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Channelisation of Noise through a Rhythmic Grid: Brutalist Mechatronic Sound-sculpture
Authors:   , Zareei Mohammad
Published: November 2021

The aim of this thesis is to provide accessibility and appreciation for sounds that are conventionally perceived as non-musical or “noise”. Ordering the noise on a grid of metric rhythms, and underlining its materiality through an audiovisual mode of expression are the two main strategies employed. Using the medium of mechatronics, mechanically generated sonic by-products of technological developments are chosen as the focus sonic material. As a result, the output of this research extends what is known as glitch music outside the territory of amplified sound, to a realm where noise is created physically and acoustically.  Based on these objectives, and following an investigation on the use of mechatronics in contemporary sound-based art, an ensemble of mechatronic sound-sculptures is designed and developed. Varying in terms of material, sound-generating mechanism, and sonic quality, the ensemble is divided into three different instrument-types, each of which is introduced, thoroughly described, and sonically evaluated. Next, three new audiovisual works are developed and realised utilising the mechatronic sound-sculptures, in order to turn into practice the ideas explored in this research. These compositions – which are all exhibited in competitive international symposiums – undertake the integration of mechatronics in three areas of sonic arts that are interconnected with the sound-sculptures.  Furthermore, this thesis also establishes an aesthetic framework that formalises a significant body of contemporary sound art and music that, prior to this work, had suffered academic inattention. Probing the various parallels between the ideas developed in this thesis and Brutalist architecture, ‘sound-based brutalism’ is coined and formulated as an aesthetic underpinning for not only the academically marginalised works discussed, but also the work of the author. Lastly, two audiovisual projects (a performance and a series of ten installation pieces) are developed using the entire mechatronic sound-sculpture series in an effort to realise ‘sound-based brutalism’.
Searching for the Soul of Europe: The Impact of the Sovereign Debt Crisis on an ‘Ever Closer Union’
Authors:   , O’Dwyer-Cunliffe Finnian
Published: November 2021

The destruction of global financial markets and the collapse of the Greek and Irish economies in 2010 caused a ripple effect that spread across the Eurozone and presented the EU with an unprecedented crisis. The level of economic devastation led many to question the integrity of the single currency and the direction of the European project as a whole. This thesis has examined three rounds of debate during the Sovereign Debt Crisis between 2010 and 2014, in order to ascertain the effect of this period on three competing ‘visions’ for the future of Europe. It has found that efforts to reform economic governance in the EU in the wake of the crisis have for the most part led to an entrenchment of the consolidation orthodoxy sponsored by Germany and its allies in northern Europe. However, a political turning point in mid-2012 led to a reprieve for the European Left and the subsequent advancement of the Social European vision advocating greater solidarity in the place of fiscal austerity. While the consolidation coalition’s commitment to economic stability and oversight has for the most part been maintained, the shifting balance of power in European politics, and an increasing frustration with the failures of austerity, have provided momentum for a major revision to the status quo. This thesis has found that while the Eurosceptic rise in the 2014 elections has raised serious questions for the EU, it has highlighted the unwavering commitment towards further integration among the dominant political actors in Europe, and will most likely set the Continent further along the path towards an ever closer union.
The Aeneid with Rabbits: Children's Fantasy as Modern Epic
Authors:   , Parry Hannah
Published: November 2021

Despite their apparent dissimilarity, children's literature and the epic tradition are often intertwined. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the frequent retelling and repackaging of epics such as Beowulf and the Odyssey as children's books. If there is potential for epic to become children's stories, however, there is also potential for children's stories to become epic, and a number of important works of children's fantasy have been discussed as epics in their own right.  In this thesis, I examine the extent to which writers of children's fantasy can be viewed as working in an epic tradition, drawing on and adapting epic texts for the modern age as Virgil and Milton did for their own times. Looking specifically at key works of British fantasy written post-WWI, I argue that children's literature and epic serve similar social and cultural functions, including the ability to mythologise communal experience and explore codes of heroism that are absorbed by their intended audience. Rosemary Sutcliff's retellings of epic texts for children suggest the ways in which epic can be reworked to create new heroic codes that are a combination of their source material, the values of their new cultural context, and the author's own personal worldview. This potential is further explored through Richard Adams's Watership Down, an animal story that functions in part as a retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid with rabbits. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit uses the tension between epic and children's fairy-tale to examine the codes at the heart of Norse and Anglo-Saxon epic, and suggest an alternative that nonetheless allows for the glory of an epic worldview. Both T.H. White and Sutcliff engage with the Arthurian myth and the Matter of Britain in ways that use children's literature as a starting point for national epic. Finally, C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman each make use of Milton's Paradise Lost (and, in Pullman's case, of Lewis's earlier work) to produce very different fantasies that each look ahead to the end of epic.  Cumulatively, these books illustrate the manner in which children's texts provide a home for the epic in a postmodern age in which many critics suggest the epic in its pure form can no longer survive. The rise of scientific empiricism, combined with national disillusionment following WWI, has been argued to have left epic's traditional worldview of myth, religion and the supernatural impossible to be used without irony. Children's fantasy, ostensibly addressed to “an audience that is still innocent” (Gillian Adams 109), allows authors to eschew irony in favour of story-telling, and explore ideas such as courage, honour and transcendence that lie at the heart of epic.
Cambridge and London in Wordsworth's 'Prelude'
Authors:   , Taylor Greg
Published: November 2021

This thesis examines two sections of William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem, The Prelude: Book 3, “Residence at Cambridge,” and Book 7, “Residence in London.” Books 3 and 7 are often read as interruptions in the poem’s narrative of psychological and artistic maturation. “Cambridge” and “London” are often read as impediments to the development of Wordsworth’s imagination, a development which is traditionally associated with transcendental epiphany in nature. This thesis offers a re-reading of the Cambridge and London books, emphasizing their affirmative role in the organic structure of the poem, and suggesting that these spaces allow Wordsworth to reflect positively on his imaginative development.  Chapter 1 considers the issues involved in a literature review. Chapter 2 looks at the representation of Wordsworth’s adjustment to Cambridge. Though the poet considers his imagination to have been dormant during his first year at university, Book 3 depicts a phase in which the mind is opening toward outside influences. In the sheltered groves and level fenland of Cambridge, Wordsworth finds an environment both protective and sufficiently strange to stimulate his sense of inner power. Chapter 3 is concerned with Wordsworth’s changing attitudes toward London. The poet was composing Book 7 over a period of time during which he made multiple trips to the city. While it is ostensibly the record of his very first residence in London, Book 7 has a palimpsestic quality, layering together different encounters with the city and exhibiting an increasingly affirmative vision of urban life. In particular, this chapter traces the influence of Charles Lamb on Wordsworth’s thinking about London. Chapter 4 considers the centrality of the body and the sense of touch in Wordsworth’s response to London. Touch in Book 7 is both a source of anxiety and the vehicle for Wordsworth’s understanding of the city, its influence on him and its significance for a poetics of belonging.
Narrativity and segmentivity in contemporary Australian and New Zealand long poems and poem sequences
Authors:   , Beautrais Airini
Published: November 2021

The PhD in creative writing comprises a critical and a creative component. This thesis explores how poets utilise verse form in order to support and/or undermine narrativity in long poems or poem sequences, and asks the question: what possibilities are offered by verse form that distinguish poetry from other literary narrative genres? Using Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s concept of segmentivity, I consider how segmentation at various formal levels, including sections within a book, poems within a sequence, stanzas, line-breaks, and metre, can affect the narrativity of a text. I also consider segmentivity in relation to the ways in which a text may be narrativized, and to the interactions between narrative and other text types such as lyric and argument.  The theoretical framework for the critical component involves a synthesis of approaches from within the fields of narrative theory and literary criticism. The methodology used is a close reading and analysis of case study texts by six New Zealand and Australian poets, written in the period 1990-2010: Dorothy Porter’s The Monkey’s Mask (1994) and What a Piece of Work (1999); Alan Wearne’s The Lovemakers (2008); Tusiata Avia’s Bloodclot (2009); Bill Sewell’s Erebus: A Poem (1999) and The Ballad of Fifty-One (2003); Anna Jackson’s The Gas Leak (2006) and John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography (2008). These texts range in their degree of narrativity from verse novels through narrative sequences to lyric sequences. The local and contemporary context has been chosen for several reasons, including the strong history of narrative poetry in both countries, recent trends towards long narrative poems and poem sequences, a relative lack of scholarship on the poetry of this region and time period, and because of the relevance to my own creative work.  This thesis argues that segmentivity can be used with or against narrativity in a long poem or poem sequence, with a range of possible results: from strongly narrative texts such as verse novels through to antinarrative texts and lyric sequences. Different levels of segmentation have different effects on narrativity, the division of a text into individual poems being the most important in the texts under consideration here. It is demonstrated that narrative as a text type can exist alongside other text types, and that segmentivity is important to this interaction, with a bearing on the overall narrativity of a text.  The creative component tests and extends the findings of the critical component. It consists of a poem sequence in three parts entitled Flow, on the subject of the Whanganui river. The sequence takes a discontinuous approach to narrative, varies in its approach to temporality, features interplay between narrative and lyric modes, and incorporates underlying arguments on environmental and social themes.
Design and Synthesis of a Highly Simplified Pateamine Analogue
Authors:   , Brown Sarah
Published: November 2021

Pateamine (1) is a natural product from the marine sponge Mycale hentscheli that exhibits potent anticancer properties, and has potential as an antiviral agent, and in preventing the muscle wasting disorder cachexia. This biological activity of pateamine is due to its ability to inhibit the eukaryotic initiation factor eIF4A, which leads to the formation of stress granules, the inhibition of protein synthesis, and ultimately cell death. Unfortunately, pateamine is obtained in very small amounts from Mycale hentscheli; thus, it is necessary to synthesise pateamine and novel structural analogues in the laboratory. Previously a separate binding and scaffolding domain of pateamine was proposed, which led to the synthesis of a simplified des-methyl des- amino analogue that reduced the number of synthetic steps compared to pateamine while retaining its biological activity. This was followed by the synthesis of a simplified triazole- containing analogue 9 6 ; unfortunately, this exhibited substantially reduced bioactivity compared to pateamine, and it is therefore necessary to determine if the reduction in bioactivity was due to the replacement of the thiazole ring with a triazole ring, or due to the removal of key methyl groups of pateamine. Thus, the thiazole-containing analogue of 96 is deemed to be an important synthetic target.  In this Master’s project a highly simplified side chain-free analogue 130 was synthesised, which laid the groundwork for future synthesis of a thiazole-containing analogue of 96. The synthesis of 130 was achieved through a convergent synthesis with one commercially available and two prepared fragments. Particular attention was paid to the development of an efficient thiazole formation methodology, as well as optimising fragment synthesis and coupling reactions. Determination of the binding of analogue 130 with eIF4A using a competitive bioactivity assay in the presence of pateamine was then undertaken, which showed that either 130 does not bind to eIF4A or that it binds non-covalently and is then displaced by pateamine.
"If I Were Not Alexander..." An Examination of the Political Philosophy of Plutarch’s Alexander-Caesar
Authors:   , Buckley-Gorman Richard
Published: November 2021

This thesis examines Plutarch’s Alexander-Caesar. Plutarch’s depiction of Alexander has been long recognised as encompassing many defects, including an overactive thumos and a decline in character as the narrative progresses. In this thesis I examine the way in which Plutarch depicts Alexander’s degeneration, and argue that the defects of Alexander form a discussion on the ethics of kingship. I then examine the implications of pairing the Alexander with the Caesar; I examine how some of the themes of the Alexander are reflected in the Caesar. I argue that the status of Caesar as both a figure from the Republican past and the man who established the Empire gave the pair a unique immediacy to Plutarch’s time. I then examine the argument, made by some, that it is possible to discern in the Parallel Lives a statement of cultural resistance to the Roman Empire. I argue that the affirmative Hellenism which pervades the Lives reflects not so much a cultural resistance to the Roman Empire, but a concern that the Hellenic values that Plutarch valorised should be dominant within the Roman Empire.
Collaborative music therapy; Determining the benefits and challenges of collaborative work from a student’s perspective
Authors:   , Macdonald Jamie
Published: November 2021

This study describes the benefits and challenges experienced by a student music therapist on placement at a special school in New Zealand. While working alongside an experienced music therapist at the school, and taking external supervision from another, I was able to reflect the challenges and benefits of this unique collaboration. The process of collaboration is complex especially when collaborating parties have differing roles that potentially create power differentials. Findings have been generated from secondary analysis of my reflective journal and clinical data collected while on placement. The findings explore the diverse range of possible benefits and challenges of the interactions that the collaboration enabled. The study concludes that despite the many challenges in maintaining a successful collaboration, it provides therapists with many extra opportunities for our participants, as well as a flexible learning environment for a student music therapist.
Attitudes towards and use of ebooks at the University of Canterbury
Authors:   , Scullin Nick
Published: November 2021

Research Problem:  There is a contradiction surrounding ebooks in that they are becoming more and more common in academic libraries but evidence often suggests that users still prefer print books to ebooks. The purpose of the study is to examine how users at the University of Canterbury are using the Library’s ebooks and what their attitudes towards ebooks are. The study also looks at what role age, gender, academic status and college affiliation play in shaping attitudes towards and use of ebooks.   Methodology:  The study used an online survey to discover how ebooks were used and viewed by users at the University of Canterbury. The survey was largely quantitative but included several comments sections where users could give more qualitative answers. The population sampled was the academic staff and PhD students of the University of Canterbury.   Results:   The results show that the participants are mostly aware of and using ebooks. Opinion is still divided on ebooks with some user still preferring print and many users preferring access to both print and ebooks. Age, gender, academic status and college affiliation all have some effect on attitudes towards and use of ebooks.   Implications:  Academic libraries need to take note of the opinions their users have about ebooks so as to better meet their needs. Some of the problems around ebook use can be solved by increased user education but others are the result of restrictions placed on ebooks by publishers and vendors. Other problems are inherent to the ebook format and cannot be ignored. Academic libraries can best meet their users’ needs by providing both print and ebook collections were possible.
Re-imagining the museum
Authors:   , Marsh Laura
Published: November 2021

Twentieth-century museums have become more than displays of art and history. Unlike their nineteenth century origins, museums today are a centre of culture, education and entertainment.  Designing a circulation system that connects the transitions between exhibits is like forming a riddle for a visitor to enter, experience, solve and remember.  The museum reflects every asset, flaw, scar, crease, emotion, and sole of whom has time to stand and observe. For one to observe, one has to navigate. Seeking the key principles into designing a successful circulation between architecture and visitor will allow a large-scale building to be read effortlessly and seamlessly like a well-written novel.  In the late 1980’s a design brief was revealed to the public requesting proposals for a National Museum of New Zealand. 10 years later the doors opened to Te Papa Tongarewa on Wellington’s waterfront. Among the submitted proposals, was a concept design by Ian Athfield and Frank Gehry. Their proposal did not make it past the conceptual stage, thus offering the opportunity to explore its potential interiority and circulation.  This thesis engages with the great museums that initiated 21st Century architecture such as the Guggenheim of Bilbao, the Jewish Museum of Berlin and most importantly, investigation into the design of Te Papa Tongarewa to analyse their method of circulation. For these museums both encapsulate the heritage of their location as well as defining future possibilities for museum architecture.  This thesis re-imagines the possibilities of the National Museum of New Zealand. This will be investigated through the tools of circulation and the experiential qualities that the architecture initiates as our bodies and the way we move are in continuous dialogue with our architecture.  This thesis investigates the importance and functionality of atrium designs, as well as the influence it has on the structures circulatory system. Exploring the potential of an Athfield / Gehry design will inspire an alternate reality to what could have been.
Leaving a Trail - Revealing heritage in a rural landscape
Authors:   , Rodgers Maria
Published: November 2021

‘Leaving a Trail – revealing heritage in a rural landscape’ investigates how landscape architecture can reveal heritage and connect Māori and Pākehā to the land and to the past in rural Aotearoa New Zealand. Our rural landscapes contain rich and varied stories, which, if interpreted and made stronger by being linked together, have the potential to create cultural and recreational assets as well as tourist drawcards.   A starting point for this research based in South Wairarapa was the six sites identified by the Wairarapa Moana Management Team as sites for development. The first design ‘hunch’ remained the touchstone of the project. With the six Wairarapa Moana Wetlands Park sites forming an ‘inner necklace’ the aim of this project became creating an ‘outer necklace’ of revealed heritage sites, a heritage trail.   This thesis was inspired by the depth of Māori connection to the land. Māori consider the natural world is able to ‘speak’ to humans. The method chosen for this design research is based on landscape architect Christophe Girot’s ‘Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture’. Girot is interested in methods and techniques that expand landscape projects beyond the amelioration of sites towards the reactivation of the cultural dimensions of sites. As part of this research is to enable connection with the cultural dimensions of sites, or to ‘hear the site speak’, his method was chosen as a starting point. It was adapted and shaped by previous experience and the experience of this research to form a new method, ‘Four Listening Acts in Landscape Architecture’. Through such methods landscape architects can grow their relationship with the land and so better design with the land and for the landscape and its people.  After research, the sites were chosen and grouped into four major routes, Māori, Pākehā settlement, natural system and military, so as to appeal to people with a variety of interests. Of the twenty six trail sites most are already marked and eleven are unmarked. Research into how to reveal these unmarked sites saw three different approaches used. Sites with spaces had their essence intensified to become places. Other sites had objects designed for them directly related to the landscape. The significance of the rest is shown with numbered markers. These three different methods of revealing a site’s significance are threaded together into a series, a necklace, creating a trail that contributes a cultural, recreational and tourist resource to South Wairarapa.
Path to Accessibility: The current state of disability access in Aotearoa New Zealand museums
Authors:   , King-Wall Riah
Published: November 2021

The New Museology posits museums and galleries as institutions entwined with issues of social justice and political responsibility. The relationship between museums and their communities is the founding aspect of this theoretical and practical framework. ‘Path to Accessibility’ explores the ways museums and galleries around Aotearoa New Zealand are engaging with communities of people with disabilities, consulting both with representatives from the disability sector and cultural organisations from around the country. This dissertation addresses a current gap in the literature available on how New Zealand museums are adapting to the needs of these audiences; a shift that is necessary given one in four New Zealanders identifies as having lived experience of disability. It also forges a valuable contribution to the field of museum studies by drawing on theory such as audience development and visitor research, and utilising emancipatory research frameworks from disability studies, as well as conducting original research on an under-examined topic.  The research comprised a multi-method approach to ensure credibility. Focus group and interview stages collected the experiences and viewpoints of existing museum visitors with disabilities. This provided a foundation on which to create a nationwide survey of 41 museums and galleries. The survey explored multiple aspects of disability access, including physical ingress, inclusive exhibition design, tailored public programming, digital accessibility, and levels of disability representation in staff and management positions.  The findings of this research project reveal that museums and galleries in Aotearoa New Zealand are for the most part considering disability access in some way. However, actioning related initiatives is often limited to achieving minimum legislative requirements rather than approaching it comprehensively as part of wider audience development strategies. The analysis of data gathered puts forward a number of suggestions around improving practice in New Zealand museums, central to which is establishing relationships with communities of people with disabilities and their advocacy groups to ensure long-term sustainability. These recommendations have global applicability for museum practice as comparative overseas studies demonstrate strong similarities to the New Zealand context.
Rethinking the Suburban Shopping Centre
Authors:   , Green Anthony
Published: November 2021

Auckland city is New Zealand’s fastest growing city which continues to sprawl outwards degrading the biodiversity of the natural systems. The population’s culture of the ‘quarter-acre dream’ opposes intensification in low rise suburbia. While suburban shopping centres are the product of urban sprawl they are now situated in central areas relative to the growing city. Their land is now more valuable than the surface car parking that occupies the majority of the site and has the opportunity to foster intensification. In addition, these centres no longer provide a new exciting retail experience and the retail environments lack any point of difference between suburb to suburb, city to city and country to country.  The research explores three bodies of work; new urbanists Jan Gehl and Peter Calthorpe; retail theory on theatrical experience from the architect Jon Jerde, and eco-master planning of Ken Yeang. Forming the hypothesis that ecology has the ability to facilitate the hybridisation of new urbanism and retail environments creating identity and sense of place for an intensified suburban-centre. Ecology has the capacity to create a theatrical experience to re-image the retail environments towards environmental conscious consumption. The inquiry contends that urban planning and development has fragmented the regions natural systems degrading the biodiversity of species that once occupied the built area. As we continue to consume more land and more commodities, we become removed from the environment, the thing that gives us life.  The outcome of this investigation is an urban masterplan and framework for Highland Park Shopping Centre, accommodating commercial, retail, recreational and residential activities in the form of a new suburban centre that reconnects and enhances the region’s natural systems. The centre becomes a catalyst for further intensification in its surrounding context. The strategies employed for the design case study can be replicated at other suburban centres allowing intensification to be enriched from the sites ecology.
Commemorative Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand: Exploring the bicentennial and sestercentennial of the Endeavour's arrival in Gisborne and Tairāwhiti
Authors:   , Nuttall Rebecca
Published: November 2021

In the midst of commemoration programmes for the centenary of the First World War, academic literature about and interest in the topic of commemoration has grown significantly. While studies in the UK and America focus on the use of the past and commemoration, there is little work on commemorative practice within a New Zealand context, particularly over a period of time. As museums and heritage sites increasingly look to new ways of making meaningful experiences for a diverse and changing public, this research seeks to address the gap in the literature and help to inform future management of commemoration in New Zealand.  With the sestercentennial of the 1769 arrival of the Endeavour to New Zealand coming up in 2019, this research involved case studies of the earlier bicentennial in 1969 and the planning stages of the future commemoration in both Gisborne (the site of Lieutenant James Cook’s first landing) and Wellington. The methods employed for this dissertation comprised archival and documentary research, as well as interviews with professionals involved in the sestercentennial. Using a theoretical framework based in museum and heritage studies, as well as history, sociology and cultural studies this study considers the many ways we use the past, from institutional practices to vernacular interests.  The findings revealed that in 1969 commemorations in Gisborne were a spectacle, a true performance. Depictions of Cook were everywhere and monuments were erected all around the city. From pageantry to legacy building, the 2019 focus is on educating the public and establishing meaningful legacies for the future. This dissertation concludes that commemoration should not be treated as a one-off event but rather as an ongoing practice that is shaped by the past and by social and political contexts as much as we are. I argue that the three most important, yet also most changeable, elements of commemoration are narrative, approach to management (top-down and/or bottom-up), and participation. It is common for some to want to ‘look forward’ rather than to the past to inform commemorative planning. However, I argue that more can be gained by consciously seeing the continuity and change of commemorative practice through time. By looking at commemorations in the past and plans for the future this research furthers our understanding of the practice and its role in constructing meaning.
Bazaar in the 'Burbs: Infilling fine grain of activity in the course grain context of Paraparaumu
Authors:   , Zhu Yan Xin
Published: November 2021

The regional townships of New Zealand are losing young people. The township of Paraparaumu, located along the Kapiti Coast, is no exception. As a sprawling, low-density suburban settlement with its town center being Coastlands Shopping Center - the local mall - there are few job opportunities available. As a result, many early career adults choose to settle elsewhere. Tasked with creating more opportunities, the Kapiti Coast District Council plans to build a new commercial district. To make space for it, this will be done by paving over a large expanse of wetland adjacent to the mall.  The premise of this thesis is that generating opportunities do not have to be large scale. In more dense urban areas where space is limited, many productive activities occur within the fine grain of a city. Wetlands are also recognized as a critical natural infrastructure and a valuable social amenity. Thus, instead of building large commercial facilities that have to occupy the wetland, the design in this thesis proposes a facility made up of a finer grain and infills the glut of car park spaces in front of Coastlands Mall. The parking spaces displaced will be relocated into a parking tower adjacent to the site.  The building type of the Bazaar was looked at in this thesis as a model, for it is fine-grained and also ingrained with its urban context. The spatial network of the Bazaar democratizes access. The spatial network of the Bazaar democratizes access, which is a direct contrast to the singular and hierarchical nature of the mall. The design adopts these ideas and expresses them through a network of modules on a tartan grid plan transforming the design into a rhythmic series of spaces that express compression and expansion, allowing it to be an interlinked network of interior and exterior spaces.  The grid is a powerful tool for organizing expanses of space though it is only useful in an architectural sense when accompanied by a fine-grained variation. Though the repetitive grid is suitable in plan, as a 3d form it quickly dissolves into monotony when repeated across a field. Similarly, the site itself is inherently charged with spatial hierarchy. Thus, localized adjustments of the roof and exterior details were made to break the monotony and rest the spatial hierarchy.  This thesis explores how fine grain activity can be integrated into a large-grained context through the use of an additive, modular network set on a grid. Though the research findings produced on expression of this in the design outcome, the idea of a dense, fine-grained modular network is applicable in any context that has large inactive open space to be filled.
Innovation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Arts and Crafts Design
Authors: Hou Zhaofeng , Zhang Wenwen
Published: November 2021

In order to discuss the innovation of intangible cultural heritage arts and crafts design, it is essential to first understand the current situation of intangible heritage arts and crafts, and then proceed from two directions, which include visual form and functional value. The role and influence of digitization and industrialization on the modern transformation of intangible cultural heritage arts and crafts design need to be clarified. In terms of ideas for innovative designs, interactive scene design and cultural brand building can be emphasized. These research results provide ideas and methods for realizing the creative transformation and innovative inheritance of intangible cultural heritage arts and crafts.
Exploration and Analysis of Patriotic Education from the Perspective of Network Ideology and Politics in the New Era
Authors: Ma Pengtao
Published: November 2021

With the development and application of internet technology, network information has penetrated into all aspects of people’s lives, profoundly affecting the ideology, value orientation, and national consciousness of people, especially the youth. It has impacted and brought new challenges to patriotic education in colleges and universities. Effectively establishing a position for patriotic education from the perspective of network ideology and politics in the new era is a topic of interest. It is of great significance for enhancing college students’ patriotism as well as strengthening national self-confidence and identity.
Teaching Research and Practice of Logistics Management Major Based on OBE-CDIO – A Case Study of Logistics System Planning and Design Course
Authors: Xiong Haiou
Published: November 2021

The economic and social progress under the new era has put forward new requirements for logistics talents. Based on the teaching concept of OBE-CDIO as well as the training program and objectives of logistics management major in Guangzhou Maritime University, this study analyzes and discusses how the Logistics System Planning and Design course, which is targeted at students majoring in logistics management, enables the students to meet the graduation requirements by virtue of realizing the course objectives.
Research on the Construction of Public Management Discipline Under the Background of New Liberal Arts
Authors: Huo Jianguo
Published: November 2021

Under the background of new liberal arts, the construction of public management discipline should be based on the social times, the goal of talent cultivation, and the characteristics of the discipline itself, so as to meet the requirements of new liberal arts. In terms of social background, the public management discipline should not only respond to the new problems arising from the technological revolution, but also to the problems of national governance in the new era. In terms of the goal of talent cultivation, the public management discipline should not only cultivate public management professionals but also undertake the basic task of establishing virtue and cultivating talents. In terms of the characteristics of the discipline itself, the public management discipline should highlight the functional advantages of humanistic education, comprehensive discipline, and social service.
The effect of college students’ technology acceptance on e-commerce adoption
Authors: Suryawirawan Okto Aditya
Published: November 2021

This study aims to investigate e-commerce adoption using extended technology acceptance model (TAM) by adding self-efficacy and anxiety. The research samples included 233 undergraduate students were collected using an online survey form distributed through chat groups and social media. The collected data were analysed using partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to investigate the proposed hypotheses in the model. This study found that self-efficacy has no impact towards perceived usefulness, self-efficacy has positive significant impact towards perceived ease of use, anxiety has no impact on both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness has positive significant impact towards attitude, perceived ease of use has no impact towards attitude, perceived ease of use has positive significant impact on perceived usefulness, perceived usefulness has no impact towards e-commerce adoption, perceived ease of use has positive significant impact towards e-commerce adoption, and attitude has a positive significant impact towards e-commerce adoption. These findings further confirmed that TAM not only could be used to predict e-ticketing, e-learning, e-payment, and e-commerce purchase adoption but also e-commerce entrepreneurship. This study also further confirmed that the relationship between extended variable such as self-efficacy and anxiety with TAM variables might vary according to where the investigation was being held.
¿Qué queremos decir cuando decimos que las series de televisión son "filosóficas"?
Authors: Garcia Diaz Laura
Published: November 2021

En este trabajo propongo analizar las series de televisión como producto artístico que, mediante sus tramas, es capaz de funcionar como vehículo filosófico. Para ello, comenzaré estableciendo una justificación teórica de las series como producto artístico y, veremos a través de Noël Carroll (Carroll 2011) un análisis de las imágenes en movimiento como vehículo filosófico. Tras ello,  mostraré las similitudes que presentan las series con los relatos literarios y propondré la forma en que entiendo su potencial filosófico. En definitiva, pretendo analizarlas como un producto artístico especialmente interesante para la filosofía por incentivar la reflexión en los espectadores y ampliar el punto de vista desde el cual enfocan la realidad.
La diferencia de la historia. Paul Veyne revisitado / The Difference of History. Paul Veyne Revisited
Authors: López Alcañiz Vladimir
Published: November 2021

En mayo del 68, junto a la ola de contestación mundial, se produjo un cambio en la manera de concebir y escribir la historia. La aceleración del tiempo histórico trajo consigo una voluntad renovada de conocer el pasado. En este contexto, la obra de Paul Veyne Comment on écrit l'histoire cobrará una relevancia especial. El presente artículo examina la recepción de este ensayo y de qué modo éste fue capaz de reflexionar sobre los temas candentes de la disciplina: la cientificidad de la historia, la necesidad de abrirse a otros campos del saber, el recurso a la conceptualización y el papel del historiador en la escritura de una nueva historia.Palabras clavePaul Veyne, conceptualización, objetividad, narración, historia como ciencia, diferencia. AbstractIn May 68, along with a wave of global upheaval, there was also a shift in the way of conceiving and writing history. The acceleration of historical time brought about a renewed wish to learn about the past. In this context, Comment on écrit l'histoire by Paul Veyne was to take on a special significance. The present article examines the reception of this essay and how it was capable of reflecting on the most burning issues of the discipline: the scientific nature of history, the need to open up to other fields of knowledge, the use of conceptualization, and the role of the historian in the writing of a new history.Key wordsPaul Veyne, conceptualization, objectivity, narrative, history as science, difference.
Preliminary Analysis and Discussion on Energy Saving and Emission Reduction of Coal-fired Power Plants
Authors:   Shaanxi Coal Chemical Group Huangling Mining Coal Gangue Power Generation Co., Ltd., Yan’an, Shaanxi, 727307, China, Yun Xiaolong
Published: November 2021

With the rapid development of the social economy, the severe dual constraints of environment and resources are particularly evident. In order to further promote the national energy transformation and development, and promote the development of high-quality energy, it is necessary to optimize the energy structure, promote coal safety and green development and clean and efficient utilize and deepen the reform of the electricity market, promote energy-saving and ultra-clean emission transformation of coal-fired power plants, organize power plants to fight against the comprehensive transformation of energy-saving and emission reduction, innovate technologies and equipment, accelerate the transformation and application of new technologies and new achievements, and improve the energy-saving and reduction of coal-fired power plants synergies to improve the profitability and survivability of coal-fired power plants. This paper specifically analyzes and discusses the energy-saving and emission-reduction management of coal-fired power plants, and seeks effective countermeasures and measures for energy-saving and emission-reduction to promote coal-fired power plants to achieve clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient development goals.
Discussion on Special Investigation Technical Scheme of Wetland Natural Resources
Authors:   Jiangsu Coal Geological Survey Team, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046, China, Chen Zhaoyong
Published: November 2021

Wetland is an important national natural resource. It is of great significance to carry out the investigation of wetland natural resources, find out the wetland resources on the land and protect and utilize the wetland resources. The author briefly discusses the production experience of wetland special survey on the special wetland natural resources investigation.
Discussion on Petroleum Geological Exploration and Reservoir Evaluation Methods
Authors:   1.	School of Earth Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, 266590, China, Jiang Zongkai
Published: November 2021

With the development of economy, the scale of oil development in China is expanding, and the amount of oil exploitation has leapt to the forefront of the world. Based on the development status of petroleum geological exploration in China, this paper introduces the contents of geological exploration and further discusses the reservoir methods, hoping that the proposed contents can provide reference for the exploration of petroleum resources and reservoir evaluation in China.
Give Full Play to Their Own Advantages to Promote the Sustainable Development of the New Energy Industry
Authors:   National Electric Power Investment Group Co., Ltd. (Guizhou), Guiyang, Guizhou, 557702, China, Zhao Zhangli
Published: November 2021

As an important industry to promote economic development in modern society, the new energy industry not only meets the needs of energy conservation and emission reduction and green and efficient industrial development, but also meets the construction of socialist ecological civilization at the present stage. Under the background of dual-carbon development, combined with the development of enterprises, to promote the sustainable development of the new energy industry has an important research value. Therefore, combined with the practical significance and difficulties of the sustainable development of new energy industry, this paper, the specific implementation path of sustainable development of industry is analyzed, aiming to promote the sustainable development of new energy industry.
Movimientos sociales y percepción de políticas públicas sobre violencia contra las mujeres
Authors: Núñez Ibáñez Elba Beatriz , López Cristaldo Sara Raquel , Díaz Ortega María Limpia
Published: November 2021

La violencia de género contra las mujeres sólo puede ser comprendida en el marco de relaciones desiguales generadas por un modelo económico, social y político sustentado por el orden patriarcal. El presente trabajo recupera los resultados del estudio sobre Percepción de las Organizaciones Sociales sobre la Violencia Contra las Mujeres y la Participación en Políticas de Prevención, Sanción y Erradicación. Tuvo como objetivo conocer la valoración de los movimientos sociales sobre la violencia contra las mujeres y la percepción de estos actores sobre las políticas públicas implementadas sobre esta problemática. El estudio tuvo enfoque cuantitativo, de corte transversal, con análisis descriptivo a partir de encuestas a dirigentes de movimientos de mujeres, feministas, campesinos, sindicales, urbanos, de la infancia y la adolescencia, LGTBI y estudiantil en el periodo 2013-2016. Las conclusiones muestran: alto grado de conocimiento por parte de las organizaciones sociales sobre la violencia contra las mujeres; conocimiento de la existencia de políticas públicas para enfrentar la violencia contra las mujeres. Identifican además la ineficiencia de las políticas al momento de responder efectivamente con medidas para la prevención, sanción y erradicación de la violencia. Incorporan entre sus agendas, demandas relacionadas a la prevención de la violencia, y proponen asistencia social, psicológica y jurídica para enfrentar este flagelo.
Percepción de estudiantes de medicina acerca de la responsabilidad social universitaria
Authors: Pérez Velilla María Adela , Calvo Gustavo
Published: November 2021

Los estudiantes de Medicina son la población mayoritaria dentro de la Universidad María Auxiliadora de Loma Pytá, de ahí el interés por describir la percepción de estos estudiantes acerca del desarrollo de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria y su impacto -tanto en la sociedad paraguaya como en la Latinoamericana- considerando que esta Universidad es una institución privada accesible para alumnos de diferentes niveles económicos y sociales del Paraguay, así como de la región del Mercosur. El objetivo del estudio fue describir la percepción de los estudiantes universitarios de la carrera de Medicina acerca del desarrollo de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria, del conocimiento que poseen sobre la misma, del significado y los espacios de participación que promueve la Universidad María Auxiliadora en actividades relacionadas con la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria. El trabajo tiene un enfoque cuantitativo. En recolección de datos se utilizó la técnica de encuesta y como instrumento el cuestionario, la población integró estudiantes de la carrera de Medicina de los meses de noviembre a diciembre del año 2019, y una muestra de 156 alumnos seleccionados por muestreo probabilístico aleatorio simple. Se obtuvo una percepción positiva por parte de los estudiantes universitarios acerca de la responsabilidad Social Universitaria, llegando a un nivel alto de satisfacción. Los resultados destacan la importancia de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria al enfrentar nuevos retos en el escenario social, político y económico del país, uniendo sus funciones de docencia, investigación, gestión y extensión universitaria, incidiendo de esta manera en la transformación social del Paraguay.