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Design of SCALDO based high-current DC power supply
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Supercapacitor assisted (SCA) techniques are primarily based on supercapacitors having in the order of one million times more capacitance, together with one to two orders of magnitude smaller equivalent series resistance ... -
Lessons for teachers through intergenerational Māori experiences in Aotearoa’s education system
(The University of Waikato, 2021)The intention of this research is to serve as professional development for myself and fellow teachers who work with tamariki Māori (Māori children) within mainstream education contexts in Aotearoa. This research explores ... -
Women’s equality—stalled or achieved? An intersectional analysis of New Zealand women’s experiences of (in)equality and perceptions of feminism
(The University of Waikato, 2021)A statement made in 2013 by Professor Judy McGregor, the former Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, suggested that equality for women in New Zealand had stalled, and that ... -
Sites of power : Documentary ethics and representation of child abuse
(The University of Waikato, 2021)New Zealand has one of the highest child abuse rates in the developed world. Discourses about child abuse are stigmatised, and this stigma thrives in silence. Documentary films provide a unique site of power in which child ... -
Interpretable deep learning for surgical tool management
(Springer, 2021)This paper presents a novel convolutional neural network framework for multi-level classification of surgical tools. Our classifications are obtained from multiple levels of the model, and high accuracy is obtained by ... -
Adaptive management under the RMA: the tension between finality and flexibility
(University of Auckland, 2020)Adaptive management is commonly used to manage activities that require resource consents under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) that have uncertain, complex and potentially significant environmental effects. This ... -
Graph convolutional LSTM model for traffic delay prediction with uncertainty
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Traffic flow in an urban environment exhibits a complex spatio-temporal in- teraction. The propogation of traffic flow through a transportation network depends on a number of factors, including the structure of the network ... -
A history of Māori literacy success
(2021)This article explores literacy in 19th century Māori society, and in particular, this work considers the initial interactions Māori tribal groups had with literacy following contact with British settlers. The overarching ... -
Overseas investment through legal, policy and comparative law lenses: An examination of New Zealand’s approach to protecting sensitive land and the interests of future generations including comparisons with Canada and Kuwait
(Kuwait International Law School, 2020)The current entity is the Overseas Investment Office (OIO), which is a regulatory unit within Land Information New Zealand (a government department). The OIO is engaged with “realising the benefits of overseas investment, ... -
Oral Interaction in Technology Education
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter explores perspective of a teacher educator in technology education. It identifies technology education as being very different from educational technology. Technology education is about the informed design and ... -
National Kava Forum Report : Moving kava forward in Australia
(Fair Canberra Inc, 2021)Manikis N, Imran A, Bichard V & Aporosa A (2021) National Kava Forum Report. Fair Canberra Inc Canberra. -
Improving road safety and health: Understanding kava’s impact on driver fitness
(2021)Kava (Piper methysticum) is a traditional and culturally significant Pacific Island beverage that produces soporific relaxant effects. Kava use is increasing in the Pacific islands, and among Pacific diasporic and non-Pacific ... -
TephraNZ: a major- and trace-element reference dataset for glass-shard analyses from prominent Quaternary rhyolitic tephras in New Zealand and implications for correlation
(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2021)Although analyses of tephra-derived glass shards have been undertaken in New Zealand for nearly four decades (pioneered by Paul Froggatt), our study is the first to systematically develop a formal, comprehensive, openaccess ... -
Refugee children and families’ positioning within resettlement and early childhood education policies in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)This paper uses a framing derived from refugee and child rights conventions to analyse the positioning of young refugee children and their families in Aotearoa New Zealand’s resettlement policies, early childhood curriculum ... -
Understanding the potential exposure of coastal marae and urupā in Aotearoa New Zealand to sea level rise
(The University of Waikato, 2021)In Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori are Indigenous and have inhabited these islands for the past 700 years. They have an intricate physical and spiritual connection to places and the environment. This is reflected in the Māori ... -
A mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy - Is there a place in New Zealand?
(The University of Waikato, 2021)It has been nearly a year and a half since COVID-19 emerged in New Zealand. Although New Zealand has been fortunate enough to have little to no active community cases, it is still enduring the effects of COVID-19. The ... -
Goat’s vs cow’s milk consumption: Analysis of feeding behaviour, brain activation and gene expression in laboratory animals
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Milk is a complex and highly nutritive food. In Western societies, cow’s milk (CM) is most commonly consumed, but recent years have generated interest in milk from other species, especially in goat’s milk (GM). Importantly, ... -
Succession of subalpine vegetation to Libocedrus bidwillii forest on a landslide-initiated soil chronosequence, Mount Taranaki, New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 1988)Aspects of succession of subalpine vegetation on Mt Taranaki were examined in a vegetation chronosequence, initiated by four landslides on the same sideslope in 1333-1343 A.D., 1625 A.D., 1811-1817 A.D. and 1968-1971 A.D ... -
Studying and exploiting the relationship between model accuracy and explanation quality
(Springer, 2021)Many explanation methods have been proposed to reveal insights about the internal procedures of black-box models like deep neural networks. Although these methods are able to generate explanations for individual predictions, ... -
Note on random raindrops and sampling error
(IWA Publishing, 1980)A number of variables of interest in precipitation studies can be interpreted as sums of random numbers of random variables, where the summed quantity is a power transformation of raindrop diameter. Included in this category ...
