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Key Note Speaker: Wiri Prison- Transforming Maori experiences of Historical Intergenerational trauma
Get PDFThis presentation examines Māori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma or HIT, and colonisation. It draws upon personal experiences by locating self in research and offers a micro view contextualising how historical events may impact at a personal level. It also draws attention to how those impacts have the potential for manifesting deficit outcomes. The final frame is solution focused, and draws attention to strategies that respond to Māori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma. Essentiall
A Linear Model for Energy-Aware Scheduling Problem Considering Interference in Real-time Wireless Sensor Networks
No full textAn important factor in increasing quality of service in real-time wireless networks is minimizing energy consumption, which contradicts with increasing message delivery rate because of associating a time deadline to each message. In these networks, every message has a time deadline constraint and when the message is not delivered to its destination before its deadline, it will drop. Therefore, scheduling methods that simultaneously consider both energy consumption and time deadline constraint are needed. An effective method for reducing energy consumption is multi-hop transmission of packets. However, this method takes longer time for transmission as compared to single-hop transmission. Parallel transmission is another approach which on one hand reduces the transmission time and on the other hand increases the network throughput. However, a main issue with parallel transmission is the presence of interference among nearby nodes. In this paper, we propose a linear model (ILP formulation) for energy aware scheduling problem in real-time wireless sensor networks using parallel transmission. The main objective of the model is to reduce energy consumption and packet loss using multi-hop routing and parallel transmission. Simulation results show that the proposed model finds the optimum solution for the problem and outperforms the sequential scheduling based on the TDMA protocol
The Recursively Generative Nature of Complex Agri- Eco-Socio-Technical Systems
Get PDFFarming procedures have intensified to the point where they significantly impact on the environment, the social fabric of the communities involved and the political and financial stability of regions. Traditional design procedures do not take the recursive and adaptive nature of these systems fully into account. The author starts from the premise that the feedback loop and recursive causal nature inherent to agri-eco-socio- technical systems make them inherently wicked1. The design of a low carbon footprint farm takes this into account and uses a transdisciplinary approach to consider the solutions from a broad stakeholder group. An initial solution design is presented that shows how the problem was structured and what factors were considered for a model based approach
L.O.Q.Shun - Delete TV - International video art and experimental films event 2016
No full text2015 | 04:00 | HD Video | 16:9 | Stereo | Director: Dan Inglis | Music: Jeremy Mayall | Soprano: Julia Booth
An experimental digital collage film exploring ideas of communication and comprehension.
Based around text from a nineteenth century elocution manual by A. M. Bell. With music by Jeremy Mayall and soprano Julia Booth.
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“Big brains” and the modernisation of Child, Youth and Family
No full textCommentary on the proposed modernisation of the child protection system in Aotearoa New Zealan
Data Mining Techniques to Diagnose Diabetes Using Blood Lipids
No full textIntroduction: Nowadays, diabetic disease is one of the most common, dangerous and costly diseases in the world spreading rapidly. Data mining techniques can be used for early diagnosis of this disease which results in preventing a lot of problems for patients including heart diseases, vision problems and kidney disorders.
Matherials & methods: In this research, the Rapid Miner software has been used as a modeling tool to classify each patient as either diabetic or non-diabetic. The data set of this research has been collected from the database of one lab in Nahavand which includes the information of 5706 patients in a five years period from 2009 to 2013. The data set includes such information about patients as: age, gender, the level of lipid in the blood and the amount of fasting blood sugar.
Findings: After modeling with different classification techniques, the best accuracy achieved from the decision tree c4.5 which was 90.02%.
Discussion & Conclusion: For early diagnosis of diabetes in many countries around the world many techniques have been proposed using a variety of methods and variables. In the current research, using the relationship between blood lipids and fasting blood sugar, a method based on data mining techniques for diagnosing diabetes has been proposed
Social and Affordable Housing in Thames-Coromandel District
Get PDFA commissioned report into housing needs of the Thames Coromandel region. Prepared as part of a Research Office Voucher Project. The report examines housing conditions, as well as particularly vulnerable groups in the region in relation to housing
Reconstructing miscommunications for the language classroom
Get PDFMiscommunications appear to offer powerful L2 learning opportunities. In particular, they often arouse emotions that facilitate event recall, and may motivate learners by providing implicit evidence of the communicative
importance and personal relevance of underlying language features. This article reports on a pedagogical approach to utilizing learners’ miscommunications, and illustrates how communicative problems can become the basis of effective micro-lessons that highlight the often complex ways in which elements of the language system combine to create meaning. Miscommunication also provides a suitable platform to introduce the mechanisms of repair, through which learners can better manage communicative difficulties. Suggestions are made for how to establish a miscommunication focus in lessons
Reuben Paterson
Get PDFEssay commissioned but not used for exhibition at Calder & Lawson Gallery, Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato
Social work and social media in Aotearoa New Zealand: Forging new boundaries
Get PDFSocial work and social media in Aotearoa New Zealand: Forging new boundaries
The realities of social media demand the attention of social workers all over the world - both because of its significant impact on local societies, and on social justice issues associated with the global digital divide. Competence to engage in social media has arguably become the imperative of all professions however it is put forward that the social work profession should be more highly engaged in media activities given its principles of social justice and commitment to social change - activities which require an expertise in networking, communication skills and “media consciousness” (Briar-Lawson et al, 2011).This imperative has led to the development of tertiary inter-professional learning opportunities with journalism and social work students (Gelman and Tosone, 2010; LaLiberte at al, 2011), managing professional boundaries and leading to the notion of collaborative practice between social workers and journalists (Stanfield and Beddoe, 2013).
This thinking also extends to the close link between ‘the media’ and ‘social media’ in the social work context. Social media has created the capacity for non-journalists to disseminate news, has changed the way journalists gather and report on news events and has affected how news is consumed and shared between people. Studies show that those who use social media as a news source are increasingly more interested in the views and “media analysis” of their personal networks, rather than what was traditionally offered by journalists. This suggests that “hierarchical relationships between mass media consumers and producers of media content are being further unravelled” (Hermida et al, 2012, p. 816). This reality offers social workers an opportunity to forge a new boundary between themselves and traditional media; as “citizen journalists” new means by which to pursue social justice are available.
This global backdrop has led to a small Aotearoa New Zealand based study which asks how social workers in this country approach social media professionally; the initial themes emerging from the preliminary analysis of its data will be offered in this presentation. The data collected from New Zealand social workers via both quantitative questionnaires and key informant interviews has generated a diverse set of themes spanning social work identity, competence, capacity and the navigation of personal and professional boundaries. A wide spectrum of opinion is offered about the relevance of social media to the profession, varying levels of confidence and competence in its use, and thoughts about the unique influence New Zealand culture has on the professional use of social media. The results also offer an intriguing selection of metaphors that describe the relationship social workers have with social media.
This presentation of this ongoing piece of work will highlight implications for social work education, for boundaries between research and practice and will describe an emerging identity of social work in the context of the New Zealand social media landscape.
References
Briar-Lawson, K., Martinson, K., Briar-Bonpane, J., & Zox, K. (2011). Child welfare, the media, and capacity building. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 5(2/3), 185-199. doi: 10.1080/15548732.2011.566754
Gelman, C. R., & Tosone, C. (2010). Teaching Social Workers to Harness Technology and Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration for Community Service. British Journal of Social Work, 40(1), 226-238.
Hermida, A., Fletcher, F., Korell, D., & Logan, D. (2012). SHARE, LIKE, RECOMMEND. Journalism Studies, 13(5-6), 815-824. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2012.664430
LaLiberte, T., Larson, A., & Johnston, N. (2011). Child welfare and media: teaching students to be advocates. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 5(2/3), 200-212. doi: 10.1080/15548732.2011.566757
Stanfield, D., & Beddoe, E. (2014). Social work and the media: A collaborative challenge. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 25(4)