Auckland University of Technology

Well-being in digital-free tourism: A mixed-methods rhythmanalysis

Tourism research has largely treated well-being as a motivation or outcome, neglecting how it unfolds in-situ and relying on self-report data. Through a mixed-methods rhythmanalysis, this study examines how well-being emerges and evolves in digital-free tourism. Following 23 part...

Research and Application of Tongue Image Segmentation Method Based on Lightweight Deep Learning

Intelligent tongue diagnosis demands high-precision segmentation on resource-constrained mobile devices. All deep learning models outperform conventional approaches, improving mean intersection over union (mIoU) by approximately 9% and accelerating inference by more than two orde...

Wi-Fi 7 Streaming Stability: A Multi-Band, Multi-Bitrate Performance Assessment

Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) introduces key physical and medium access control (MAC) layer advancements, including wider channel bandwidths up to 320 MHz, 4096-QAM modulation, preamble puncturing, and tri-band operation across 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz to support high-bandwidth and lo...

Rapid Rupture Mapping of Potential Tsunamigenic Earthquakes in the Southwest Pacific Using Regional Seismic Arrays

Abstract Rapid spatial characterization of rupture in tsunamigenic earthquakes (Mw≥7.5) is critical for improving tsunami early warning capabilities, particularly for sparsely instrumented regions. We investigate how regional array seismology can be optimized for such settings by...

A proof of Bezdek's conjecture on section symmetry

We prove Bezdek’s 1999 conjecture on Euclidean reflection symmetry of planar sections. A compact convex body with nonempty interior in three-dimensional Euclidean space, whose every affine plane section admits an orthogonal reflection, is an ellipsoid or a Euclidean body of revol...

Surviving the Storm: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers' Challenges in Family‐Based Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

ABSTRACT Objective Family‐based treatment (FBT) is the recommended first‐line outpatient treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), but places substantial responsibility on parents/caregivers. Although caregiver burden in FBT is increasingly reco...

A counterexample to the complex polynomial Koebe radius conjecture

We disprove the complex-coefficient polynomial Koebe radius conjecture proposed by Dmitrishin, Smorodin and Stokolos in 2018. We give a normalised cubic with rational real and imaginary coefficients that is univalent on a neighbourhood of the closed unit disk and omits a point of...

Perinatal mental health screening in Aotearoa New Zealand: a mixed-methods study of parent and healthcare professional perspectives

Abstract Background Perinatal mental health distress affects 10–20% of pregnancy-carrying parents in high-income countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), where the perinatal suicide rate is substantially higher than in comparable settings, and wāhine Māori (Māori women) ex...

Food Sovereignty, Whakapapa, and Place

ABSTRACT Food sovereignty is increasingly promoted as an alternative to dominant food systems. In Aotearoa it is inseparable from Māori relationships to whenua and from colonial dispossession. This paper presents a kaupapa Māori review of academic, policy, and grey literature, wi...

Implementing health coaching for people with long-term conditions: a scoping review

Introduction The rising global burden of chronic diseases has compelled healthcare practitioners to bolster their role in supporting individuals with long-term conditions in managing their health and well-being. Demand for health coaching continues to grow, but a limited body of...

Predictors of improvement in personal recovery and activity engagement among mental health service users following a group-based sensory modulation intervention

BACKGROUND: Mental health service users often have sensory processing difficulties affecting activity engagement and personal recovery. Since interventions targeting this area are scarce, a group-based sensory modulation intervention was developed. To determine in which settings...

Understanding Indigenous Economies Through Pre‐Figuration and Stabilisation to Advance Lifeways

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Off-line Ehrhart roots for complete multipartite symmetric edge polytopes

We disprove the 2016 conjecture of Higashitani, Kummer and Michałek that the Ehrhart polynomial of every complete multipartite symmetric edge polytope has all its roots on the line Re z = −1/2. The graph with six parts of size two gives an eleven-dimensional example with exactly...

All even logarithmic differences of Boros–Moll coefficients

We prove a conjecture posed by Chen and Gu in 2008 by showing that every admissible even-order difference of the logarithms of a Boros–Moll coefficient row is strictly negative. The fourth-order case gives the conjectured ratio log-concavity, including the endpoint ratios. We est...

A cross-sectional study to evaluate access to antenatal care services in Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira district of Ghana

Background Antenatal care (ANC) supports skilled delivery and maternal survival, but evidence on how Ghana’s Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) policy influences ANC access is limited. This study assessed factors associated with ANC access in the Twifo Hemang Low...

Multi-level inclusion systems: how tempered radicals influence change in manufacturing organisations

This study explores how tempered radicals promote inclusive workplaces across organizational levels in manufacturing companies. Tempered radicals work within established structures to deliver socially inspired change, strategically challenging norms while balancing organizational...

Log-concavity of the Chen–Gu ratio sequence of Boros–Moll coefficients

In this preprint, we prove Chen and Gu’s 2008 conjecture on log-concavity of the ratio sequence of Boros–Moll coefficients, with strict inequality at every interior index. A positive integral interpolation and explicit fourth-derivative bounds establish the result for m ≥ 200. Th...

Proton Pump Inhibitor Co-prescription, Dabigatran Use, and Ischaemic Stroke or Transient Ischaemic Attack in Atrial Fibrillation: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) reduce gastric acidity and lower dabigatran plasma concentrations, raising concern about a clinically relevant drug–drug interaction. We examined whether PPI co-prescription modified the association between dabigatran use and atrial fibrillation (AF)...

The role of biological maturation and relative age in player selection during transition phases at a German youth football academy

Abstract This study investigated the influence of biological maturation and relative age on player selection during transition phases in a German youth football academy. In addition, it examined the extent to which biological maturation and relative age were correlated among sele...

Financial development and the environmental performance of manufacturing firms: Evidence from India

This study examines how financial development affects the environmental performance of manufacturing firms. Exploiting state-level variation in the credit-to-GDP ratio and detailed energy consumption data from Indian manufacturing firms during the 1990s and 2000s, I find that fin...