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Waist to height ratio in relation to time to run 550 m in primary school children in the Waikato region
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Background: Relationships between excess body fat, body fat distribution, and body proportions with physical fitness are important to explore because emphasis is placed on monitoring these health markers during interventions ... -
Walking for wellbeing after stroke: Building a treatment theory to improve real-world walking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This thesis explored ways to enable people with stroke to walk more in the real-world. The starting point for this work was the lack of sustained change in real-world walking following clinic-based interventions after ... -
Walking the line: managing type 2 diabetes: a grounded theory study of part-Europeans from Fiji
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This study examines the experience of managing Type 2 diabetes from the perspective of Part-European people from Fiji who have this disorder. A qualitative approach was used, and the methodology was grounded theory based ... -
Walls that speak: creative multivocality within Tangatarua
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This research posits art as an encounter, an encounter between the conceptual worlds of artists and of viewers. It acclaims the respective art skills within the marae (communal meeting place) named Tangatarua at Waiariki ... -
Warm-up strategies in freestyle snowsports: Effects of extremely cold enviornments on performance
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Background: The implementation of a dynamic warm-up is a widely accepted practice amongst athletes in many sports, but less common in freestyle snow sports (i.e. skiing and snowboarding). Moreover, in freestyle skiing and ... -
A Warming Inhale, Ecology and Capitalism in the Site of the Body
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Is my art anything? Is my politics nothing? This exegesis plays with ideas found in somatic research, literature on ecology and capitalism, activism and performance; it acknowledges theoretical research, bodywork and ... -
Was Freud right? Is intensive psychotherapy needed to harness the brain’s natural plasticity?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Is intensive psychotherapy needed to harness the brain’s natural plasticity? In order to throw light on this evidence-based question this dissertation conducts reviews of three bodies of literature: First it conducts ... -
Was this motion captured?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This research project has two main aims. The first is to investigate why digital cyber stars in recent live action movies have not always been widely accepted by audiences, despite being rendered to look photo-real and ... -
Water reporting in China: an attempt at illumination
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This research investigated the current situation of water-related information disclosure in 50 major Chinese companies (SSE 50), which were listed on the Shanghai Exchange Market. More specifically, this research involved ... -
Wavelet analysis and classification surface electromyography signals
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)A range of signal processing techniques have been adopted and developed as a methodology which can be used in developing an intelligent surface electromyography (SEMG) signal classifier. An intelligent SEMG signal classifier ... -
Wavelet based OFDM with V-BLAST Virtual MIMO for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are finding their place in many real life applications because low power and small-size sensor nodes can be inexpensively and easily deployed in the areas of interest for different applications. ... -
Way of the Process Painter: the coexistence of process & painting within a wayfaring, intuitive and durational practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This practice-led research project Way of the Process Painter explores process and painting as coexistent within a wayfaring, intuitive and durational painting practice, and can be likened to an open-ended journey where ... -
A Way to Understand Interpreters Working With Refugees in New Zealand. Exploring the Meaning of Doing Interpreting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This study seeks to understand the ‘lived’ experience of interpreters and clinicians working with clients who are refugees. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, informed by Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer ... -
Wayfinding for health seeking: a design-led exploration of how wayfinding employing empathetic communication design can improve the hospital outpatient experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This project explores how a design-led approach could be used to improve health seekers’ wayfinding experiences within Auckland City Hospital. It questions how empathetic communication design may be practiced to support ... -
Wāhine Māori nurses who smoke and their role in smoking cessation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Tobacco is known to be a major cause of preventable deaths in New Zealand and is established as the leading cause of heart disease, emphysema and different types of cancers. Tobacco products not only cause harm to those ... -
Web 2.0 and its implications for business: with case studies from Germany and New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)In 2004 the phenomenon Web 2.0 becomes popular – a mindset change takes place in which ‘You’ – the Internet users – are voted person of the year 2006 by TIME magazine ("Collective intelligence - The vision", 2008; Grossman, ... -
Web traffic prediction for online advertising
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Online advertising is about publishing advertisements/commercials on the Web and helps advertisers to achieve their target on the Web. Online advertising maintains a set of popular websites on their network for each ... -
Web-based Social Network Sites for working people in China: an empirical study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)The rapid development of Internet technology has revolutionized the traditional methods of communication within the global socio-cultural context. Among all Internet developing countries, China, the nation with one of the ... -
The weight of things
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)The weight of things is a sculptural project that utilizes materials such as stone, metal foil, paint, steel and mirror in relation to a specific site. In the process key binaries— substance/surface, weightlessness/ weight, ... -
The Well and Fantasy : a journey through the genre
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This project looks at the creation of a fantasy world and the fantasy genre in films, and analyses it as a whole. The fantasy genre is often seen as a means of escapism and is many times overlooked in terms of storytelling. ...