Science and Engineering Papers
This collection houses research from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Waikato.
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Hauraki Gulf sedimentation: Unintended consequences of flood protection
(2018)The Universities of Waikato and Bremen have examined sedimentation in the Hauraki Gulf, focussing on the sediment discharges from the Coromandel Peninsula and the Waihou/Ohinemuri river systems, to assess whether anthropic ... -
Using management students as markers in engineering project papers
(2017)This presentation reports on the value of a new assessment strategy in a final year project-based engineering paper. This assessment strategy is aimed to enhance students learning more efficient and effective selfmanagement ... -
Testing a biologically-based system for extracting depth from brief monocular 2-D video sequences
(IEEE, 2018)Knowledge of the 3-D layout in front of a moving robot or vehicle is essential for obstacle avoidance and navigation. Currently the most common methods for acquiring that information rely on ‘active’ technologies which ... -
Bovine blastocyst development depends on threonine catabolism
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2018)Increasing evidence suggests that pluripotency is a metabolically specialised state. In mouse, inner cell mass (ICM) cells and ICM-derived pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) critically depend on catabolising the amino acid ... -
MaxGain: Regularisation of neural networks by constraining activation magnitudes
(Springer, 2019)Effective regularisation of neural networks is essential to combat overfitting due to the large number of parameters involved. We present an empirical analogue to the Lipschitz constant of a feed-forward neural network, ... -
Introduction to tephra-derived soils and farming, Waikato-Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand. University of Wisconsin-Platteville Education Abroad Program: Winterim Field Trip (15-17 January, 2019).
(School of Science (Earth Sciences), University of Waikato, 2019)This tour guide describes the origin of tephras and tephra-derived soils in North Island, New Zealand, including via upbuilding pedogenesis, and their mineralogical and other properties relevant to farming and orcharding ... -
Steps to improve gender diversity in coastal geoscience and engineering
(2018)Robust data are the base of effective gender diversity policy. Evidence shows that gender inequality is still pervasive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Coastal geoscience and engineering (CGE) ... -
The preservation of last-glacial (>50 to 40 ka) colluvium on low-relief surfaces in Alishan, an actively uplifting mountain in southwestern Taiwan
(Elsevier, 2018)Geomorphic studies on the Taiwan orogen have long focused on the rapid erosion and efficient sediment transport in response to active tectonic uplift and frequent earthquakes/heavy rains. Little attention has been paid to ... -
Postcards from the outside: European-contact rock art imagery and occupation on the southern Arnhem Land plateau, Jawoyn lands
(ANU Press, 2017)The northwestern region of the Arnhem Land plateau has long been relatively well-documented and is renowned worldwide for its wealth of rock art, including numerous paintings referencing items of material culture, people ... -
Efficacy of Borides in Grain Refining Al-Si Alloys
(2018)The grain refining efficacy of titanium, aluminum, and niobium borides, as well as niobium aluminides, introduced via commercial and lab made master alloys on Al-Si alloys was investigated. Significant grain refinement is ... -
Dating painted Panel E1 at Nawarla Gabarnmang, central-western Arnhem Land plateau
(ANU Press, 2017)Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. ... -
Educating the deliberate professional: Preparing for future practices [Book Review]
(New Zealand Association for Cooperative Edcuation, 2016)This book is Volume 17 of the Professional and Practice-Based Learning book series edited by Billett, Harteis, and Gruber. This Book Series aims to bring together international research on the development of professionals, ... -
Bonamia Response 2015: Report from the Technical Advisory Group on Resilience Breeding in Flat Oysters
(Ministry for Primary Industries, 2017)Bonamia ostreae is an unwanted and notifiable organism that was first detected in New Zealand in flat oysters (Ostrea chilensis) collected in 2014 from the Marlborough Sounds. It is not known how B. ostreae entered New ... -
Rangitoto Island field trip, Auckland
(Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2017-11-28)Rangitoto, Māori for ‘blood red sky’ (also ‘lava, scoria’), derives from the phrase Ngā Rangi-i-totongia-a Tama-te-kapua (the full name for the island) meaning “the day the blood of Tamatekapua was shed”, referring to a ... -
Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA-based studies
(WILEY, 2018)DNA‐based techniques are increasingly used for measuring the biodiversity (species presence, identity, abundance and community composition) of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. While there are numerous reviews of molecular ... -
Quaternary research in New Zealand and relationship to the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).
(School of Science, University of Waikato., 2018)Many of the top Quaternary science specialists globally are members of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), and a number of New Zealand Quaternary scientists are in that category. Membership of INQUA ... -
The Taupo eruption occurred in 232 ± 10 CE, and not later
(Nature Research, 2018)The Taupo eruption1 deposit is an isochronous marker bed that spans much of New Zealand’s North Island and pre-dates human arrival² . Holdaway et al. (2018; HDK18 hereafter)³ propose that the current Taupo eruption date ... -
Line mesh distributions: An alternative approach for multivariate environmental extremes
(Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2019)Copulas and other multivariate models can give joint exceedance probabilities for multivariate events in the naturalenvironment. However, the choice of the most appropriate multivariate model may not always be evident in ... -
Teaching physics concepts without (much) mathematics: View through a concept-index, threshold concept lens
(2018)CONTEXT In 2018, the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Waikato has introduced an option for first-year physics study that does not require achievement at high-school physics and mathematics. This ... -
Southwest Pacific Absolute Plate Kinematic Reconstruction Reveals Major Cenozoic Tonga-Kermadec Slab Dragging
(American Geophysical Union, 2018)Tectonic plates subducting at trenches having strikes oblique to the absolute subducting plate motion undergo trench‐parallel slab motion through the mantle, recently defined as a form of “slab dragging.” We investigate ...
