AUT Theses, Dissertations and Research Projects: Recent submissions
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An FPGA Implementation of the Mean-shift Algorithm for Object Tracking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Object tracking remains an important field of study within the broader discipline of Computer Vision. Over time, it has found application in a wide variety of areas, including industrial automation, user interfaces, ... -
Free Social Injunctions: Art Interventions As Agency in the Production of Socio-legal Subjectivities Not yet Imagined or Realised
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This PhD project/exegesis considers how socio-legal performance, as a series of art interventions in public spaces, might operate to question and critique social and legal norms that govern and give licence to preferred ... -
Coping Strategies of Asylum Seekers from Sub-Saharan Africa in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The experiences that push people to leave their countries to seek asylum in foreign countries are stressful and in some cases traumatic. Unfortunately, in many countries, the immigration procedure that asylum seekers ... -
(Dis-) Empowering Offenders of Māori Descent Through Restorative Justice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The purpose of this study is to explore whether restorative justice (RJ) has the capacity to empower (or disempower) offenders of Māori descent in the eyes of currently practising restorative justice facilitators. The ... -
To Be Seen and Heard: The Lived Experience of Pasifika Students Participating in Psychotherapy Training in Aotearoa, New Zealand an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The focus of this research was the lived experience of self-identified Pasifika students; exploring their ethnic identity and experience of psychotherapy training. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used ... -
Filimānaia: A Samoan Critique of Standardised Reading Assessment in New Zealand Primary Schools
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)In 2010, I was seconded from my classroom teaching position to work as a facilitator in the implementation of the newly-established National Standards. In this role, I ran in-depth Literacy and Assessment workshops in ... -
Exploring the Impact of Millennials’ Use of Social Media on Their Attachment Experiences, and Its Possible Implications for Psychotherapy – a Thematic Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Attachment is an innate human need which is initially met from secure attachment relationships between children and parents/caregivers, and also their community relationships. Where parents buffer or gate-keep the outside ... -
Angel's Trumpet
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This thesis consists of a full-length screenplay for a feature film. A summary of the screenplay is as follows: Angel’s Trumpet is a crime drama about a friendship between three young criminals, Pauline, Jacky and Nina, ... -
Assessing Core Stable Coalitions Based On Social Network Structures
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Game theoretic techniques have become deliberate with social network analysis. Studies show that contemporary approach on social network analysis is unable to collectively evaluate the rationality of individuals and synergies ... -
Insights into Social Media Strategies by Small Marine Tourism Operators in Auckland
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The development of Social Media from its infancy towards the end of the 20th century, to its mass proliferation in recent years has been rapid. Its function as a communication, marketing and distribution tool has influenced ... -
Metabolomic Applications in Marine Mollusc Development and Aquaculture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Metabolomics is a rapidly emerging discipline within functional genomics to better understand biochemical phenotypes across a range of biological systems. The approach has many demonstrated applications in aquatic biology, ... -
Understanding Warming Effects on Vegetation Through Geothermal Hotspots: A Case Study of the Wairakei-Tauhara Geothermal Field, Taupo, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Understanding and predicting warming effects on vegetation is a key challenge of the 21st century. To date, warming experiments have been limited to isolated laboratory studies, which have been criticised as too small-scale ... -
Minus Theatre: Scenes, Elements
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Minus Theatre: scenes, elements experiments with theatre as the art, method and technique, to explore processes of individuation. It entitles a PhD thesis, undertaken at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), consisting ... -
Microstructure Evolution and Phase Transformation of Welded Metastable Beta-titanium Alloy (Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr)
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr (Ti5553, in wt%) is a recently developed metastable β titanium alloy, specifically designed to replace Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al (VT22) in the manufacture of large airplane components. The studies of Ti5553 have ... -
Artful Dynamics: How a Visual Arts Distance Learning Environment Might Matter for Notions of Artist-self
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This research explores how notions of artist-self are enacted in a postgraduate visual arts learning and teaching environment that relies substantially on an online platform and distance delivery. Tertiary institutions ... -
Communicating the 'smart' Way to Improve and Support Oral Health Amongst Young Adults in New Zealand: A mHealth in Oral Health Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)INTRODUCTION Free dental and oral health care is available to all New Zealanders until their 18th birthday. Despite this, oral disease remains one of the most prevalent, preventable diseases in New Zealand (NZ) communities. ... -
Challenges Faced by Female Chefs in the Kenyan Hospitality Industry: A Study Through an African Oral Tradition of Storytelling
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Female chefs experience many challenges in the male-dominated chef profession. Research shows that female chefs face challenges of promotion, low pay, work-life balance, burnout and sexual harassment (Fungai, Monica, & ... -
Love After Incest. How Does Father/Daughter Incest Impact Survivors’ Attachment and Later Developing Romantic Love Relationships and How Can the Therapeutic Relationship Assist in Helping Survivors Heal From Maladaptive Love Patterns? A Hermeneutic Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The purpose of this hermeneutic literature review is to assess, critique and bridge together literature on love, father/daughter incest, and the therapeutic relationship in order to consider how psychotherapists might best ... -
Integrating GPS, Accelerometry and Online Mapping Technologies: Exploring Built Environment Correlates of Adolescent Mobility and Domain-specific Physical Activity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Regular physical activity in youth is associated with many aspects of health and development, yet more than half of New Zealand adolescents struggle to meet physical activity guidelines. The modest results of past physical ... -
Love for Beginners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The purpose of this exegesis is to ascertain and explore the genre of the screenplay Love for Beginners, the emotional truth of the narrative and development of the narrative itself. The main points of the exegesis are ...