• Urban Tree Diversity - Taking stock and looking ahead 

  Morgenroth, J.; Östberg, J.; Konijnendijk van den Bosch, C.; Nielsen, A.B.; Hauer, R.; Sjöman, H.; Chen, W.Y.; Jansson, M. (University of Canterbury. School of Forestry, 2016)

  The first International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity hosted in June 2014 by the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Alnarp, Sweden highlighted the need for a better understanding of the current state of ...

• The Power of Robot Groups with a Focus on Persuasive and Linguistic Cues 

  Brandstetter, Jürgen (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Today the HRI community generates a lot of knowledge on how one robot affects one human, and how one robot affects multiple human listeners. Much less knowledge is available on how robots affect the human language and ...

• Geotechnical aspects of the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake on the South Island of New Zealand. 

  Stringer ME; Bastin S; McGann C; Cappellaro C; El Kortbawi M; McMahon R; Wotherspoon L; Green R; Aricheta J; Davis R; McGlynn L; Hargraves S; Van Ballegooy S; Cubrinovski M; Bradley B; Bellagamba X; Foster K; Lai C; Ashfield D; Baki A; Zekkos A; Lee R; Ntritsos N (2017)

  The magnitude Mw7.8 ‘Kaikōura’ earthquake occurred shortly after midnight on 14 November 2016. This paper presents an overview of the geotechnical impacts on the South Island of New Zealand recorded during the postevent ...

• Transport infrastructure performance and management in the South Island of New Zealand, during the first 100 days following the 2016 mw 7.8 “Kaikōura” earthquake. 

  Davies AJ; Sadashiva V; Aghababaei M; Barnhill D; Costello SB; Fanslow B; Headifen D; Hughes M; Kotze R; Mackie J; Ranjitkar P; Thompson J; Troitino DR; Wilson TM; Woods S; Wotherspoon L (2017)

  At 00:02 on 14th November 2016, a Mw 7.8 earthquake occurred in and offshore of the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand. Fault rupture, ground shaking, liquefaction, and co-seismic landslides caused severe ...

• Relative Brauer groups of torsors of period two 

  Creutz, B. (University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics, 2016)

  We consider the problem of computing the relative Brauer group of a torsor of period two under an elliptic curve. We show how this problem can be reduced to finding a set of generators for the group of rational points ...

• Numerical Modelling of the Micromechanical Behaviour of Catastrophic Long Run-Out Rock Avalanches 

  de Graaf, Kim L. (University of Canterbury, 2016)

  Long runout rock avalanches occur in steep mountainous areas, typically due to the effects of heavy rain, freeze-thaw cycles or seismic shaking among others. The runout is renowned for travelling a large horizontal ...

• Effects of sheep grazing exclusion on alpine tall tussock grassland 

  Norton, D.A.; Young, L.M. (University of Canterbury. School of Forestry, 2016)

  Substantial areas of alpine tall tussock grasslands are being retired from grazing as part of Crown pastoral lease tenure review because of the perceived negative impact of grazing livestock. However, relatively little ...

• Reducing codebook loss with reconfigurable receive antennas 

  Afsheen, U.; Smith, P.J.; Martin, P.A. (University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016)

  In this study, a reconfigurable antenna codebook feedback (FB) scheme is investigated to reduce precoding codebook loss without increasing the number of FB bits. Analysis and simulations show that increasing the number ...

• Firing thyristors with negative firing angle using multilevel current reinjection concept: an experimental evaluation 

  Das, B.P.; Watson, N.R.; Liu Y-H. (University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016)

  Thyristor based multilevel current reinjection (MLCR) current source converter (CSC) provides self-commutation capability to thyristors. It also has high quality line current waveform by accurately shaping the DC bus ...

• Final report for BOP Fertiliser Ltd. : transportation, marketing, process design and costing for the commercialisation of granular reactive phosphate rock 

  Ferris, Tim (University of Canterbury, 1999)

  This report was completed to determine the commercial feasibility of granular Reactive Phosphate Rock (RPR) as a fertiliser, and the requirements needed to bring it to market. Recommendations based on this report are as ...

• Continuous glucose monitoring for optimising glycaemic performance in individuals without diabetes. 

  Thomas, Felicity (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices are becoming ubiquitous in the of care individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However, to a lesser extent, these devices could have further benefit in optimising blood ...

• Fabrication of photonic nanostructures for light harvesting in solar cells. 

  Amalathas, Amalraj Peter (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Reducing optical losses in the solar cells has always been a key challenge in enhancing the power conversion efficiency of the solar cells without increasing significantly the cost. In order to enhance the power conversion ...

• The WhisperGen Story. A Manufacturing and Design Success or Failure? 

  Clucas DM (2017)

• A modification of Balanced Acceptance Sampling 

  Robertson BL; McDonald T; Price CJ; Brown JA (2017)

  This article presents a modification of balanced acceptance sampling (BAS) that causes inclusion probabilities to better approximate targeted inclusion probabilities. A new sample frame constructor for BAS is also ...

• The behaviour of reactive power marginal prices in an electricity spot market 

  Ward, Andrew Graeme (University of Canterbury, 1999)

  This thesis investigates the behaviour of marginal prices for reactive power in a competitive electricity spot market. In the proposed spot market, non-zero unit costs are assigned to the generation of reactive power as a ...

• Smooth track propulsion: an amphibious craft propelled by a smooth track 

  White, Tim (University of Canterbury, 2016)

  Tracked amphibians have potential to offer some significant advantages over existing configurations of amphibious vehicle, particularly in a high-speed water operation. The fluid dynamics of high speed tracked amphibians ...

• Minimally invasive estimation of ventricular dead space volume through use of Frank-Starling curves 

  Davidson S; Pretty C; Pironet A; Desaive T; Janssen N; Lambermont B; Morimont P; Chase JG (2017)

  This paper develops a means of more easily and less invasively estimating ventricular dead space volume (Vd), an important, but difficult to measure physiological parameter. Vd represents a subject and condition dependent ...

• Impact of sensor and measurement timing errors on model-based insulin sensitivity 

  Pretty CG; Signal M; Fisk L; Penning S; Le Compte A; Shaw GM; Desaive T; Chase JG (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2014)

  A model-based insulin sensitivity parameter (SI) is often used in glucose-insulin system models to define the glycaemic response to insulin. As a parameter identified from clinical data, insulin sensitivity can be affected ...

• Interstitial insulin kinetic parameters for a 2-compartment insulin model with saturable clearance 

  Pretty CG; Le Compte A; Penning S; Fisk L; Shaw GM; Desaive T; Chase JG (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2014)

  Glucose-insulin system models are commonly used for identifying insulin sensitivity. With physiological, 2-compartment insulin kinetics models, accurate kinetic parameter values are required for reliable estimates of insulin ...

• Brain mass estimation by head circumference and body mass methods in neonatal glycaemic modelling and control 

  Gunn CA; Dickson JL; Pretty CG; Alsweiler JM; Lynn A; Shaw GM; Chase JG (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2014)

  Introduction: Hyperglycaemia is a common complication of stress and prematurity in extremely low-birth-weight infants. Model-based insulin therapy protocols have the ability to safely improve glycaemic control for this ...

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