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Camouflage--Architecture: Testing the Architectural Application of Neil Leach’s Camouflage Theory as a Model of Place-Identity
Authors:   , McLauchlan Ben 
Published: November 2021

<p>Discussion within architectural Place–identity theory has taken a shift. It has moved toward a more fluid condition. With traditional structures of identity holding less value to society, and imagery becoming more prevalent, new models of Place–identity are necessary. This is relative to a decreasing Nationalist view point and an increasing critique of the Post–Modern. Neil Leach, through his theory Camouflage, offers a way to rethink our relationship with Place. Camouflage describes the application of aesthetics as a tool. This becomes important when it is used to form a relationship between the self and Place. The research presented here tests the architectural application of Leach’s theory. This is done by the design of a building for the International Institute of Modern Letters in New Zealand. The design is broken into four components, concentrating on four key areas of the theory. Rather than looking at the building as a whole object, the skin and the planning of the building test the concepts of the visual image and inherent engagement this calls for. The strategic idea of becoming other is studied through the design of a writer’s studio and a theatre. These ideas work together in the design of the roof as an aesthetic interface. This architectural design is critiqued against Leach’s theoretical context and the building’s environment—against Place. Camouflage architecture sees the building itself become a background element. The focus shifts toward how the users of the building might accumulate identifications through the somatic relationships that the building facilitates. The results of this application are presented as an architectural explanation of Camouflage. This is further distilled into a doctrine of Place–identity. These conclusions offer a model for the application of Camouflage architecturally. More importantly they show how this application benefits the shift in Place–identity theory and practice.</p>
Appropriating Stereotypes of Kin, Romance and Gender: An Ethnographic Study of Filipina Migrants Married to or in De-Facto Relationships with New Zealand Men
Authors:   , Doar Hollie Alexandria 
Published: November 2021

<p>Transnational marriage migration is an emerging area of interest in anthropology, and contemporary scholars have written extensively on the international movements of Filipina women who have married non-Filipino men. Extending this research into an antipodean context, this thesis is based on interviews with Filipina migrants married to or in de-facto relationships with New Zealand men. Through an examination of narratives of love and romance, identity, and kinship, this work highlights the ways participants undertook identity work in their interviews. In particular, this thesis reveals the strategies employed by Filipina migrants in constructing narratives in which they distance themselves from negative stereotypes, while incorporating more positive typologies into their identities. Stereotypes included Filipina women as mail-order brides, domestic workers, subservient wives, and good family members. These narrative strategies demonstrated the ways participants sought to control and manipulate stereotypes in order to present themselves as successful and virtuous migrants. This thesis applies current scholarship on identity work and stereotypes. It also contributes to literature on marriage migration by expanding a contemporary focus on participant agency through acknowledging how migrants utilise identity resources, in this case stereotypes, available in their host society.</p>
The Reality of Return: Exploring the Experiences of World War One Soldiers after Their Return to New Zealand
Authors:   , Clarkson Coralie 
Published: November 2021

<p>The focus of this thesis is the lives of New Zealand's returned Great War soldiers. This thesis explores the experiences of men who did not successfully repatriate as a counterpoint to the experiences of those who did, and argues that men's return to New Zealand and their post war lives were shaped by many factors including access to employment and good health. Many returned soldiers were able to resume their lives on return and led relatively happy and successful lives. For these men, their success seems to have come from the ability to find or resume employment, good health, family support, and financial support. For those who did not, one or more of these factors was often missing, and this could lead to short or long term struggle. The 1920s form the backdrop of this thesis, and were a time of uncertainty and anxiety for returned men and their families. The disillusionment of the 1920s was exacerbated by men's nostalgia for New Zealand which they built up during the war. Tens of thousands of men returned to New Zealand from war with dreams and hopes for the future. The horrors of war had given men an idealistic view of peaceful New Zealand, and dreams of home comforts and loved ones had sustained these men through their long absence. For those who returned to find life difficult, the idealistic view of New Zealand as a land of simplicity and happiness would have been hard to maintain. Chapter 1 demonstrates the idealisation of New Zealand and 'home' built up by soldiers and their families during the war. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 use the lenses of employment, illness – specifically tuberculosis – and alcoholism to argue that for many men and their families, the 1920s were an extension of the anxieties and separation of the Great War years. Sadly, for some, their lives were forever marred by the spectre of war and what their absence from home cost them.</p>
Improving Salience Retention and Identification in the Automated Filtering of Event Log Messages
Authors:   , Radford Paul 
Published: November 2021

<p>Event log messages are currently the only genuine interface through which computer systems administrators can effectively monitor their systems and assemble a mental perception of system state. The popularisation of the Internet and the accompanying meteoric growth of business-critical systems has resulted in an overwhelming volume of event log messages, channeled through mechanisms whose designers could not have envisaged the scale of the problem. Messages regarding intrusion detection, hardware status, operating system status changes, database tablespaces, and so on, are being produced at the rate of many gigabytes per day for a significant computing environment. Filtering technologies have not been able to keep up. Most messages go unnoticed; no filtering whatsoever is performed on them, at least in part due to the difficulty of implementing and maintaining an effective filtering solution. The most commonly-deployed filtering alternatives rely on regular expressions to match pre-defi ned strings, with 100% accuracy, which can then become ineffective as the code base for the software producing the messages 'drifts' away from those strings. The exactness requirement means all possible failure scenarios must be accurately anticipated and their events catered for with regular expressions, in order to make full use of this technique. Alternatives to regular expressions remain largely academic. Data mining, automated corpus construction, and neural networks, to name the highest-profi le ones, only produce probabilistic results and are either difficult or impossible to alter in any deterministic way. Policies are therefore not supported under these alternatives. This thesis explores a new architecture which utilises rich metadata in order to avoid the burden of message interpretation. The metadata itself is based on an intention to improve end-to-end communication and reduce ambiguity. A simple yet effective filtering scheme is also presented which fi lters log messages through a short and easily-customisable set of rules. With such an architecture, it is envisaged that systems administrators could signi ficantly improve their awareness of their systems while avoiding many of the false-positives and -negatives which plague today's fi ltering solutions.</p>
Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Hand Gestures on Multi-Touch Devices
Authors:   , Chung Yi-jing 
Published: November 2021

<p>Geometric transformation gestures such as rotation, scaling and dragging are extremely common. There are multiple variants of designing and implementing these gestures. Variants include slightly modifying the gesture input (e.g. different original placement or tracing of fingers) or the resulting action (e.g. scale factor, retention of scale centre or rotation degree). There has not been a significant amount of research assessing the best design of geometric transformation gestures across multiple multi-touch devices. We describe our research project that looks at variants of standard geometric transformation hand gestures. We hypothesise that these variants are superior to standard geometric transformation gestures (in terms of supporting more precise transformations and faster completion times) and are as easy to initiate and maintain as the standard gestures. We also discuss our experiences in implementing these variants and describe and present user experiments we have completed in order to test our hypotheses. The results show that only some of our variants are more precise and support faster transformation completion and that only some of these results are mirrored between devices. Furthermore, only some of our variants are as easy to initiate and maintain as the standard gestures.</p>
What Success Means to Professional Dancers
Authors:   , Nixon Janet 
Published: November 2021

<p>Being successful as a dance professional does not generally happen by accident. Occasionally all the components of success fall into place serendipitously, but success is usually achieved by people who know what success means for themselves, people who have developed the vision and personal qualities required to achieve this. Success is a mental attitude, a mind-set, and the quality of this mental attitude allows people to make the most of their other training and skills. As with many graduates of the arts, students completing tertiary performing arts dance degrees do not have a clearly defined career path mapped out for them, in the way that say lawyers and engineers have. Compounding this situation is that there are many more dance graduates than existing professional dance opportunities. These graduates have to create their own professional futures if they are to succeed in a challenging and highly competitive environment, the dance industry. This research was directed by the questions: what is success for established professional contemporary and cultural dancers in New Zealand; how do they perceive success; and what personal qualities do successful dance professionals possess, apart from talent, that contribute to them being successful? Nine dance professionals, with extensive industry experience, participated in this phenomenological study. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using themes emerging from the data. A clear picture emerged of how these dance professionals view success, and the important role that strong self-awareness plays in achieving this. The study revealed a common set of personal qualities that appear to contribute to being successful. The dance professionals interviewed for this study know who they are, what they want, and where they want to go. They are very focused people, not compromising in their vision and drive. They are principled and connected to their beliefs and values. Their success is supported by the multiple facets of discipline they have developed - they had worked hard to get to where they are now. By understanding the qualities successful dance professionals possess, dance professional practice courses can be informed and illustrated by the findings of this study, and an approach can be developed that acknowledges the importance of the awareness of success in educative processes, and in the student’s professional development path.</p>
Corporate Governance and the Relationship between Default Risk and the Earning Response Coefficient
Authors:   , Zakaria Nor Balkish 
Published: November 2021

<p>This study examines the effect of corporate governance on the relationship between default risk and the earnings response coefficient (ERC). Using a sample of 2,004 firm-years comprising 334 firms listed on the Bursa Malaysia over a six year period from 2002 to 2007, this study tests whether corporate governance mitigates the effect of default risk on ERC while controlling for the established determinants of ERC — beta, growth, earnings persistence and size. Using reverse regression, the study confirms that beta is negatively related to ERC and that growth, earnings persistence and size are positively related to ERC. Default risk is found to be negatively related to ERC thus confirming that beta is only a partial measure of risk relevant to ERC. Corporate governance — as indicated by audit quality, audit committee expertise and independence, and board independence and board shareholding — mitigates the negative effect of default risk on ERC. The results of the study hold both for the pooled sample of 2,004 firm-year observations and on a year by year basis for the 334 firms in the sample. The results are also found to be robust to various sensitivity tests including to alternative measures of the variables. The study thus provides systematic and comprehensive additional evidence on the determinants of ERC. Of itself this is an important contribution to the literature but especially so given that the evidence comes from Malaysia — an emerging economy — whereas the existing empirical literature relates mainly to developed countries.</p>
Te Reo Tātaki o te Ringa: Māori Narratives and Contemporary Technology
Authors:   , Hakaraia David 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research explores how Māori tradition and narratives along with modern fabrication techniques can be used to make contemporary Māori design. The aim of this thesis is to document my work history and findings; and to add to the continuation of contemporary Māori design discourse. Part of the documentation process was interviewing leading Māori artists and craftspeople. This helped me to develop and reflect upon my tikanga (correct procedure), which in turn allowed me to create a body of physical works that fulfilled the compositional component of this thesis. There are two dominating components to my work: the engagement of narratives which I have a personal interest in and my use of new technologies to generate these works. The narratives used predominantly relate to my Māori cultural heritage and background. These stories have captured my imagination and I have enjoyed expressing them in a way that departs from the customary tribal style and creates a personal contemporary design approach that is distinctly my own.</p>
Knowledge Translation in Action: An Evaluation of the Implementation of Customised Birthweight Centiles at One New Zealand District Health Board
Authors:   , Lardelli Malia Noelani 
Published: November 2021

<p>Identifying small for gestational age (SGA) and large for gestational age (LGA) babies is important, because these babies may be at increased risk of hypoglycaemia at birth. It is proposed that customised birthweight centiles (CBWC) can more accurately identify these babies by taking into account several physiological variables of the pregnancy affecting birthweight. These variables are: maternal height and booking weight, ethnicity, parity, the baby's gender and gestation. CBWC for a New Zealand (NZ) population were developed by McCowan, Stewart, Francis and Gardosi (2004), and can be downloaded for free from www.gestation.net. Using CBWC is not in common practice in NZ, even though its use was discussed in a 2007 Health and Disability Commissioner report in relation to neonatal hypoglycaemia. The setting for the study was a NZ District Health Board (DHB) that calculates a CBWC for each birth. The research question asked how the evidence behind CBWC was put into practice and what outcomes resulted from translating this knowledge into action. This was a mixed methods evaluation which included interviews, focus groups, an audit and document analysis. The knowledge-to-action (KTA) framework (Straus, Tetroe, & Graham, 2009) was used as a theoretical template to describe the implementation process that occurred. The results revealed that maternity care providers were initially challenged by the evidence. But over time, guideline compliance improved as practitioners experienced the benefit of using CBWC in practice. All agreed that the CBWC calculator was user-friendly. However, the audit demonstrated it was easy to make a mistake or manipulate results when using the calculator. CBWC can help identify babies at risk of hypoglycaemia who otherwise would have been missed. But it is unknown what difference it had made in improving neonatal morbidity and mortality, due to insufficient data. But anecdotally, stakeholders felt it had made a difference. The findings demonstrated that knowledge translation is a complex process which is difficult to capture within a one-dimensional framework. However, using such a framework can identify what stages are needed to complete an implementation process.</p>
Ownership and Sense of Belonging for the Displaced: Integrating Somali Refugees into Wellington City
Authors:   , Ibrahim Ida 
Published: November 2021

<p>Having a sense of belonging to a place is important for everyone adapting to a new environment but especially more so for displaced refugees. This is important for raising confidence and self worth which gives refugees a better chance to understand and connect to the surrounding culture and immediate environment. Somali refugees first arrived in New Zealand as asylum seekers. They are discussed specifically in this thesis with relation to the issue of discrimination, methods of integration and its issues such as social depravation. As an ethnic group, the Somali refugees are very distinct in their culture and religious belief thus facing more challenges in the process of integration compared to other refugee communities. This situation is not further aided as they live on the peripheries of the city, in this case, central Wellington city and its outskirts, which impedes the chance of exchange between their culture and other cultures that inform this multi-cultural city. The central city represents a central cultural hub where culture is exchanged through a variety of trade predominantly through food and the arts and crafts. This research explores the importance of providing spaces within the commercial centre for the social and economic value for the Somali refugees that could play a big part in their integration process. The thesis discusses the history of the Somalis, methods of integration and social depravation, precedents of successful spaces for cultural expression, concluding with the final design proposal discussions and conclusion. As the thesis explores the prospect of giving ownership to the Somali refugees in Wellington city the design component of the thesis focuses on architectural interventions that would facilitate and support cultural integration. The study explores the personalisation of an existing inner city built space and the use for functional needs as a first step for the Somalis to partake in economic and cultural exchange, understanding and eventually through such means develop a sense of belonging.</p>
Effective Strategies for Teaching Young Children Critical Thinking Through Picture Book Reading: A Case Study in the New Zealand Context
Authors:   , Law Shu Yen 
Published: November 2021

<p>Critical thinking is a life skill that empowers people to participate fully in everyday life and to make reasonable judgments and inferences on important issues. Critical thinking is not viewed as an individual, fixed entity, but is instead malleable and influenced by the social and cultural contexts of the learner. This study explored the strategies used by primary school teachers to promote young children's critical thinking, and their rationales for those strategies. It also investigated children's responses to picture book reading, including their opinions and behaviours. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the development of critical thinking skills during picture book reading lessons with junior primary children. Four teachers in two schools and 22 children aged five to six years participated in this study. Methods included observations of picture book reading lessons, individual interviews with teachers, paired interviews with children, and collection of documents. These methods were used to collect data about teaching strategies, and to obtain an insider's view of the teachers and children. Data were analysed within and across reading lessons using a content analysis approach, and the children's responses were analysed against the Four Resources Model (Luke & Freebody, 1999a) framework. Six teaching strategies were found to be effective in promoting critical thinking in children. These strategies reflected a sociocultural approach to teaching and learning. The children's reading of picture books showed that the majority of these young children engaged in the practices of breaking the code of texts, of participating in the meanings of texts, and of using texts functionally, with a minority engaged in the practice of critically analysing and transforming texts. This study suggests that to foster critical thinking there is a need for teaching practices to focus on nurturing children to be text analysts and encouraging children to be active questioners.</p>
At Home with a View: Exploring Notions of Landscape
Authors:   , Borren Hester Blyth 
Published: November 2021

<p>The aim of this thesis is to gain an understanding of the role and value of a view of landscape with respect to the interior of New Zealand houses. It explores the all-or-nothing manner in which contemporary architecture presents surrounding scenery. Through a translation of New Zealand landscape paintings, it presents alternative approaches for connecting the interior and exterior of a house in such a way that can enhance both the experience of a view and a house. In doing so this thesis contends that artistic themes and techniques can enrich views of landscapes, especially of nature, through the architecture of New Zealand houses. This thesis employs three research approaches to achieve its aim. The first research section, a literature review, provides an examination of historical and contemporary western attitudes towards a view. This confirms that much of western society has learnt to appreciate and benefit from, a view, and that the nature of people's response is deeply ingrained. The second section focuses on domestic views in both international and Wellington houses. Each study is analysed to gain understanding of the design strategies in respect to architectural presentations of a view. The last section pursues a more integrated designresearch approach, separated in two parts. Firstly, it explores a possible connection between the artistic treatment of landscape paintings and architectural treatments of houses. Four spaces are presented as studio residences for artists, focusing on four very different characteristics of land. Secondly, two further house designs are developed which employ techniques produced from the first design part as well as research from the previous sections. It aims to present two opposite spatial approaches to a depiction of surrounding landscape in an architectural design, one that presents a single view to look at and one that presents a series of views to engage with. This final design section explores the above contention. It presents how a connection between landscape art and architecture can offer guidance to the way in which a view is experienced from New Zealand homes. This is achieved on a theoretical as well as practical level, generating a range of techniques for further exploration.</p>