UC Research Repository: Recent submissions
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On the growth of locally interacting plants: differential equations for the dynamics of spatial moments
(ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER, 2013)Ecologists are faced with the challenge of how to scale up from the activities of individual plants and animals to the macroscopic dynamics of populations and communities. It is especially difficult to do this in communities ... -
Gamification and SQL
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021)<jats:p>Gamification, defined as the integration of game elements into non-gaming environments, is a promising approach to increase student engagement, motivation, and performance in Computer Science and Software Engineering ... -
Determinant physiological factors of simulated BMX race
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)© 2021 European College of Sport Science. Evaluating the physiological demands of BMX cycling on a track provides coaches with the information required to prescribe more effective training programmes. To determine the ... -
Automated defect detection and decision-support in gas turbine blade inspection
(MDPI AG, 2021)© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Background—In the field of aviation, maintenance and inspections of engines are vitally important in ensuring the safe functionality of fault-free aircrafts. There ... -
Team role adoption and distribution in engineering project meetings
(MDPI AG, 2020)© 2020 by the authors. Team communication plays a vital role in engineering management, however, there is a paucity of work that examines how team roles emerge as a response to the communicative processes between participants. ... -
Flood Impacts on Dairy Farms in the Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand
(MDPI AG, 2021)Flood damage assessments provide critical information for flood hazard mitigation under changing climate conditions. Recent efforts to improve and systemise damage assessments have focused primarily on urban environments ... -
Are Happy Marriages Faithful Marriages? Addressing the Endogeneity Problem
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A Comparison of AMPS Forecasts Near the Ross Sea Polynya With Controlled Meteorological Balloon Observations
(American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2020)©2020. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. This study presents atmospheric boundary layer observations made over the Ross Sea using a long-duration Controlled Meteorological (CMET) balloon and a comparison ... -
The Effect of Outside Temperature on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions
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A New Explanation for Samuelson’s Dictum and the Stock Market: Novel Events and Knightian Uncertainty
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Primary School Closures during the Coronovirus pandemic: Impacts, Opportunities and Connections
(2021)Rationale for the Study › March 12th 2020- Government decision to shut all schools due to Coronavirus pandemic › Principals and teachers reimagined how education took place- transitioning from face to face classrooms ... -
On the Product of Elements with Prescribed Trace
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020)© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. This paper deals with the following problem. Given a finite extension of fields and denoting the trace map from to by, for which elements in, and, in, is it possible ... -
Grandparental partnership status and its effects on caring for grandchildren in Europe
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021)Grandparents are important childcare providers, but grandparental relationship status matters. According to several studies, caregiving is reduced after grandparental divorce, but differential responses by grandmothers ... -
Is Agile Not Agile Enough? A Study on How Agile is Applied and Misapplied in the Video Game Development Industry
(2021)Video games have become the most dominant and successful entertainment industry worldwide; however, many video game development (VGD) projects and studios struggle to succeed. At present, there are no commonly accepted ... -
Seismic performance assessment of a base isolated building.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Recent studies have demonstrated the practical usage of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PEERPBEE) framework to quantify performance measures, such as monetary losses and ... -
The archaeological evidence for Mithraism in Imperial Rome.
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Seventy-five years on : an ethnographic exploration of oral histories on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This thesis explores the human experiences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima since August 6th, 1945. Employing ethnographic approaches of participant observation, fieldwork, and narrative analysis, narrative accounts ... -
Learning experiences of students labelled as learning disabled in the Indonesian public primary schools.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This ethnographic case study research is concerned with learning disabilities in Indonesia. My interest is in understanding how a particular group of students are defined by teachers and how teachers’ perceptions of students ... -
Design and evaluation of techniques to improve user comfort during prolonged use of virtual reality.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Virtual Reality (VR) has become a consumer technology, and as such has spread to include many different applications at work, home, school and play, for multiple kinds of users. However, using conventional immersive ... -
Land use effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Since human arrival, New Zealand biodiversity has suffered from habitat destruction through land use change and the introduction of exotic plants and animals, leading to declines and extinctions of numerous native and ...