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Race and Tax Policy: The Case of the Chinese Poll Tax
(The Journal of Australian Taxation (JAT), 2018)The Chinese poll tax was introduced in English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, during the nineteenth century. Though this tax was justified on social and economic grounds, ... -
Racial Inequities in Cardiovascular Disease in New Zealand
(Insight Medical Publishing Group, 2017)The literature is replete with studies pertaining to ethnic inequities in healthcare. A thorny subject that has been described for decades and yet has few remedial solutions. The pattern of ethnic inequities in healthcare ... -
Radical gestures: time’s matter for architecture
(Studies in Material Thinking Journal, 2011)Confronting the conservative in architecture is a timely and necessary agenda, a confrontation that aims to explore and expose the complex of forces that constitute the discipline, profession and teaching agencies of ... -
Radio Frequency Identification Technology in Libraries
(Journal Anu Books, Merrut, 2016)This paper is a baseline document to review the latest technologies, algorithms and available hardware that can be used to build and automate a library system using Radio Frequency Identification technology as the ... -
Radio New Zealand and the Internet: Ten Years of Transformation
(Monash University Prato Italy, 2018)In 2007 I surveyed Radio New Zealand audience data to interrogate how its relatively new website was being used by listeners. That research found that ‘the majority of New Zealand users accessed the Radio New Zealand site ... -
Raising healthy software systems
(IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008)We elaborate on the analogy between humans and bespoke software systems and we use this analogy to inform an alternative perspective on the development and management of such systems. -
Ranked Importance of Childhood Obesity Determinants: Parents' Views Across Ethnicities in New Zealand
(MDPI AG, 2019)Māori, Pacific, Indian, and New Zealand European pre-school children's caregivers' views on determinants of childhood obesity are needed to inform strategies that will reduce disparities in prevalence. Nineteen focus groups ... -
Rapid biofunctionalization of magnetic beads with function-spacer-lipid constructs
(eBook - Sepmag.eu, 2014)KODE™ Technology is based on novel water-dispersible self-assembling molecules, called a functionspacer- lipids or KODE™ constructs (Figure 1) that are able to coat virtually any biological or non-biological surface with ... -
Rapid Particle Size Measurements Used as a Proxy to Control Instant Whole Milk Powder Dispersibility
(Springer, 2016)Characterising the dispersion of instant whole milk powder (IWMP) into water is a complex dissolution measurement that is both manual and laborious so is normally carried out post production at industrial dryers. However, ... -
Rapid prototype as design, an effective product development methodology
(AUT University, 2008)Design teams are usually expected to produce physical prototypes that demonstrate the working principles of the products they are designing within tight time-frames. The use of true concurrent engineering and the ‘rapid ... -
Rare association rule mining via transaction clustering
(Australian Computer Society (ACS), 2008)Rare association rule mining has received a great deal of attention in the recent past. In this research, we use transaction clustering as a pre-processing mechanism to generate rare association rules. The basic concept ... -
Rasch Analysis of the Brain Injury Screening Tool (BIST) in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2021)Objective To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brain Injury Screening Tool (BIST) symptom scale in a sample of people with a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) through Rasch analysis, and to obtain an interval ... -
Rating of Perceived Exertion as a Method of Volume Autoregulation Within a Periodized Program
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017)Rating of perceived exertion as a method of volume autoregulation within a periodized program. J Strength Cond Res 32(6): 1627-1636, 2018-The purpose of this investigation was to observe how a rating of perceived exertion ... -
Rationale and design of the myocardial microinjury and cardiac remodeling extension study in the sodium lowering in dialysate trial (Mac-SoLID study)
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2014)Background: The Sodium Lowering in Dialysate (SoLID) trial is an ongoing a multi-center, prospective, randomised, single-blind (assessor), controlled, parallel assignment clinical trial, enrolling 96 home and self-care ... -
Rationale and design of the Sodium Lowering In Dialysate (SoLID) trial: A randomised controlled trial of low versus standard dialysate sodium concentration during hemodialysis for regression of left ventricular mass
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2013)Background The current literature recognises that left ventricular hypertrophy makes a key contribution to the high rate of premature cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients. Determining how we might intervene to ... -
The Rationale Behind a Continous Nasal Positive Airway Pressure Machine That Approximates the Nasal Cycle During Sleep
(MedCrave, 2017)Normal nasal airflow alternates in dominance between the two nostrils with an ultradian rhythm called the “nasal cycle.” The nasal cycle is thought to enable the patent airway to perform the majority of the air-conditioning ... -
The Rationale Behind a Continuous Nasal Positive Airway Pressure Machine That Approximates the Nasal Cycle During Sleep
(MedCrave, 2017)Normal nasal airflow alternates in dominance between the two nostrils with an ultradian rhythm called the “nasal cycle.” The nasal cycle is thought to enable the patent airway to perform the majority of the air-conditioning ... -
(Re)inhabiting Waldorf Education: Honolulu Teachers Explore the Notion of Place
(Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS), 2017)This article tells of an unfinished journey we took with a group of teachers in Honolulu as we investigate and navigate notions of place and belonging. We explain how we are developing and transforming relationships with ... -
Re-engineering design through multiple disciplinary lenses
(Institution of Engineering Designers, The Design Society, 2016)Models of design tend to contain activities that relate to multiple disciplinary and professional fields. The rapid advancement of technology and the increasing social, economic, and environmental challenges demand more ... -
Re-examining the Organization of Healthcare: Institutional, Technological and Clinical Challenges
(European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), 2015)This paper addresses one of the research questions posed by the stream chairs: How do macrolevel (health system), meso-level (organization) and micro-level (individual) changes dynamically interact and translate their ...