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Kai Hea Kai Hea te Pū o te Mate? Reclaiming the Power of Pūrākau
(Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Development, Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The purakau our ancestors told about the universe and our place within it have been bowdlerised through the process of colonisation. These narratives, as they had been transmitted over generations, were transformed by the ... -
Kaipatiki project environment centre: project analysis
(Auckland, NZ: Department of Spatial Design, School of Art and Design, AUT University, 2011) -
Key Perfromance Indicators (KPI) for the implementation of lean methodologies in a manufacture-to-order small and medium enterprise
(Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 2008)This paper presents a key performance indicator (KPI) concept for the implementation of Lean methodologies in a manufacture-to-order (MTO) small and medium enterprise (SME). Within a case study the concept is developed and ... -
KEYS to Academic Writing Success: A Six-stage Process Account
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ATLAANZ), 2011)This paper was originally conceived as a position paper arguing for the retention of KEYS to Academic Writing Success (KAWS), a successful undergraduate writing programme which had been developed by AUT University’s unit ... -
A kinetic model of municipal sludge degradation during non-catalytic wet oxidation
(Elsevier, 2015)Wet oxidation is a successful process for the treatment of municipal sludge. In addition, the resulting effluent from wet oxidation is a useful carbon source for subsequent biological nutrient removal processes in wastewater ... -
Knowing the wheat from the weeds in noisy speech
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 1997)This paper introduces a word boundary detection algorithm that works in a variety of noise conditions including what is commonly called the 'cocktail party' situation. The algorithm uses the direction of the signal as the ... -
Knowledge and educational research in the context of 21st century learning
(European Educational Research Association (EERA), 2013)Educational researchers and academics cannot ignore the ever-present call for education and schooling in particular, to reflect the needs of the 21st century knowledge economy. Since the 1990s, national curricula and ... -
Knowledge in Wonderland: a Media Ecology Perspective of the Epistemological Influence of the Wonderland of Knowledge – a Children’s Encyclopaedia From the Early 1940s
(Ingenta, 2016)This article is a media ecology perspective of the epistemological influence of The Wonderland of Knowledge – a children’s encyclopaedia from the early 1940s. It has shown how the highly mechanized production and distribution ... -
A knowledge quality assessment model for clinical decision support systems
(IOS Press, 2018)Informatics researchers have developed many methods for using computers to utilize knowledge in decision making in the form of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). These systems can enhance human decision making in ... -
Knowledge resources for university spinoffs: the role of the academic entrepreneur
(Academy of Management, 2007)The article discusses the commercialization of the scientific and technological knowledge that originates at universities. While this commercialization has been credited as fostering economic growth, innovation, and wealth ... -
Knowledge skills and abilities demanded of graduates in the new learning environment
(NACCQ, 1999)Changes in technology and employer demands require that we regularly survey our stakeholder communities to ensure the relevance and currency of what we are teaching, and the qualifications we offer to prepare our students ... -
Knowledge sourcing: how board intellectual capital improves organisational performance via the executive
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2013)Based on anecdote, the board’s collective and individual ability to add value to the organisation it governs can be summarised as being a function of the depth and breadth of its directors' skills, experience and knowledge ... -
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 ... -
Labour market regulation in Denmark during and beyond the economic crisis
(The International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), 2013)No abstract. -
Labour turnover in a New Zealand hotel company: the Gordian Knot? Initial results from a decade of exit interviews
(Elsevier Ltd, 2011)This paper presents findings from the data analysis of formal exit interviews conducted in New Zealand’s largest hotel brand. The data is from 24 hotels, covering all regions of New Zealand and provides comparable data ... -
Lacan, Laclau, and the impossibility of free trade
(MEDIANZ, 2017)This paper applies Lacan’s ‘negative ontology’ to mediated representations of ‘free trade’, and, in particular, the intellectual property aspects of free trade agreements. More specifically, the paper adopts Lacan’s ... -
Lack of diffuseness in wave propagation in lightweight joist-floor
(Turkish Acoustical Society, 2007)It is common to assume the wave field to be diffuse in often used simplified calculation procedures in building acoustics, such as Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) or energy flow methods. It is a well known that such ... -
Language shift and host society attitudes: Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965
(Sage Publishers, 2012)Language shift and host society attitudes - Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965 Abstract A study published in 2010 reported on past and current language use of a group of older Dutch migrants ...