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Hook-grip Improves Power Clean Kinetics and Kinematics
(International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS), 2018)The purpose of this study was to compare one repetition maximum (1RM), as well as biomechanical outputs across a range of loads (75-100%) in the power clean (PC) utilizing the hook grip (HG) or closed-grip (CG). Eleven ... -
Fucoidan Extracted From Undaria Pinnatifida: Source for Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods
(MDPI, 2018)The importance of fucoidan as a functional ingredient in food, health products, and pharmaceutics is well-recognized due to its beneficial biological effects. Fucoidan is usually extracted from brown seaweeds, including ... -
Measuring student engagement in an introductory anatomy and physiology course
(2018)Surveys which measure student engagement should be simple and convenient to use, yet robust enough to capture meaningful data. In the current study, a 10-question survey was used to measure 3 constructs of student engagement, ... -
Global Software Engineering and Scaled Agile: Pushing the Boundaries of the Discipline?
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018)An abstract is not available. -
The Effects of Synthetically Modified Natural Compounds on ABC Transporters
(MDPI, 2018)Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major hurdle which must be overcome to effectively treat cancer. ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC transporters) play pivotal roles in drug absorption and disposition, and overexpression ... -
Anatomy of an international norm entrepreneur: The friends of fossil fuel subsidy reform
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access. -
A simple distributed channel allocation algorithm for D2D communication pairs
(IEEE, 2018)Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising technology due to its advantages of high spectrum efficiency, low energy consumption, and enhanced system capacity. In D2D communications, the channel allocation plays a ... -
One Brotherhood in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protest, resistance and Pacific reggae
(Michigan Publishing, the University of Michigan, 2018)The band Herbs has recently been formally recognized in Aotearoa New Zealand for its cultural expression and influence, and for the musicians’ political stance in an important period of activism. The band’s highly original ... -
Mermaiding as a Form of Marine Devotion: a Case Study of a Mermaid School in Borocay, Philippines
(Macquarie University, 2018)Mermaiding, the practice of wearing a mermaid tail and/or costume, and often swimming in costume, began in the mid-20th Century and has since grown into a global phenomenon. Despite its increasing popularity, there appears ... -
Not the bottom, but the beginning: The failure of the teaching profession to value early childhood education
(Tuwhera, Auckland University of Technology, 2018)No abstract. -
Flexible Ink-printable Wideband Log-periodic Dipole Array Antenna for Millimeter-wave Applications
(2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2018)This paper presents a novel flexible ink-printable log-periodic wideband dipole array (LPDA) antenna for millimeter-wave applications. The antenna is fed by microstrip line through a wideband microstrip-to-coplanar stripline ... -
Compact Dual-Band Broadband Microstrip Antenna for WLAN Applications
(2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2018)This paper presents a compact planar monopole antenna with dual-band operation suitable for wireless local area network (WLAN) application. The antenna occupies an overall area of 18 × 12 mm2. The antenna combines two ... -
Denoised Modified Incoherent Signal Subspace Method for DOA of Coherent Signals
(2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2018)Incoherent signal subspace method (ISM) is ineffective to deal with direction of arrival (DOA) of coherent wideband signals. Although modified methods were proposed to solve this drawback, such as ISM based on modified ... -
Asia Pacific Report: A New Zealand nonprofit journalism model for campus-based social justice media
(Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada, 2018)For nine years, the Pacific Media Centre research and publication unit at Auckland University of Technology has published journalism with an ‘activist’ edge to its style of reportage raising issues of social justice in New ... -
Social engagement of children with autism spectrum disorder in interaction with a parrot-inspired therapeutic robot
(Elsevier, 2018)This paper presents a series of results from a pilot study with ten participants to evaluate if children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit more social interaction interests when engaging with the parrot-inspired ... -
What Helps or Hinders Clinicians in Their Decision-making Processes When Using or Prescribing mHealth Apps in Practice? An Exploratory Study
(Physiotherapy New Zealand, 2018)Recent advancement and use of technology in healthcare has led to a rapid growth and availability of mobile health applications (mHealth apps) in clinical practice. This proliferation has led to growing concern over the ... -
Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)In 2016, the Pacific Media Centre responded to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston by initiating the Bearing Witness journalism project and dispatching two postgraduate students ... -
Ecological Communication in Asia-Pacific: A comparative analysis of social adaptation to maritime disaster in Indonesia and Fiji
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)This article is of a comparative study of social adaptation in the Cyclone Winston disaster case in Fiji and rob flooding in Semarang, Indonesia. In February 2016, the largest tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere, ... -
Review: Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset ‘democracy’ paradigm
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)The General’s Goose: Fiji’s Tale of Contemporary Misadventure, by Robbie Robertson. Canberra: Australian National University. 2017. 366 pages. ISBN 9781760461 When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime ... -
Review: Charlie Hebdo and the free speech conflict
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech, edited by Gavan Titley, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aurélien Mondon. London: Zed Books. 2017. 313 pages. ISBN 9781783609383 IN OCTOBER 2016, I returned to that ...