually Teaches Student Nurses About People Named as Older: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)People are living longer and gerontology knowledge, or knowledge of the person named as older, is part of the learning required in undergraduate nurse education. Older age is considered, in Aotearoa New Zealand, to begin ... -
Application of Encapsulation Technology to Improve the Growth Rate of New Zealand Black-footed Abalone (Haliotis iris)
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Abalone is a marine gastropod mollusc belonging to the family Haliotidae. Black-footed abalone, (Haliotis iris) bred and harvested uniquely in New Zealand, has a high market demand due to its high quality and chemical-free ... -
Collaboration of New Zealand’s Expressive Civil Society Organisations Amidst Neoliberalism
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Despite extensive scholarly interest in the topic of collaboration, there remains little academic literature at its intersection with New Zealand 114,000 civil society organisations that deliver non-profitable social ... -
Kia hiwa rā! The Influence of Tikanga and the Language Revitalisation Agenda on the Practices and Perspectives of Māori Journalists Working in Reo-Māori News
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Many aspects of Māori society, both public and private, are structured and influenced by tikanga, a system of values, beliefs, rituals, obligations and cultural practices developed and reinforced through intergenerational ... -
Match-fixing: Women’s Experiences Studying and Working in Sport Management in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This study investigates women’s experiences while studying and working in sport management in Aotearoa / New Zealand (NZ), through an intergenerational analysis of the expectations and perceptions of female students, ... -
It Makes Sense, but I Just Don't Get It. Translators’ and End-users' Perspectives on the English to Chinese Community Translation of Health Texts
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This study aims to develop a set of assessment criteria aligned with the perspectives of end-users with a focus on the achievement of pragmatic equivalence in community translation (Taibi & Ozolins, 2016). Health translation ... -
The Sound of Identity Interpreting the Multi-dimensionality of Wāhine Māori Through Audio Portraiture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This PhD study interpreted and represented the multidimensionality of wāhine Māori (Māori women) through audio-portraiture. In so doing, it demonstrated how the physically accountable (recollection, opinion, environmental ... -
Getting Old and Forgetting Things: Design Anthropology and the Medicalisation of Ageing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a relatively new diagnosis that describes the grey area between ‘normal’ age-related decline and dementia. Following increased interest in the developmental stages of Alzheimer’s Disease ... -
Writing [with] Despair and Suicide
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Suicide’s noose invites temptation: Literary writing holds 'despair' at structural levels circulating around genre, cliché, metaphor, style, content, cultural and ethnic inheritances (to name a few). This PhD research works ...