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Māori and Pasifika Leaders’ Experiences of Government Health Advisory Groups in New Zealand
(The Royal Society of New Zealand, 2018)Māori and Pasifika populations in New Zealand experience poorer health outcomes than other New Zealanders. These inequalities are a deeply entrenched injustice. This qualitative study explores the experiences of six Māori ... -
A Māori Crisis in Science Education?
(AUT University, 2017)This article is written for teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand schools who teach science to Year 7-10 students or as part of a primary classroom programme under NZC (the New Zealand Curriculum). What can teachers do about ... -
Māori Mental Health Consumers' Sensory Experience of Kapa Haka and Its Utility to Occupational Therapy Practice
(InfoRMIT, 2015)Sensory modulation is an emerging occupational therapy intervention within adult mental health services. However, cultural variations in the use of sensory modulation have not been directly explored. In New Zealand, the ... -
Māori Resistance in New Zealand Feature Film History
(Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, 2018)This article draws on the textual analysis of films that produced three distinctive collective resistances across New Zealand film history. Hāhi Ringatū leaders protested to the Chief Film Censor about the portrayal of ... -
Māori-language Newspapers 1842-1945: A Survey, With a Focus on the Expression of Oral Tikanga on the Page
This paper canvasses Māori-language print media from the first monolingual newspaper in te reo Māori (the Māori language) in 1842 to what is believed to be the last, in 1945. It sets the publications in their social contexts ... -
Mātauranga Māori: A Philosophy From Aotearoa
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)This paper responds to an earlier one about mātauranga Māori by Dan Hikuroa [2017. Mātauranga Māori—the ūkaipō of knowledge in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 47(1):5–10], in a spirit of koha ... -
Measure Twice, Cut Once. An Auto-ethnographic Narrative - Reflecting on Knowledge
(Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), 2013)Questions concerning measurement and assessment in the classroom most often refer to learning outcomes, achievement statements and value-added progression in literacy and numeracy, to suggest some key examples. This ... -
Measurement of Head Impacts in a Senior Amateur Rugby League Team with an Instrumented Patch: Exploratory Analysis
(ARC Publications, 2017)Accelerometer devices can quantify the magnitude of head impacts during sport to ascertain potential for brain injury. There are no published head impact data for rugby league. The objective of this study was to quantify ... -
Measurement of the Developing Foot in Shod and Barefoot Paediatric Populations: A Narrative Review
(MDPI, 2022)The theory that footwear may change foot shape dates back 100 years. Since this period, research has revealed the anatomical and functional consequences that footwear can cause to the foot. Children’s feet remain malleable ... -
The Measurement of Tibial Acceleration in Runners—a Review of the Factors That Can Affect Tibial Acceleration During Running and Evidence-based Guidelines for Its Use
(Elsevier, 2018)Background Impact loading in runners, assessed by the measurement of tibial acceleration, has attracted substantial research attention. Due to potential injury links, particularly tibial fatigue fractures, tibial ... -
Measurement of Tibial Nerve Excursion During Ankle Joint Dorsiflexion in a Weight-bearing Position With Ultrasound Imaging
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2012)The ability of peripheral nerves to stretch and slide is thought to be of paramount importance to maintain ideal neural function. Excursion in peripheral nerves such as the tibial can be measured by analysis of ultrasound ... -
Measuring Adolescents’ Tourism Satisfaction: The Role of Mood and Perceived Parental Style
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Adolescents have become an attractive market for tourism because they represent a sizeable population segment with an increasing influence on family purchases. There is an urgent need to understand adolescents’ needs, ... -
Measuring cascade effects in interdependent networks by using effective graph resistance
(IEEE, 2015)Understanding the correlation between the underlie network structure and overlay cascade effects in the interdependent networks is one of major challenges in complex network studies. There are some existing metrics that ... -
Measuring changes in family wellbeing in New Zealand 1981 to 2006
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has experienced extensive economic, social and political reforms. The economic impact of these changes has been closely monitored and much commented upon. However, the social impacts of the ... -
Measuring flourishing: the impact of operational definitions on the prevalence of high levels of wellbeing
(The International Journal of Wellbeing, 2014)The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted ... -
Measuring Gambling Reinforcers, Over Consumption and Fallacies: The Psychometric Properties and Predictive Validity of the Jonsson-Abbott Scale
(Frontiers Media, 2017)Traditionally, gambling and problem gambling research relies on cross-sectional and retrospective designs. This has compromised identification of temporal relationships and causal inference. To overcome these problems a ... -
Measuring intangible value in business to business buyer-seller relationships: an intellectual capital perspective
(AUT Faculty of Business, 2003)The value in a firm's relationships needs to be developed and managed carefully and marketing managers need to be able to quantify this value in order to manage it and in order to argue for their share of the firm’s resources ... -
Measuring monotony in two-dimensional samples
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)The paper introduces a monotony coefficient as a new measure of the monotone dependence in a two-dimensional sample. Some properties of this measure are derived. In particular, it is shown that the absolute value of the ... -
Measuring neurobehavioral functioning in people with traumatic brain injury: Rasch analysis of Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2015)Objective: To examine internal construct validity of the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) by applying Rasch analysis. Setting: An outpatient rehabilitation program trial in New Zealand employing a goal-settin ... -
Measuring Neurobehavioral Functioning in People With Traumatic Brain Injury: Rasch Analysis of Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory
(Wolters Kluwer, 2016)Objective: To examine internal construct validity of the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) by apply- ing Rasch analysis. Setting: An outpatient rehabilitation program trial in New Zealand employing a goal-setting ...