bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
تایبەتمەندیێن نەتەوەیى بوونێ و رەنگڤەداناوێ ل سەرناسیۆنالیزما کوردى
Authors: Taher Hawar Khalil
Published: July 2022

بنەمایێن نەتەوە بوونێ رۆلەکێ سەرەکى دگێریت ژبووى پێناسەکرنا ناسیۆنالیزمێ. ئەڤجا پرسگرێکا سەرەکى د پێناسەکرنا ناسیۆنالیزمێ دا کو ب تنێ د چارچووڤێ نەتەوەیى دا ب دویماهى ناهێت، بەلکو داکۆکى دێ زۆرتر ل سەر کۆمەکا ستوینێن دى یێن گرنگ بن کو بۆ پێناسەکرنا ناسیۆنالیزمێ رۆلەکێ سەرەکى دگێرن. کۆم دەنگییەکا گشتگیر بۆ پێناسەکرنا ناسیۆنالیزمێ دناڤ بیرمەندێن تایبەت ب پرس، تێگە‌هـ و ب تایبەت پێناسەکرنا ناسیۆنالیزمێ نینە، بەلێ هەمى بیرمەند ل سەرڤێ چەندێ کۆکن کو ناسیۆنالیزم دیاردەکا مۆدێرنە، ئانکو ناسیۆنالیزم ئێک ژ بەرهەمێن مۆدێرنیتەیە. د ڤێڤەکۆلینێ دا ب تنێ پێناسا ناسیۆنالیزمێ دێ هێتە شرۆڤەکرن، ب تایبەت داکۆکى دێ زۆرتر ل سەر هندەک ستوێنێن بنیاتىیێن ناسیۆنالزمێ بن کا ئەڤان ستوێنان چ کاریگەرى ل سەر ناسیۆنالیزما کوردى ل عیراقێ درستکریە. بزاڤاڤێڤەکۆلینێ هەلسەنگاندنەکا شیکارییە بۆ کۆمەکا بۆها، نرخ و بنەمایێن ناسیۆنالیزمێ کو ب رێکا سیمبۆل و میکانیزمێن جوراجور یێننەتەوەیى هەول ددەت دانپێدانەکا فەرمىیا کلتورى یان سیاسى بۆ نەتەوەیەکێ دەستەبەر بکەت. ئەڤ چەندە، ب تایبەت بۆ گەلێن د قوناغا ڤەگوهاستنێ دا یان بەرەف ئافاکرنا دەولەت-نەتەوە دچن، وەک کوردان، ئێک ژ گرنگترین خەیالا ناسیۆنالیزمێیە
VISIBILITY, RESPECTABILITY AND SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP: THE STRATEGY OF THE AMERICAN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT FROM 1950-1987
Authors:   , Perkins Liam
Published: July 2022

This thesis investigates the strategy of the American Gay rights movement from the homophileera in the 1950s to the formation of ACT UP in 1987. Focusing on visibility as a strategyreveals how homophiles and Gay liberationists debated coming out and its potential merits forimproving the situation of Gays and Lesbians. The first chapter discusses why homosexualsdecided that emphasising respectability and dedication to their citizenship provided the bestoption for making social and political gains in the 1950s, often keeping their identitiesconfidential. Homophiles sought protections against police entrapment and harassment,discrimination in housing and employment, and other legal repression seeking recognition oftheir rights which were denied on the basis of their sexuality leading up to the Stonewall riotsin June 1969 as the New Left, feminism, and the Civil Rights movement provided a newemphasis on activism. The second chapter explores the changes that occurred after Stonewalland the emergence of Gay Liberation which had brought new attention to the question ofvisibility and being ‘out and proud’. In the 1970s, visibility became the dominant modusoperandi for Gay liberation, homophile organising, but also Gay consumers who pursuedpleasure instead of activism. Gay liberation’s coming out strategy made some advances onsexual citizenship rights for Gays and Lesbians including the passage of local anti-discrimination laws in cities where they could exert political clout, but also resulted in acounter-mobilisation from the Christian Right. The Christian Right contributed to a growingpublic backlash to Gay and Lesbian visibility leading to some loss of the sexual citizenshipgains that Gays and Lesbians made in the 1970s through campaigns against anti-discriminationstatutes and laws. The last substantive chapter deals with the impact of the AIDS epidemic,which disproportionately affected Gay men and gave the Christian Right a powerful rhetoricalweapon, forcing Gay and Lesbian activists to reconsider their visibility strategy and itspotential risks to achieving sexual citizenship. In this period, calls to come out and increasedvisibility had to be weighed against the increasing discrimination on the basis of AIDSinfection, which many perceived as a “Gay disease.” Gay and Lesbian activists increased theircommitment to working within established political systems and adhering to the respectabilitystrategy as a result of the AIDS epidemic. Attaining the rights granted by citizenship such asprivacy through same-sex marriage activism and sodomy law repeal became intimately tied tothe respectability strategy, driven in part by the negative association between Gays and AIDS,setting the stage for the next phase of the struggle.
It Takes a Village: A collective approach to NZ housing
Authors:   , Whyte Olivia
Published: July 2022

Access to affordable, quality housing is a necessity that has become unattainable for many New Zealanders. Land values, property prices and rents continue to increase at rates higher than income growth. As urban populations continue to rise, existing housing strategies are not ensuring that housing supply keeps up with increasing demand and continuously changing demographics. Not only this, but increasing housing inequality has resulted in both spatial and social exclusion. This thesis argues for a more inclusive, socially adaptable, needs-oriented delivery of housing.

The thesis proposes testing mixed-use collective housing as an integrated approach for housing delivery in NZ. Collective housing has the potential to facilitate community and social cohesion; reduce social isolation; encourage diversity and inclusion; and reduce spatial inequality. This also enhances the urban context and creates opportunities for sustained prosperity for a wide range of occupants. It can create socially stable and sustainable long-term communities.

The thesis argues that through the a mix of tenures, a mix of housing typologies and spatial adaptability, collective housing has the potential to increase housing stability, reflect changing urban identities and promote social cohesion. Exemplar mixed use developments are designed, with particular emphasis on inclusive planning principles and the implementation of ‘third places’, as a response to increased social isolation in contemporary society.

It demonstrates that mixed tenure, mixed use, collective housing developments can together offer an alternative to traditional forms of housing that are more inclusive.
Plastic Wetland, An investigation into provocative landscape design
Authors:   , Morgan Abigail Victoria Lobo
Published: July 2022

With increasing global consumption, plastic debris has become an overwhelming concern for coastal and marine ecologies. The accumulation of plastic materials in local and isolated environments currently constitutes a threat to global ecologies, continuously impacting the health and well-being of communities. The process of photo-oxidative degradation, commonly referred to as plastic fragmentation from ultra-violet sunlight and the presence of microplastics have become a damaging reality for many countries. As the size of the plastic litter can span from microplastic particles to mega litter, it is able to infiltrate environments on multiple levels. Solving problems associated with fragmentation is hindered by an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mentality, as people are largely unaware of the detrimental impacts of degraded plastics. Coastal and marine ecosystems are being increasingly subjected to plastic waste and flora and fauna are catastrophically damaged, resulting in severe threats to their existence (see figure 0.1).

Landscape architecture has the potential to bridge the gap between biology, conservation and public urban spaces, in order to highlight and increase public awareness of this anthropological problem. Previous work on environmental conservation has focused around storm water management and urban wetlands, but has yet to address plastic debris. This research proposal identifies new ways of addressing plastic pollution through encouraging public interaction with plastic debris in recreational urban spaces and countering the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mentality. Case studies are explored to highlight how plastic removal has previously been remediated, and site explorations are conducted to understand the extent of plastic debris within Wellington. The aim of this research is to educate the public on the devastating consequences of plastic pollution, highlighting how reducing plastic consumption will decrease this ongoing threat.

This thesis argues that it is possible to create social and cultural behavioural change towards the subject matter of plastic pollution, by creating spatial interaction and visually expressive design moves. In order to achieve this, the research considers not only the environmental functions of the site, but how people orientate themselves in an educational landscape, and how their subconscious understanding of plastic pollution can trigger conscious thought.
Cine-ture Interior Architecture Intervention Shaped By Cinematic Conventions
Authors:   , Strawbridge Sarah
Published: July 2022

There is limited research which analyses cinema, void of a film's narrative from an architectural perspective. This is relevant when analysing the immaterial experience of 'cinematic architecture' and the effects it has on the viewing audience. This thesis explores how cinema and its illusions beyond a narrative can be used to influence the design of interior architecture?
You Can't Sit With Us
Authors:   , Young George
Published: July 2022

The shortage of housing supply in New Zealand’s central urban areas has seen a large shift in population towards lower density, suburban areas. The urban sprawl away from the cities has had adverse effects on suburbs, towns and the communities within them. The consequence of this development has seen huge rises in housing and rental prices, aiding in the displacement of the lower economic residents. Urban sprawl has effectively created an opportunity in which gentrification can readily occur. Residents of towns that were once seen as deteriorated and dirty have been priced out of their own home and in turn their neighbourhood. Affordable options in the form of community or social housing looks to aid in the issue of displacement, but the limited supply and increasing demand isn’t its only issue. The influx of more affluent residents creates a clear segregation in the community due to differing socioeconomic statuses. The effects particularly felt hard by those most vulnerable and needing assistance as such those in social housing.

A small town where the effects have been felt large is in Featherston, Wairarapa. The proximity to Wellington coupled with the comparative low house prices has seen the rural town completely shift in economic identity. The town is in flux with a clear identity of social segregation. This thesis takes the town of Featherston as a research investigation. Featherston currently has 14 social housing units, with the majority of these not contributing to the social welfare of the tenants. These often run down and barren units do no favours in promoting the unjust stigma of social houses and those that occupy them.

This thesis promotes the idea that the built environment can be used to mitigate the negative connotations and stigma of social housing in suburbia. The thesis argues that spatial alongside atmospheric conditions of a place can empower the residents of social housing rather than marginalizing them. The relationship between the architecture and the users can create a positive environment in which the residents can thrive. At a larger scale, the built environment can help foster the relationship between these residents and the wider community. By doing so, dismantling the social stigma upon the public housing infrastructure better integrating them into with the community.
A Kōrero with Computation: Expanding upon traditional Māori materials in architecture’s digital age
Authors:   , Harlen Tyler
Published: July 2022

This research explores the relationship between digital fabrication and indigenous Māori materials. The availability of new technologies such as additive manufacturing poses a unique opportunity to build upon understandings of traditional Māori materials while contributing to Māori cultural identity and assets.

Working in conjunction with the iwi Ngāti Tukorehe, and their affiliated hapū on the site of Ōhau, this research explores local mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) in relation to digital architecture fabrication techniques. The project looks at the use of large-scale high-pressure injection grouting as a method for the creation of free-form subterranean structures. Freeform injection grouting could be used to mitigate coastal shoreline erosion for Kuku beach and provide shallow ground anchor foundation systems, excavatable post-disaster housing and pavilion structures. The ground material acts as a pressurised ‘scaffold’ and formwork for the creation of the subterranean structures that can then be exposed through the excavation of covering soils.

Free-form injection grouting requires specialist geotechnical knowledge of ground pressure and soil composition. Computational processes in RealFlow are used to provide near accurate simulations of the subterranean form-making process, providing an understanding of ground pressure/compaction, composite soils/particle size and injection pressure. The injection grouting technique was tested at various scales and focussed on the use of indigenous materials, including composites of local sand and pumice for the grout aggregate. Flax fibres were also used as internal reinforcing for the free-form structure. It was essential to the research that local materials were used as a means to connect to local understandings and customs around indigenous Māori design practices relating to place and the people of Ngāti Tukorehe.
Up the Guts
Authors:   , Dalley Emily
Published: July 2022

Like many contemporary green field developments, Hataitai started in the twentieth century as stock grazing land and was slowly taken over by low density suburban housing. This organic development resulted in roads following the contours, making Hataitai difficult to walk in the neighbourhood and from the city to sea.

What kind of architecture emerges from a more walkable Hataitai and how does my creative process affect that architecture?

This project begins with the seemingly humble intervention of a pedestrian path, connecting from one traversing road to another. The design component of this research zooms into one path within a wider urban scheme to investigate the architectural possibilities and conflicts a single path could generate.

The research is in the work itself. I reflect on my creative process and how it starts to reveal a certain kind of architecture through my recognised inclinations, hunches and triggers. I primarily draw out the ideas on paper with pencil, using observation drawing, messy digital modeling and exhibiting work. Drawings form the raw data for this research. I analyse the drawings to extract my tacit knowledge so I form a dialogue between my creative process and the kind of architecture produced.

This research demonstrates the tension between designing complexity or legibility and explores how this could affect city-making for more places than the Hataitai hillside.
Translating Ulysses; The House that James Built
Authors:   , Kelly Patrick
Published: July 2022

This thesis is an architectural response to, or rather, translation of, a canonical work of modern literature – James Joyce’s Ulysses. Understanding architecture to be a very effective communication tool, it questions both how a literary to architectural translation could occur and what such a translation would reveal about both architecture and the novel.

Ulysses is a complex literary labyrinth that has both perplexed and inspired architects and writers alike. The text explores the subtle, nuanced rhythms of an ordinary day in the city of Dublin. Contemplation, of the novel, forces new insights and meaning that become understood through observation of simple aspects of everyday existence.

This work questions how architecture can allow insight into these same observations. By comparing two different styles of translation, literal and free, it results in a series of architectural installations throughout Dublin.

It reveals that neither method results in a perfect translation, and thus the architect or translator must be actively engaged in the translation— resulting in a co-authored piece.

Ultimately, the work concludes that the mere act of observation is enough to understand the rich beauty of simple everyday experiences. It is understood through reading the novel, or through the lived experience of architecture.
Pentimento: If Landscapes Remembered
Authors:   , Kempster Nicholas
Published: July 2022

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter “repented,” changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

 ––Lillian HellmanAbandoned heritage sites have important stories to tell that relate to the evolution of the urban environment in which they are situated. When these sites lose a programme upon which they were conceived, they run the risk of losing their identity by being re-inhabited in ways that fail to acknowledge or reinforce this story. Such heritage sites may also be particularly vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels, especially if they were designed at a time when such major environmental transformations were unforeseen.

The site selected for this design-led research investigation, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was originally a salt marshland on New York’s East River, traversed by native Americans and inhabited by native flora and fauna. In 1801 it was transformed into a shipbuilding yard for the United States Navy. The shipyard operated until 1966, when it was decommissioned and sold to the City of New York; 9,000 workers lost their jobs. The site was reopened in 1969 as an industrial park, and a number of large-scale buildings were re purposed for manufacturing. It is now mostly abandoned, and the city is looking for ways to repurpose it. The underlying stories of the site are in danger of being lost if a logistical framework is not conceived, that incorporates these stories into the future narrative of the site. This thesis investigates how: the pentimento of the site––its underlying heritage stories–– can be revealed and celebrated; evolving environmental problems can be mitigated and help the site return to an ecologically resilient and sustainable condition; and a future-proof framework be proposed for its ongoing evolution.

This thesis asks: How can the underlying stories of an abandoned, industrial heritage landscape be preserved in ways that help prevent the permanent loss of important lessons from the past, while mitigating evolving environmental problems and establishing a future-proof framework for the site’s ongoing evolution?
Old Tech to High Tech: The Adaption of an Abandoned Power Station in New Orleans as an IT Giant Global Headquarters.
Authors:   , Lewis Amelia
Published: July 2022

A 19th Century industrialisation Power Plant sits abandoned on the Mississippi River, once producing electricity for New Orleans. Now sitting in neglect, though still retaining its heritage and past historical values. A transformation of steam engines into digital search engines. As the giant tech organisation ‘Google’, relocates their Headquarters. An organisation that will characterise the future for the Power Plant and bring the symbolic representation of the past, present and future. Resulting in the revitalisation of the derelict architecture.

Through spatial and design strategies, this research will illustrate an architectural language that represents the historical values of a building that already exists and has an architectural identity. While invoking the integration of the digital realm, future innovation and technology. Therefore, allowing Google to associate itself within the historical context to envision a new language for future use.

This research will illustrate a connection between company and infrastructure, through then and now. The historical Power Plant was celebrated in its time, as it was the provider for the city in the production of power. Now, in the modern world Google is one of the largest providers for global information and allows us to access this data through the development of technology. This idea of the current innovation and past innovation create many binary comparisons. Enabling ‘then and now’ to work together to evolve and enhance the architecture.

The design approach uses strategies of symbolic representation and value. This project seeks to explore how space can represent both contemporary innovation and the historical context. The research will identify and employ responsiveness to materiality, innovation and adaption of space to inform design decisions. Fundamentally the space, programme, and historical context reconnects and revitalises New Orleans through a new architectural language that connects the past and future.

To create a connection between new and old - technological and representational hybridity of moving between systems will be applied. The early stages will focus on the research and experimental studies and strategies, through the use of traditional techniques. As the project develops the use of digital technology will be introduced to evolve the information into more depth.
The Naked Hunch: Designing a bathhouse with the aim of destigmatising the naked body
Authors:   , Ong Olivia
Published: July 2022

Collective and biased perceptions constantly reinforce social stigmas surrounding the naked body. Bodies of difference, those that deviate from societal norms are often considered ‘othered’ and as a result of this, judged or shamed. Today, the topic of body image is even more prevalent within mainstream conversations, with calls to see more diversity represented in mass media. This work investigates how the built environment has both the power to reinforce these societal norms and negative paradigms or to support changes in social behaviours, attitudes, perceptions and bias.

Drawing from the contemporary discourse of nudity and stigma, safe spaces and New Materialism, this research will investigate how architecture might contribute to the reduction of stigmas around the naked body, normalize bodily difference and generate more inclusive social attitudes towards acceptance and belonging.

This thesis argues that by designing a space for individuals to express their nakedness and be exposed to naked bodies a shift towards the redefining of perceived norms and a challenge, to what this study asserts are outmoded stigmas, can be mounted. This research argues that the bathhouse is seen as a poignant space to challenge stigma due to the obvious relationship between the space and the body, but also as a site of heightened sensual experiences within an atmosphere that differs greatly from everyday domestic and commercial spaces we inhabit. A design-led research methodology coupled with participatory research approaches will be employed todirect the design through a series of stages. These being social, the interaction of people with people, spatial, the interaction of people with space and material the interaction of people with materiality. The combination of these approaches will enable on-site engagement as well as human engagement as a means of investigation and reflection. Implications of this research will contribute to discourse and knowledge in three key areas: architecture and the body, bathhouse architecture and the cultural/social movement of body positivity and normalising bodily difference.
Biodiver_Cities: supporting native biodiversity in the built environment
Authors:   , Koat Jennifer
Published: July 2022

Future built environments need to address climate change and biodiversity loss. This research shows that by using an ecosystem services framework combined with biophilic design principles, the built environment is capable of contributing to regeneration of ecosystems and biodiversity in urban environments, while addressing the wellbeing needs of people.

Architecture and the built environment must play a crucial role in the reduction of biodiversity loss and must support or generate ecosystem services in the urban environment. New Zealand’s biodiversity is unique, evolving free from land-based mammals, excluding three bat species, for thousands of years and has left almost all indigenous species hugely vulnerable to introduced mammal predators.

 With predicted urban population increase, and the subsequent need for more infrastructure, the way architects and engineers design the required buildings and systems will have a direct impact on surrounding ecosystems and biodiversity. Therefore, designers should consider ecosystem services and biodiversity throughout the process of design. Through the emulating ecosystems and their functions and through incorporating biophilic design principles, our urban environment may work towards the creation of regenerative buildings that positively influence society from a health and wellbeing perspective, while adding to resilience as the climate continues to change.

 This research explores this topic through a design-led research methodology, combining ecology and ecological psychology knowledge, into an ecological and psychological regenerative design. The approach concludes that an understanding of the complex ecosystem services and the biophilic design principles is required to make intentional design designs and navigate trade-offs.
Intercellular mitochondrial transfer in neural cells
Authors:   , Schneider Rémy
Published: July 2022

Intercellular mitochondrial transfer is the acquisition of exogenous mitochondria by one cell from another cell. The transfer event is generally not stochastic but directed. It largely results in a benefit for the recipient cell. In the brain, the support structure astrocytes provide to neurons establishes a framework to investigate mitochondrial transfer between neural cells. During neurodegeneration or brain development, mitochondrial transfer between neural cells may alleviate disease phenotypes or help form the early cytoarchitecture and connectome of the brain. To begin to investigate intercellular mitochondrial transfer in neural cells, co-culture experiments were performed, between two independent, fluorescently labelled cell populations, either in a monolayer or in three-dimensional spheroid culture. Initially, fluorescently labelled mitochondria were co-cultured with neonatal neurons. Although punctate mitochondrial fluorescence was found in neurons, the conventional tools and methods used to label mitochondria and assess their location were found to have limitations, and new methods were developed.  Transfer is most often seen in response to injury. Stable mtDNA-depleted (ρ⁰) astrocytes were generated as a mitochondrial specific injury. These astrocytes cannot respire, have impaired biosynthesis and ATP production, fractured mitochondrial networks with swollen mitochondria, and require pyruvate and uridine to meet their bioenergetic demands. When ρ⁰ astrocytes were co-cultured with the appropriate cell type in the absence of pyruvate and uridine, mitochondrial transfer was observed, leading to restoration of an entire mitochondrial network. The mechanism of mitochondrial transfer into ρ⁰ astrocytes was highly suggestive of cell fusion and was donor cell-type specific. This went against the convention in the literature that tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) or extracellular vesicles (EVs) discretely transfer clusters of mitochondria to damaged recipient cells. This PhD dissertation challenges the conventional tools to produce microscopic images proving mitochondrial transfer and suggests cell fusion as the mechanism by which non-native mitochondria exist inside a cell.
The Maori district high schools
Authors:   , Jennings Hugh Marchwell
Published: July 2022

The purpose of this thesis is to survey one aspect of Maori post-primary education, namely, the Maori District High Schools. It will trace their development and progress from their inception in 1941 up the end of 1948.
Dynamic Equilibrium
Authors:   , Harrington Jack
Published: July 2022

This research focuses on how to increase the sociality of urban streams through design. It explores this topic through an investigation focused on a Aotearoa/New Zealand urban stream.

For Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, streams are seen as culturally important as they are a traditional means of navigation, food sources, locations for settlements and a focus for community. The health of a stream is key to the mana of the landscape it is part of. For early Pakeha, streams were also a focus, providing food, water and transport to the residents that dwelt near it.

Streams located in urbanised or urbanising areas are increasingly subjected to a range of negative factors due to urbanisation. As settlements develop, human population rises and intensification of urbanisation tends to result in the significant loss of mana.

Over time uses change. The stream later often becomes viewed as a waste disposal system, a drain for a town’s unwanted stormwater and waste products. As land availability in urban areas becomes increasingly scarce, planners will start to turn their attention back towards the streams and the engineering of the banks. The stream starts to become narrowed and channelised and, relatedly, development is pushed right up to the newly stabilised stream’s edge. Or they might become sealed over. As a town becomes a city, the streams that were initially built around are forgotten as the quest for usable land is pushed to the point where streams become remembered in the name of a street that is constructed above as though it’s a memorial for the land that it once served. The structure of post-war suburban settlement and often still the case involves developers providing subdivisions with of family homes with fences that separate houses from each other and the properties usually face inwards towards a road and away from the creek with back fences joining up and closing off access to the creek, and often with limited attention to movement along the creek. Creeks become largely constrained within a fence-contained corridor where the houses are pushed as close as developers are able to have them. These factors contribute to deferring social movement and attention away from the creek, and in turn this contributes to their neglect, weeds, rubbish dumping, pollution, loss of biodiversity and a reduction in how safe people feel in creek line corridors. This mostly has a negative affect on the sociality of streams. Suburban culture tends to set-up to promote the individual and the single family and the way that creeklines have tended to be structured tends to restrict human involvement to individualised recreation.
The phylogeographic structure and genetic differentiation of Polyprion oxygeneios and Polyprion americanus in the Southern Hemisphere based on mitochondrial DNA control region sequences and microsatellite DNA genotyping
Authors:   , Stewart Natalie
Published: July 2022

The genus Polyprion, commonly known as Wreckfish, is comprised of two species: Polyprion oxygeneios, limited to continental, insular, and seamount slopes in the Southern Hemisphere; and P. americanus, widely distributed in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Polyprion support recreational and commercial fisheries off the Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand, and although the fishery is relatively small in tonnage, its market value is high per kilo when compared to other species. Polyprion are long-lived, slow growing, and late to mature. These are life history characteristics that make a species vulnerable to over-fishing. Understanding the stock structure of Polyprion is important for fisheries management plans to be properly aligned to reproductive units and natural population boundaries. There has been speculation that more than two species of Polyprion exist in the Southern Hemisphere, which is an issue that needs to be more thoroughly studied. The aim of this thesis research was to investigate the population genetic structure of Polyprion in the Southern Hemisphere and determine whether there is a significant level of genetic differentiation between the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific ocean basins. The two specific objectives were to: 1) determine the levels of genetic variation and differentiation among Polyprion collectionsites from Australia and New Zealand, and 2) test whether the taxonomy of Polyprion was supported by genetic data. To do this, DNA sequences of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and genotypes from nine microsatelliteDNA (msatDNA) loci were used.
Artificial Synaesthesia: An exploration of machine learning image synthesis for soundscape audio visualisation
Authors:   , Willcox Stacey
Published: July 2022

Within soundscape research, audio visualisations are generally targeted towards scientific audiences and not produced with artistic intentions. Machine learning is utilised in this field to increase efficiency when dealing with large amounts of data, recognizing patterns, and classifying audio. Although machine learning is effective for these purposes, it also offers image synthesis capabilities which have not been taken advantage of in current audio visualisation production. This research aims to answer the question, ‘How might machine learning image synthesis be used to visualise soundscape audio?’.

Through an iterative design process, a design pipeline was developed to generate visualisations of audio using Pix2Pix (Isola, et al., 2016), a conditional adversarial neural network. Through a process of extracting audio features, converting these into simple grid images and feeding them into a trained machine learning model, a new visual interpretation of the audio can be experienced in the form of images and videos. The video design outputs communicate visual change of audio through the interrelated transformation of colour, shape, detail, and size of flower-like figures. These outputs aim to bring attention to the value of soundscapes through visually demonstrating their unique qualities. The method developed has not been previously documented according to the available literature and marks an exciting exploration of the new application of machine learning image-to-image translation as a creative tool for audio visualisation.
Bridging the Gap
Authors:   , Findlater Samuel
Published: July 2022

Traditional urban design approaches often develop neighbourhoods with a ‘top-down’ method, where minimal community engagement is used. Even projects that employ a ‘bottom-up’ approach can fail to connect with the community at a grass-root level. Although academics and planners widely accept public participation has had a positive influence on the urban design process, practitioners continually find roadblocks in the implementation of these policies.

 Within this process of traditional urban change, this research will be aiming to use a variety of participatory design processes to assist locals in a community during a design process. This study focuses on ensuring public participation is the driving force behind a landscape architectural design that locals in a community can develop together.

 In 2018 the Government announced that it would spend $1.5 billion over 25 years to revitalize housing in Porirua East (Fallon, 2018). This will change the demographic of the communities and put pressure on existing public services to keep up with the change in people and the identity of the community. The proposed site for this research investigation is Cannons Creek Lakes Reserve situated within the largest suburb of Porirua East, Cannons Creek.

 This research uses methods that heavily involve community engagement with multiple social groups of Cannons Creek. Through the use of a strategically designed workshop process and participatory activities that maximise participation, residents of Cannons Creek are able to diagnose, dream, develop, and define their own design.

 The findings of these workshops led to the creation of a consensus design that aimed to combine the designs of the social groups involved unbiasedly. The final outcome from the engagements was a consensus catalyst design that could be constructed and implemented within Cannons Creek Lakes Reserve.

 This thesis demonstrates how landscape architects can push the boundaries of existing public participation processes to achieve positive outcomes for residents.
Aspects of Increasing Efficiency of Young Football Players Physical Training Process
Authors:   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Football, Kyiv, Ukraine, Nikolaіenko Valerii , Vorobiov Mykhailo ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Football, Kyiv, Ukraine, Chopilko Taras ,   National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kiev, Ukraine
Published: July 2022

The results of the research indicate the intensification of training and competitive loads in children's football and their negative impact on the body of young athletes. The increase in the complexity of young football players training occurs due to the system of children's competitions and their requirements for the training process ar- rangement, the choice of criteria for monitoring loads and assessing athletes condition. The ways of minimizing pedagogical errors and preventing the use of inadequate loads in the training process are shown based on the strategy of preparing a sports reserve for professional football and maintaining health of young football players.
Identification of Informative Physical Condition Indicators for Self-Training Exercise Programs Design for Middle-Aged Overweight and Obese Women
Authors:   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kyiv, Ukraine, Andrieieva Olena , Nahorna Anastasia ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kyiv, Ukraine, Yarmak Olena ,   Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, Yerakova Liubov ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kyiv, Ukraine, Kyrychenko Viktoriia ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kyiv, Ukraine, Drozdovska Svitlana ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: July 2022

The objective of this study was to identify informative anthropometric and functional indicators for design- ing self-training exercise programs for middle-aged obese women. The study involved 105 women with an average age of 38.9 and was conducted at the Scientific Research Institute of NUPESU. The physical fitness profile of the middle-aged overweight and obese women was assessed by use of factor analysis. The dom- inant factor was the anthropometric status (42.1% of the total variance) and included 14 indicators. The second factor (21.2% of the total variance) included ten indicators characterising functional state of the cardiorespiratory system. The third and fourth factors (18.1% of the total variance) included eight indica- tors characterising physical fitness and coordination abilities. Five indicators were selected based on the factor analysis: waist circumference, abdominal circumference, waist to hip circumference ratio, adaptation potential, and VO 2 max. Correlation analysis performed to verify the informative value of the selected mark- ers showed that the waist circumference significantly correlated with 28 studied indicators; the abdominal circumference correlated with 29 indicators; the waist to hip circumference ratio correlated with 24 indica- tors of physical condition; the adaptation potential correlated with 24 indicators; and VO 2 max significantly correlated with 18 indicators. Informative markers selected based on the factor and correlation analyses can be used for designing and assessing the effectiveness of physical exercise programs for middle-aged overweight and obese women.
Changes in Physical Status of Young Women in Response to Exercise Training
Authors:   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine, Andrieieva Olena , Akimova-Ternovska Maria ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine, Yarmak Olena ,   Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Department health and physical recreation, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, Kashuba Vitalii ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine, Dutchak Myroslav ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine, Ocheretko Boris ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine, Trofimenko Vira ,   Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Department health and physical recreation, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, Denysova Lolita ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine, Blagii Vladislav ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: July 2022

Fitness-related benefits result in essential changes in physical fitness level in young women. This study was conducted with fitness centre clients (35 women with an average age of 26.4±2.2 years). The results of the experiment made it possible to evaluate the short-term response of the body to the training loads of different intensities in different blocks of the training session. The following six main blocks were distinguished in the structure of the exercise sessions including: aerobic, dance, variable, corrective, warm-up, and relaxation; and two additional ones. The aerobic and dance blocks were characterized by the highest intensity: HRav was 75.6±1.71% of HRmax, VO2 was 63.5±1.64% of VO2max, and energy expenditure (EE) was ranged from 465.28 to 524.36 kcal/hour. The relaxation block had the low- est intensity: HR was 57.31±0.56% of HRmax, VO2 was 34.2±6.25% of VO2max, and EE was of 252.6±49.24 kcal/h. We found that the percentage contribution of fats to energy production was higher in the warm-up (78.24%), relaxation (68.93%), and corrective (42.65%) blocks. The largest percentage of CHO utilization for energy metabolism was found in additional (92.8%), variable (91.82%), and dance (86.54%) blocks. The data obtained allowed to experimentally substantiate and methodologically structure a number of fitness means used in exercise sessions, by dividing them into specialized blocks that made it possible to selectively effect on different components of the physical condition.
Sustainability and Legacy in Sport: Ukraine Educational and Sport Scenario
Authors:   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Department of Professional, Non-Olympic Sports and Adaptive Sports, Kyiv, Ukraine, Borysova Olha , Krasilshchikov Oleksandr ,   Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Health Sciences, Health Campus, Kelantan, Malaysia
Published: July 2022

Achieving and maintaining sustainability as well as creating legacy to be best utilized in future is a challenging and at the same time generous objective for any country and any institution. The legacy concept development by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was further advanced through the Olympic Games Impact (OGI) project and is now efficiently governed and its execution observed by the IOC Sustainability and Legacy Commission. Most nations and institutions related to sports and physical education supported this movement to assist spreading the legacy of the Olympic Games to advance the promotion of sports for all, so that vast majority of population gets an opportunity to become more physically active, and/or to get involved in sports activities. The objectives of this editorial were on one hand to project the National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport (NUUPES) activities aimed at improving sustainability and legacy in sport; and on the other hand, to highlight the outcomes and proceedings of the 4th International online conference “Sustainability and Legacy in Sport: Challenges and Perspectives” which was held on 26-27th November 2020 in Kyiv, Ukraine. This conference was as well the part of NUUPES activities aimed at further improving sustainability and legacy in Sport. Special thanks to Sport Mont for providing a platform for publishing the conference scientific papers in this Special Issue of the journal.
Organizational Basics of Inclusive Education and Training Process for Karate Athletes with Disabilities
Authors:   Research Institute of National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kiyv, Ukraine, Kohut Iryna , Borysova Olha ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Professional, Non-Olympic and Adaptive Sports Department, Kiyv, Ukraine, Marynych Viktoriia ,   Research Institute of National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Kiyv, Ukraine, Chebanova Kateryna ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Professional, Non-Olympic and Adaptive Sports Department, Kiyv, Ukraine, Filimonova Natalia ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kiyv, Ukraine, Кropyvnytska Теtiana ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Professional, Non-Olympic and Adaptive Sports Department, Kiyv, Ukraine, Krasnianskiy Kyrylo ,   National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, Professional, Non-Olympic and Adaptive Sports Department, Kiyv, Ukraine
Published: July 2022

Physical education and sports for people with disabilities are the areas of physical and social rehabilitation. The im- plementation of this can be possible through the use of an inclusive approach in the training process of athletes with disabilities. Anthropometric measurements and testing of athletes with disabilities were conducted to determine the impact of an inclusive approach in the construction of the training process. The main purpose of this research was to demonstrate the positive impact of inclusive training sessions within the developed program on the development of the physical abilities of athletes with disabilities. The research used theoretical (analysis of scientific and methodologi- cal literature; analysis of sports programs for athletes with disabilities), empirical (pedagogical observation; pedagog- ical experiment) methods, as well as methods of mathematical statistics. The results of the research showed a positive impact from the training on the developed karate program for people with disabilities. It also presented the increase of the testing results in the exercises “Sit and reach test”, “Standing long jump” and “Abdominal crunches”.