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Kai Hea Kai Hea te Pū o te Mate? Reclaiming the Power of Pūrākau
(Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Development, Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The purakau our ancestors told about the universe and our place within it have been bowdlerised through the process of colonisation. These narratives, as they had been transmitted over generations, were transformed by the ... -
Kainga: Healing Home with Indigenous Knowledge
(New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) Inc., and supported by the School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This article, which is based on a keynote speech delivered at the 2011 Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, firstly briefly elaborates the concepts, pōrangi, wairangi, haurangi, and ... -
Kaipatiki project environment centre: project analysis
(Auckland, NZ: Department of Spatial Design, School of Art and Design, AUT University, 2011) -
Keep Fit: Marginal Ideas in Contemporary Therapeutic Exercise
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)Exercise has a long history as a therapeutic modality and has existed, in some form, in all cultures throughout recorded history. In recent years, therapeutic exercise has taken on new significance as a relatively low cost ... -
Ketogenic Diet Benefits Body Composition and Well-being but Not Performance in a Pilot Case Study of New Zealand Endurance Athletes
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Low-carbohydrate, high-fat and ketogenic diets are increasingly adopted by athletes for body composition and sports performance enhancements. However, as yet, there is no consensus on their efficacy in improving ... -
Key Melanesian Media Freedom Challenges: Climate Crisis, Internet Freedoms, Fake News and West Papua
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Melanesia, and the microstates of the Pacific generally, face the growing influence of authoritarian and secretive values in the region—projected by both China and Indonesia and with behind-the-scenes manipulation. There ... -
Key Perfromance Indicators (KPI) for the implementation of lean methodologies in a manufacture-to-order small and medium enterprise
(Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 2008)This paper presents a key performance indicator (KPI) concept for the implementation of Lean methodologies in a manufacture-to-order (MTO) small and medium enterprise (SME). Within a case study the concept is developed and ... -
Key Themes in Mobile Learning: Prospects for Learner-generated Learning Through AR and VR
(ASCILITE, 2017)This paper summarises the key findings from a literature review in mobile learning developed as part of a two-year six-institution project in (location blinded). Through the development of a key themes codebook, here we ... -
KEYS to Academic Writing Success: A Six-stage Process Account
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ATLAANZ), 2011)This paper was originally conceived as a position paper arguing for the retention of KEYS to Academic Writing Success (KAWS), a successful undergraduate writing programme which had been developed by AUT University’s unit ... -
Ki Te Tahatū O Te Rangi: Normalising Te Reo Māori Across Non-traditional Māori Language Domains
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, 2019)Background In 2018, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (The Māori Language Commission) commissioned the New Zealand Work Research Institute (NZWRI) and Te Ipukarea (The National Māori Language Institute) to explore the integration ... -
“Kia Hiwa Rā!” How Māori-language Journalists Adapt Elements of Whaikōrero for Newswork
Aotearoa has a substantial Māori-language news and current affairs sector. A notable aspect of the field is the way in which journalists have imported elements of the ancient and enduring art of whaikōrero, or public ... -
Kia Kaua Te Reo E Rite Ki Te Moa, Ka Ngaro: Do Not Let the Language Suffer the Same Fate As the Moa
(The Royal Society, 2020)More than a third of the world's languages are currently classified as endangered and more than half are expected to go extinct by 2100. Strategies aimed at revitalizing endangered languages have been implemented in numerous ... -
A kinetic model of municipal sludge degradation during non-catalytic wet oxidation
(Elsevier, 2015)Wet oxidation is a successful process for the treatment of municipal sludge. In addition, the resulting effluent from wet oxidation is a useful carbon source for subsequent biological nutrient removal processes in wastewater ... -
Knowing the wheat from the weeds in noisy speech
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 1997)This paper introduces a word boundary detection algorithm that works in a variety of noise conditions including what is commonly called the 'cocktail party' situation. The algorithm uses the direction of the signal as the ... -
Knowledge About Osteoarthritis: Development of the Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Knowledge Scales and Protocol for Testing Their Measurement Properties
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Objectives 1) Develop unidimensional instruments to measure osteoarthritis (OA) knowledge among people with hip or knee OA, and 2) assess the structural validity, internal consistency, cross-cultural validity/measurement ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes (KA) Surveys on Concussion in Sports: Parents September 2017 Survey. Third Report to Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
(SPRINZ, Auckland University of Technology, 2018)OVERVIEW This report is the third in a series presenting baseline Knowledge and Attitudes (KA) around concussion in sport. The first report (Reid et al., 2017) focused on referees’ and the second report focused on secondary ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes (KA) Surveys on Concussion in Sports: Referee March 2017 Survey. Report to Accident Compensation Corporation
(Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This report is the first in a series presenting baseline Knowledge and Attitudes (KA) around concussion in sport in Rugby Referees March 2017 Survey. The ‘Sports Concussion in New Zealand ACC National’ Guideline was ... -
Knowledge and educational research in the context of 21st century learning
(European Educational Research Association (EERA), 2013)Educational researchers and academics cannot ignore the ever-present call for education and schooling in particular, to reflect the needs of the 21st century knowledge economy. Since the 1990s, national curricula and ... -
Knowledge Attitudes and Behaviours (KAB) Surveys on Concussion in Sport: Secondary School Students September 2018 Survey. Report # 1 to Accident Compensation Corporation.
(Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2019)