Research Centres
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EPECentre [37]
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Gateway Antarctica [610]
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Quake CoRE [300]
Recent submissions
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Where are our former scholars now?
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A socio-spatial analysis of pedestrian falls in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Falls are a leading cause of injury and accidental death, particularly amongst older people. Evidence of environmental risk factors for pedestrian falls among older adults could support age-friendly urban design and contribute ... -
Winter Is Coming: A Socio-Environmental Monitoring and Spatiotemporal Modelling Approach for Better Understanding a Respiratory Disease
(2018)Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a progressive lung disease affecting the respiratory function of every sixth New Zealander and over 300 million people worldwide. In this paper, we explored how the combination ... -
RECOVER Issue 5
(2020)Welcome to the Recover newsletter Issue 5 from the Marine Ecology Research Group (MERG) of the University of Canterbury. Recover is designed to keep you updated on our MBIE-funded earthquake recovery project called ... -
The consequences of competition: simulating the effects of research grant allocation strategies
(SPRINGER, 2016)© 2016, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary. Researchers have to operate in an increasingly competitive environment in which funding is becoming a scarce resource. Funding agencies are unable to experiment with their ... -
Reciprocity in Human-Robot Interaction: A Quantitative Approach Through the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Ultimatum Game
(SPRINGER, 2016)Reciprocity is an important factor in human–human interaction, so it can be expected that it should also play a major role in human–robot interaction (HRI). Participants in our study played the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma ... -
Systems to Implement Demand Response in New Zealand
(2014)According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Demand Response (DR) is defined as: “Changes in electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of ... -
Proposal to amend the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010– Criteria for connection of distributed generation under the Part 1A application process
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Artificial Artificial Intelligence [Podcast]
(2020)Alan Turing devised the Imitation Game as a test the intelligence of machines. This test is also used in human-robot interaction. But what happens if not a computer is trying to convince you that it is a human, but a human ... -
The Ōtūkaikino River : factors contributing to apparent macroinvertebrate loss.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)In recent years the Ōtūkaikino River catchment has had some of best water quality and stream health of all Christchurch rivers. However, the absence of stoneflies from macroinvertebrate surveys in 2017 indicates that all ... -
Resilient shorelines : earthquake effects on sea levels and their implications for conservation and climate change.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Coastal margins are exposed to rising sea levels that present challenging circumstances for natural resource management. This study investigates a rare example of tectonic displacement caused by earthquakes that generated ... -
RECOVER Issue 4
(2019)Welcome to the Recover newsletter Issue 4 from the Marine Ecology Research Group (MERG) of the University of Canterbury. Recover is designed to keep you updated on our MBIE-funded earthquake recovery project called ... -
RECOVER Issue 3
(2019)Welcome to the Recover issue 3 newsletter from the Marine Ecology Research Group (MERG) at the University of Canterbury. Recover is designed to keep you updated on our MBIE funded earthquake recovery project called ... -
The Good Robot [Podcast]
(2020)Humans have asked themselves since the beginning of time “What is good”? While we have some consensus and even laws, teaching a robot to act ethically remains a delicate problem. It certainly requires more than three laws. ...
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