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A machine for living #1 & #2
Get PDFWintec School of Media Arts lecturers and their counterparts, artists from Xi’an Art Museum in Xi’an, mainland China, have built close artistic relationships. This exhibition is a result of their long-distance communications. Here their works converse with the audience and with each other. Throughout the course of the exhibition, it is hoped that they will build a new international community within their show and with the audience.
Mark Purdom's work 'A Machine for Living #1 & #2' is part of a series looking at the symbiotic ecological relationships that exist in nature, which are also mimicked by modern farming strategies
The education and practice gap of accounting
No full textEducators nowadays may equip students for jobs that will not exist in the future (Shusterman, 2015) or jobs that do not exist yet. Many students face confession after graduating from tertiary education. Not knowing what to expect, wondering if they can use what they learn from school at work (Elmes, 2017). This paper aims to gather the opinion of accounting students regarding what they think are the demanded skills to get an accounting job after the completion of education. After reviewing the literature, a questionnaire was produced and sent to students at a tertiary institute to gain their opinion. Results were then compared to the skills required in practice by employers when recruiting. The key findings this study obtained were that there is a gap between what soft skills students think is important for an accounting position compared to that of practitioners’ view as stated by other researchers. Results indicate there is little difference of required hard skills (accounting techniques) from view points of students and professionals. Further studies should be done with larger samples to generalise more widely. Recommendations are that tertiary schools can partner with local business and accounting firms to provide internship program for all accounting major students. Also students should communicate with other accounting students, possible seniors or past students to gain their thoughts on what is currently lacking in the school education
Spacetime (continuum) - 2018 Wallace Art Awards
No full textSpacetime (continuum)
Finalist in the 2018 Wallace Art Awards. This is the largest annual art award in NZ. The annual Wallace Art Awards profile outstanding examples of contemporary New Zealand art.
Spacetime (continuum)
a personal infinity space for contemplation
Chamber, mirrors, light and sound
This space lets you leave your body in the physical world, and transport your head somewhere else. Through the creation of an infinity space, one can look forward and backwards into an endless space - perhaps a vision for the future and the past simultaneously.
When paired with lights and sound the effect of synchresis is explored - a situation where one makes connections between the things we see and the things we hear - even if those things aren’t specifically linked.
This space utilises rhythms and gestures as both ways of structuring sound and light, so that one can become lost or possibly overwhelmed by the experience in the space
Phyver vs. stardust: Where waveforms collide
No full textSelected for Hamilton Fringe Festival 2018.
Performance at The Meteor Theatre.
A live experimental music performance utilising DIY soundwave generators as source material to be manipulated through old and new transformative technologies. These two sound-poets have long been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the mind. Starting with subtle frozen forms, the textures soon become manipulated into a carnival of futility, thus providing a clue to the limits of our existence
Exercise management For people with Meardle disease: A pilot case study
Get PDFKaur, P; Longhurst, G
Waikato Institute of Technology
Background: This is a case study of a 61 year old male who has been diagnosed l,vith McArdle disease 5 years ago. The cardinal signs and symptoms are inclusive of activity intolerance, early fatigue and second wind phenomenon. Purpose: The Purpose of this study is to implement an intervention strategy for clients with McArdle*s disease. Methods: A six weeks protocol included an initial baseline functional assessment for the client prior to exercise session. The exercise session was inclusive of a 7-10 minutes of warm up; 20-30 minutes of cardiovascular and resistance training followed by a 10 minutes of cool dm,vn phase. There were two supervised sessions per week. After 10 sessions of exercise protocol functional assessment was repeated and results noted, The client was allowed proper rest periods during the exercise session. Results: Post intervention the functional assessment was repeated. There was significant improvement in agility, muscular strength muscular endurance, balance, flexibility of upper body and aerobic capacity of the client. Client also reduced weight and waist girth. Overall improvement resulted in gaining confidence for the client, Discussion: The exercise induced response is due to the main energy substrate that has no dependence on muscle glycogen deposits. Conclusion: We put forward an exercise regime to Increase physical activity and quality of life in people suffering from this condition. Low muscle mass and strength levels lead to comprised cardiometabolic phenotype. Hence, exercise-induced hypertrophy is an attainable goal in McArdIe's patients
Facilitating reflective learning through ePortfolios: Students, teacher and eDesigner reflections
Get PDFFacilitating reflective learning through ePortfolios: Students, Teacher & eDesigner reflections
The increased use of technology to enhance education has led to a prevalence in the inclusion of online learning systems and tools. Underpinning this use of technology is the need to develop twenty first century digitally literate students and educators who are able to be more flexible and have a greater diversity of skill sets. One of the current tools used to support a range of learning objectives is the ePortfolio. Most research to date related to the use of the ePortfolio as an assessment tool at tertiary level, has been carried out in mainstream courses (see Hubert; Robert & Wu (2012) and Mason, Regler & Weller, 2004). The pilot study reported on in this presentation was conducted in a third-year undergraduate degree-bearing English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. The research utilised a socio-cultural theoretical approach aimed at incorporating ePortfolios to facilitate integrated learning, collaboration and reflection within the EAP tertiary context and offer new insights into the use of the ePortfolio. This paper mainly reports on the reflection component of the research
Shepherd: Sound design
No full textSound design of the feature film
'Shepherd' - a film by Julia Reynolds.
The Green family, travelling home to Earth encounter a phenomenon. The star system disappears leaving them without navigation. A light appears and 13 year old Eden Green believes this light will lead them home. With options running out, Eden’s parents release the cargo and set a course to follow the light.
However, back on Earth, no record of the stars disappearing exists – Her parents are convicted of treason. Years later, Eden stumbles on an old travel brochure. She is stunned to see an image of a beach - a location she has seen in a recurring dream. She leaves her life and ventures out to find this beach. The journey is fraught with isolation and self-doubt. Eden returns to her past, her memories and follows what she has always been given - the guide
East meets West: Evaluating a professional development programme for Chinese nurses in New Zealand
Get PDFThis paper is a report of an evaluation study to look at the effectiveness of a nursing training programme provided by one of the tertiary institutions in New Zealand. The purpose of the programme was to provide education to international nurses in order to promote their professional development through expanding their overseas training experiences
Comparing the effect of task-oriented intervention program vs. strength training program in improving motor proficiency in children aged 8-12 years with developmental coordination disorder (DCD): A randomized controlled pilot study
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Background: Despite the fairly high prevalence of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) among children (5-6% of school population), existing research and therapeutic practice lack rigorously conducted, randomised controlled studies that could be instrumental in finding the most effective intervention programs as judged by improvements of various facets of patients’ motor proficiency, their physiological status, and adherence rates.
Purpose: This study sought to compare the outcomes of task-oriented and strength training exercise intervention programs in terms of improving motor proficiency as well as the levels of enjoyment and compliancy to treatment among children with DCD.
Design: Randomized controlled pilot trial.
Methods: Eighteen children aged 8-12 years diagnosed with DCD were randomly assigned to the task-oriented exercise program (n=9) or strength training program (n=9). Children were assessed using the Developmental Coordination Questionnaire and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, as well as a battery of self-reported measures of enjoyment and the level of parental encouragement needed. Intervention consisted of 8-week exercise physiologist-led individual or group exercise sessions held once a week plus a series of home exercise program.
Analysis: A series of one-way ANOVAs and paired t-tests were used to investigate the within-group and between-group effects of the two programs. Multiple linear regressions were run to test whether and which contextual and child-related characteristics affected the treatment success.
Results: Both programs have led to statistically significant improvements in terms of children’s motor proficiency as measured by total score (p<.001 for both groups), manual dexterity (p=.004 and p=.001 in the task-oriented and strength-training groups, respectively), ball skills (p<.001 in the in the task-oriented group), and balance (p<.001 and p<.01). The group allocation did not influence the post-treatment results. No statistically significant differences were found between the two programs in terms of enjoyment and encouragement levels