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Item We’re in the era of overtourism but there is a more sustainable way forward(The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2019-01-16) Scheyvens RItem GADAG: A genetic algorithm for learning directed acyclic graphs(2017-04-11) Champion M; Picheny V; Vignes MSparse large Directed Acyclic Graphs learning with a combination of a convex program and a tailored genetic algorithm.Item Nursing roles and responsibilities in general practice: three case studies(Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, 2015) Walker LA; Clendon J; Nelson KINTRODUCTION: Primary care nursing teams may now comprise registered nurses (usually termed practice nurses), nurse practitioners, physician assistants, enrolled nurses, and primary care practice assistants, clinical assistants, or nursing assistants. There is a need to understand how practitioners in the different roles work with patients in the changed environment. The aim of this study was to describe the different configurations of health professionals' skill-mix in three dissimilar primary care practices, their inter- and intra-professional collaboration and communication, and to explore the potential of expanded nursing scopes and roles to improve patient access. METHODS: Document review, observation and interviews with key stakeholders were used to explore how health practitioners in three practice settings work together, including their delegation, substitution, enhancement and innovation in roles and interdisciplinary interactions in providing patient care. A multiphase integrative, qualitative and skill-mix framework analysis was used to compare findings related to nursing skill-mix across case studies. FINDINGS: Three models of primary care provision, utilising different nursing skill-mix and innovations were apparent. These illustrate considerable flexibility and responsiveness to local need and circumstances. CONCLUSION: Enabling nurses to work to the full extent of their scope, along with some adjustments to the models of care, greater multidisciplinary cooperation and coordination could mitigate future workforce shortages and improve patient access to care.Item How Is Latin America Fighting Neoliberalism?(https://www.thebigq.org/, 2017) Vilanova Miranda De Oliveira G; Lehman K; Pino-Ojeda WItem Assessment of the local tchebichef moments method for texture classification by fine tuning extraction parameters(arXiv, 2019-06-01) Barczak A; Reyes N; Susnjak TItem Authoritarian Rule Shedding its Populist Skin in Cambodia(TransNational Institute, 2018-03-15) Beban, A; Schoenberger, L; Lamb, VItem The Defence Capability Plan 2019: Ten Different Views from Security Commentators(2019-08-19) Azizian R; Burton J; Greener P; Harding N; Hutching M; Johanson T; Mapp W; Morse V; Moses J; Patman R; Harding, NWith the aim of broadening views on security issues, we asked a range of experts and commentators to respond to the 2019 Defence Capability Plan (DCP19) from their own point of view.Item With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending(The Conversation, 2019-06-17) Belgrave DItem Huawei or the highway? The rising costs of New Zealand’s relationship with China(The Conversation, 2019-02-20) Belgrave DItem They've always been here but we could not hear them. We could not see them(2019-09-01) Nicholas S; Crocombe M; Dixon R; Early R; Fimone W; Fiu R; Gragg J; Ioane T; Jione M; Johansson-Fua SU; Lisimoni-Togahai B; Lolohea A; Naisau SA; Papatua V; Rafai R; Taleo H; Taumoefolau M; Thompson T; Veikune AH; Willans FIn 2019, the international year of indigenous languages, and the year after the University of the South Pacific’s 50th anniversary, we are celebrating an achievement that we had never thought possible: the introduction of degree programmes in Cook Islands Māori, Rotuman, Tongan and Niuafo‘ou, Vagahau Niue, and Vanuatu Language Studies, alongside Fijian, the only indigenous language that had had a place in our curriculum until 2018. These programmes are aimed at fluent speakers of the languages of study, and they use these languages as medium of teaching and assessment. For the first time, English is therefore being challenged as the only language through which high-level concepts can be discussed, and through which academic research can be conducted. For the first time, Pacific languages will be taught in schools by teachers who are qualified to do so, rather than by fluent speakers who have been trained to teach other subjects. For the first time, our students can gain credit for delivering oral presentations, written essays and creative pieces in their dominant language. Even for the students who do not choose to take up this option, or who do not yet have a language programme open to them, the possibility of studying a Pacific language at our university is becoming normalised. Our aim in coming together to share our story is to lay out its complexity. If we are serious about the sustainability of these programmes, we need to engage with this complexity, and we need to keep talking about why all this matters. We need our leaders and our allies to understand that the actions we take at our university will impact the way the indigenous languages and cultures of this region are valued, used and transmitted to the next generations.
