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    Acoustics and Biological Structures
    (InTechOpen, 2019-04-25) Alves-Pereira M; Rapley B; Bakker H; Summers S; Fellah, ZEA; Ogam, E
    Within the context of noise-induced health effects, the impact of airborne acoustical phenomena on biological tissues, particularly within the lower frequency ranges, is very poorly understood. Although the human body is a viscoelastic-composite material, it is generally modeled as Hooke elastic. This implies that acoustical coupling is considered to be nonexistent at acoustical frequencies outside of the human auditory threshold. Researching the acoustical properties of mammalian tissue raises many problems. When tissue samples are investigated as to their pure mechanical properties, stimuli are not usually in the form of airborne pressure waves. Moreover, since the response of biological tissue is dependent on frequency, amplitude, and time profile, precision laboratory equipment and relevant physiological endpoints are mandatory requirements that are oftentimes difficult to achieve. Drawing upon the viscoelastic nature of biological tissue and the tensegrity model of cellular architecture, this chapter will visit what is known to date on the biological response to a variety of different acoustic stimuli at very low frequencies.
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    Acoustics and biological structures
    (IntechOpen, 2018) Bakker H; Alves-Periera M; Summers S; Rapley B
    Within the context of noise-induced health effects, the impact of airborne acoustical phenomena on biological tissues, particularly within the lower frequency ranges, is very poorly understood. Although the human body is a viscoelastic- composite material, it is generally modeled as Hooke elastic. This implies that acoustical coupling is considered to be nonexistent at acoustical frequencies outside of the human auditory threshold. Researching the acoustical properties of mam- malian tissue raises many problems. When tissue samples are investigated as to their pure mechanical properties, stimuli are not usually in the form of airborne pressure waves. Moreover, since the response of biological tissue is dependent on frequency, amplitude, and time profile, precision laboratory equipment and relevant physi- ological endpoints are mandatory requirements that are oftentimes difficult to achieve. Drawing upon the viscoelastic nature of biological tissue and the tensegrity model of cellular architecture, this chapter will visit what is known to date on the biological response to a variety of different acoustic stimuli at very low frequencies.
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    Akaoraora'ia te peu 'ā to 'ui tūpuna: Culturally responsive pedagogy for cook islands secondary school physical education
    (2013-01-01) Te Ava A; Rubie-Davies C; Airini; Ovens A
    This research examines outcomes from introducing cultural values into Cook Islands secondary schools during two cycles of action research comprising planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The cultural values upon which the physical education lessons were based were: tāueue (participation), angaanga kapiti (cooperation), akatano (discipline), angaanga taokotai (community involvement), te reo Maori Kuki Airani (Cook Islands Maori language), and auora (physical and spiritual wellbeing). The cultural values were believed to be an essential element of teaching physical education but one challenge was how to assist teachers to implement the cultural values into classroom teaching as most participant teachers were not Cook Islanders. Findings from this action research project suggest that while participant teachers and community cultural experts may agree to incorporate cultural values in teaching Cook Islands secondary school students, teachers nonetheless find difficulties in implementing this objective. Copyright © The Authors 2013.
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    Autonomous anthromorphic robotic system with low-cost colour sensors to monitor plant growth in a laboratory
    (In-Tech, 2012) Sen Gupta G; Seelye M; Seelye J; Bailey D; Dutta, A
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    Balancing the scales-Nurses' attempts at meeting family and employer needs in a work-intensified environment
    (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2020-11) Harvey C; Baldwin A; Thompson S; Willis E; Meyer A; Pearson M; Otis E
    Aims This paper describes findings from a survey conducted in New Zealand exploring nurses’ decision-making about when to delay care, delegate care, hand care over or leave care undone. Unanticipated findings identified processes that nurses go through when deciding to take planned/unplanned leave when wards are constrained through budget limitations. Background Missed/rationed care is increasingly the focus of attention in international studies, identifying a complex interplay of organisational, professional and personal factors affecting nurses’ decision-making when faced with limited organisational time, human and material resources to provide care. Methods The survey presented nurses with Likert-scale questions with option for free text comments. This paper reports on the commentaries about work–life balance. Results Nurses described workload pressures that lead to rationing care affected them, and the long-term effect on them as individuals. Nurses verbalized the difficulties and associated guilt about taking leaving and sick leave when wards were short staffed. Conclusions Nurses consider how their absence will affect the workspace and their home first, considering the impact on themselves last. Implications The findings may provide valuable insights for nurse managers in relation to workforce allocations and resources where acknowledgement of work–life balance is considered.
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    Basic Volcanic Elements of the Arxan-Chaihe Volcanic Field, Inner Mongolia, NE China
    (inTech Open: Rijeka, Croatia, 2020-10-30) Li B; Nemeth K; Palmer A; Wu J; Procter J; Liu J
    The Arxan-Chaihe Volcanic Field, Inner Mongolia, NE China is a Pleistocene to Recent volcanic field still considered to be active. In this chapter we provide an update of current volcanological research conducted in the last four years to describe the volcanic architecture of the identified vents, their eruptive history and potential volcanic hazards. Here we provide an evidence-based summary of the most common volcanic eruption styles and types the field experienced in its evolution. The volcanic field is strongly controlled by older structural elements of the region. Hence most of the volcanoes of the field are fissure-controlled, fissure-aligned and erupted in Hawaiian to Strombolian-style creating lava spatter and scoria cone cone chains. One of the largest and most complex volcano of the field (Tongxin) experienced a violent phreatomagmatic explosive phase creating a maar in an intra-mountain basin, while the youngest known eruptions formed a triple vent set (Yanshan) that reached violent Strombolian phases and created an extensive ash and lapilli plains in the surrounding areas. This complex vent system also emitted voluminous lava flows that change the landscape by damming fluival networks, providing a volcanological paradise for the recently established Arxan UNESCO GLobal Geopark.
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    The Brawn-Drain? Issues for the professional sports worker
    (Dunmore Press, 2004) Sayers, Janet; Edwards, Margot
    Professionalism is now the reality in many sports. For the professional sportsperson (most professional sports are male), there are several challenges and issues that make them a 'special' type of worker. We explore three of the challenges of the sports professional: the short-term nature of the career and its implications which includes living with injury and the fear of life after a sports career; second, the 'brawn drain'; and third, the celebrity status of athletes.
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    BULLY BEEF, BISCUITS AND SCURVY: THE GALLIPOLI RATIONS OF NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS IN 1915
    (T.C. KÜLTÜR VE TURİZM BAKANLIĞ, 2020-11-01) Harper, G; Wilson, N; Barış BORLAT Burhan SAYILIR; Aslıhan KERVAN
    An analysis of the nutritional deficiencies of the rations fed to New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli 1915.
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    By Your Place in the World I Will Know Who You Are
    (Victoria University Press, 2016-07-14) Makereti TRM; Horrocks, I; Lacey, C
    This collection of personal essays, a first of its kind, re-imagines the idea of place for an emerging generation of readers and writers. It offers glimpses into where we are now and how that feels, and opens up the range and kinds of stories we can conceive of telling about living here. Contributors include Tony Ballantyne, Sally Blundell, Alex Calder, Annabel Cooper, Tim Corballis, Martin Edmond, Ingrid Horrocks, Lynn Jenner, Cherie Lacey, Tina Makereti, Harry Ricketts, Jack Ross, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Giovanni Tiso, Ian Wedde, Lydia Wevers, and Ashleigh Young.
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    Care-full Community Economies
    (Routledge, 2018) Dombroski KF; Healy S; McKinnon KI; Harcourt, W; Bauhardt, C
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    Challenges and Innovations in Field Education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
    (Routledge, 2022-03-01) Briggs L; Maidment J; Hay K; Medina-Martinez K; Rondon-Jackson R; Fronek P; Fronek, P; Smith Rotabi-Casares, K
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    Charities and state schooling privatisations in Aotearoa New Zealand
    (Routledge, 2020-10-08) O'Neill J; Powell D; Hogan, A; Thompson, G
    This chapter provides a local vernacular analysis of recent education privatisations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Specifically, it examines contemporary charitable activity in the New Zealand state schooling sector, and its emergent impact on schooling policy trajectories and effects. A focal point is the discursive manner in which it is possible for charities to have become softly incorporated within the language, practices and relations of state schooling policy networks, contributing to what Ball and Junemann conclude is a new form of education governance. The chapter discusses the key vernacular dimensions of state schooling in New Zealand that have lubricated changing views of the boundaries between 'public' and 'private' goods. Education organisations in New Zealand, especially the that are registered charities, are made viable and visible by partnering with a messy mix of organisations across multiple sectors. Charities and philanthropic actors have now emerged as important contributors to this economised state schooling discourse at both central and local levels.
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    Completing a PhD by publication: A rewarding and challenging choice
    (NZCER Press, 2014) Kahu ER; McMaster, C; Murphy, C
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    Confidentiality and privacy
    (New Zealand Psychological Society, 2016) Taylor JE; Dickson JA; Rucklidge JJ; Williams T; Waitoki, WW; Feather, JS; Robertson, NR; Rucklidge, JJ
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    Connecting landscape, lifecourse and mobilities
    (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014) roche; Prince RJ; mansvelt; gallagher; Roche, M; Mansvelt, J; Prince, R; Gallagher, G
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    Contexts, Forms and Outcomes of Mathematics Teacher Collaboration
    (Springer, 2024) Esteley C; Huang R; Mellone M; Soto G; Eden R; Coles A; Borko H; Potari D
    This open access book is the product of an international study which offers a state-of-the-art summary of mathematics teacher collaboration with respect to theory, research, practice, and policy.
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    Critical discourse analysis and media studies
    (Routledge, 2017-07-18) Phelan S; John Flowerdew, JF; John E. Richardson, JR
    This chapter focuses on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), but embeds the discussion in some general reflections on the place of the concept of discourse in media studies. It reflects on the emergence of CDA as a distinct approach in the 1980s and 1990s, especially as it resonated with the theoretical division between political economy and cultural studies in media studies. The chapter considers possible future iterations of media discourse studies, in ways that go beyond the notion of a prescriptive CDA paradigm. Philo voices a criticism that, in its most benign form, is implicit in the media researcher's decision to combine CDA and political economy. The methodology suggests an obvious division of labour: CDA will be used to analyse media texts, while political economy will be used to explain their structural production and circulation. G. Philo's argument recalls J. Blommaert's critique of CDA for its "linguistic bias".