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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 ... -
Safer Sex Practices Among Newly Diagnosed Hiv-positive Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: Results From an Ethnographic Study
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The study reported here sought to understand the rationales of safer sex practices adopted by newly diagnosed HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM). Guided by a socio-ecological framework, an ethnography was conducted ... -
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 As the Representation of an Idea, the Dream of Architecture and the Unravelling of a Surface
(enigma : he aupiki, Auckland, 2010)This paper is an investigation into the issue of the drawn scale and fragmented phantasia. The paper follows Italo Calvino’s notions of the instability of scale with the representations of phantasia that are revealed in ... -
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 ... -
Scaring Nemo ‐ Contrasting Effects of Observer Presence on Two Anemonefish Species
(Wiley, 2020)Behaviours of Clark's anemonefish Amphiprion clarkii and the dusky anemonefish Amphiprion melanopus were studied in Vanuatu. Six anemones and their resident fish were observed for typical behaviours (hiding, watching, ... -
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 ... -
A School-based Obesity Control Programme: Project Energize. Two-year Outcomes
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)Through-school nutrition and physical activity interventions are designed to help reduce excess weight gain and risk of chronic disease. From 2004 to 2006, Project Energize was delivered in the Waikato Region of New Zealand ...