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The Power of Robot Groups with a Focus on Persuasive and Linguistic Cues
(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 ... -
Numerical Modelling of the Micromechanical Behaviour of Catastrophic Long Run-Out Rock Avalanches
(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 ... -
Final report for BOP Fertiliser Ltd. : transportation, marketing, process design and costing for the commercialisation of granular reactive phosphate rock
(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.
(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.
(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 behaviour of reactive power marginal prices in an electricity spot market
(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
(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 ... -
Liquefaction evaluation in stratified soils.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) of 2010-2011 caused widespread liquefaction in many parts of Christchurch. Observations from the CES highlight some sites were liquefaction was predicted by the simplified method ... -
Modelling jetpack impact following emergency descent
(University of Canterbury, 2017)A single engine twin fan jetpack system (Craft) is modelled to explore its behaviour during emergency descent. This is done using numerical modelling simulations. Aviation law in relation to the craft is described. There ... -
Quantifying the benefits from the spatial diversification of wind power in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Wind power is one of the least cost forms of electricity generation, which along with the need to reduce carbon emissions, means that wind power capacity will certainly increase. The turbulent nature of wind and the passive ... -
Development and validation of a CFD-based approach towards analysing Pentane vaporizers.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Geothermal heat-energy based power-generation has been an area of intense focus and development in New Zealand for more than five decades now. There are immense benefits of geothermal power generation in terms of environmental ... -
Massively parallel simulations of coupled arterial cells : Ca2+ dynamics and atherosclerosis.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is the most common cardiovascular disease, and is a major cause of mortality globally. The underlying process of IHD involves the development of atherosclerotic plaques on the arterial wall. ... -
Inference of vine structures from images.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Making inference and extracting information out of images is one of the most important aspects that computer vision methods are presented with. From the many techniques that exist, Markov Random Fields has been found to ... -
Improvements to ergonomics and reliability of the digital image elasto-tomography breast cancer screening device.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Breast cancer is a major health problem. It has been recognised as the most common cancer among women in both developed, and developing nations. Early detection of breast cancer can significantly reduce mortality, as ... -
A Constitutive Model For Sandy Soils Based On A Stress-dependent Density Parameter
(1993)The results of drained and undrained hollow cylinder tests on clean sand and sand with fines content of 10-15 % by weight constitute the basis for an investigation of the behaviour of sandy soils. An elastic-plastic ... -
The financial implication of the three design guidelines used during the Christchurch rebuild.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)With the occurrence of natural disasters on the increase, major cities around the world face the potential of complete loss of infrastructure due to design guidelines that do not consider resilience in the design. With ... -
Phase manipulation of speech using FIR digital filters
(University of Canterbury, 1987)Three related investigations involving the fields of FIR digital filters, phase manipulation of speech, and speech coding via bandwidth compression are reported. The first investigation is aimed at providing a means ... -
Estimating leaf area index from airborne laser scanning.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Leaf area index (LAI) quantifies the amount of leaf surface area per unit ground area. LAI in forest ecosystems regulates the upper limit of possible light interception, atmospheric gas exchange, and primary production. ... -
Numerical modelling of groundwater - surface water interactions with the Double-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The ability to model groundwater and surface water flows as two interacting components of a single resource is highly important for robust catchment management. Existing methods for spatially-distributed numerical modelling ... -
Seismic resistant design of base isolated multistorey structures
(University of Canterbury, 1989)The Base Isolation technique and its benefits in reducing the transmitted earthquake energy into a structure has gained increasing recognition during the last two decades. This recognition is indicated by the application ...
