Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Applied Science"
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Agent-Based Container Terminal Optimisation
Container terminals have become important components in global logistics and transportation. The continuing growth of container transport is adding pressure to container terminals to improve efficiency. The problem of ... -
Always Best Connected (ABC) and Perceived Value: An Analytical Study
The concept of Always Best Connected (ABC) is pivotal to the emerging scenario of 4G networks, which intends to integrate different network technologies in order to exploit mutual advantages and to provide a variety of ... -
Amyas Connell, 'High and Over' and the role of New Zealand architects in the British Modern Movement
Many of the architects that contributed to the British Modern Movement during the late 1920s and up to the start of the Second World War were of European origin. Less well described in the surveys of the period is the ... -
Android In-Vehicle Infotainment System (AIVI)
Travelling long distances by cars in the modern world has become bearable with the availability of in-vehicle infotainment systems that can entertain and inform both drivers and other occupants. One of the problems faced ... -
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Sustainability: a transport infrastructure case study
Effective climate change adaptation requires adequate assessment of the wider environmental, social and economic impacts of a climate change adaptation response and identification and mitigation of the practical issues ... -
Diabetes your Life your Journey: Development of a structured New Zealand focused group based diabetes self-management (DSME) programme for people, families and whanau with type 2 diabetes (T2DM)
Rates of T2DM in New Zealand are reaching epidemic proportions and reducing the impact of this disease is a Ministry of Health, health strategy priority. Diet and lifestyle modifications remain the cornerstone of diabetes ... -
Distribution of Stable Hydrogen Isotopes in New Zealand Human Hair and the Effect of an Explosion
Suicide bombers cause mass destruction including death and injury to hundreds of people. It can be difficult to identify the perpetrator of the bombing due to the large destruction and chaos that can surround a bombing ... -
Energy Management Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocol Design and Evaluation
While wireless sensor networks (WSN) are increasingly equipped to handle more complex functions, in-network processing still requires the battery powered sensors to judiciously use their constrained energy so as to prolong ... -
Exploring the Transferability of Value Laddering for Understanding East Asian Consumer Choice: A Cross-Cultural Study on Wine
Augmented buying power of East Asian consumers has resulted in increased interest in these markets among exporting countries such as New Zealand. Wine is a particularly promising sector to target as the number of East ... -
Groundwater dynamics of a shallow coastal aquifer
Shallow coastal aquifers are dynamic groundwater systems. They can display considerable variability in groundwater levels over time. Complications arise when urban areas exist above such aquifers as groundwater can interact ... -
Influence of peripheral and stereoscopic vision on driving performance in a power wheelchair simulator
Exercising in a Virtual Environment as an adjunct training method, can enhance safety, cost-effectiveness, training quality, and can be used as an assessment tool. In the realm of power wheelchair (PWC) simulation a number ... -
Investigating Factors Leading to Participation in Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications
Crowdsourcing (CS) has undergone a new and emerging shift recently – it can now be deployed on smartphones. CS is not a new technology; it has been used for years on websites and GSM mobile phones. However, the use of CS ... -
Investigation of Free Cooling to Reduce Data Center Energy Consumption: Maxnet Limited Data Center Case Study
Data centers electricity consumption is the fastest growing electricity consuming sector in the United States (US), with data centers electricity consumption projected to quadruple between 2010 and 2030 from an annual ... -
Opal's Conversation Manager (CM)
Multi-agent systems consist of multiple agents to accomplish tasks or goals that require coordination and collaboration through interactions, such as agent conversation. This thesis provides description of the technologies ... -
Participatory Design in the Museum: An exploration of Participatory Design methods at the Ranfurly Art Deco Gallery, New Zealand
This thesis discusses and applies Participatory Design at the Ranfurly Art Deco Gallery, in Central Otago, New Zealand. It continues the past decade’s revitalisation of Ranfurly, by providing Project Maniototo (a project ... -
Reshaping Forest Management: Lessons from an Argentinean case study
Despite the recent increase in forest coverage in temperate areas, their intensive use over the centuries has caused a significant transformation of the resource in many parts of the world, particularly in their structure ... -
Response of Dairy Farmers, Industry and Government to Drought in the Grey Valley, West Coast - An inquiry into environmental circumstances and multi-level management
Intensive dairying is a developing industry in the West Coast economy but has been a source of employment to the region since the early 1900s. Despite having the highest rainfall anywhere in the country, the West Coast is ... -
Straining History Ernest Hayes: Pioneer Industrial Designer
This thesis began with an enquiry into the origins of a ubiquitous artefact of everyday life in rural New Zealand; the Hayes permanent wire strainer. Researching this artefact quickly revealed that the origins of the ... -
The Dispersal, Establishment and Management of Ammophila arenaria Seed in Coastal Foredunes
This thesis examines the seed ecology of the coastal dune grass, Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link (marram grass) in a densely vegetated foredune (Type-1, after Hesp, 2002) in southern New Zealand. A. arenaria is widely recognised ... -
The Eden Hore Collection: Exploring scenarios for re-display
The Eden Hore Museum of Fashion contains dress and other artefacts, collected by James Eden Hore in the 1970s, and is housed in a private museum on Glenshee Farm (Naseby, New Zealand). Eden Hore bequeathed his collection ...