University of Waikato Research Commons: Recently added
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When the student has to draw their answer: Assessing logic online
(University of Waikato, 2020-11-11)Presented at Learnfest 2020 Te Puna Aurei: A spring of intertwining knowledge -
Transnational conversations about teacher identities in early childhood places and spaces: Call for alliance-building, advocacy and activism
(Symposium Journals, 2021-05-07)The professional identities of teachers are fundamental to their understanding of how to be and how to act in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Professional identities have emerged as a key consideration both in ... -
PolyLM: Learning about polysemy through language modeling
(ACL, 2021)To avoid the “meaning conflation deficiency” of word embeddings, a number of models have aimed to embed individual word senses. These methods at one time performed well on tasks such as word sense induction (WSI), but they ... -
Reactive Strength as a Metric for Informing Return-to-Sport Decisions: A Case-Control Study
(Human Kinetics Publishing Inc., 2022-01-01)Objective: Current return-to-sport decisions are primarily based on elapsed time since surgery or injury and strength measures. Given data that show rates of successful return to competitive sport at around 55%, there is ... -
Assemblage drawings as talking points: Deleuze, posthumans and climate-activist teachers
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-12-01)In this paper, we employ Deleuzian philosophy to explore the complex challenges confronting teachers and education systems posed by the climate emergency and the implications of the resulting posthumanist turn. Self-identified ... -
Financial market information flows when counteracting rogue states: The indirect effects of targeted sanction packages
(Elsevier, 2023-11-16)This study investigates how financial sanctions packages targeting Russia influenced traditional information flow dynamics with other international financial markets and products. While providing empirical evidence regarding ... -
Afterword: Kinship Possibilities in Water Futures
(Wiley, 2023)This special issue of Oceania interrogates the material and cultural factors underpinning water socio‐economies in Australia; a critical project given the wet and dry crises now unfolding in theAnthropocene. Three themes ... -
Legislative Strategies to Tackle Misinformation and Disinformation: Lessons from Global Jurisdictions
(Australasian Study of Parliament Group, 2023-11-20)The spread of misinformation and disinformation on social media has become a major concern in recent years. This is due in part to the ease with which false information can be shared and amplified online, as well as the ... -
Long-term changes in Zooplankton community composition in North Island lakes: What are the drivers of change?
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Zooplankton are an important component of freshwater ecosystems, forming a trophic bridge between primary producers and higher trophic levels. They are highly responsive to changes in their environment and have therefore ... -
Caught in the cross-fire: the realities of being Māori at a bicultural law school
(The University of Waikato, 1996)This thesis examines the first Waikato Māori Law Graduates’ experiences at law school and our employment choices. It has been written as a result of a research project which was conducted in 1994. The paper begins with ... -
Using acoustic backscatter data to provide estimates of profiles of suspended sediment concentrations for cohesive particles in the field
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Many estuaries and rivers in New Zealand and other locations worldwide are stressed by the input of fine (muddy) sediments. Suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) are often used as a key indicator of water quality and are ... -
The Moral Requirement for Digital Connectivity
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021-09-03)Crises illustrate the value of digital connectedness. When our physical routines are disrupted, having alternative options to connect with others is important. Yet there are clear divisions in access to the internet, and ... -
Facebook: A place to build relationships and to collaboratively support each family’s journey to school
(NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020-05-28)Children’s transition from an early childhood education setting to school needs to involve children and their families to best support the family in this time of change. This article focuses on a case study from doctoral ... -
Measures of Dosage for Spinal-Cord Electrical Stimulation: Review and Proposal
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)This manuscript proposes an electrical definition of therapeutic dose for spinal cord systems used for the treatment of chronic pain, analogous to the pharmacological definition. Dose-response relationships are fundamental ... -
Clinical Implications of Landing Distance on Landing Error Scoring System Scores
(NATL ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOC INC, 2021-06-01)Context: The Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) screens for the risk of non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury. The LESS requires individuals to jump forward from a 30-cm box to a distance of 50% of their body ... -
The opportunities and risks of the 20 Minute City
(University of Waikato, 2021-03-30)"20 Minute City" is a political project, not just a policy one. Success is not just about ‘the plan’ and implementation is not just about policy. -
Investigating Bioinformatic Pipelines for De novo Variant Identification in New Zealand Dairy Cattle
(The University of Waikato, 2023)New Zealand is the biggest single entity for milk and milk product export in the world and being the country’s main industry, keeping track of bovine mutations allows influence of the national herd’s health and the ability ... -
Limited role of climate change in extreme low rainfall associated with southern Madagascar food insecurity, 2019–21
(IOP Publishing, 2022-12-01)Southern Madagascar recently experienced a severe food security crisis, made significantly worse by well below average rainfall from July 2019 to June 2021. This exceptional drought has affected a region with high pre-existing ... -
Online self-promotion
(University of Waikato, 2019)- Online Self-Promotion - Research impact - Interdisciplinary collaborations - Media interviews (also from uni knowledge areas database) - Follow-throughs (that person checks out) - Being able to use data to support ... -
Metaheuristics for Discovering Favourable Continuous Intravenous Insulin Rate Protocols from Historical Patient Data
(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2020-01-01)Metaheuristic search algorithms are used to develop new protocols for optimal intravenous insulin infusion rate recommendations in scenarios involving hospital in-patients with Type 1 Diabetes. Two metaheuristic search ...
