• Using Activity Theory to understand contradictions in an online university course facilitated by Moodle 

  Gedera, Dilani S.P.; Williams, P. John (2013)

  Activity Theory can offer insights into learning processes that are facilitated by Learning Management Systems. Contradictions, as a basic principle of Activity Theory, assist in identifying the tensions and conflicts that ...

  

• The use of learning technologies to facilitate engagement in an online course 

  Gedera, Dilani S.P.; Williams, P. John (2013)

  E-learning is becoming increasingly popular in many countries for its flexibility in terms of time, place and pace. Research affirms that learning technologies support interaction and collaboration among learners and improve ...

  

• Surrogate modeling a computational fluid dynamics-based wind turbine wake simulation using machine learning 

  Wilson, Brett; Wakes, Sarah; Mayo, Michael (IEEE, 2017)

  The Wind Farm Layout Optimization problem involves finding the optimal positions for wind turbines on a wind farm site. Current Metahueristic based methods make use of a combination of turbine specifications and parameters, ...

  

• Technology Education for the Future: A Play on Sustainability. 

  Williams, P. John; Gedera, Dilani S.P. (Technology Environmental Science and Mathematics Education Research Centre, University of Waikato, 2013)

  We are very pleased to welcome Technology Education scholars from around the world to New Zealand for PATT 27. We are delighted to have the PATT conference in the Southern Hemisphere for only the second time in its history. ...

  

• Using focused ethnography to understand brokering practices among international students 

  Lee, Sherrie (Intellect, 2017)

  The academic challenges of international students, particularly those with English as an additional language (EAL), have been mostly researched in the context of the formal curriculum (e.g. classroom communication styles, ...

• Scoping the meaning of 'critical' in mathematical thinking for Initial Teacher Education 

  Furness, Jane Amanda; Cowie, Bronwen; Cooper, Beverley (2015)

  Current strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy in New Zealand educational policy, as elsewhere, reverberates in different ways in institutions charged with children's and adults' learning. A common response is to locate ...

  

• Global patterns of insect herbivory in gap and understorey environments, and their implications for woody plant carbon storage 

  Piper, Frida I.; Altmann, Scott H.; Lusk, Christopher H. (Wiley, 2018)

  Insect herbivory is thought to favour carbon allocation to storage in juveniles of shade-tolerant trees. This argument assumes that insect herbivory in the understorey is sufficiently intense as to select for storage; ...

  

• Te Mata Ira—Faces of the Gene: Developing a cultural foundation for biobanking and genomic research involving Māori 

  Hudson, Maui; Russell, Khyla; Uerata, Lynley; Milne, Moe; Wilcox, Phillip; Port, Ramari Viola; Smith, Barry; Toki, Valmaine; Beaton, Angela (2016)

  Te Mata Ira was a three-year research project (2012–2015) that explored Māori views on genomic research and biobanking for the development of culturally appropriate guidelines. A key component of this process has been to ...

  

• Geological subsidence and sinking islands: the case of Manono (Samoa) 

  Sand, Christophe; Bole, Jacques; Baret, David; Ouetcho, André-John; Petchey, Fiona; Hogg, Alan; Asaua, Tautala (Wiley, 2016)

  W.R. Dickinson, as part of his wide study of the geological history of the Pacific islands, has linked the unique case of the deeply submerged Lapita site of Mulifanua in western Upolu (Samoa) to the slow subsidence of ...

  

• A preliminary redating of the Holocene Roonka burials, south-eastern Australia 

  Littleton, Judith; Petchey, Fiona; Walshe, Keryn; Pate, Fonald (Wiley, 2017)

  Roonka is one of the most complete excavations of an Aboriginal burial ground in south‐eastern Australia. The chronology of the site and the nature of its use have proven difficult to interpret. Previous dating and ...

  

• Matariki: The star of the year by Rangi Matamua [Book Review] 

  Keegan, Te Taka Adrian Gregory (2017)

  This article reviews the book “Matariki: The star of the year by Rangi Matamua", by Matamua, Rangi.

  

• Probability from a socio-cultural perspective 

  Sharma, Sashi (International Association for Statistics Education (IASE), 2016)

  There exists considerable and rich literature on students’ misconceptions about probability; less attention has been paid to the development of students’ probabilistic thinking in the classroom. Grounded in an analysis of ...

  

• Two-step human−environmental impact history for northern New Zealand linked to late-Holocene climate change 

  Newnham, Rewi M.; Lowe, David J.; Gehrels, Maria J.; Augustinus, Paul Christian (SAGE Publications, 2018)

  Following resolution of a long-standing debate over the timing of the initial settlement of New Zealand from Polynesia (late 13th century), a prevailing paradigm has developed that invokes rapid transformation of the ...

• Refinement of Mg alloys crystal structure via Nb-based heterogeneous substrates for improved performances 

  Bolzoni, Leandro; Joshi, U.; Alain, R.; Garetto, D.; Babu, N.H. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Lightness and high specific strength make magnesium alloys ideal materials for the transportation industry, especially the automotive sector that is struggling to cope with the everyday more stringent regulations on emission ...

  

• Metal Injection Moulding of High Nb-Containing TiAl Alloy and Its Oxidation Behaviour at 900°C 

  Liu, Chengcheng; Lu, Xin; Yang, Fei; Xu, Wei; Wang, Zhe; Qu, Xuanhui (MDPI AG, 2018)

  High Nb-containing TiAl alloy with a nominal composition of Ti-45Al-8.5Nb-0.2W-0.2B-0.02Y (at %) was fabricated by metal injection moulding (MIM) technology with an improved wax-based binder. The critical powder loading ...

  

• Mad Max: Fury Road - Challenging narrative and gender representation in the action genre 

  Barrett, Kyle (2017)

  This article explores the key components that made "Mad Max: Fury Road" a subversive text within the action/post-apocalyptic genre. There will be a discussion of the film’s narrative (or lack of), Miller’s visual language ...

  

• Separation equations for 2D superintegrable systems on constant curvature spaces 

  Escobar-Ruiz, M.A.; Kalnins, Ernie G.; Miller, W., Jr. (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2017)

  Second-order conformal quantum superintegrable systems in two dimensions are Laplace equations on a manifold with an added scalar potential and three independent 2nd order conformal symmetry operators. They encode all the ...

  

• Methods for linear radial motion estimation in time-of-flight range imaging 

  Streeter, Lee V. (SPIE, 2017)

  Motion artefacts in time-of-flight range imaging are treated as a feature to measure. Methods for measuring linear radial velocity from range imaging cameras are developed and tested. With the measurement of velocity, the ...

  

• Determining the age of paintings at JSARN–113/23, Jawoyn Country, central-western Arnhem Land plateau 

  David, Bruno; Delannoy, Jean-Jacques; Gunn, Robert; Brady, Liam M.; Petchey, Fiona; Mialanes, Jerome; Chalmin, Emilie; Geneste, Jean-Michel; Moffat, Ian; Aplin, Ken; Katherine, Margaret (ANU Press, 2017)

  Western Arnhem Land in northern Australia has the rare distinction, both at national and global scales, of containing a vast landscape of many thousands of rockshelters richly decorated with art, some of which was probably ...

  

• Guest editorial by Sunita Basnet: Bhutanese refugee women and girls in NZ 

  Basnet, Sunita (NZFGW News, 2016)

  These former Bhutanese refugee women and girls were resettled in Christchurch, Nelson, Palmerston North and Auckland since 2008 under the New Zealand refugee quota. According to the UNHCR Nepal, as of 30th June 2016, 104,009 ...

  

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