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Remote sensing dataset for detecting cows from high resolution aerial images
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Total number of images: 655.
Total number of cows: 29803.
Images: Aerial RGB images with spatial resolution of 0.1m. 500 x 500 pixels corresponding to 50m x 50m.
Label: point annotation of each visible cattle in the image.
Image Sources: Land Information New Zealand 2016-2017
https://zenodo.org/record/590886
Matters of matter in contemporary art
Full text linkDoes the Anthropocene offer an opportunity to shift ontological assumptions about the material world towards a new materialist way of thinking about matter and processes of materialisation and how can contemporary art contribute to this reconceptualization
“I’m a Little Black Boy and I Don’t Know My Place”: Phil Lynott and the Black Atlantic
No full textThis essay uses Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic to examine Phil Lynott, of ’70s Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. Lynott’s “mixed” lineage (half Caribbean black, half Irish) relates to Gilroy’s black diaspora in terms of parentage and popular music the latter being central to Gilroy’s argument about the articulation of black experience of trauma and dislocation in creative and other forms
What motivates people to start a graduate entry nursing programme: An interpretive multi-centred case study.
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Introduction: While graduate entry nursing programmes are well established in the United Kingdom and the United States of America (USA), they are relatively new to New Zealand and Australia. These programmes have been developed to meet the demands of the health workforce and provide graduates an alternative pathway to becoming a RN. Nursing is viewed as an attractive career option for this growing market of graduate entry students.
Objective: This study explored the motivations underpinning students choosing a graduate entry MNSc degree over a traditional undergraduate nursing programme.
Methods: A qualitative, longitudinal single case study design, informed by Yin was used. The first phase of the study is reported here. All students commencing a MNSc degree at the beginning of 2020 across four education providers (3 in New Zealand & 1 in Australia) were eligible to take part in the study. Ten students agreed to take part and undertake an interview. Braun and Clarke’s approach to thematic analysis was used to analyse the interview data.
Results: Three key themes of motivation were identified from the data: the attraction of nursing; the clarity nursing offers in terms of career progression; and the design of the intensive programme.
Conclusions: The motivations to choose a MNSc degree were deeply considered, multifaceted, and influenced by nursing role models. Students wanting to engage with a graduate entry MNSc programme did so through a reflective process of assessing their current career status and future career values. Participants in this study believed nursing would provide a secure and sustainable career path, potentially creating new horizons or possibilities beyond their previous work and life experiences. Having insight into what motivates individuals to enrol in such programmes may assist both education providers and the health sector with RN graduate recruitment and graduate entry programme enrolment
Exploring the experiences and perceptions of students in a graduate entry nursing programme: A qualitative meta-synthesis
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Background
Students commencing graduate entry fast-tracked nursing programmes leading to registration are highly motivated and characterised by rich life experiences. Given their unique motivations and characteristics, gaining insight into their experiences of graduate entry programmes will inform strategic directions in education.
Objective
To synthesise graduate entry nursing students’ self-reported experiences and perceptions of their accelerated programme.
Design
Qualitative meta-synthesis.
Data sources
Databases included Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Emcare, Education Resources Information Centre, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Psychological Information and Scopus. Qualitative studies published in English and reporting primary data analysis including experiences and perceptions of graduate entry nursing students were considered.
Review methods
Qualitative studies were systematically identified and critically appraised. The meta-synthesis used an open card sort technique to organise data into a matrix of graduate entry nursing students’ experiences and perceptions.
Results
Fourteen studies were included. The analysis revealed three primary themes: what I bring and what I come with, developing a sense of self and nursing self, and what I need. Within these themes we found potential enablers of student success in learning; space, working together, and balancing work and life and learning to bridge two worlds. Students reflected on the benefits of academic support and shared their experiences of learning in clinical placement. In addition, students acknowledged the importance of clinical educators and preceptors who provided bridging that was further scaffolded by simulated learning experiences.
Conclusions
Findings indicate graduate entry nursing students have important needs and expectations of support in transition. The experiences and perceptions of graduate entry nursing students differentiated into what students arrived with, what support they need in their journey to become a nurse, alongside their experience of building a sense of self and their nursing self
Designing a research project that meets industry-defined student learning outcomes
Full text linkWe investigated how research project objectives my be integrated into student projects and how student projects may be aligned to the broader institutional goal of sustainability. The engineering standard and quality of products are seen as the factor by which success is measured. However, an individual Engineer's success in the workplace just as frequently depends on their mastery of "soft skills", such as teamwork, flexibility, professionalism and leadership, since few industrial Engineering projects are completed by a single person working on their own. Therefore, industry has placed increased emphasis on developing these skills, especially in an environment of global competition
Paced to perfection: Exploring the potential impact of WaveLight Technology in athletics
Full text linkAthletics is in the midst of a technological revolution, which has had a major impact on endurance running performance. Since 2016, most men’s and women’s world records, from the 5000 m to the Marathon have been broken, while the all-time list of fastest performances has been recalibrated. While much emphasis has been placed on the introduction of the so-called ‘super-shoe’ technology, other innovations may have contributed to these improvements. For instance, when Eliud Kipchoge completed the marathon in under 2-hours in 2019, his race-kit and the course were carefully designed (i.e., long-straight sections and minimal undulations/ curves), but a lesser appreciated innovation was the pacing device that was used. The use of pacing lights represented a key factor in Kipchoge’s performance, and this approach to pacing was translated to international track athletics during 2020. This translation of technology coincided with world record performances in the Men’s 5000 m and 10000 m, and the Women’s 5000 m
Sustainable Technologies to improve Indoor Air Quality in a Residential House – a Case Study in Waikato, New Zealand- Q1 - Impact Factor = 5.879
No full textMany New Zealand residential homes suffer from poor indoor air quality (IAQ). Cold, damp and mould-ridden homes can cause severe respiratory health problems. Poor IAQ can arise due to inadequate insulation and ventilation and is compounded when dwellers cannot afford to heat their homes during colder months. Grandfathering of standards means many New Zealand houses have single glazed windows and insufficient or no wall insulation. These have become mandatory for newly built houses since 2016 under the New Zealand Standard NZS4246:2016 Energy Efficiency. This paper aims to present the results of modified ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) lights-dehumidifier coupled with two different types of filters (carbon-fibre or polyester). The modified devices were designed to improve ambient air temperature by removing moisture, particulate matter and reducing mould and bacteria growth in a room. Seven different scenarios were investigated, which include combinations of UV light and filtration. The results showed that the UVGI was superior to filtration only; however, the polyester filter with UV lights (PFUV) was the most effective configuration. The PFUV effectively impeded the mould growth, with a 13.3% reduction in relative humidity and a 4.1°C increase in the room temperature in the absence of a heating source. The results showed good potential for improving the IAQ of buildings
“And the world will be as one” - John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Nutopia
No full textIn 1973, John Lennon was fighting deportation from the US by a Nixon administration that deplored his anti-government activities, when he and his wife Yoko Ono came up with the concept of Nutopia, an imaginary state with no borders or laws, to publicise his plight. So was Nutopia the last breath of the hippie dream, a final attempt to “get back to the garden” as Joni Mitchell put it, or rich cosmopolitans’ presumption that they should be free to move wherever they pleased? In this essay I will briefly review strains of utopian thought in the 1960s counterculture, examples of micronations from that period and Lennon, Ono and the Beatles’ own history of associations with micronations, islands and alternative communities, in life and art, to argue that for Lennon at any rate, they filled a deep seated need to belong, without necessarily recognizing corresponding obligations to his compatriots
Aligning research objectives with student learning outcomes and sustainability objectives in student engineering development project
No full textTo generate student projects that effectively inform tasks on a main project (MP), and enable students to participate in the development of a solution to a problem that affects user satisfaction with renewable energy solutions. This research contains a reflection on the mapping of project’s requirements to learning outcomes of the engineering development project (EDP) paper. Alignment to the goals and learning outcomes of the course will be discussed as well as broader implications for service learning and the potential for the project to be adapted to meet broader institutional objectives such as sustainability will be presented.
In conclusion, this paper describes the mapping of the
graduate attributes and the learning outcomes in student
projects to objectives of the MP, reflects on the achievement of these learning outcomes in the context of a project that fully explores all of them, and describes the service-learning potential for this type of student project