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Farmers’ perceptions of options for pasture remediation and recovery following major tephra fall in New Zealand
(2020)Many regions around the world have farms surrounding potentially active volcanoes that have been dormant for decades to centuries. Without any recent experience, a new major eruption and tephra fall would present an ... -
Low-cycle fatigue testing on strain-aged steel reinforcing bars
(2020)During earthquakes, steel reinforcing bars in reinforced concrete structures may be subjected to large inelastic deformation in tension and compression as high as 6% strain, eventually leading to low-cycle fatigue failure ... -
Crime and Mobility during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Preliminary Empirical Exploration
(2020)In this research note we document the decrease in victimisation rates during the COVID-19 lockdown period in New Zealand. We show that the changes in mobility patterns in the same period are significantly correlated with ... -
The long road from local communities to professional sport and the culture of the global sport industry for Indigenous Australians
(2020)This article draws on the findings of a three-year, inter-disciplinary study conducted on the journeys of sixteen Australian Indigenous sportsmen from their first touch of the ‘footy’ to the most elite levels of Australian ... -
The effects of channel boundary roughness on longitudinal dispersion
(University of Canterbury, 1978)It has become apparent in recent years that the Taylor hypothesis is an inadequate description of the longitudinal process in natural rivers. Efforts have therefore been made to resolve the differences between theory and ... -
Fluid Personality: Indigenous Rights and the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2019)In March 2017, the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 (NZ) (‘Te Awa Tupua Act’) became the first piece of legislation in the world to declare a river a legal person. Through this grant of legal ... -
Ethnic media and multi-dimensional identity: Pacific audiences’ connections with Māori media
(2020)This study explores issues of identity, hybridity and media in an Aotearoa/New Zealand context by analysing Pacific audiences’ affinity for and use of Indigenous Māori media. It makes the case for broadening ethnic ... -
Preventing the use of financial institutions for money laundering and the implications for financial privacy
(Emerald, 2018)© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the implication of money laundering preventive measures for financial privacy, with the focus on banking secrecy. Design/methodology/approach: This ... -
The Socratic Method Reloaded: How to Make it Work in Large Classes?
(2014)The Socratic method with its constant questioning poses a challenge to students, more so than any other teaching method. By the same token, it teaches law students what they need to know: legal analysis, critical thinking ... -
Prediction of track performance in competitive BMX riders using laboratory measures
(Journal of Science and Cycling, 2020)Identifying key physiological factors is essential in cycling; however, the unique nature of BMX decreases the validity and transferability of research findings from other cycling disciplines. Therefore, this study highlighted ... -
Trust or Do Not Trust: Evaluation Strategies Used by Online Health Consumers in South East Asia
(2020)Introduction. Health information searching is a popular activity conducted on the Internet. However, the focus of past research studies have been on health consumers from the western world. Thus, there is a gap of information ... -
Close proximity to alcohol outlets is associated with increased crime and hazardous drinking: Pooled nationally representative data from New Zealand
(Elsevier BV, 2020)© 2020 Elsevier Ltd This nationwide study investigated the relationship between proximity to alcohol outlets (off-licence, on-licence, and other-licence) and two adverse outcomes; hazardous drinking and crime (common ... -
Looking Forward Looking Back: Customary International Law, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
(2020)Two of the most laudable achievements of human rights are the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Aside from advancing ... -
Housing in Post-Quake Canterbury: Human Rights Fault Lines
(2017)The 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes and their aftermath have been described by the Human Rights Commission as one of New Zealand's greatest contemporary human rights challenges. This article documents the shortcomings in ... -
Anglican church music in Canterbury 1850-1900
(University of Canterbury, 1973)Speaking to members of the Lyttelton Colonists’ Society in 1851, John Robert Godley outlined the fortunes of the Canterbury Association, both in London where it originated, and in New Zealand. It had, he noted, followed a ... -
The growing threat of money laundering to Vietnam
(Emerald, 2013)Purpose - The paper sketches out the scenario of money laundering (ML) in Vietnam and the harm ML may cause to the country. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first, based on the general concept of ML, scrutinizes ... -
Why do all social robots fail in the market?
(2020)While working on our first Human-Robot Interaction textbook, we noticed that almost all the robots mentioned in the book had failed in the market. Our book had become an obituary. I talked with Lundy Lewis, Frederic Kaplan, ... -
Online Health Searching: A Perspective from South East Asia
(2020)Performing an online health search is a popular activity conducted on the Internet. Research studies from developed countries provide information on source used, type of search performed and devices used to perform the ...