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A smart autonomous drone for scanning and route discovery
No full textDrones
Current limitations
Proposed smart autonomous drone - SAD
SAD benefits
Conventional drone components
Drone operation structure
Take off/landing
Stabilization
SAD - where from no
Architectural history and sustainable architectural heritage education: Digitalisation of heritage in New Zealand
No full textOver the last few decades, a significant amount of literature on the preservation and adaptive reuse of historical buildings has been published. More recently, the use of digital technologies in heritage projects and academic research has become increasingly topical worldwide. However, the topic of architectural education and the teaching of architectural history in relation to heritage is less discussed. This paper contributes to this relevant and necessary topic that has not received much attention in academia so far and presents a case study—a real-life heritage project to teach architectural history in higher education. The methodology applied in this case study is based on the digital methods of heritage surveying. The paper explains the methodology process and illustrates the key tasks across three project phases of a Scan to BIM/Capture to CAD methodology: methods and activities developed with the students, from building survey, data processing, development of BIM models, etc. The aim of the paper is to analyse the positive contribution for the teaching curriculum and the benefits for community and industry. The paper is a reflective narrative piece and seeks to share useful tools and strategies to make educational use of a heritage building and its resources as one way of teaching architectural history and heritage today
Yttrium-90 based bremsstrahlung Imaging with a solid state detector gamma camera: A first imaging experience with GE-NM CT 850
No full textINTRODUCTION
Yttrium-90 (Y90) is an efficient therapeutic radioisotope for tumour treatment due to its high-energy beta rays. However, due to the vast energy spectra of Y-90, its always been challenging for Y-90 Bremsstrahlung imaging with traditional Phtomultipliar tube-based Anger gamma cameras. In the last few years, the solid-state gamma camera with a Caediumium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystal has changed the imaging experience due to its direct conversions of signals and high signal-to-noise ratio, which produces high spatial and contrast resolution in the images compared to the traditional Anger PMT-based gamma camera. This presentation explained our site’s experience of post-Y90 Bremstrulung imaging, probably the first globally with the general electronics (GE)© NM CT870 model
PASS: Enhancing new students' learning journey at Unitec Institute Technology, New Zealand
No full textAn investigation on social impact performance assessment of the social enterprises : identification of an ideal social entrepreneurship model
No full textThis study examines the characteristics of ideal social entrepreneurship by assessing their social impact. The use of the contemporary design and triangulation approach allows for validating information gathered from different sources. Data were collected from in-depth interviews, focus group interviews and documentary analysis, and MAXQDA (a qualitative analysis software package) was used for data management, coding and retrieval. The performance assessment logic model was used to assess the social performance of social enterprises. The findings show that selected social ventures have created a remarkable social value that explicitly resulted in economic empowerment, community improvement, career growth and political empowerment of its intended beneficiaries. We also found a significant variation in the linkage between social performance indicators, such as inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact, across the five selected case studies
The ambiguous presence of children's mental health in the context of Covid-19 pandemic in early childhood curriculum
No full textIntroduction
What is known so far
Wellbeing in the ECE curriculum
Proposed addition to the ECE curriculum
Conclusion
Reference
Understanding holistic wellbeing through culturally diverse lenses
No full textThis article explores notions of holism and acknowledges that different cultures and societies have a wide range of beliefs of what holism might be, how it is practiced and how it can be supported. Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 2017) is a holistic curriculum in its own right and yet it is important to acknowledge the cultural differences that shape varying forms of holism when working with children and families. Kaiako in Aotearoa are entrusted with fostering the learning and wellbeing of children from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and their openness to the different forms of holism and wellbeing are required to ensure that all voices are heard and that all families can feel supported. The authors recognise the challenges that particularly beginning hanau might face as they navigate a range of holistic health and wellbeing models that families practice and the commitment they have while taking guidance from Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education
Bayesian active noise control
No full textActive Noise Control (ANC) is a challenging practical application of adaptive control systems. This paper approaches ANC from the perspective of the Bayesian Inverse Problems theory. The ANC underlying problem is initially formulated as a generic Bayesian inverse problem. A solution to this problem is then obtained using standard methods in the Bayesian Inverse Problems theory, resulting in a new adaptive algorithm for ANC. The results show the effectiveness of the chosen approach in creating new adaptive algorithms for ANC, one of which is presented in this paper. This algorithm can reach a probabilistic model for the optimal control systems, but conventional algorithms can reach only a deterministic model. Consequently, unlike other algorithms, the proposed algorithm can quantify the uncertainty associated with the adaptive control process in active noise control
Catholic views on assisted dying
No full textRESEARCH QUESTIONS
• How do the religious views of elderly Catholic members of a church community in Auckland influence their thinking about assisted dying?
• How do Catholic elders in a church community in Auckland imagine potential influences on their faith and their identities as Catholics, if assisted dying were to become legalized in New Zealand?
ABSTRACT
This study explores the views of assisted dying of elderly Catholic members of a church community in Auckland, New Zealand, examining how their religious faith and identity shape these views. The dissertation also explores the impact of the legalisation of assisted dying on participants' faith and identities as Catholics. The study employs Talanoa methodology as well as phenomenological research methodology, and it involves nine participants.
Thematic analysis of interview data was utilized to uncover trends in participants' views on assisted dying. The following three key themes were identified: religious beliefs, involvement with the health care of loved ones who were dying, and lack of Catholic Church directives. According to the current study, all nine participants generally oppose assisted dying based on the sanctity of human life; its intentional (human) termination is considered murder according to biblical and Catholic teachings. Participants also identified their core values and faith beliefs that impact their views of assisted dying. Moreover, the results of this study show that assisted dying concerns Catholic participants who are part of communities involved in alternative experiences and practices around death and dying. Palliative care is seen as an alternative to assisted dying in the Catholic Church. This study also uncovered views of assisted dying that vary according to ethnicity.
Surprisingly, five Pacific participants were concerned about palliative care or hospices quietly promoting assisted dying and preferred to die in their homes. Pacific participants also raised concerns about assisted death taking away their cultural practices of death and dying, including expressions of grief, singing, praying, crying and mourning. Pacific participants expressed concern about how such cultural practices are restricted in hospitals or care facilities. On the other hand, three out of the four European participants were more open to palliative care or hospice care because of their experience of loved ones who had died in palliative care. One European participant, already in a retirement home, did not support hospice care.
Assisted dying is a complex problem involving multiple legal, moral, medical and social concerns. As a result, arguments against and in favour of assisted dying are likely to continue to clash for the foreseeable future. To capture and address all of these arguments is beyond the scope of this study
十四世纪至十八世纪进藏西人眼中的藏族音乐与歌舞 =Tibetan music and dance in the eyes of European travelers from the 14th to the 18th century
No full text西人进入藏区早在蒙元时期就已有先例。这些早期的入藏西人或依据 自己在藏区的亲身经历或通过道听途说留下了大量有关藏区政治经济、地理历史、 宗教礼仪、风土人情的通信、笔记、考察报告及研究论著。这些书信和论著中 都或多或少都提及藏族音乐和歌舞习俗，特别是仪式歌舞与乐器。以 14—18 世 纪进入过藏区的几位西人的通信、日记、考察报告为例，检索他们对卫藏方言 区藏族音乐歌舞活动的描述。这些描述虽非民族音乐学意义上的研究，但亦可 弥补中文藏族音乐研究史料之不足，为学界了解域外对西藏音乐的认知过程也 可提供佐