College of Science: Recent submissions
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Balanced harvest: concept, policies, evidence, and management implications
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)© 2019, The Author(s). Balanced harvest has been proposed to reduce fishing impact on ecosystems while simultaneously maintaining or even increasing fishery yield. The concept has attracted broad interest, but also received ... -
Communities and Attachment Networks Associated with Primary, Secondary and Alternative Foundation Species; A Case Study of Stressed and Disturbed Stands of Southern Bull Kelp
(MDPI AG, 2019)Southern bull kelps (Durvillaea spp., Fucales) are ‘primary’ foundation species that control community structures and ecosystem functions on temperate wave-exposed rocky reefs. However, these large foundation species are ... -
A reflected feature space for CART
(Wiley, 2019)This paper presents an algorithm for learning oblique decision trees, called HHCART(G). Our decision tree combines learning concepts from two classification trees, HHCART and Geometric Decision Tree (GDT). HHCART(G) is ... -
Inter-model comparison of global hydroxyl radical (OH) distributions and their impact on atmospheric methane over the 2000-2016 period
(Copernicus GmbH, 2019)Abstract. The modeling study presented here aims to estimate how uncertainties in global hydroxyl radical (OH) distributions, variability, and trends may contribute to resolving discrepancies between simulated and observed ... -
Tri-modal Speech: Audio-visual-tactile Integration in Speech Perception
(2019)Speech perception is a multi-sensory experience. Visual information enhances [Sumby and Pollack (1954). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 25, 212–215] and interferes [McGurk and MacDonald (1976). Nature 264, 746–748] with speech perception. ... -
Gaze-Guided Narratives for Outdoor Tourism.
(ACM Press, 2019)Many outdoor spaces have hidden stories connected with them that can be used for enriching a tourist’s experience. Previous work on locative media has suggested to include these stories by guiding users to relevant places ... -
Embodied knowing for climate change adaptation interventions: moving beyond monitoring and evaluation in Thai Binh, Vietnam
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Climate change adaptation interventions (CCAIs) are being implemented in a variety of ways. Our current knowing on the effects of CCAIs is mostly based on scientific and rationalist practices that are prone to oversimplification ... -
Heteroaromatic molecules as supramolecular materials
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis describes the preparation of a series of novel heterocyclic aromatic compounds and investigation of their coordination chemistry with a range of different metals and counter ions. The target compounds require ... -
Balanced harvesting could reduce fisheries-induced evolution
(Wiley, 2018)© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Current fisheries management pays little attention to fisheries-induced evolution. Methods of exploitation that have benefits in the short term while ameliorating selection in the longer term ... -
Assessment of bone ingrowth in titanium implants using MARS spectral CT.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The MARS scanner is a type of computed tomography scanner that uses a wider range of energies than conventional machines, partitioning the range of photon en- ergies into bins. With this advantage, it has many potential ... -
Visual-Tactile Speech Perception and the Autism Quotient
(Frontiers Media SA, 2019)Multisensory information is integrated asymmetrically in speech perception: An audio signal can follow video by 240ms, but can precede video by only 60ms, without disrupting the sense of synchronicity (Munhall et al., ... -
Visual-tactile integration in speech perception : evidence for modality neutral speech primitives.
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2016)© 2016 Acoustical Society of America. Audio-visual [McGurk and MacDonald (1976). Nature 264, 746-748] and audio-tactile [Gick and Derrick (2009). Nature 462(7272), 502-504] speech stimuli enhance speech perception over ... -
Recording and reproducing speech airflow outside the mouth
(2015)Researchers present a system that produces artificial airflow with a similar intensity envelope to that produced during speech, as measured 1 cm away from the lips. They have made an airflow estimator system that does not ... -
Listen with your skin: Aerotak speech perception enhancement system
(ISCA, 2014)Here we introduce Aerotak: A system for audio analysis and perception enhancement that allows speech perceivers to listen with their skin. The current system extracts unvoiced portions of an audio signal representative of ... -
Understanding population fluctuations through volunteered geographic information and novel indicators: The experience of Rakiura, Stewart Island, New Zealand
(2019)In an era of heterogeneous data, novel methods and volunteered geographic information provide opportunities to understand how people interact with a place. However, it is not enough to simply have such heterogeneous data, ... -
Infinity in Computable Probability
(2019)Introduction: Since at least the time of Aristotle [1], the concept of combining a finite number of objects infinitely many times has been taken to imply certainty of construction of a particular object. In a ... -
Aero-tactile integration during speech perception: Effect of response and stimulus characteristics on syllable identification
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2019)Integration of auditory and aero-tactile information during speech perception has been documented during two-way closed-choice syllable classification tasks [Gick and Derrick (2009). Nature 462, 502–504], but not during ... -
ACID SOLUBILITY TESTING OF GREYWACKE CORE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WELL PERMEABILITY ENHANCEMENT
(2017)Acidizing of geothermal wells can be a cost-effective and attractive option to recover well permeability and productivity compared to drilling new wells. Understanding how the reservoir rock may react to acid injection is ... -
Australasian fungi : a natural product study.
(University of Canterbury, 1998)A number of Australasian fungi were investigated in a search for novel biologically active natural products. Extracts of the fungus Favolaschia calocera were investigated, and resulted in the isolation of four compounds. ...
