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Approaches to implementing a strengthened global response to the threat of climate change
(IPCC, 2018)The principal rationale for this chapter is to gather and assess the best available policy relevant knowledge from the available literature, including existing options and case studies, on what is known about the methods ... -
Provenance analysis of the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Rakopi, North Cape, and Farewell formations, northwest Nelson, New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The Taranaki Basin of New Zealand first developed in the middle of the Cretaceous as Zealandia rifted from Gondwana. Rift basins were active depocentres throughout the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene when rifting slowed. The ... -
Effect of a heart beating breathing doll on infant sleep
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Infant sleep patterns are one of the most common sources of concern for parents. While there is a wide range of products and information claiming to support infant sleep, available to parents, the empirical evidence ... -
Hydrogeological investigation of the Christchurch City aquifer
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The Christchurch City aquifer is a coastal groundwater system, consisting of a sequence of terrestrial and marine hydro-stratigraphic units. It is recharged from the west, by groundwater and surface-water that passes through ... -
Assessment of paleo-depositional environments and reservoir potential of the Late Cretaceous North Cape Formation, Nelson, New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The Taranaki Basin contains New Zealand’s only producing hydrocarbon systems with commercial production limited to Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene Miocene to latest Pliocene successions. Potential hydrocarbon reservoirs have ... -
Investigating whether structural in-stream habitat additions are an effective tool for restoring benthic communities in lowland Canterbury waterways
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Land-use change is occurring at an unprecedented rate in New Zealand and globally. Freshwater ecosystems reflect the characteristics of their surrounding landscape, and consequentially, in-stream habitat quality is often ... -
The City of the Fugitives: Does Selective Preservation of Disaster Memories Mean Selective Recovery From Disaster?
(2016)We’ll never know why the thirteen people whose corpses were discovered in Pompeii’s Garden of the Fugitives hadn’t fled the city with the majority of the population when Vesuvius turned deadly in AD79. But surely, thanks ... -
Model-based insulin-nutrition administration for glycemic control in Malaysian critical care: First pilot trial
(2018)© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media Singapore. Stress-induced hyperglycemia is prevalent in critical care, even in patients with no history of diabetes. Control of blood glucose level with tight insulin therapy has ... -
Model iterative airway pressure reconstruction during mechanical ventilation asynchrony: Shapes and sizes of reconstruction
(2018)© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media Singapore. Model-based methods estimating patient-specific respiratory mechanics may help intensive care clinicians in setting optimal ventilation parameters. However, these methods ... -
Coaching as an instrument of culture change in early childhood intervention
(2017)Aim to uncover the motivations for and mechanisms of coaching in early childhood intervention in ECE settings in NZ, from the perspective of early intervention teachers. -
How and why nurses’ direction and delegation skills should be improved
(New Zealand Nurses Organisation, 2017)A six-year study of how RNs and ENs communicated with each other during direction and delegation was completed this year. The study, which included 36 RNs and ENs from the Canterbury region, accessed the nurses’ ... -
Evolution of magmatic volatiles during drilling into a magma body, Krafla Iceland.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)In 2009, the Iceland Deep Drilling Project IDDP-1 borehole unexpectedly intercepted a silicic magma body beneath Krafla volcano at a depth of approximately 2.1 km. Glass samples quenched in the drilling mud were directly ... -
Removal of H₂S, NH₃, and tars from the producer gas of biomass gasification by secondary measures.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The combination of biomass gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis is a promising technology for converting biomass to “green” liquid fuel. However, the clean-up process of removing tars, H2S, NH3, and the other ... -
Audio-aero tactile integration in speech perception using an open choice paradigm.
(University of Canterbury, 2017-2018)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of AT integration during speech perception measured using an open choice response elicitation. Methods: 34 untrained native English speakers received ... -
Design considerations for a wearable, bi-modal interface.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The design of wearable interfaces that mediate interactions between people and the real world requires us to examine these interactions from the perspective of the users. The quality of these interactions is determined by ... -
Singleton breech presentation at term: Review of the evidence and international guidelines for application to the New Zealand context
(New Zealand College of Midwives, 2017)Background: Over the last few decades the management of a breech baby at term has been immersed in controversy. It is important that New Zealand midwives and doctors have sufficient understanding of the evidence to be ...
