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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The Impacts of Information-seeking Strategies and Social Presence on the Interaction between Customers and Conversational Agents
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Many organisations in different industries have jumped on the bandwagon and implemented conversational agents (CAs) to support customer service operations. Although CAs are found to offer many benefits to their customers, ... -
The Effect of Doxorubicin on ABC Transporter Gene Expression in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Breast cancer is the single foremost killer of women in the world today, and of this triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most clinically aggressive kind. TNBC impacts roughly 15% of the worlds breast cancer cases ... -
Digitally Naive to Digital Natives: Changes in the Social Media Landscape from the Perspective of Women in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)With social media usage creeping into the everyday lives of a global majority, it has become increasingly important to understand a user’s engagement with these new-age digital channels and recognise the level and type of ... -
Domestic Tourism Experience of Indian Nationals Studying in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2017) stated that the number of international students escalated from 1.3 to 5 million over a span of 24 years (1990-2014). Apart from paying fees, international ... -
Emerging Technologies: Perspectives of New Zealand Public Relations Practitioners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This study investigates New Zealand public relations practitioner perspectives of emerging technologies as of the year 2020. In order to do this, practitioner perspectives, ethical challenges and uses of emerging technologies ... -
Hybrid Mythology and Personal Nostalgia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)I aim to produce a short-animated film consisting of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional components. The narrative will be based on hybrid myths, fables, and urban legends that I discovered as a child. Considering ... -
Population Analysis and Subgroup Diagnosis of Lettuce necrotic yellows virus in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Lettuce is a key economic crop in New Zealand (NZ). However, recently NZ has experienced increased crop losses of up to 50 %. These losses were due to necrosis symptoms on leaves, which were strongly associated with the ... -
A Lonely Courage Behind Enemy Lines
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)To Catch A White Mouse is the draft of a novel targeting young adults (13-16-year-old readers). It is a historical tale written in modern day language about a strong female character set mostly in Europe during WWII. I ... -
Branding the Digital Nomad Lifestyle - A Genre Analysis of Coworking Retreat Websites
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The concept of digital nomads – professionals who are able to use digital communication technologies to simultaneously earn an income while travelling the world – has become increasingly popular in the recent years due to ... -
Finding the Śāṭān in the Sacred: An Exploration of Resignification and Generative Sacredness in The Dying of the Light
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The Dying of the Light is the story of Paradise Lost (2005), reframed. It tells of Lucifer escaping heaven, an abusive institution and family structure, then living with their trauma, and freeing humanity (or so they think). ... -
Love and Feminine Virtue: Reconsidering the Women of Shahnameh Through Naqqāli
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Shahnameh, written in Persian (Farsi) by Abolqasem Ferdowsi in the late 10th and early 11th centuries, is Iran’s national epic poem and a renowned work of Persian history and mythology. The women of Shahnameh and “Mehr,” ... -
Artisan Entrepreneurship & Community-Based Tourism Nexus - Indian Art & Craft Renaissance
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The objective of this research was to explore the linkages between the artisan economy and tourism in India. The focus was to help stimulate community-based tourism in India for the revival of the traditional art and craft ... -
What Are the Experiences of Māori With the Green Prescription Service?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This research was conducted to explore the experiences of Māori with the Green Prescription service. Additionally, I investigated variations of the GRx service that were culturally enhanced for Māori and then looked at the ...