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Item Food spaces that foster student capabilities: insights from a rural Aotearoa New Zealand high school(Oxford University Press, 2025-12-01) Reweti AN; Severinsen C; Erueti BTTA-A-PNT; Carter D; Aitken CThis study explores how a school wharekai (communal dining hall) implementing the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunch Programme operates as a multidimensional health promotion setting that fosters student capabilities beyond nutrition. Using a qualitative approach grounded in mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and community-based participatory research, we conducted focus groups with 22 students and semi-structured interviews with 12 staff members to examine how the wharekai promotes wellbeing. Findings show that the wharekai provides a culturally responsive environment where three interrelated capabilities flourish: self-management, interpersonal relationships, and community participation. Through daily routines and authentic roles in food preparation, students practise responsibility, initiative, and cooperation. Shared meals strengthen tuakana–teina (peer) relationships and build trust between students and staff, while collective activities foster belonging, reciprocity, and sustainability. Conceptualizing food spaces through cultural frameworks such as the wharekai demonstrates how school food programmes can simultaneously address food insecurity and create transformative learning environments. This study highlights how culturally grounded, settings-based approaches can integrate nutritional, social, and relational dimensions of health promotion, reimagining school food provision as a holistic, capability-building practice that enhances individual and collective wellbeing.Item Bowel screening in New Zealand: are men and Pacific peoples being left behind?(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022) O’Connor L; Braithwaite-Flores A; Jagroop-Dearing A; Dearing CGColorectal cancer screening participation is influenced by several factors including ethnicity and gender. Results from the first 6 months of a new screening scheme were examined in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand. All residents aged between 60 and 74 years of age who participated in the scheme by returning a faecal immunochemical test kit were included. Participant ethnicity was compared with 2018 Hawke’s Bay Census data. Participants who returned a normal (negative), abnormal (positive) and a spoilt kit (defined as being unable to be processed for testing), were collated and compared for gender and ethnicity. A total of 3444 residents participated in the scheme. Overall, participant ethnicity proportions did not represent the Census population for Hawke’s Bay District Health Board residents. The proportions of Māori and Pacific peoples participating were lower than expected. The odds of returning a spoilt kit were six times higher (p = 0.013) for Pacific peoples and four times higher for men (p = 0.040). This short communication suggests that bowel screening programmes in New Zealand need to collate kit return rates and spoilt kits with the numbers of kits that are actually sent out to ensure equity for bowel screening in New Zealand.Item Income Risk Sharing Between Korea and Its Regional Partners: Evidence from International Factor Income Flows(Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of Korea International Economic Association, 2025-11-06) Choo D; Ko JThis paper investigates the extent to which Korea shares income risk with its major regional partners through cross-border factor income flows. Using a dataset spanning 1998–2023, disaggregated by income type and partner region, we quantify Korea’s international income risk-sharing performance with eight global regions. Employing a bilateral income risk-sharing framework, we find that Korea achieves modest but statistically significant income smoothing through primary income inflows – particularly investment income – from Southeast Asia (SEA) and the European Union. Among income components, dividend receipts from SEA are the most effective in mitigating idiosyncratic output shocks. In contrast, primary income outflows – especially interest payments to the United States – amplify output volatility, leading to significant income dis-smoothing. These results highlight the heterogeneous nature of Korea’s financial linkages and underscore the importance of diversifying investment flows toward regions offering stronger countercyclical income, thereby enhancing macroeconomic resilience.Item Fish By-Products Utilization in Food and Health: Extraction Technologies, Bioactive, and Sustainability Challenges(Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2025-11) Waqar M; Sajjad N; Ullah Q; Vasanthkumar SS; Ahmed F; Panpipat W; Aluko RE; Kaur L; Chaijan M; Ageru TAFish by-products, traditionally regarded as waste, are increasingly recognized as valuable sources of bioactive compounds, including peptides, omega-3 fatty acids, collagen, and hydroxyapatite. These molecules exhibit significant functional properties with applications in food preservation, dietary supplementation, pharmaceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. This review explores advanced extraction technologies such as enzyme-assisted hydrolysis, supercritical fluid extraction, and cold plasma processing, which enhance the yield and stability of bioactives while supporting zero-waste and circular economy principles. Despite technological progress, key barriers remain, including inconsistent raw material quality, high processing costs, regulatory uncertainty, and limited industrial infrastructure. Peptides and protein hydrolysates derived from fish frames, skins, viscera, and scales have demonstrated antioxidant, antihypertensive, antimicrobial, antidiabetic activities, but translation into functional food and health products is constrained by scalability and regulatory challenges. Future work should focus on optimizing bioprocessing, validating health benefits through clinical trials, and implementing sustainable valorization frameworks. Addressing these challenges will unlock the full potential of fish by-products in advancing food security and human health.Item Exploring youth vaping in New Zealand intermediate and high schools: a mixed-methods study protocol(BioMed Central Limited, part of Springer Nature, London, 2025-12) Jagroop-Dearing A; Lañas–Pangan J; Khan MH; Dearing CG; Forrest RHBackground: Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) represent a global growing public-health concern among adolescents. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), daily vaping rates have risen sharply (10.5%) among 15–17-year-olds in 2023/24. This is alarming due to nicotine’s addictive nature and its impact on adolescent brain development, mental health, and academic performance. Māori youth and those in socio-economically deprived areas are disproportionately affected, exacerbating existing health-inequities. Legislative frameworks prohibit vaping on school premises, yet ease of access remains a concern. Punitive school responses are increasingly viewed as harmful and ineffective, highlighting an urgent need for evidence-based, health-centred interventions. Methods: This multiphase, mixed-methods study explores vaping within secondary schools on the East Coast, NZ. Phase 1 involves online surveys to collect quantitative data on vaping behaviours, targeting 1375 students to ensure sufficient statistical power. Initial qualitative data will be gathered alongside. Phase 2 employs in-depth interviews and focus groups with students (vapers/non-vapers) and staff to explore perceptions of health risks, access, and effectiveness of school responses. A rapid scoping review (RSR) will synthesise existing research on adolescent vaping in Oceanic countries, identifying behavioural patterns, legislative impacts, and gaps in the evidence base. Discussion: This protocol addresses critical knowledge gaps by integrating quantitative and qualitative findings with a RSR. This study aims to inform the development of culturally appropriate, health-based, vape prevention and cessation strategies. Ultimately, findings may support a paradigm shift away from punitive disciplinary measures towards supportive school-based interventions, that improve public-health outcomes and reduce health inequities.Item Accurate Facial Temperature Measurement Using Low-Cost Thermal Camera for Indoor Thermal Comfort Applications(MDPI AG, Basel, 2025-11) Ahsan M; Shahzad W; Arif KMNon-contact measurement of human skin temperature is an important area of research. Infrared temperature devices have played a critical role in measuring skin temperature without physical contact. Thermal cameras have also been employed for non-contact skin temperature measurements. However, both infrared devices and thermal cameras have limitations that restrict their use in the building industry for assessing occupant thermal comfort. The building industry requires sophisticated equipment capable of measuring human temperature non-invasively and, through integration with building control systems, adjusting the environment to meet occupants’ thermal comfort needs. Unfortunately, standard thermal cameras and infrared temperature sensors are not designed with building applications in mind. This paper proposes an affordable and building-compatible thermal camera designed to measure occupant skin temperature via a non-contact method, enabling better integration with building control systems to support occupant comfort. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can reliably capture facial skin temperature and establish a quantifiable relationship between facial and room temperatures. Moreover, this provides a foundation for future real-time thermal comfort and building-control applications.Item pH-responsive compartmentalized alginate beads enable spatial control of sequential nanozyme reactions(Elsevier BV, Netherlands, 2025-12-01) Yang H; Whitby CP; Travas-Sejdic JControlling two-step sequential catalytic reactions through external stimuli is a powerful approach for developing responsive chemical systems with potential applications in, for example, logic-gated sensing, process-sequence checking and programmable pollutant remediation. Here, a pH-responsive compartmentalized hydrogel bead system was fabricated via coaxial microfluidic electrospray, in which gold (Au) and iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanozymes were spatially segregated into distinct domains. We systematically assessed the pH-dependent reactivity of Au and Fe3O4 nanozymes between pH 2 and 9 to evaluate individual catalytic activities. Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) exhibited glucose oxidase (GOx)-like activity at pH 8–9, quantified by a cobalt‑carbonate (Co/CO₃) UV–vis assay, while Fe3O4 NPs showed strong peroxidase (POD)-like activity at pH 2–3, quantified by 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt (ABTS) oxidation. Leveraging this pH-selective behaviour, the Au-rich domain catalyses glucose oxidation to generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which then diffuses into the Fe3O4-rich domain for decomposition. Compared to free and single hydrogel system, the compartmentalized system enhances the reaction efficiency by minimizing interference between nanozymes through spatial separation.Item The Need to Revitalise Drug Use Monitoring to Keep Pace With a More Dynamic, Digitally Enabled and Globally Connected Drug Market(John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs, 2026-01) Griffiths P; Parry C; Ambekar A; Vicknasingam B; Basutu A; Myers B; Bo A; Dietze P; Douglas K; Ezard N; Fiore M; Hynes M; Jones CM; Kent P; Mounteney J; Niaz K; Palczak K; Pascale A; Peacock A; Rychert M; Sturua L; Zhang Y-AItem Including dynamics in a network-based stochastic multihazard model: A virtual testbed for volcanic ashfall and flood risk assessment(Elsevier B.V., 2025-12) Bebbington M; Dunant A; Harte D; Mead S; Whitehead MNetwork models have been previously proposed for spatial cascades of natural hazard events. These have generally not taken time into account, with the cascade of events effectively assumed to occur instantaneously. This study introduces a dynamic, network-based stochastic model developed as a virtual testbed to simulate complex multihazard interactions between multiple temporal processes, often occurring on different time scales. Since state of the art physical models generally involve heavy computation, the use of computationally simple probability distributions to describe the dynamics and interaction of the hazard events enables a larger number of model simulations, promoting greater robustness of model forecasts. The network modelling approach aims to allow the identification of key elements of the system that are most vulnerable, develop risk mitigation strategies, and examine restoration plans. We exemplify our methodology by investigating impacts of volcanic ashfall on river flow dynamics in the Rangitaiki and Tarawera river systems in New Zealand, simulating hydrological processes over a 365-day period with a volcanic eruption. Our results demonstrate how testbeds can be use to explore “what-if” cascading impacts scenarios, by providing a flexible, computationally efficient framework, offering crucial support for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in volcanic regions.Item Postfeminist Healthism: Understanding the Gendering of Healthism Using Menstrual Tracking Apps as an Example(John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness., 2025-11) Riley S; Evans A; Robson M‘Postfeminist healthism’ offers an essential framework for understanding how healthism is gendered. In this article, we describe and advance the concept of postfeminist sensibility and its synergistic alignments with healthism. We then consider how postfeminist healthism operates as a subjectifying force for the millions of girls, women, and other feminine-identified people globally—even when it harms their mental or physical health. We use menstrual tracking apps (MTAs) as an indicative example to both demonstrate how a postfeminist healthism acts at the intersections of bodies, subjectivity, and health, and to show the value of a postfeminist healthism in understanding MTAs. Overall, we show the importance of understanding the distinct ways in which healthism is gendered through postfeminism.
