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Models Applied in Stock Market Prediction: A Literature Survey

Stock market prices are intrinsically dynamic, volatile, highly sensitive, nonparametric, nonlinear and chaotic in nature, as they are influenced by a myriad of interrelated factors. As such, stock market time series prediction is complex and challenging. Many researchers have been… Continue Reading →

Perspectives in Biosecurity | 2018 | Volume 3

Perspectives in Biosecurity is a multi-disciplinary electronic journal of research papers and other outputs covering all aspects of the field of biosecurity including, but not restricted to, invasion biology and ecology, invasive species identification/diagnostics, management and eradication/control, new invasive species… Continue Reading →

Whanake, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018

Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development. This issue features articles on youth volunteering, voluntourism, discrimination against gender-diverse tertiary students, poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand, youth HIV/AIDS awareness… Continue Reading →

Exploring the role of Buddhist monks’ and nuns’ engagement in community development as catalysts for social change and sustainable development in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A case study of the Buddhism for Development Project at Ban Bungsanthueng, Nongbok District, Khammouane Province, by Toung Eh Synuanchanh

The topic of this research report is an important one in the context of Asia’s rapid economic development in recent years, and the need to rethink development policy and especially methodologies of development communications, so the mistakes of the past… Continue Reading →

Thesis review: The storytellers: Identity narratives by New Zealand African youth – participatory visual methodological approach to situating identity, migration and representation by Makanaka Tuwe

This fascinating and original work explores the experiences of third-culture children of African descent in New Zealand. The term ‘third-culture kid’ refers to an individual who grows up in a culture different from the culture of their parents. Experiences of… Continue Reading →

The Hīhīaua Studio

In 2016, the Momentum North Hīhīaua Community Group asked the Unitec Architecture Pathway to investigate the development of a new masterplan for the Hīhīaua Peninsula in Whangarei, Northland. This request became the basis of a twelve-week joint Landscape Architecture /Architecture… Continue Reading →

Whanake, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2018

Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development, and is edited by Gavin Rennie and John Stansfield. This issue features articles on epistemology and community worker education, intergenerational communication… Continue Reading →

Collaborative housing as a response to the housing crisis in Auckland

According to future projections based on current demographic growth trends, Auckland’s population will reach two million in 2033. Since the city is already afflicted by a serious housing crisis, at the beginning of 2017 the newly elected Mayor Phil Goff… Continue Reading →

File to Factory: A case study of automated prefabrication house-building methods for small-to-medium enterprises

The Eco-Digital Fabrication (EDFAB) research project aimed to investigate how automated prefabrication technologies and off-the-shelf construction products can be employed to disrupt building industry norms. The aim of this research – conducted at the University of Auckland and Unitec Institute… Continue Reading →

Pūrātoke Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Creative Arts and Industries, issue 1, 2017

Pūrātoke: (Maori: 1. (verb) to glow, gleam / 2. (noun) glowworm / 3. (noun) bright spark, clever person). Pūrātoke is an online, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to the publication of high-quality undergraduate student research within the creative arts and industries. This pilot… Continue Reading →

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