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Monotonic and cyclic undrained behaviour and liquefaction resistance of pumiceous, non-plastic sandy silt
(Elsevier, 2023-05)Experimental data related to the mechanical behaviour of crushable pumiceous soils are limited compared with those for hard-grained soils. The main focus of previous studies has been on pumiceous sands, whereas pumiceous ... -
Impacts for Children Living with Genetic Muscle Disorders and their Parents - Findings from a Population-Based Study.
(2018)BACKGROUND: Genetic muscle disorders, including muscular dystrophies, congenital myopathies, and ion channel muscle diseases can be associated with significant disability. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore child and ... -
Rapid response data-driven reconstructions for storm surge around New Zealand
(2023-04-01)In conjunction with tides, storm surge is one major driver of coastal flooding associated with storm events. Because local inundation is strongly modulated by the local shape of the coastline and the bathymetric slope, ... -
Incremental mining of frequent serial episodes considering multiple occurrences
(Springer, 2022-01-01)The need to analyze information from streams arises in a variety of applications. One of its fundamental research directions is to mine sequential patterns over data streams. Current studies mine series of items based on ... -
FARF: A Fair and Adaptive Random Forests Classifier
(Springer, 2021)As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in more applications, the need to consider and mitigate biases from the learned models has followed. Most works in developing fair learning algorithms focus on the offline setting. ... -
Dendroarchaeology in New Zealand: extending the range of archaeologically useful species beyond kauri (Agathis australis)
(New Zealand Archaeological Association, 2019)Accurately establishing calendar dates for Māori wooden objects would place them in a secure temporal context and enable aspects of manufacturing and use to be explored within and between sites, and across time. Dendrochronology ... -
Local and Regional Indian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Dynamics During Termination II and the Last Interglacial
(AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2019-11-14)To date Indian summer monsoon (ISM) dynamics have been assessed by changes in stalagmiteδ18O. However, stalagmiteδ18O is influenced by multiple environmental factors (e.g., atmospheric moisture transport, rainfall amount ... -
Biogeography and Genetic Diversity of Terrestrial Mites in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica
(MDPI AG, 2023)Free-living terrestrial mites (Acari) have persisted through numerous glacial cycles in Antarctica. Very little is known, however, of their genetic diversity and distribution, particularly within the Ross Sea region. To ... -
Measuring distress in older population: Rasch analysis of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale
(Elsevier BV, 2023-03)Objectives: The 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10) is a widely applied distress measure; however, its psychometric properties were not established with older populations using advanced methodology. The aim ... -
Immunogenic fusion proteins induce neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the serum and milk of sheep.
(2023-06)Antigen-specific polyclonal immunoglobulins derived from the serum, colostrum, or milk of immunized ruminant animals have potential as scalable therapeutics for the control of viral diseases including COVID-19. Here we ... -
Contribution of soil bacteria to the atmosphere across biomes.
(2023-02-10)The dispersion of microorganisms through the atmosphere is a continual and essential process that underpins biogeography and ecosystem development and function. Despite the ubiquity of atmospheric microorganisms globally, ... -
Impact Modification and Fracture Mechanisms of Core-Shell Particle Reinforced Thermoplastic Protein
(WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2016-08-01)Mechanical properties and fracture mechanisms of Novatein thermoplastic protein and blends with core–shell particles (CSPs) have been examined. Novatein is brittle with low impact strength and energy-to-break. Epoxy-modifi ... -
Unsupervised concept drift detection using a student–teacher approach
(2022-01-01)Concept drift detection is a crucial task in data stream evolving environments. Most of state of the art approaches designed to tackle this problem monitor the loss of predictive models. However, this approach falls short ... -
Overview of sensor technologies used for 3D localization of asparagus spears for robotic harvesting
(Trans Tech Publications, 2018-08)Advances in agricultural automation, coupled with a general decline of available labour hasgenerated interest in automated harvesting of various crops. Paramount to the success of such systemsis the development of accurate, ... -
The resilience of Polar Collembola (Springtails) in a changing climate.
(2022)Assessing the resilience of polar biota to climate change is essential for predicting the effects of changing environmental conditions for ecosystems. Collembola are abundant in terrestrial polar ecosystems and are integral ... -
Human access and deterministic processes play a major role in structuring planktonic and sedimentary bacterial and eukaryotic communities in lakes
(2022-11-11)Lakes provide habitat for a diverse array of species and offer a wide range of ecosystem services for humanity. However, they are highly vulnerable as they are not only impacted by adverse actions directly affecting them, ... -
Assessment of the Potential of Waste Copper Chromium and Arsenic (CCA)-Treated Timber Fibre Reinforced Polypropylene Composites for Construction
(MDPI AG, 2023)This paper investigates the potential of recycling waste copper chromium and arsenic (CCA)-treated timber for use as a reinforcement material in wood–plastic composites (WPCs) produced for use in construction, including ... -
Video quality assessment considering the features of the Human Visual System
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023)Nowadays, numerous video compression quality assessment metrics are available. Some of these metrics are “objective” and only tangentially represent how a human observer rates video quality. On the other hand, models of ... -
Nano Versus Commercial [Educator’s Corner]
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023)The NanoVNA, first introduced by that name in 2019, is a handheld, battery-powered, microwave Vector-corrected Network Analyzer (commonly just a “VNA”) whose hardware and software are open-source. A version 1.0 is surprisingly ... -
Choice cuts: With the race for renewables gathering pace, New Zealand has lessons to share for those planning to go greener
(Elsevier, 2016)Renewable electricity will continue to grow in importance as countries green their energy systems but the wider implications of higher levels also needs to be examined so that the various tradeoffs are understood. Energy ...
