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Wages and conditions of Clinical Coders in New Zealand: a report of surveys conducted in 1998 and 2004
(AUT Faculty of Business, 2004)This report reports on surveys on the wages and conditions of Clinical Coders in New Zealand’s public health sector undertaken in 1998 and 2004. Human Resource Managers in Crown Health Enterprises in 1998 and District ... -
Waikato 2011 centile charts for assessment of time to run 550m [Microsoft Excel workbook]
(2014)Centile charts show the position of a measurement compared to a reference population. They are useful for comparing measurements that change with growth and time for an individual or a group. The time to run 550 m was ... -
The Waitangi Tribunal’s WAI 2575 Report: Implications for Decolonizing Health Systems
(Harvard School of Public Health, 2020)Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a treaty negotiated between Māori (the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa) and the British Crown, affirmed Māori sovereignty and guaranteed the protection of hauora (health). The Waitangi Tribunal, ... -
Wake up New Zealand: duties' reform responses to the GFC
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)No abstract. -
Waldorf: An Education of its Time?
(International Forum of Waldorf/Steiner Education, 2017)To what degree is Waldorf education of its time? Is it contemporary? These questions are put forward by Neil Boland, senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He looks towards possible futures ... -
Walking the Talk: The 2013 Collection of Oral Presentations From the AUT School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies
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Walking to the shops: desired but how doable?
(Physiotherapy New Zealand, 2013)The average community walking distance is often cited to be 300 metres and increases if more than one task is performed. On average, disabled older adults complete one task per trip whereas healthy older adults undertake ... -
Want to Improve Public Health Access? Let's Start with the Basics: Measuring Efficiency Correctly
(Springer, 2020)No abstract. -
Warkworth 12-m VLBI Station: WARK12M
(AUT University; NASA Technical Publication, 2011)This report summarizes the geodetic VLBI activities in New Zealand in 2010. It provides geographical and technical details of WARK12M - the new IVS network station operated by the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space ... -
Warm Workplace Relationships: How to Retain Hospitality Employees
This article addresses the significance of workplace social connections for hospitality workers. When examining high turnover in hospitality, the focus is generally negative, such as shift work and low pay [1]. Surprisingly, ... -
Warranty Cost Analysis with an Alternating Geometric Process
(arXiv, 2018)In this study we model the warranty claims process and evaluate the warranty servicing costs under non-renewing and renewing free repair warranties. We assume that the repair time for rectifying the claims is non-zero and ... -
Was the Supreme Court Right to Change the Law on the Right to a Speedy Trial?
(The Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, 2017)In R v Jordan, the Supreme Court of Canada held, by a 5-4 majority and over the vigorous disagreement of the concurrence, that criminal prosecutions in which a trial does not conclude by a set deadline will be presumed to ... -
Watching (out for) each other: the role of clan controls in managing project teams
(Academy of Management, 2008)The article discusses the concept of clan control and its usefulness for managing teams in the workplace. The drawbacks of using traditional command and control systems for the management of business teams are noted. The ... -
Water: Neglected, Unappreciated and Under Researched
(Nature Publishing Group (NPG), 2013)Water, an essential nutrient, is often ignored in reports of dietary surveys and nutrition. Although it is ubiquitous in foods and beverages, the attention is often focused on the minerals or calorific values of the fluids ... -
Wave-induced H2S flux sustains a chemoautotrophic symbiosis
(American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), 2005)Symbioses involving sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and invertebrate hosts require a source of reduced sulfur, a source of O-2, and transport mechanisms that ensure them a supply of both. We investigated these mechanisms using ... -
Wavelet Transform Smoothing Filters for Metal Oxide Gas Sensor Signal Cleaning
(Elsevier, 2014)This paper reports on a series of experiments to evaluate the methods for feature extraction and denoising the digital signal from thin film zinc oxide-tin dioxide composite gas sensor devices. The aim was to find a method ... -
WDN-RBF: weighted data normalization for radial basic function type neural networks
(IEEE, 2004)This paper introduces an approach of Weighted Data Normalization (WDN) for Radial Basis Function (RBF) type of neural networks. It presents also applications for medical decision support systems. The WDN method optimizes ... -
Weak continuity properties of topologized groups
(AUT University, 2008)A topologized group is simply a group (G, ·) equipped with a topology t. The question as to when a topologized group (G, ·, t) is a topological group has been studied by many authors in the literature. In the recent work ... -
Wear-time Compliance with a Dual-accelerometer System for Capturing 24-h Behavioural Profiles in Children and Adults
(MDPI, 2018)To advance the field of time-use epidemiology, a tool capable of monitoring 24 h movement behaviours including sleep, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour is needed. This study explores compliance with a novel ... -
A Wearable Haptic Game Controller
(AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2016)This paper outlines the development of a wearable game controller incorporating vibrotacticle haptic feedback that provides a low cost, versatile and intuitive interface for controlling digital games. The device differs ...