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That Bloody Woman
No full textThat Bloody Woman, dir. Kyle Chuen and Courteney Mayall, music dir. Nick Braae
The Meteor Theatre
26 Aug - 3 Sep 202
Shrek: The Musical
No full textMusical director for national tour of Shrek: The Musical (Showcase Entertainment Group)
Auckland – 12-16 July 2022
Hamilton – 19-23 July 2022
Christchurch – 4-8 October 2022
Wellington – 12-16 October 202
Reorienting Bergson’s duration towards contemporary art practice
Full text linkIn this thesis I will examine Bergson's philosophy of Durée, Intuition and Movement as it relates to art, considering why Bergson's ideas were so important to the Avant-Garde at the turn of the twentieth century, and how these ideas can be reoriented toward contemporary art practice, drawing upon the work of multimedia artist William Kentridge and abstract painter Ed Clark
Fabrication of titanium coatings for medical device applications
Full text linkTitanium is widely used for medical purposes. It related to bone repair because of its favorable mechanical properties and biocompatible ability to osseointegrate in host bone tissue. A good and lasting connection of the implant with the bone tissue is possible when there are sufficient
conditions for the bone to grow into the pores of the material, therefore the use of a porous titanium
coating may be helpful in solving this problem. In this paper, shrouded plasma spray is used to produce low oxide containing titanium coatings and lower the cost as titanium is a very reactive metal at high temperatures. A solid conical shroud was designed for plasma spray. The titanium coatings were assessed by scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. An analysis in microstructure had been carried out. The results showed that the shroud attachment played an important role in protecting the titanium particles in flight during the process of plasma spraying.
An enhanced microstructure with moderate porosity in the titanium coatings plasma sprayed with the shroud was observed. The reduction in air entrainment with the shroud resulted in a good heating of the particles. The plasma-sprayed titanium coating was mainly composed of α-Ti with a low quantity of TiO
A COVID-19 Rapid Response: Evaluating an interRAI telehealth placement for final year nursing students
Full text linkThis research study evaluates a novel ‘telehealth’ clinical placement undertaken by final-year Wintec Bachelor of Nursing students in 2020. These students, after training from the appropriate organisations, contacted and undertook health and wellbeing assessments for ‘at-risk’ older people across the Waikato Region during the national COVID-19 lockdown. This represented the first example of telehealth approved by the Nursing Council of New Zealand as a student clinical experience.
Results reveal several key themes highlighting the importance and lessons from this initiative, including tackling COVID-19; implementation requirements; nursing competencies; provider relationships, and community insights. More broadly, they demonstrate the viability and importance of telehealth placements in nursing programmes and provide learnings for those seeking to replicate such placements, especially in the context of constrained health systems growing health challenges
Sampling and the performance of knowledge - one bird at a time
No full textOur submission includes documentation of a multimedia artwork with an accompanying commentary that explores overlaps between bird calls and human music genres.
A characteristic of our current relation to birds is their growing unavailability due to the degradation of ecosystems and threats from predators. Taking our cue from birds inhabiting the coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand, musician Matthew Bannister and I ask how we might communicate and cooperate with these precious taonga.
Bird vocalisation is a performed negotiation that effectively says “Come here” or “Go away”, which arguably can be true of music – marking a social space and time to invite or repel. Rather than limiting bird calls to functionalist categories of explanation, we use the technique of granular time-stretching, to analyse/experience the inner timbre of bird vocalisation and the rhythmic patterns of their calls. As a result sound samples are composed through the voice of the bird, becoming a human response to the ‘other’ in jointly formed compositions, reflecting an evolving relationship between composer and the bird.
We also apply an electroacoustic composition technique (granular synthesis), to a video portrait of performer/composer and bird. Granular synthesis is a sampling method by which sounds are broken into tiny grains, redistributed and reorganised to form other sounds. Normally applied only to audio signals, this technique can be used to reshape video signals into video grains – repositioning time and space within the video sequence. As tiny units of image and sound, performer and bird are stretched, pushed, pulled and held, articulating the limits of space/territory, while finding a way to be heard within it
Robust composite temperature control of electrical tube furnaces by using disturbance observer
No full textAs one type of resistance furnace, the electrical tube furnace (ETF) typically experiences input noise, measurement noise, system uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances, which significantly degrade its temperature control performance. To provide precise, and robust temperature tracking performance for the ETF, a robust composite control (RCC) method is proposed in this paper. The overall RCC method consists of four elements: First, the mathematical model of the ETF system is deduced, then a state feedback control (SFC) is constructed. Third, a novel disturbance observer (DO) is designed to estimate the lumped disturbance with one observer parameter. Moreover, the stability of the closed loop system including controller and observer dynamics is also analyzed by using the Lyapunov theory. Finally, numerical simulations are performed on the plant model of the ETF to demonstrate the efficiency and capabilities of the proposed control method
Application of pure titanium coatings for medical purposes
Full text linkTitanium is a mature material for medical purposes due to its excellent compatibility with the human body.
Furthermore, titanium is extremely resistant to corrosion from body fluids, and is compatible with bone and living
tissue. Meanwhile, titanium has a relatively low modulus of elasticity, which reduces the differences in stiffness
between the human bone and the implant. This is important to the traditional application of titanium alloys as hip
implants and knee joints, but also to bone fracture plates and screws. A good and lasting connection of the implant
with the bone tissue is possible when there are sufficient conditions for the bone to grow into the pores of the
material. Therefore, the use of a porous implant with titanium coating may be helpful in solving this problem.
In this paper, shrouded plasma spray was used to lower the cost and produced low oxide containing titanium
coatings as titanium is a very reactive metal at high temperatures. A solid conical shroud was designed for plasma
spray. The titanium powders and coatings were assessed by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and
optical microscopy. An analysis in microstructure had been carried out, as shown in figure1-3. The results showed
that the shroud attachment played an important role in protecting the titanium particles from oxidation in flight
during the process of plasma spraying. An enhanced microstructure in the titanium coatings plasma sprayed with
the shroud were observed, as indicated in figure 2. The reduction in air entrainment with the shroud resulted in
better heating of the particles and increased in deposition efficiency and coating thickness. The dominant phase in
the titanium coating with the shroud was α-Ti, as presented in figure 3
A novel early warning system (EWS) for water quality, integrating a high-frequency monitoring database with efficient data quality control technology at a large and deep lake (Lake Qiandao), China
Full text linkTo assess water quality (WQ) online for assuring the safety of drinking water, a novel early warning system integrating a high-frequency monitoring system (HFMS) and data quality
control (QC) was developed at Lake Qiandao. The HFMS was designed for monitoring water quality, nutrient inputs by main tributaries, water currents and meteorology at different sites at Lake Qiandao. The EWS focused on data availability, a QC method, a statistical analysis method
and data applications instead of technological aspects for sondes, wireless data transfer and interface software development. QC was implemented before use to delete the abnormal values of outliers, to detect change points, to analyse the change trend, to interpolate discrete missing
measurements, and find continuous missing or wrong observations caused by technical problems with the sonde. For demonstrating advantages and data availability, surface and profiling measurements at two sites were plotted. The plots show obvious seasonal and diel variations,
demonstrating the success of integration of the system with advanced automated technology and good QC. This successfully developed system is now not only giving early warning signals, but also providing critical WQ information for the security of drinking water diverted to Hangzhou city
through a tunnel of 110 km length. The automatic monitoring data with QC is also being used to produce initial conditions for WQ prediction based on a three dimensional hydrodynamicecosystem model
CEID Research Symposium 2022 Abstract Booklet
Full text linkKia ora koutou and welcome. This booklet contains the abstracts presented at the 2022 CEID Research Symposium. This event has been revived after a lapse of several years. Research in CEID encompasses a variety of disciplines such as:
• Engineering education
• Electrical engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Civil engineering
Applied research and cross-disciplinary research is encouraged in CEID. Technology and innovation is one of the major themes (e.g. sports engineering, biomedical, electrical power, materials, robotics and automation). In addition to this, sustainability and environmental issues are important to CEID research. This is reflected in the symposium abstracts.
The aim of the symposium is to promote the sharing of research ideas and progress in a “friendly” environment. It also informs the Research Leader, Team Manager, and Centre/Group Director of research progress within the centre. It is anticipated that researchers will expand their abstracts into conference/journal papers in due course