Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Assessment of the effect of a civics information intervention on the participation of year 13 students in the 2004 local body elections in North Shore City
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)Young people in the Western world demonstrate that they have little connection to democratic processes through their increasing absence from the polls at election time. This trend is evidenced in New Zealand where the ... -
Assessment of the entrapment of free fatty acids in goat milk by β-cyclodextrin and reduction of goaty flavour
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Goat milk and its products have a significant role in human nutrition in many developing countries and some developed countries. Goat milk feeds more people in developing countries than cow milk. It is also useful as a ... -
Association of ABO, Lewis and Secretor phenotypes and genotypes with Neisseria gonorrhoeae
(Auckland University of Technology, 2003)Previous studies of association of ABO phenotypes with gonorrhoea have shown contradictory results. Despite the interdependencies, none have examined the combined effect of ABO, Lewis and Secretor phenotypes. Furthermore, ... -
Associations among greenspace exposure, time in neighbourhood, physical activity, and childhood development
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Background Regular moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) has been identified as an important factor in healthy childhood development. However, evidence suggests that children in New Zealand and worldwide are ... -
Attack graph analysis for network anti-forensics
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The development of technology in computer networks has increased the percentage of cyber-attacks and attackers are able to penetrate even the strongest IDS and firewalls. Anti-forensics in computer networks is an emerging ... -
Attitudes and perceptions of newspaper journalists towards public relations practitioners in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This study examines the attitudes and perceptions newspaper journalists hold towards public relations (PR) practitioners in New Zealand and why such attitudes exist. To date, only two academic studies in New Zealand have ... -
Attitudinal shifting: a grounded theory of health promotion in coronary care
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)Current New Zealand health policy encourages collaborative health promotion in all sectors of health service delivery. The integrated approach to the acute management of coronary heart disease in a coronary care unit, ... -
The Audacity of Optimism
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)FireWall, constitutes the ‘creative practice as research’ component of the Master of Creative Writing degree. It is preluded by an exegesis explaining the aims and goals of the creative work FireWall, as well as a Postscript ... -
Audit firm industry specialization, Discretionary accruals and Stock Price Synchronicity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The study investigates the association between earnings quality and stock price synchronicity. Stock price synchronicity is a measure of the relative amount of firm specific information impounded into stock price. Prior ... -
Audit of Grade 3 Breast Cancer in New Zealand Women
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Breast cancer is the most common cancer in New Zealand women, accounting for approximately 3000 new registrations per year, affecting one in nine women and resulting in more than 600 deaths annually. The survival rate for ... -
An Audit Study of the Changes in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Testing Services among Labtests, Northland Pathology Laboratory and LabPLUS in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is internationally recognised as a global burden according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). HCV is a major cause of chronic liver disease, including the liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and ... -
Aue`anga Ngakau - Silent Tears. The impact of colonisation on traditional adoption lore in the Cook Islands: Examining the status of Tamariki `Angai and their entitlements
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The traditional adoption practice of tamariki `āngai was widely practiced in the Cook Islands by our ancestors. Tamariki `āngai is the highest respected gift that anyone could ever give to a close relative. Commonly a ... -
Augmented Reality on Mobile Devices Using Both Front and Rear Cameras
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)When people buy sunglasses in the store, it is hard for them to see themselves wearing sunglasses in the mirror. Besides, if people want to buy glasses online, they can't try on the glasses and they don't know if the glasses ... -
Aural disjunction: an exploration of relationships between slow aural and visual media in film
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This study investigates the aesthetic relationship between slow aural and visual media through an audiovisual installation artwork. The aim is to open up new perspectives on sound and image relationships by equally slowing ... -
Authenticity and Readability on the Brink: Grief and Anxiety in a Tandem Narrative
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)White Sheets and Other Particulars is a novel of a woman recovering from the death of her son and a subsequent suicide attempt. It is written as a tandem narrative, with non-chronological flashbacks between a pre-traumatic ... -
Authenticity in digital surrogates. Workflow development for generating an authentic digital surrogate for heritage conservation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This practice-based study is concerned with the creation of authentic 3D digital surrogates of large-scale heritage artefacts. The research develops and demonstrates an effective workflow using a multi-method approach with ... -
Author Identification in Free Texts
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Information Extraction is a popular topic in the Natural Language Processing area. This thesis focuses on author identi cation in free text. This study divided the author identi cation task into two subtask, quotation ... -
Autism in early childhood education Montessori environments: parents' and teachers' perspectives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)There is very little research about children with Autism in Montessori early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand. This study examined parents’ and teachers’ perspectives of children with Autism attending Montessori ... -
An Automated Privacy Information Detection Approach For Online Social Media
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become ubiquitous in the activities of people recently. However, a large number of disclosing private information are posted by online social network users unconsciously every day, and ... -
Automated Testing and Validation of Computer Graphics Implementations for Cross-platform Game Development
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Commercially released cross-platform video games often feature graphical defects, which negatively impact on the reputations of developers and publishers, as well as on the experience of the players. Game industry testing ...