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From rhetoric to reality: which resilience, why resilience, and whose resilience in spatial planning?
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2014)This paper analyses contrasting academic understandings of ‘equilibrium resilience’ and ‘evolutionary resilience’ and investigates how these nuances are reflected within both policy and practice. We reveal that there is a ... -
Testing innovative technologies to manage flood risk
(ICE Publishing, 2015)The move towards multi-faceted approaches to flood risk management is cemented in the European Union (EU) floods directive (directive 2007/60/EC). Across Europe, resources are diverted towards softer interventions such as ... -
Psychosocial support needs of women with breast cancer in the Waikato region of New Zealand
(WILEY, 2020)Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women and the third most common cancer in New Zealand (NZ), with more than 3000 registrations and 600 deaths annually.¹ While survival from BC in NZ is better ... -
10 Ways to Boost the Impact of Your Research: A case study in campaign marketing
(2020)There is work to do in raising both the awareness and credibility of libraries as partners in the research lifecycle. However research reveals that often library marketing activities are not strategic, integrated or ... -
Beyond 'just' flood risk management: the potential for-and limits to-alleviating flood disadvantage
(Springer, 2018)The threat of flooding poses a considerable challenge for justice. Not only are more citizens becoming exposed to risk, but they are expected to play increasingly active roles in flood risk management. However, until ... -
Flood resilience technology in Europe: identifying barriers and co-producing best practice
(2018)Flood resistance (FRe) and resilience technologies hold considerable potential to limit the damage caused by flooding. Resistance technologies generally aim to keep water out of buildings, while resilient measures may allow ... -
Rigour and rigour mortis? Planning, calculative rationality, and forces of stability and change
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2019)A defining feature of planning is that it is informed by sound evidence. An ever more diverse range of decision support tools is available to help achieve this, a trend that is set to accelerate along with the rise of Big ... -
Risky times: Hazard management and the tyranny of the present
(Elsevier, 2017)This paper examines how the processes and practices of hazard management skew decision-making towards current concerns, shaping the treatment of the future in the present. We reveal how norms of science and policy combine ... -
Identification and structure elucidation of epoxyjanthitrems from Lolium perenne infected with the endophytic fungus Epichloë festucae var. lolii and determination of the tremorgenic and anti-insect activity of epoxyjanthitrem I.
(2020-08-17)Epoxyjanthitrems I-IV (1-4) and epoxyjanthitriol (5) were isolated from seed of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) infected with the endophytic fungus Epichloë festucae var. lolii. Although structures for epoxyjanthitrems ... -
The housing crisis as an ideological artefact: Analysing how political discourse defines, diagnoses, and responds
(Routledge, 2019)It is a truism that politicians from countries around the world claim to be in the midst of a ‘housing crisis’. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? This paper provides a critical evaluation ... -
Conceptualizing gender: Lessons from the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey
(University of Chicago Press, 2020)As discussions of gender identity become more widespread, the definitions of sex and gender both fluctuate and stabilize in new ways. In this article, we draw on qualitative and quantitative data from the first Canadian ... -
Risky spaces: Creating, contesting and communicating lines on environmental hazard maps
(Wiley, 2018)This paper examines the tensions involved in the production, presentation and revision of hazard maps, focusing on the controversies that have become increasingly common when they are used to change government policy. Our ... -
A novel way to quantify schizophrenia symptoms in clinical trials
(Wiley, 2020)BACKGROUND: A major problem in quantifying symptoms of schizophrenia is establishing a reliable distinction between enduring and dynamic aspects of psychopathology. This is critical for accurate diagnosis, monitoring and ... -
Spectroscopy of OSSO and other sulfur compounds thought to be present in the Venus atmosphere.
(ACS Publications, 2020)The spectroscopy of cis-OSSO and trans-OSSO is explored and put into the context of the Venusian atmosphere, along with other sulfur compounds potentially present there, namely, S₂O, C₁-S₂O₂, trigonal-S₂O₂, and S₃. UV-vis ... -
Tokomaru Bay Wharf and heritage buildings restoration design: Innovating a holistic final year civil design project
(2019)CONTEXT The discipline of civil engineering focuses on creating the built environment necessary for a functioning society, however, curriculum often focuses on the design of specific structures in isolation from the larger ... -
The international law gaze: COVID-19 and foreign investors
(LexisNexis, 2020)This article shows that New Zealand is largely complying with its obligations to foreign investors who are nationals of the parties to the FTAs. The piece also indicates that security exceptions in the FTAs or the customary ... -
Is the Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire a reliable and valid measure to assess long-term symptoms in traumatic brain injury and orthopedic injury patients? A novel investigation using Rasch analysis
(Marry Ann Liebert, Inc publishers, 2020)Persistent post-concussion syndrome (PCS) symptoms are known to last years after traumatic brain injury (TBI), and similar symptoms are increasingly being documented among those who have not experienced a TBI. There remains ... -
Safety first: combining task models of medical devices with numeracy skills and technical competence
(ALM, 2019)We propose that by more closely aligning interdisciplinary work in (a) numeracy education for medication dosage calculations and (b) model-driven design for medical devices that are used for delivery of medication we may ... -
Industrial heat pump integration in non-continuous processes using thermal energy storages as utility - An NLP enhancement of the graphical approach
(2018)The aim of this paper is to enhance the results of the graphical approach for Heat Pump (HP) integration in noncontinuous processes. A nonlinear programming (NLP) formulation is developed which optimizes temperature levels ... -
Wanted dead or alive? Using metabarcoding of environmental DNA and RNA to distinguish living assemblages for biosecurity applications
(Public Library Science, 2017)High-throughput sequencing metabarcoding studies in marine biosecurity have largely focused on targeting environmental DNA (eDNA). DNA can persist extracellularly in the environment, making discrimination of living organisms ...
