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A cross-cultural study on attitudes towards robots
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005)This study presents the result of a cross-cultural study of negative attitude towards robots. A questionnaire was presented to Dutch, Chinese and Japanese participants based on the Negative Attitude towards Robots Scale ... -
Building A Neuro-Fuzzy Based Route Choice Model in Metropolitan Context: Surat City in India
(Elsevier BV, 2017)The study presents the route choice behaviour among three alternative routes for a set of origin and destination points of Surat, a metropolitan city of India. Travel time, traffic congestion level and environmental effects ... -
Dual Free Adaptive Minibatch SDCA for Empirical Risk Minimization
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On creative design study in an engineering undergraduate course.
(University of CanterburyUniversity of Canterbury, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1979)This is a revised edition of Part I of a report of the same title first produced in 1974. The material has been enlarged and re-written to include developments since that year. The purpose of the work remains unchanged ... -
Experimental studies on in-plane performance of plasterboard sheathed ceiling diaphragms
(2019)The ultimate goal of this study is to develop a model representing the in-plane behaviour of plasterboard ceiling diaphragms, as part of the efforts towards performance-based seismic engineering of low-rise light timber-framed ... -
Instrumenting 3D virtual worlds for computer science education to support teaching and learning.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis presents methods for adding data capture instrumentation to 3D virtual learning environments, determining the extent to which the data that is captured from them can be used to support the teaching and learning ... -
Emotion sharing in virtual reality.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)The primary goal of this thesis is to explore the effects that sharing emotional cues through physiological feedback has on overall emotional states of the users in both single-user and collaborative applications. The ... -
Tailoring Acidity and Porosity of Alumina Catalysts via Transition Metal Doping for Glucose Conversion in Biorefinery
(2019)Efficient conversion of food waste to value-added products necessitates the development of high-performance heterogeneous catalysts. This study evaluated the use of Al2O3 as a low-cost and abundant support material for ... -
Amplification of strong ground motions at Heathcote Valley during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes: The role of 2D nonlinear site response
(2017)This article presents a quantitative case study on the site amplification effect observed at Heathcote Valley, New Zealand, during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence for 10 events that produced notable ground ... -
Towards adaptive provision of examples during problem solving.
(Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education, 2019)Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) are effective in supporting learning, as shown in numerous studies. The goal of our project is to develop an adaptive strategy that would be capable of identifying situations during ... -
Describing area and yield for small-scale plantation forests in Wairarapa region of New Zealand using RapidEye and LiDAR
(Scion, 2019)Background: New Zealand does not have a national forest inventory based on ground measurements. The National Exotic Forest Description (NEFD) is based on surveys of forest owners but lacks reliability in describing area ... -
Flow modelling of cyclones
(University of Canterbury, 1999)Cyclones have simple structures, a long development history and extensive applications, but their design methods are empirical. More knowledge of cyclone mechanisms and more flexible and reliable design methods from first ... -
An innovative and eco-friendly foundation system to enhance the resilience of low-rise buildings
(2019)A multi-disciplinary geo-structural-environmental engineering project funded by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is being carried out at the University of Canterbury. The project aims at developing ... -
Ductility of prestressed concrete frames under seismic loading
(University of Canterbury, 1971)This thesis is concerned with the behaviour of prestressed concrete framed structures under earthquake loading. An experimental programme investigated the performance of four full-size, precast, prestressed concrete ... -
The seismic response of inelastic structures.
(University of Canterbury, 1974)Because of the importance being placed by modern building codes of practice on the need for the deterministic analysis of ductile frames as a means of assessing their ability to withstand severe seismic ground motions, an ... -
Power systems modelling in the harmonic domain.
(University of Canterbury, 1992)Developed in the Harmonic Domain, a new and general frame of reference for Network Harmonic Analysis, a more rigorous harmonic modelling of power systems is presented in this thesis. Linear and non-linear components of ... -
The stress distribution in a shear wall.
(University of Canterbury, 1970)This thesis deals mainly with a prototype test performed on an eight storey shear wall. The dynamic stress distribution, obtained from the prototype wall as the building was being shaken; is compared with results obtained ... -
Comparisons of approaches to modelling tree taper, stand structure and stand dynamics in forest plantations
(University of Canterbury, 2001)This study addressed two general tree modelling topics: (i) taper, and (ii) growth and yield. Several modelling options were considered and evaluated in detail for each of the two topics. The use of various datasets (two ...
