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Personalized Energy Priorities: A User-Centric Application for Energy Advice
This research presents a new web-based application, called Personalised Energy Priorities (PEP), that provides households with personalised and tailored advice on practices or technologies they might adopt to improve the ...
Engaging with communities for climate change adaptation: introducing Community Development for Adaptation
In the years to come, many of New Zealand’s urban settlements are likely to be impacted by climate-induced hazards such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, flooding and rising groundwater levels, and some are already being ...
Accountability for Practical Reasoning Agents
Artificial intelligence has been increasing the autonomy of man-made artefacts such as software agents, self-driving vehicles and military drones. This increase in autonomy together with the ubiquity and impact of such ...
Where to From Kyoto?
This brief paper considers climate change law from an inter- and intra-national perspective. Three issues are touched upon. Firstly, given that New Zealand is likely to fall-short of it’s Kyoto emissions reduction target, ...
Legal and Jurisprudential Aspects of Mandatory 'Environmental Literacy' Programmes in Tertiary Education
There is a significant and growing body of literature that considers how Universities might act as a catalyst in fostering sustainability from the perspectives of management and administration, promoting research into ...
Gait stability during shod and barefoot walking and running on a treadmill assessed by correlation entropy
This study tests correlation entropy, 𝐾2, as a measure of stability for gait analysis. An average of 13 strides from 10 participants in each combination of one footwear (barefoot vs shod) condition and one gait mode ...
Focus on Housing: The New Affordable Housing Legislation
This paper begins with a warning! The Government has recently signaled its intention to review the Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Act 2008. Given National’s opposition to the legislation when it was ...
Semi-automated assessment of SQL schemas via database unit testing
A key skill for students learning relational database concepts is how to design and implement a database schema in SQL. This skill is often tested in an assignment where students derive a schema from a natural language ...
The preservation of Māori textiles: Collaboration, research and cultural meaning.
Māori artefacts discovered in 1895 at Puketoi Station, Otago, South Island New Zealand, were re-examined using multiple methods to gather information of relevance and meaning to contemporary Māori culture. This paper ...