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The Cacophony Project: Moore’s Law for New Zealand’s Birds
Get PDFThe Cacophonator name refers to our rapidly evolving embedded platform. Equipped with a thermal camera, speakers and sensors it is deployed into New Zealand's native bush to automatically lure, identify and eliminate invasive predators. The Cacophonator software is a combination of GO and Python code
Assessing learning outcomes of course descriptors containing object-oriented programming concepts
No full textThis study follows well-published educational criteria for assessing the quality of learning outcomes and investigates how these criteria are applied to descriptors of courses that include object oriented programming concepts. These quality criteria aim to ensure that learning outcomes are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-scaled. The study examined course descriptors from all universities in New Zealand and found a significant gap between the published criteria and the learning outcomes—it is clear that learning outcomes are widely open to interpretation and do not meet the criteria. There is a minimal level of detail provided in these outcomes that are insufficient to satisfy the stated criteria. This study then presents a new and more detailed implementation of outcomes augmented with assessment structure and marking criteria to show that adding more detail significantly increases the complexity of course descriptors. This highlights the need for robust discussions between the writers of course descriptors who look for simplicity and flexibility and quality assessors who expect precision and specifics
Research performance and budget allocations in higher education
No full textNew public management has been applied to higher education with research and teaching affected. This report uses a case study to describe the impact on a higher education institute. Performance and budgets are critiqued using theory
GDPR: Six principles of GDPR
Get PDFGDPR was enacted on 25 May 2018 and has impacted NZ businesses in a big way. The poster presents 6 key principles analyzed from the statues of the regulation for easy consumption of the business owners in NZ.
As a part of limited research done in the last 6 months on Privacy in general and GDPR in particular, we propose to come up with a tool that can assist small or medium businesses in New Zealand towards abiding with GDPR. We plan on incorporating this into existing framework that will form a first step towards GDPR compliance
Sustainable Urban Development: Implementation of Public Bike Sharing System - NZ Case Studies
Get PDFThis study describes research to improve understanding of sustainable urban transport planning from the perspective of the Central Business District (CBD) redevelopment process for two cities, Hamilton and Christchurch in New Zealand. The study was initiated with prioritising the type and location of a public bike sharing system to the existing CBD by attracting more visitors and patrons, which alters major and current urban transport issues. The concern of CBD traffic problems gained a majority among the others. These urban problems were further literature reviewed with other similar sized cities, which have established the ‘Public Bike Share Scheme’ to change CBD users’ travel behaviour. The literature review shows new aspects of the urban transportation network and explains the need for some particular changes in sustainable transport for livable urban life. The different forms of transport modes and urban planning were gathered from looking at the change made by many various cities. A major proportion of ‘Public Bike Share Scheme’ cities is the part of Europe territory, as the reason implies limited modal accessibility but higher population density in urban CBD. This scenario is somehow similar to NZ’s two cities as the city’s population is on the increase in proportion to the land size. Such studies, despite their importance, are relatively scarce due to issues related to data collection and confidentiality of personal information from taking part in such studies. To achieve the objective, the study uses the Logistic Regression modelling, which postulates that CBD patrons’ travel behaviour depends on two components: 1) some observable attributes, such as walking distance, service fares and bike availability; and 2) unobserved heterogeneity such as gender, income and education. The latter is taken into account by characteristics of respondents such as gender, income, education, and use of mode to travel. In this study, multinomial logit (MNL) and mixed logit (ML) models were used to calculate the base mode shares, and subsequently, to test various hypothetical policy options for promoting greater use of bike sharing system and public transport. The data were gathered using stated preference surveys from 486 New Zealander resided on two cities. Furthermore, as each participant evaluated eight choice scenarios, the data set contains 3,888 choice records. The results of the modelling allow policymakers to design more appropriate strategies and policies for different segments of the population to improve an urban CBD and to attract urban CBD. The modelling results also indicate that the potential improvement in a modal shift, which can be achieved by applying different policy options, varies with both walking distance, service fares and availability of new public transport service. Furthermore, in order to promote sustainable mobility in developing urban CBD, one policy would be to increase the connectivity of public transport services
Nurse-identified patient care and health services research priorities in the United Arab Emirates: a Delphi study
Get PDFBackground: The need for improved research on ill health has been recognized internationally and locally in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE Nursing and Midwifery Council recently committed to enhancing the status
and contributions of nursing in healthcare research across the UAE by establishing a National Committee for
Research Development. This study using a Delphi method to identify research priorities from the perspective of
nurses delivering frontline healthcare.
Methods: A two-phase Delphi design was implemented with 1032 nurses participating in phase one of the study
and 1339 in phase two.
Results: The most important priority was patient safety and healthcare professionals’ awareness of international
patient safety goals (including staffing levels and shift length) and potential effects on patient safety. Other
important priorities were infection control practices and management of communicable diseases.
Conclusions: These priorities may inform nursing research programs to improve patient care and health outcomes
in the UAE and similar contexts worldwide
A critical challenge for the extractive industry: Tourism as a new frontier for sustainability
No full textSustainability has been resonating within the business community and academia. Indeed, it has progressed from being an ideology to a technique that adds to the triple bottom line. Given that the new contract is driven by global competition, several companies are striving to take advantage of the current narrative in their drive toward innovation. Most importantly, the expansion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) frontier is driving the discourse on sustainability, thus, leaving business with limited options. Therefore, sustainability is no longer optional especially for industries, whose activities directly affect people and planet. Arguably, the more directly a company’s activities affect people, the more like the come into direct contact with society. The implication is that the run the risk of being confronted by members of society especially rights groups and activists. This paper aims to demonstrate the author’s curiosity to investigate the extractive industry’s approach to sustainability in its operations. It also examines the extant practices of the extractive industry, which have direct links to sustainability. The paper reviews the existing literature relating to sustainability and production in the selected industry. Essentially, it discusses the level of acceptance of sustainability in the extractive industry, particularly in the less-developed world. This has exposed gaps, which will require policy overhaul and reorientation. Findings demonstrate a correlation between institutional environment and sustainability consciousness. Recommendation focuses on social, economic, political, and technological perspectives. These factors have been found to influence the level of adoption of sustainability by companies. This paper serves as a precursor to a proposed qualitative research project, which will adopt a comparative approach to review the sustainability practices of two companies, based in New Zealand and Nigeria. The author’s main goal is to publish a working document from the proposed research
An instrumental voyage: Pae Tawhiti, Pae Tata
No full textAN INSTRUMENTAL VOYAGE
Pae Tawhiti, Pae Tata
This work, created as part of the Tuia 250 projects, represents an abstract
interpretation of our history as a nation and the interweaving between two
cultures. Compositionally based upon the title of “An Instrumental Voyage”, this project sees the continued development and exploration of a creative partnership between Horomona Horo and myself. This collaboration is a creative conversation between styles, sounds and space.
“An Instrumental Voyage” tells a story, but ultimate leaves us working towards an aspirational future where we can build together towards a new future. The subtitle 'Pae Tawhiti, Pae Tata' talks about reaching for distant goals, by making a journey of individual steps - this is how we interpret an instrumental voyage.
Composed for the NZSO.
Approx 55mins
for orchestra, voices and taonga puor
Interwoven Threads (Nga Aho Tuituia): DMPA
No full textDr. Mesmer’s Multimedia Ensemble is a live performance group who specialise in creating transcendental experiences for the eyes and ears. Utilising a broad array of sonic textures, which are paired with real-time visual elements, the ensemble presents an experience unlike anything else. Everything is created live as you watch and listen, each performance is unique and never to be repeated. We excel in real-time creation with an audio-visual approach that really exists in the colour of sound. This is caught in the magic of the moment where, inspired by space and time, fleeting ideas can create new compositions based around musical fragments and field recordings, paired with live visual art (with projection mapping). The ensemble includes Dr. Jeremy Mayall (keyboard/electronics), Kent Macpherson (guitar/electronics), Paul
Bradley (live projection art), and Horomona Horo (taonga puoro - traditional Maori musical instruments).
World Premiere - approx 60mins
Multimedia Performanc
Searching for a Waikato Regionalism
Get PDFExhibition review of my solo exhibition at RAMP Gallery, Hamilton October 2019