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WorkSafe New Zealand Scoping Report: Exploring the development of a New Zealand occupational exposure measurement database
(Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University, 2021-12-13) Eng A
The lack of information on the distribution and level of workplace exposures in New Zealand limits the ability to develop, target, and evaluate interventions to reduce harmful exposures. WorkSafe contracted the Research Centre for Hauora and Health (a recent merger between the Centre for Public Health Research and the Research Centre for Māori Health and Development) at Massey University to explore the development of a New Zealand occupational exposure measurement (OEM) database in collaboration with WorkSafe and the New Zealand Occupational Hygiene Society (NZOHS). An OEM database is a centralised repository of objectively collected workplace exposure measurements. This scoping report includes: • A description of the advantages and disadvantages of OEM databases; • An overview of international OEM databases, including a literature review and a survey of database managers/contacts to explore their experiences with key international databases; • The advantages and disadvantages of an OEM database for New Zealand in the context of current legislation and key players who collect exposure monitoring data; • Stakeholder consultation, through discussion at a NZOHS members meeting and an online survey of NZOHS members, to explore the willingness of occupational hygiene providers and industry in New Zealand to contribute to an OEM database; • An overview of issues that need to be considered prior to developing an OEM database such as database host, sustainability, intellectual property, privacy, user access, and consent; • Recommendations for whether a New Zealand OEM database should be established as well as specific recommendations for potential implementation; • An outline of options and possible next steps required to pilot and establish a database.
Artificial Intelligence unleashed: Harnessing power, protecting assets. Workshop 18. BusinessFirstNZ
(2024-04-24) Macpherson W; Scott J
Encouraging a Conscious and Considerate Approach to Design within Textiles and Fashion
(International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI), 2024-04-03) Kane F; Horton J
This paper presents the second part of a case study into the use of a live project brief with a fair-trade importer as a means of integrating ethical issues into the curriculum of a BA Fashion Fabrics and Accessories course. Through documenting and analysing student responses to the project the paper demonstrates that such an approach provides a unique, and in many ways successful, means of integrating ethical issues into HE level curriculums and does encourage students to become more considerate as designers.
Stories of practice in initial teacher science education
(Australasian Science Education Research Association LTD, 2025-07-01) Preseton C; Carpendale J; Rochette E; Cooper R; Marangio K; Cirkony C
Science teacher educators who work within initial teacher education programs have a critical role in supporting preservice teachers to develop their knowledge, confidence, and capability to teach science in culturally appropriate ways. An international group of nonIndigenous university science teacher educators from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have come together to share our stories of practice of how we have embedded First Nations perspectives in our primary and secondary science education units. In this paper presentation, we relate four stories practices through a narrative inquiry method. Two stories focus on the application of two-lenses to bring together different worldviews, and how these approaches can be applied to practical hands-on activities and assessment. Two stories focus on the use of native plants and gardens, demonstrating the cultural significance of plants and how it prompts deeper and ongoing conversations about positionality, cultural responsiveness and ways to embed Indigenous perspectives in teaching and assessment. This work offers three key considerations for all science teacher educators: Focusing on whose knowledge is privileged, what counts as scientific knowledge, and how this complex space can be navigated in authentic and respectful ways.
The Effect of Nasal Patency and Anatomy During Asymmetrical Nasal High Flow
(American Physiological Society, 2026-03-28) Barnes M
Nasal high flow (NHF) with the asymmetrical cannula interface (AI) is increasingly used as respiratory support across a broad range of patients. By incorporating one unilaterally oversized prong, the AI enhances dead-space clearance and increases airway pressure. This study investigated the effects of nasal patency and anatomical variability of the upper airways during NHF delivered with the AI. Twenty healthy adults underwent three 3-hour study periods whereby heated, humidified air was delivered at 30L/min via either an AI, a symmetrical interface (SI), or a control condition without NHF. Nasal patency was assessed every 30 minutes using acoustic rhinometry, rhinomanometry and a self-assessment questionnaire. Measurements were quantified using a laterality index, and ventilation was monitored by respiratory inductance plethysmography. Nasal anatomy was evaluated using magnetic resonance imaging, and airway replicas reconstructed from these images, including original and mirrored models, were tested in bench-top experiments. All measures of nasal patency were significantly positively correlated (p < 0.001). There was no association between the AI laterality index and respiratory rate or tidal volume. In the 3D models, both airway pressure and dead-space clearance increased when the leak area was reduced by changing the SI to the AI. Compared to the originals, mirroring the nasal passages showed no difference except for the model with severe nasal septum deviation. NHF with SI or AI did not alter dominant side of nasal patency, which did not affect ventilation. Nares morphology, rather than physiological alternation in nasal patency, may have greater influence on pressure generation during NHF.