UC Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Framing ethical relationality in teacher education : possibilities and challenges for global citizenship and service-learning in the physical education curriculum in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(2014)Knowledge society and neoliberal discourses have recently supplanted modern humanistic projects in Aotearoa/New Zealand education. Knowledge society discourses include conceptual shifts in knowledge and learning. In this ... -
The effects of unemployment rate fluctuations on private health insurance coverage in New Zealand
(Informa UK Limited, 2015)In this paper, we estimate the effect of changes in the unemployment rate on private health insurance coverage of New Zealanders using quarterly national data from 1999 to 2009. A one percentage-point increase in the ... -
Pericolosita' da liquefazione valutata mediante analisi statistica di geodatabase
(2018)La pericolosità associata ad un dato fenomeno costituisce uno dei fattori più importanti e difficili da quantificare nelle analisi di rischio, a maggior ragione quando si tratta di fenomeni complessi come nel caso della ... -
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 ... -
Tests for qualitative features in the random coefficients model
(2019)The random coefficients model is an extension of the linear regression model that allows for unobserved heterogeneity in the population by modeling the regression coefficients as random variables. Given data from this model, ... -
Aotearoa New Zealand National Report
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Assessing the Likely Impact of the Tax Working Group on Tax Administration in New Zealand”,
(2019)With the establishment of the New Zealand (NZ) government’s Tax Working Group (TWG) in late 2017, the level of interest in the TWG’s deliberations, the extent of submissions received, and subsequent recommendations, is ... -
The historical development of the South Malvern district, Canterbury, 1859-1900
(University of Canterbury, 1949)So wrote Frederick Broome when he left his sheep-run at "Broomielaw", now called "steventon”, to seek a new life in Australia. To those low hills, dominated by "Flagpole" and by the mountain ranges beyond, and to that ... -
Kia Piki Ake Te Mana Tāngata— Review of the WEAG Tikanga Framework
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Spillovers and Exports: A Meta-Analysis
(University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance, 2019)This study uses meta-analysis to analyze the empirical literature on spillovers and exports. It collects 3,291 estimated spillover effects from 99 studies. The estimated spillover effects in the literature span a large ... -
Political Polarization in Taiwan and the United States: A Research Puzzle
(2019)During the first two decades of the 21st century, the major political parties in both Taiwan (the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP and the Kuomintang or KMT) and the United States (Democrats and Republicans) became ... -
Further Tests of Ahn, Khandelwal, and Wei’s (2011) Model of Intermediated Trade
(University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance, 2019)This study subjects Ahn, Khandelwal, and Wei’s (2011) model of intermediary trade to a series of additional tests. Using data mostly sourced independently from AKW, we demonstrate that we are able to reproduce the evidence ... -
The Clustering of Lifestyle Behaviours in New Zealand and their Relationship with Optimal Wellbeing
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016)© 2016, International Society of Behavioral Medicine. Purpose: The purpose of this research was to determine (1) associations between multiple lifestyle behaviours and optimal wellbeing and (2) the extent to which five ... -
Exfoliated Ni-Al LDH 2D nanosheets for intermediate temperature CO2 capture
(Elsevier BV, 2019)CO2 capture is projected as one of the pragmatic approaches to deal with the global warming phenomenon. Adsorption-based CO2 capture is considered an economically attractive option to reduce CO2 emission. The success of ... -
A Converging Image? Capitalism and the visual identity of alternative and mainstream news sites
(2011)While largely overlooked in mass communication research, visual imagery is central to how organizations represent, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world (Messaris, 1994). This research ... -
Vortex breakdown in dust-collecting return-flow cyclones
(University of Canterbury, 1992)This thesis presents the results of an experimental study of the airflows in reverse-flow dust collecting cyclones. Measurements and flow visualisation techniques were used to examine both the 'paired vortex breakdown' ... -
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 ...
