• Numerical analysis tools for modelling reinforced concrete shearwall buildings subjected to earthquake loading. 

  Zhang, Lei (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  When it comes to resist lateral loads, shear wall is a preferred structure form. There are two main categories of finite elements to model seismic reposes of reinforced concrete shear walls, namely the microscopic and ...

• Capacity of Infusion Lines for Insulin Adsorption: Effect of Flow Rate on Total Adsorption 

  Knopp, Jennifer L.; Bishop, Kaia; Lerios, T.; Chase, J.G. (SAGE Publications, 2019)

  © 2019 Diabetes Technology Society. Background: Insulin adsorption to clinical materials has been well observed, but not well quantified. Insulin adsorption reduces expected and actual insulin delivery and is unaccounted ...

• Copula modelling of agitation-sedation rating of ICU patients: towards monitoring and alerting tools 

  Tursunalieva, A.; Hudson, I.; Chase, J.G. (Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2019)

  Agitation-Sedation (A-S) cycling in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients is damaging to health. Sedation quality is assessed by nurses and may suffer from subjectivity in their judgment and lead to sub-optimal ...

• The Effect of Magnetite Particle Size on Methane Production by Fresh and Degassed Anaerobic Sludge 

  Al-Essa, E.; Bello-Mendoza, R.; Wareham, D.G. (2020)

  Anaerobic batch experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of magnetite-supplementation (7 mM) on methane production from digested sludge undergoing two different microbial growth phases, namely fresh sludge ...

• Practical identifiability analysis of a minimal cardiovascular system model 

  Pironet, A.; Docherty, P.D.; Dauby, P.C.; Chase, J.G.; Desaive, T. (Elsevier BV, 2019)

  © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Background and objective: Parameters of mathematical models of the cardiovascular system can be used to monitor cardiovascular state, such as total stressed blood volume status, vessel elastance and ...

• Effect of variation in density on the stability of bilinear shear currents with a free surface 

  Barros R; Voloch JF (AIP Publishing, 2020)

  We perform the stability analysis for a free surface fluid current modeled as two finite layers of constant vorticity, under the action of gravity and absence of surface tension. In the same spirit as Taylor ["Effect of ...

• Accurate end systole detection in dicrotic notch-less arterial pressure waveforms. 

  Balmer J; Smith R; Pretty CG; Desaive T; Shaw GM; Chase JG (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)

  Identification of end systole is often necessary when studying events specific to systole or diastole, for example, models that estimate cardiac function and systolic time intervals like left ventricular ejection duration. ...

• Determining the effects of insulin Detemir on endogenous secretion of insulin. 

  Klenner, J.B.; Van Noorden, B.A.; Knopp, J.L.; Holder Pearson, L.R.; Hardy, A.R.; Vergeer, S.L.; Shaw, G.M.; Chase, J.G. (IEEE, 2019)

  Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a long-term metabolic disorder. A pilot trial was designed to investigate the effects of the long acting insulin Detemir on endogenous insulin secretion, to assess use in early T2D care. Provesn ...

• The Rise And Fall of ATR 

  Bartneck C (2020)

• Removal of dissolved heavy metals from stormwater by filtration with granular recycled glass and mussel shell with and without microalgae biofilm 

  Bremner, Courtenay Louise; Cochrane, T.A.; McGuigan, Peter; Bello-Mendoza, R. (Elsevier BV, 2020)

  Stormwater treatment technologies are routinely used to reduce urban stormwater contaminant loads entering surface water and groundwater systems. However, in most cases, their treatment capabilities are limited to particulate ...

• Assessing transportation vulnerability to tsunamis: utilising post-event field data from the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile 

  Williams, J.H.; Wilson, T.M.; Horspool, N.; Paulik, R.; Wotherspoon, L.; Lane, E.M.; Hughes, M.W. (Copernicus GmbH, 2020)

  Abstract. Transportation infrastructure is crucial to the operation of society, particularly during post-event response and recovery. Transportation assets, such as roads and bridges, can be exposed to tsunami impacts ...

• An investigation into competitive pricing procedures for professional services. 

  Enright, Jodi (University of Canterbury, 1996)

  This research report is an investigation into the Transit New Zealand Competitive Pricing Procedures for professional services. The investigation focuses on the evaluation of the five quality attributes (methodology, track ...

• On modelling the engineering design process, with special reference to the design of materials handling systems 

  Jones, Rodney Denzil (University of Canterbury, 1978)

  The task of increasing the efficiency whereby industry converts resources to products has occupied the minds of technical researchers since time immemorial. Man's quest for optimal production systems has traditionally ...

• Electrochemical wastewater treatment at nanostructured anodes. 

  Kariman, Asadollah (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Water pollution is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century; therefore, there has been a high demand to find a suitable eco-friendly technology to treat wastewater. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are ...

• The effects of residual concentration and moisture content on pollutant removal and carbon recovery in a soil biofilter. 

  Dang, Quang Anh (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This study quantitatively determined the importance and potential interaction between operating conditions – combination of residual pollutant concentration and water potential and soil type on %CO2 recovery and biofilter ...

• Quantifying risk of environmental exposures using Bayesian statistics. 

  Jaksons, Rodelyn (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  In statistics, the use of observational data is key in understanding what factors are associated with a change in risk. Often, the data also contains a temporal and spatial structure and needs to be accounted for in the ...

• Network intrusion detection using generative adversarial networks. 

  Zhang, Xiran (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Intrusion detection systems (IDS), as one of important security solutions, are used to detect network attacks. With the extensive applications of traditional machine learning algorithms in the security field, intrusion ...

• Competition, collaboration and collusion ; balancing company interaction within the New Zealand engineering industry. 

  Peterson, B. J. (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Projects in the engineering industry are becoming larger, increasingly more complex, and requiring different, often more specialised, skills. Only a small proportion of companies have the required resources and/or capabilities ...

• Determining the flood effects of undocumented stopbanks within the Waimea floodplain. 

  Wallace, Thomas (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Across the globe, floods are the most damaging natural hazard both in terms of the number of people affected and the economic loss. This is also the case within New Zealand due to many towns and cities being located on ...

• Data captured using low-cost active electromyography 

  Fortune, B.C.; Pretty, C.G.; Chatfield, L.T.; McKenzie, L.R.; Hayes, M.P. (Elsevier BV, 2020)

  Abstract: Surface electromyography (sEMG) data was captured for three able-body subjects, from their right biceps brachii using the POLE sensor outlined in ”Low-cost active electromyography” [1]. Data was captured for ...

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