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Characteristics of footwear worn by people with systemic lupus erythematosus: A comparison with age- and sex-matched healthy controls: A pilot study
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background To determine characteristics of footwear worn by people with systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Twenty-two people with SLE and twenty matched healthy controls participated in a cross-sectional ... -
Head Pose Detection for aWearable Parrot-Inspired Robot Based on Deep Learning
(2018)Extensive research has been conducted in human head pose detection systems and several applications have been identified to deploy such systems. Deep learning based head pose detection is one such method which has been ... -
Overview of wind parameters sensing methods and framework of a novel MCSPV recombination sensing method for wind turbines
(MDPI AG, 2018)The paper presents an overview of the traditional methods to obtain wind parameters such as wind speed, wind direction and air density. After analyzing wind turbines’ arrangements and communication characteristics and the ... -
Being Māori and Pākehā: Methodology and method in exploring cultural hybridity
(2018)This article addresses the first author’s experience of identifying as both Māori and Pākehā in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on her own research using both kaupapa research theory and heuristic research method, and supervised ... -
Modelling peri-perceptual brain processes in a deep learning spiking neural network architecture
(Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2018)Familiarity of marketing stimuli may affect consumer behaviour at a peri-perceptual processing level. The current study introduces a method for deep learning of electroencephalogram (EEG) data using a spiking neural network ... -
What kind of country we want for our children: An analysis of media coverage of the 2017 New Zealand General Election
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)This article is the third in a series investigating media reporting of New Zealand elections. Based on content analysis of 510 articles published in the New Zealand Herald, and thematic analysis of a subset of news stories ... -
Development of a toolkit to enhance care processes for people with a long-term neurological condition: A qualitative descriptive study
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2018)Objective To (A) explore perspectives of people with a long-term neurological condition, and of their family, clinicians and other stakeholders on three key processes: Two-way communication, self-management and coordination ... -
Playing cultures
(Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Development, Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The genesis of this article is a series of observations that occurred at a marae, which are used here as a platform from which broader issues of certain aspects of Māori-Pākehā interactions can be explored and critiqued. ... -
Enhancing product and service capability through scaling agility in a global software vendor environment
(IEEE, 2018)Agile software development has become increasingly common in software vendor organisations, and their impact on practices and roles is now extending beyond the project level across the entire organisation. In this study, ... -
The incremental Fourier classifier: Leveraging the discrete Fourier transform for classifying high speed data streams
(Elsevier, 2018)Two major performance bottlenecks with decision tree based classifiers in a data stream environment are the depth of the tree and the update overhead of maintaining leaf node statistics on an instance-wise basis to ensure ... -
Regional Variation in the Characteristics, Incidence and Outcomes of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in Australia and New Zealand: Results from the Aus-ROC Epistry
(Elsevier, 2018)Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate regional variation in the characteristics, incidence and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in Australia and New Zealand. Methods: This was a population-based ... -
Labour Market Effects of Activating Sick-listed Workers
(Elsevier, 2018)Using data from a large-scale randomized controlled trial conducted in Danish job centers, this paper investigates the effects of activating sick-listed workers on subsequent labour market outcomes. Comparing treated and ... -
Strengths and difficulties questionnaire: Internal validity and reliability for New Zealand preschoolers
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2018)OBJECTIVES: This observational study examines the internal construct validity, internal consistency and cross-informant reliability of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a New Zealand preschool population ... -
Gender and Survival from Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest: a New Zealand Registry Study
(BMJ Publishing, 2018)OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationships between survival from all-cause out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and gender in New Zealand. METHODS: A retrospective observational study was conducted using data compliant ... -
The A-Z of creative technologies
(Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST), 2018)This paper undertakes an initial critical analysis of Creative Technologies as a means to gain insight to the nature of this as an emerging field. The paper utilises an approach previously used in the design discipline to ... -
CMOS Low Noise Amplifier Design for Microwave and mmWave Applications
(EMW Publishing, 2018)This paper reviews recent advances in the design of low noise amplifier (LNA) in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology for radio transceivers at microwave and millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. First, ... -
DiY (Do-it-Yourself) pedagogy: A future-less orientation to education
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)A future-less orientation, as defined in this article, explores approaches to education within the context of precarious, shifting, labour markets and the uncertain future of employment trends. A future-less orientation ... -
Operational analysis of dynamic line ratings
(IOP Publishing, 2018)Overhead line is an important asset for power industries. Rising demand in electricity, environmental concerns and cheaper electricity prices are some important factors behind operating the lines at their maximum potential. ... -
Health-related Quality of Life in Gout in Primary Care: Baseline Findings From a Cohort Study
(Elsevier, 2018)Objectives To examine gout-related, comorbid and sociodemographic characteristics associated with generic and disease-specific Health-Related Quality Of Life (HRQOL) in gout. Methods Adults with gout from 20 general ...