Otago University Research Archive

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  • Shepherd, Daniel; McBride, David; Welch, David; Dirks, Kim; Hill, Erin (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), Fourth International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise, 2011)
    Hearing allows humans to detect threats in the environment and to communicate with others. However, unwanted sound has the capacity to evoke reflexive and emotional responses, and can act a stressor. The World Health ...
  • Winikoff, Michael; Cranefield, Stephen (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 8th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, 2010)
    Before deploying a software system we need to assure ourselves that the system will behave correctly. This assurance is usually done by testing the system. However, it is intuitively obvious that adaptive systems, including ...
  • Ranathunga, Surangika; Cranefield, Stephen; Purvis, Martin (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 8th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, 2010)
    Previous work on detecting fulfilments and violations of expectations (which may correspond to conventions, norms, commitments or contracts) assumed that information about the world is available as an abstract logical model ...
  • Ghandour, Ahmad; Benwell, George L; Deans, Kenneth R (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 2010)
    There has been little empirical investigation of relationship between website usage (Web Metrics) and website content. The overall aim of the study reported in this article was to build on empirical evidence about a ...
  • McBride, David; Cowan, Elaine; Utumapu, Margaret; Walaart, John (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainability in Acoustics, ISSA 2010, 2010)
    The aim of this study was to assess the risk of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) in shearing and investigate practicable control methods. Woolshed surveys included shed construction data, noise dosimetry and area noise ...
  • Ghandour, Ahmad; Benwell, George L; Deans, Kenneth R (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 2010)
    Measurements that capture website performance have long enabled businesses to improve strategies and operations. For an eCommerce website, there exists a limited understanding on how performance is measured. Measuring the ...
  • Merchant, Kenneth A.; Stringer, Carolyn; Theivananthampillai, Paul (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), AFAANZ Conference, 2010)
    This study explored relationships between objective and subjective performance measures in a company setting where both were weighted equally in importance for allocating bonuses to high- and mid-level managers and ...
  • Ghandour, Ahmad; Benwell, George L; Deans, Kenneth R (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 2010)
    Online businesses are often engaged in web metrics to gauge the performance of their eCommerce website. This study examines the relationships between web metrics and the financial performance. The key purpose of the present ...
  • Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy; Cranefield, Stephen (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09121: Normative Multi-Agent Systems, 2009)
    In multi-agent systems, software agents are modelled to possess characteristics and behaviour borrowed from human societies. Norms are expectations of behaviours of the agents in a society. Norms can be established in a ...
  • Sawers, Deborah; Whiting, Rosalind (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), SEAANZ Conference,, 2009)
    Expanding on previous quantitative studies of business succession planning (BSP) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in New Zealand, this study provides qualitative data on the BSP process and the usefulness of Chartered ...
  • Stringer, Carolyn (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), PMA Conference, Otago 2009, 2009)
    Performance evaluations systems are a critical part of overall performance management systems. This intensive case study provides insights into how the use of subjective performance evaluations in a complex organisational ...
  • Stringer, Carolyn; Theivananthampillai, Paul (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), PMA Conference Otago 2009, 2009)
    This study examines the question, is the use of subjective measures an ex post adjustment of objective measures to take into account three types of risk: target difficulty (after controlling for budget loss), shared risk ...
  • Stringer, Carolyn; Theivananthampillai, Paul (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), PMA Conference Otago 2009, 2009)
    This study examines the question, is the use of subjective measures an ex post adjustment of objective measures to take into account three types of risk: target difficulty (after controlling for budget loss), shared risk ...
  • Stringer, Carolyn (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), PMA Conference, Otago 2009, 2009)
    Performance evaluations systems are a critical part of overall performance management systems. This intensive case study provides insights into how the use of subjective performance evaluations in a complex organisational ...
  • Sawers, Deborah; Whiting, Rosalind (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), SEAANZ Conference,, 2009)
    Expanding on previous quantitative studies of business succession planning (BSP) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in New Zealand, this study provides qualitative data on the BSP process and the usefulness of Chartered ...
  • Chung, Kim-Choy; Fam, Kim-Shyan; Holdsworth, David K; Chai, Joe C Y (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 2008 Global Marketing Conference at Shanghai, 2008)
    Although branding has become the latest focus in tertiary education to attract international students, little has been written about the influence of brand message on student’s choice of education destination in Asian ...
  • Chung, Kim-Choy; Tan, Shin Shin (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), E-leader Conference Bangkok 2008, 2008)
    In Malaysia and Singapore, Internet-based education has not attracted as many students as had been expected. It is reckoned that trust decreases the perceived risk of using a service. Since online learners have no direct ...
  • Ghandour, Ahmad; Benwell, George L; Deans, Kenneth R; Pillai, Paul (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 2008)
    This paper presents a research model, which is built on communication theory (Shannon and Weaver 1948) and DeLone and McLean’s (1992, 2003) information system model, to identify eCommerce website success dimensions. The ...
  • Francisco, Eduardo de Rezende; Whigham, Peter A; Moore, Antoni (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 19th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter?), 2007)
    The aim of this paper is to analyse different alternative implementations for a problem defined as "point allocation inside polygons" for Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). The problem involves situations where the ...
  • Sirguey, Pascal; Oltmer, Sven; Mathieu, Renaud (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 19th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter?), 2007)
    The assessment of the performance of multi-resolution image fusion, or image sharpening methods, is difficult. In the context of binary classification of snow targets in mountainous terrain, fusion methods were applied to ...