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Sacking, staffing and supervision in commercial hospitality
(Sociological Association of Aotearoa N.Z. (SAANZ), 2004)Anecdotally, hospitality has a reputation for poor ethical standards, and preliminary results from this doctoral study indicate such a reputation is well founded. However, the expected crimes of sexual harassment, theft, ... -
Sacrilization of Secular Pilgrimages As Archetypal Transformational Journeys: Advancing Theory Through Emic and Etic Interpretations
(Inderscience, 2015)This paper advances pilgrimage tourism theory, particularly religious/secular and sacred/profane dimensions. Documenting the case of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, this study examines relationships to Jungian archetypal ... -
Safe harbours, closed borders? New Zealand legal and policy responses to climate displacement in the South Pacific
(Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2014)It is expected that by the mid-late century, large numbers of people facing increased environmental, economic and other pressures associated with climate change will respond by leaving their homes and communities to relocate ... -
Salient Elements in Novice Solutions to Code Writing Problems
(Australian Computer Society, 2011)This paper presents an approach to the evaluation of novice programmers' solutions to code writing problems. The first step was the development a framework comprised of the salient elements, or programming constructs, used ... -
Salivary Diagnostic Markers in Males and Females During Rest and Exercise
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Saliva is a useful diagnostic tool for analysis in sports, exercise and nutrition research, as collection is easy and non-invasive and it contains a large number of analytes affected by a range of physiological ... -
Samoa International Visitor Survey - January 2018 to June 2018
(New Zealand Tourism Research Institute (NZTRI), Auckland University of Technology, 2018)No abstract. -
Sampling the error: research into underrepresented groups in computing
(ICER 2011, 2011)There has been considerable handwringing over time about the unbalanced proportions of women and ‘minority’ students in computing courses. Unfortunately CS Education researchers do not find themselves in a strong position ... -
Sanjha Punjab – United Punjab: Exploring Composite Culture in a New Zealand Punjabi Film Documentary
This paper examines the third author’s positionality as the researcher and storyteller of a PhD documentary film that will be shot in New Zealand, Pakistan, and North India. Adapting insights from writings on Punjab’s ... -
Saudi Academic Perceptions of e-Learning Systems [Microsoft Excel workbook]
(2019)The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has seen growing interest in the uptake of cloud-based educational technologies in the university sector in recent years. The majority of delivery models are currently structured on a client-server ... -
'Savoy Truffle': Love, Lust and Longing in a Box of Chocolates
(Ingenta, 2018)This article re-reads The Beatles’ song, ‘Savoy Truffle’, not as an ode to Eric Clapton’s rotting teeth and chocolate consumption, but rather as a thinly veiled rock music metaphor reflecting the triptych love relationship ... -
Scaffolding, the Zone of Proximal Development, and Novice Programmers
(CITRENZ, 2015)The work, which is part of a doctoral research project, reported here aims to explore the learning strategies that novice computer programmers adopt when writing code, the ways in which they integrate knowledge, and the ... -
Scale – Time – Complexity: engaging, entangling, and communicating ecology
(International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), 2012)This project proposes a forum for discussion that questions how we engage with our ecology. The panel will be framed within an acknowledgment of scale, time, and complexity as an entry point into a conversation about our ... -
Scattering of daily solutions of the GEONET GPS site ellipsoidal height and baseline length changes
(Geodetic Society of Japan, 2001)We investigated scattering of the GPS site coor dinates and baseline length changes using daily GEONET solutions. We first calculated baseline length changes from the daily coordinates, and then calculated their standard ... -
Scholarship & connoisseurship symbiosis in postgraduate design education
(DesignEd Asia Conference Secretariat, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2013)The past two decades have witnessed design activities morphing from designing “posters and toasters”, towards strategic planning, system integration, innovation, and social transformation. Probably, no other discipline in ... -
School evaluation or disciplinary subjection? A consideration of the ‘complementary’ evaluation of New Zealand’s Education Review Office
(2013)Educational evaluation in New Zealand schools harmonises with the reformist agenda of public choice theory that applies dispassionate reviews of schools conducted by non–captive ex–teachers and school leaders, who work in ... -
School-based Physical Activity Intervention for Older Adolescents: Rationale and Study Protocol for the Burn 2 Learn Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
(BMJ, 2019)Introduction This trial aims to investigate the impact of a school-based physical activity programme, involving high-intensity interval training (HIIT), on the physical, mental and cognitive health of senior school ... -
Science as a service: understanding successful knowledge transfer in a New Zealand research institute
(IOS Press, 2012)This paper reports on an exercise conducted within a state-owned body (Crown Research Institute) in New Zealand aimed at building greater understanding of the key factors in successful research programmes. Success was ... -
Searching for the successful hospitality follower. A case study in Followership
(CAUTHE, 2012)This paper adopts a qualitative approach to identify and analyse the meaning of followership in the hospitality industry. Interviews, utilising a semi structured questionnaire, will be undertaken to examine how followers ... -
Secrets of mlearning failures: Confronting reality
(2012)Having implemented and evaluated over 35 mlearning projects in a variety of contexts in higher education over the past 6 years the researcher is ready to share the untold secret: not all mlearning projects succeed! This ... -
A Secure and Authenticated Key Management Protocol (SA-KMP) for Vehicular Networks
(IEEE, 2016)Public key infrastructure (PKI) is the most widely used security mechanism for securing communications over the network. However, there are known performance issues, making it unsuitable for use in vehicular networks. In ...