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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects
(Wiley, 2022)Primitivists about truth maintain that truth cannot be analysed in more fundamental terms. Defences of primitivism date back to the early years of analytic philosophy, being offered by G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and ... -
Quantifying functionality of buildings to natural hazards
(2021)Continued functionality of critical infrastructure systems shortly after an earthquake is expected. However, experience has shown that this is often not the case. Building with limited or no structural damage may still ... -
Multi-hazard analysis and mapping in support of coastal city growth planning and resilience building
(2020)High growth in Tauranga is causing increased pressure to develop hazard-prone land. A key tool in evaluating safer potential growth areas is the quantification and spatial mapping of individual natural hazards. In a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Evidence, interests and argumentation: an environmental policy controversy in a small New Zealand town
(OpenEdition, 2021)This article examines interactions between different forms of authoritative knowledge and evidence in a public dispute over an environmental problem. It draws on a case set in a small coastal town in New Zealand where the ... -
A review of 3D/4D printing of poly-lactic acid composites with bio-derived reinforcements
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Poly-lactic acid (PLA) has become a commonly used polymer for additive manufacturing because of its bio-derived nature, useful mechanical properties, and excellent processability. Reinforcing PLA with bio-derived materials ... -
Morphological evolution of creek networks in 10 restored coastal wetlands in the UK
(Nature Portfolio, 2022)Coastal wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services including flood protection and carbon storage, but are being lost rapidly worldwide to the combined effects of sea-level rise, erosion and coastal urbanisation. Managed ... -
Habitat provision is a major driver of native bird communities in restored urban forests
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022)Urbanization, and the drastic loss of habitat it entails, poses a major threat to global avian biodiversity. Ecological restoration of urban forests is therefore increasingly vital for native bird conservation, but control ... -
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 ... -
Predicting glucose level with an adapted branch predictor
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Background and objective Diabetes mellitus manifests as prolonged elevated blood glucose levels resulting from impaired insulin production. Such high glucose levels over a long period of time damage multiple internal ... -
Riparian reforestation on the landscape scale – Navigating trade‐offs among agricultural production, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity
1. Stream–riparian networks are subject to multiple human pressures that threaten key functions of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, drive habitat and diversity losses, affect riparian connectivity and cause stakeholder ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Response efficacy in environmental discounting: Concern and action towards climate change threats
(Scholink Co, Ltd., 2021)Extending preceding environmental discounting studies, we examined the role of response efficacy (in low, control, and high conditions) in participants’ valuation of climate-change concern and action across four psychological ... -
Applying an ecological approach to practice design in American football: some case examples on best practice
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)In this paper, we outline an ecological approach to practice design in American football to support coaches in helping players to coordinate skilled movement behaviours in dynamic performance environments. This approach ... -
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 ... -
[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 ... -
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 ...
