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Collective Coast
Authors:   , Ritchie Matthew 
Published: November 2021

<p>Deeply rooted with cultural and historic ties, the coastline is inherently linked to the New Zealand way of life. The coast belongs to ‘the people’ and has been legislated so that land adjacent to the sea falls within public ownership. Most New Zealanders take for granted their ability to access the coast and firmly believe coastal access should be unrestricted. As a result, there is signifcant public opposition to a built-up waterfront. The quality of the coastal environment relies on more than natural qualities. In an urban and suburban setting, the built environment determines which activities and functions can occur and the levels of social engagement that can be experienced. Consequently, the root concern for the future of the waterfront may be a fear of ill-designed developments, escalated by fears of spoiling the water’s edge. The New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement (NZCPS) recognises there is a need for social, economic and cultural development in the coastal marine area. Acting as stimulus for activity, architecture enhances the way the waterfront is utilised. It fosters economic venture and defnes the character of the region. The waterfront faces growing pressure from real estate exploitation. Having to suitably balance the social, economic and cultural needs that come with the location. Impactful decisions concerning the preservation or destruction of historic remnants and the natural condition of the environment must be made. The balance of public and private use of coastal land should also be considered. Arousing local and international contention, these ideologies are at the heart of waterfront debate. ‘Collective Coast’ explores Wellington’s coastal condition and the intersecting desires of public, private, cultural, economic and environmental interests through a mixed residential design proposal. The proposal tests the application of this wide breadth of research, and stretches across many disciplines and design scales. The proposed project is set in Shelly Bay, along Wellington’s Miramar Peninsular. The site allows for a breadth of possibilities gathered from a wide range of literature to be explored. Given the importance of the waterfront as both a destination for the public and a highly sought after residential zone, the project presents major challenges in planning, urban design, infrastructure and community formation. The desired outcome is to create a coastal community that both engages and facilitates the wider public’s engagement with the shared environment.</p>
Harmony, associativity, and metaphor in the film scores of Alexandre Desplat
Authors:   , Clark Ewan Alexander 
Published: November 2021

<p>The objective of this doctoral study is to develop and demonstrate a theoretical framework to guide both the analysis and composition of twenty-first-century film music. The compositional portfolio submitted as part of this thesis includes scores for nine short films and for a feature-length docudrama. The thesis is based on analysis of twenty feature film scores by Alexandre Desplat (b. 1961), with particular attention to two: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Studying one composer’s output enables the observation of a compositional voice articulated across multiple film genres. Desplat’s work has proven a relevant and worthy subject, because the films he has scored exemplify a wide variety of styles and approaches, including skilful integration of past styles and current trends. The theoretical framework I use to discuss both Desplat’s film music and my own, draws together selected concepts from semiotics, metaphor theory, narratology, and harmonic analysis, especially transformational theory. I use the framework to explore how musical objects – such as modes, chords, and their transformations through time – might act as symbols, icons, or metaphors for one or more elements of the narrative – such as a setting, character, characters’ emotions, events, or the attitude of the cinematic narrator. It is argued that this combination of ideas provides a suitable framework – useful in both composition and analysis – for understanding how music might expressively contribute to filmic narratives. It is argued that Neo-Riemannian triadic transformations – in Desplat’s work and mine, at least – are often most usefully considered in relation to the scales and modes that they articulate, transform, and/or subvert. This is a point of difference from other recent transformational analysis of film music. Although my analyses focus primarily on pitchbased features, I also consider how these elements accrue meaning in their interactions with other musical features, such as tempo and orchestration.</p>
Whanganui Kaiponu: Ngāti Ruakā Methodologies for the preservation of Hapū waiata and oral taonga
Authors:   , Haami Meri 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research explores Ngāti Ruakā perspectives on the preservation of hapū waiata and oral taonga, and it examines Whanganui kaiponu as a culturally appropriate methodology and research framework. Ngāti Ruakā perspectives are central to the study of hapū taonga within this research. This thesis also investigates the analysis of waiata through the decolonisation of western frameworks and methodologies on waiata study that have been used previously in ethnomusicology. This journey led me back home to the ahi kā, my whānau (especially my Nanny, Angel Haami) as well as my hapū from the Whanganui awa. This further affirmed my own identity through whakapapa and the significance of tūrangawaewae. Through discourse with hapū members and throughout the interview process, karanga was gifted and performed as oral hapū taonga to me. The context of this research centres on the interdisciplinary bridging of ethnomusicology and waiata Māori studies. This study highlighted critical aspects of preservation for Ngāti Ruakā concerning waiata. Hapū members raised issues relating to protection, transmission and pedagogy in regards to their hapū waiata or oral hapū taonga. This led to a need for re-establishing Whanganui kaiponu as a way of preservation and protection.</p>
Converting Motion Capture Into Editable Keyframe Animation: Fast, Optimal, and Generic Keyframe Selection
Authors:   , Roberts Richard 
Published: November 2021

<p>Motion capture is attractive to visual effects studios because it offers a fast and automatic way to create animation directly from actors' movements. Despite extensive research efforts toward motion capture processing and motion editing, animations created using motion capture are notoriously difficult to edit. We investigate this problem and develop a technique to reverse engineer editable keyframe animation from motion capture. Our technique for converting motion capture into editable animation is to select keyframes from the motion capture that correspond to those an animator might have used to create the motion from scratch. As the first contribution presented by this thesis, we survey both traditional and contemporary animation practice to define the types of keyframes created by animators following conventional animation practices. As the second contribution, we develop a new keyframe selection algorithm that uses a generic objective function; using different implementations, we can define different criteria to which keyframes are selected. After presenting the algorithm, we return to the problem of converting motion capture into editable animation and design three implementations of the objective function that can be used together to select animator-like keyframes. Finally, as a minor contribution to conclude the thesis, we present a simple interpolation algorithm that can be used to construct a new animation from only the selected keyframes. In contrast to previous research in the topic of keyframe selection, our technique is novel in that we have designed it to provide selections of keyframes that are similar in structure to those used by animators following conventional practices. Consequently, both animators and motion editors can adjust the resulting animation in much the same way as their own, manually created, content. Furthermore, our technique offers an optimal guarantee paired with fast performance for practical editing situations, which has not yet been achieved in previous research. In conclusion, the contributions of this thesis advance the state of the art in the topic by introducing the first fast, optimal, and generic keyframe selection algorithm. Ultimately, our technique is not only well suited to the problem of recovering editable animation from motion capture, but can also be used to select keyframes for other purposes - such as compression or pattern identification - provided that an appropriate implementation of the objective function can be imagined and employed.</p>
Sight of Sound: Designing for the Senses
Authors:   , Shepherd Kate 
Published: November 2021

<p>It has been agreed that one of Interior Architecture’s primary roles is to create atmosphere. This is generally achieved by engaging the senses in specific spatial conditions that shift the emotions and create moods. This view of interior is more particularly relevant to the needs of inhabitants/ users with sensory impairment. The intention within this thesis is for individuals with hearing and sight impairment to experience space/ interiors, with at least the same, wholeness as those with the capacity of full range of sense. Pallasmaa states that “it is evident that ‘life-enhancing’ architecture has to address all of the senses simultaneously” (Pallasmaa (C) 11). It has been suggested that if a sense is taken away there is a higher importance placed on the remaining senses. Early research has indicated that people, specifically children with sight impairment “perceive the built environment very differently and pay more attention to tactile, haptic, auditory and olfactory aspects” compared to a person with full sensory abilities (Vermeersch et al. 1). Engagement with all possible senses allows a connection with space and orientation within architecture. It is this engagement with surroundings which “is a key component of happiness” (Fox, “Emotion Science”). This helps to achieve the independence that is desired among the sensory impaired. “A dialogue between architects and people with visual impairment can therefore contribute to a more multi-sensory design approach to architecture” (Vermeersch et al. 1). While specific senses engage with mood to stimulate a learning experience for those with hearing and sight impairment, this design research demonstrates how the play of light and water can be used as a tool in creating specific atmospheres. These in turn influence moods in creation of interiors for multisensory experience. Henry Plummer’s light categories are the basis for which this research invents categories of sound. It is also proposed as a tool for interior designers to think about space for people with sensory impairment and to design with specific guidance. This invention will be tested by applying a program, Gallery of the Senses, to a Wellington site.</p>
Chordality in Matroids: In Search of the Converse to Hliněný's Theorem
Authors:   , Probert Andrew 
Published: November 2021

<p>Bodlaender et al. [7] proved a converse to Courcelle's Theorem for graphs [15] for the class of chordal graphs of bounded treewidth. Hliněný [25] generalised Courcelle's Theorem for graphs to classes of matroids represented over finite fields and of bounded branchwidth. This thesis has investigated the possibility of obtaining a generalisation of chordality to matroids that would enable us to prove a converse of Hliněný's Theorem [25]. There is a variety of equivalent characterisations for chordality in graphs. We have investigated the relationship between their generalisations to matroids. We prove that they are equivalent for binary matroids but typically inequivalent for more general classes of matroids. Supersolvability is a well studied property of matroids and, indeed, a graphic matroid is supersolvable if and only if its underlying graph is chordal. This is among the stronger ways of generalising chordality to matroids. However, to obtain the structural results that we need we require a stronger property that we call supersolvably saturated. Chordal graphs are well known to induce canonical tree decompositions. We show that supersolvably saturated matroids have the same property. These tree decompositions of supersolvably saturated matroids can be processed by a finite state automaton. However, they can not be completely described in monadic second-order logic. In order to express the matroids and their tree decompositions in monadic second-order logic we need to extend the logic over an extension field for each matroid represented over a finite field. We then use the fact that each maximal round modular flat of the tree decomposition for every matroid represented over a finite field, and in the specified class, spans a point in the vector space over the extension field. This enables us to derive a partial converse to Hliněný's Theorem.</p>
A Pound of Flesh: Human Remains, Ethics and Museums in Tertiary Education
Authors:   , Milnes Paulette 
Published: November 2021

<p>The collection and display of human remains has long been accepted within many cultures and religions. However, in contemporary Western society the practice has become contentious, and acquisition by museums has all but ceased. Among academic and museum communities, debate and discussion on the problem have been centred almost entirely on indigenous repatriation claims and Body Worlds exhibitions, to the exclusion of other aspects of what is in fact a much broader issue. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the question of whether human remains can ever justifiably be collected and held by museums. The focus of the study is the situation of health science disciplinary museums within tertiary education, with specific and detailed reference to the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum and the Drennan Pathology Museum at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Three interconnected aspects of the topic are considered in order to answer the primary question. The first is an examination of the codes of ethics and professional practice that govern the treatment of human remains; the second reviews the justifications commonly given for the use of human remains; and the third aspect considers the role museums play in tertiary education. Documentary sources, exhibitions and interviews were analysed to address these issues and corroborate evidence. Examined together, these three areas of investigation bring a fresh focus on whether the acquisition and retention of human remains can be justified, at least within certain parameters. This study concludes that in the particular educational context of the health science teaching museum there is a strong justification for continued acquisition and display, albeit in a highly regulated and clearly defined ethical environment, of human remains. A key outcome of the research is that the most important consideration across all three areas of investigation, and for all groups working with human remains, was the concept of respect. Definitions and expressions of respect differed depending on context and professional boundaries, but within specific ethical parameters it is possible to determine that the collection and retention of human remains can be justified.</p>
MICE-PES: An Algorithm for Accurate Conformational Analysis and its Implementation to Natural Products
Authors:   , Hashmi Muhammad Ali 
Published: November 2021

<p>Secondary metabolites from natural sources have revolutionized the modern drug industry by acting as lead compounds. Many commercial drugs have evolved originally from natural molecules before being synthesized in the laboratory for commercialization. Because of the importance of natural molecules, it is crucial to determine their structural properties carefully as it is essential for their synthesis and studying their pharmacological behaviour. Many natural molecules have flexible structures and can adopt many different conformations in solution at room temperature. Hence, the determination of their relative configuration is a challenging task with the available experimental techniques. For structural analysis of natural molecules and to study their properties, all conformers which might be responsible for their chemical properties have to be considered. Theoretical chemistry has been very helpful in absolute structure determination of complex and conformationally flexible natural molecules by calculating their theoretical nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet, infra red, and circular dichroism spectra etc. There are a number of software tools that offer conformational analysis by utilizing different molecular mechanics approaches. They produce a large number of possible conformers and are not general purpose, thus compromising accuracy. Apart from that, different force fields available for conformational analysis and minimization have been designed for specific molecular classes and do not produce good results beyond their scope. In the past, there have been reports about a “build-up procedure” for predicting the low energy conformations of peptides by optimising smaller fragments of the molecule under study and then joining them while minimizing their energies using force fields. Later on, this method was extended to predict the structure of DNA from sequences. This method used force field methods and did not gain much popularity due to its various limitations. Here, MICE-PES (Method for the Incremental Construction and Exploration of the Potential Energy Surface) is presented, an algorithm which performs a conformational analysis using high level quantum chemical calculations by building the molecule incrementally from its smallest possible analogue whose conformational degrees of freedom are very well separated than the rest of the molecule. MICE-PES has been validated through studies on known biomolecule 3-epi-xestoaminol whose absolute configuration has been determined already by experimental and theoretical methods. MICE-PES has also been used to assign the relative configuration of a natural product (meroterphenol C) whose configuration could not be established experimentally. Overall, the development of MICE-PES will be very helpful in solving problems in the study of conformationally flexible systems, in all aspects of organic chemistry.</p>
The Underestimated Value of Internal Marketing: Impact on Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction through Organisational Restructure
Authors:   , Micek Monica Nicole 
Published: November 2021

<p>Internal Marketing, a long-debated concept amongst academics and practitioners, is suggested to be a competitive advantage to organisations that utilise its practices. Often dismissed as merely selling the marketing of a product or service to employees within an organisation, Internal Marketing encompasses a combination of the key elements of communication, training, and feedback in order to create motivated, customer-orientated employees. Through employees and managers working together towards a well communicated organisational cause of Internal Marketing, internal procedures can evolve to better service and satisfy customers. Organisational restructures are an ongoing concern as technological advances, value-adding business process, and globalisation change the way that businesses run and operate. In order to save on costs of operations, employment, and office rental space, downsizing an organisation may initially present itself as a cost-saving practice. Often unconsidered are the front-line customer-facing employees and customers of an organisation. Employees may feel distraught and concerned about losing their job, or having to find a new job, which may affect customer service, and subsequently customers may face the brunt of the domino effect, either intentionally or unintentionally, due to employees’ emotional disconnection from the organisation. This research is an exploratory study into Internal Marketing, specifically around an organisational restructure, to better understand its impact on employees and customers through different stages of a restructure. Through the use of online surveys, participants were asked to recall an organisational restructure they were involved in within the last five years. They were asked to report their perceptions of Internal Marketing, their own satisfaction with their job at the time, and their perceptions of Customer Satisfaction throughout different stages of the organisational restructure. The analysis found that Internal Marketing does have a significant positive relationship with Employee Satisfaction both during and after an organisational restructure. Although no significant relationship was found between Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction at any stage of the restructure, there is a trend within the data suggesting that the relationship may be stronger before and after an organisational restructure. Benefits and contribution of this research for academics include development of a conceptual model, as well as the benefits and effects of Internal Marketing, and extending the existing literature. For practitioners, benefits include insights into better understanding of the role of Internal Marketing. Specifically, the differences in perception of the practice between employees and managers, and why it is important to understand and address Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction during an organisational restructure.</p>
Building and Sustaining Connections through Music Therapy with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Special Learning Centre of a Primary School in New Zealand
Authors:   , Kong Jingyuan Cici 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research project helped me, a student music therapist, to understand the process of building and sustaining connections through music therapy with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The clinical work took place in eight months and I employed secondary analysis of music therapy session data as my research strategy to look at how to build and sustain connections through music therapy with children with ASD in a special learning centre of a primary school in New Zealand. This study showed the results of my work with four students, by reusing my clinical notes, reflective journal and notes from discussions and meetings with staff members in March and May. I used thematic analysis as my analysis method to identify themes from my data, in order to answer my research question. This research suggested that the building of connections and later sustaining them seemed to occur in stages, not identical for each child, but showing a certain type of pattern, characteristic of children with autism. I used some strategies to address the challenges in my music therapy practice, and these are the codes and themes that I identified in the findings. The process of my research improved my music improvisation skills, verbal communication skills, ability to establish and hold boundaries, and self-confidence.</p>