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Methods for eliciting informative prior distributions: A critical review
(INFORMS, 2022)Eliciting informative prior distributions for Bayesian inference can often be complex and challenging. Although popular methods rely on asking experts probability-based questions to quantify uncertainty, these methods are ... -
Anthropogenic impacts on the Glowworm Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand: a microclimate management approach
(University of South Florida Libraries, 2022)Waitomo Glowworm Cave is a highly visited cave where the highlight is viewing the bioluminescence display of a large colony of glowworms. The visitation levels result in the build-up of anthropogenic CO₂, to the extent ... -
[Review of Strategies for Writing a Thesis by Publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities. By Lynn P. Nygaard and Kristin Solli (2021)]
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Strategies for Writing a Thesis by Publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Nygaard & Solli, 2021) fills a gap in the current doctoral education literature by discussing how this thesis genre may work in social ... -
Soil priorities for Antarctica
(Elsevier BV, 2022)While most of Antarctica is covered by ice sheets, a small part of the continent is permanently ice-free, sometimes for millions of years, where soils developed. Ice-free regions represent about 0.44% of the total area of ... -
Employees in the face of abusive supervision: Using personal, social and environment resources as coping mechanisms
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Abusive supervision and its effects on employee work outcomes and well-being has been the focus of attention of academic researchers and practitioners for the last two decades. Not everyone has the confidence and support ... -
Rats, plagues, and children, Oh My! Multimodal representations of the past in historical games
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)Since their inception, Game Studies and its sub-discipline Historical Game Studies have stressed the pedagogical potential of (historical) games for learning. Today, popular off-the-shelf historical digital games such as ... -
Advancing NZ hospital seismic readiness: creating a post-earthquake functionality dashboard
(2022)Continued functionality of critical infrastructure systems, such as hospitals, shortly after an earthquake is expected. However, experience indicates that there may be some disruption due to damage, outages, or access that ... -
Erased: Representations of women's bodies in chronic invisible pain
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Stories of pain stretch metaphors and similes. They infuse verbs into the narrative—it stabs, it burns, it aches—in a desperate attempt to describe what the pain is doing in the body. There is a critical need for accurate ... -
Evidence for individual variation and the role of personality in the assessment strategies of Teleogryllus commodus contests
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Evolutionary game theory and assessment strategy models have been used to try to understand animal decision making processes during male-male contests. However, this has often led to mixed or inconclusive results. This may ... -
Supportive interactions with primary care doctors are associated with better mental health among transgender people: results of a nationwide survey in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
(2022)BACKGROUND: Past research has established that transgender people experience significant disparities in mental health outcomes and healthcare dissatisfaction compared with cisgender people, but more research is needed on ... -
The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hedging functionality of Chinese financial markets
(Elsevier, 2022)In this paper, we investigate both constant and time-varying hedge ratios in terms of the effectiveness of CSI300 index futures during the COVID-19 crisis. Using naïve, OLS and EC/ROLS strategies to estimate constant hedge ... -
Wearable technology for hazardous remote environments: Smart shirt and Rugged IoT network for forestry worker health
(Elsevier BV, 2022)This paper introduces the architecture and details of our wearable IoT solution for workplace health and safety in rugged outdoor environments. We focus on the specific requirements defined by the New Zealand forestry ... -
Examining the effects of policy design on affordable unit production under inclusionary zoning policies
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Problem, research strategy, and findings: Evidence suggests that inclusionary zoning (IZ) correlates with affordable housing and mixed-income communities; however, what effect the policy design has on affordable housing ... -
GPUTreeShap: massively parallel exact calculation of SHAP scores for tree ensembles
(PeerJ, 2022)SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) values (Lundberg & Lee, 2017) provide a game theoretic interpretation of the predictions of machine learning models based on Shapley values (Shapley, 1953). While exact calculation of ... -
Experiments in cross-domain few-shot learning for image classification
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Cross-domain few-shot learning has many practical applications. This paper attempts to shed light on suitable configurations of feature exactors and ‘shallow’ classifiers in this machine learning setting. We apply ResNet-based ... -
Balancing openness with Indigenous data sovereignty: An opportunity to leave no one behind in the journey to sequence all of life
(2022)The field of genomics has benefited greatly from its "openness" approach to data sharing. However, with the increasing volume of sequence information being created and stored and the growing number of international genomics ... -
Energy digital twin technology for industrial energy management: Classification, challenges and future
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Digitalisation of the process and energy industries through energy digital twin technology promises step-improvements in energy management and optimisation, better servicing and maintenance, energy-efficient design and ... -
On the latency impact of remote peering
(Springer, 2022)Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) play an essential role in the Internet, providing a fabric for thousands of Autonomous Systems (ASes) to interconnect. Initially designed to keep local traffic local, IXPs now interconnect ... -
Teaching about volcanoes: Practices, perceptions, and implications for professional development
(Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2022)Volcanology education is important for the development of geoscientists and scientifically literate citizens. We surveyed 55 volcanology instructors to determine their learning and teaching practices, perceptions of academic ... -
Depth-differentiated, multivariate control of biopore number under different land-use practices
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Earthworms and (tap-)roots impact the soil structure by creating large biopores, affecting infiltration capacity, seepage, nutrient cycling, and soil aeration. Despite the importance of biopores for the functions of soils ...
