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Constituting the 'Woman Artist': A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand's Art History 1928 - 1989
Authors:   , Baker Kirsty 
Published: December 2021

<p>This thesis considers the ways in which the figure of the ‘woman artist’ has been constituted in published sources in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history, between 1928 and 1989. Most of the texts dedicated specifically to women artists in this country were written in the latter half of the twentieth century, and were produced with the intention of writing women artists back in to the histories from which they had been excluded. This thesis operates from a different perspective. Rather than assuming a starting point of women’s absence from a national art history, it traces instead those written representations of the ‘woman artist’ as they exist in the published literature. Through the construction of a genealogy of such representation, this thesis examines the ideologies which are both embedded in, and perpetuated by them. In doing so it makes evident and interrogates the gendered power dynamics which have shaped the writing of Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history. This thesis is structured chronologically, charting the formation and expansion of a coherent national arts discourse against shifting notions of national and cultural identity. The trajectory of this discourse was shaped by a canonical impulse, constructing an unfolding narrative which centres upon a succession of key artistic figures. This thesis argues that the structuring of this – largely male, Pākehā – narrative, acted to subsume gendered difference, rendering women increasingly peripheral within its pages. The model of subsumed difference is also apparent in feminist critiques of this dominant art history, which are critically interrogated in the latter half of this thesis. As women sought to challenge the relative exclusion of women artists from this dominant narrative, they also perpetuated their own exclusions, often in terms of culture or sexuality. Through discursive analysis of both ‘mainstream’ art history, and the feminist writings which addressed it, this thesis presents two significant arguments. First, that stereotypical representations of women artists play a structural role – to marginalise women – within Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history. Secondly, that feminist interrogations of such histories failed to account for the multiplicity of women’s subjectivity. I conclude by instantiating and calling for an alternative approach that challenges the subsuming of such difference within a single, homogenous narrative. Such an approach will produce histories that interrogate, rather than perpetuate, the gendered and cultural power dynamics embedded within society.</p>
Investigation of the Association between Video Game Usage, Personality, Psychological Needs, and Wellbeing
Authors:   , Flueggen Florian 
Published: December 2021

<p>Playing computer games has often been theorised to be linked to the wellbeing of users. However, the variables involved and the relationships and interactions between them have not been established. The purpose of the present study was to investigate, whether there are core aspects of game usage that are related to increased or decreased wellbeing, and the extent to which these depend on players’ real-life situations. The project comprised three studies and used an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design. In the first study, the ways in which players use games were investigated. To identify the key aspects of game usage for distinguishing and describing how players use games, in-depth interviews were conducted with 23 players of different games. This data and two subsequent quantitative tests, the first with 314 participants and the second with 770 participants, were used to develop a game-usage questionnaire and a framework with eight factors. The relationship between game usage and wellbeing was investigated in a longitudinal study conducted over nine months with 531 participants. Personality – as proxy for internal characteristics – and basic psychological needs – as proxy for participants’ situations in life – were taken into account as potential moderators of that relationship. Results showed that the overall correlations between game usage and wellbeing are weak and subsumed by players’ needs and personality. However, there were interactions between game usage and needs: Some game usage factors seem to directly reflect real-life situations and wellbeing; others seem to be common responses to real-life situations with no impact on wellbeing; and others again appear to impact wellbeing depending on the real-life situation. Social game usage seems to be a key factor with relevance for wellbeing. The contribution of this thesis is twofold. It provides a general framework of game usage that can be used in the field of game studies to interpret and compare findings more meaningfully, and it was shown that it is important to consider a person’s game usage in context of their real-life situations. In addition, main game usage factors for future research on wellbeing and digital games are suggested.</p>
Crowdsourcing Neighbourhood Delineations in Wellington, New Zealand
Authors:   , Rickard Hayden 
Published: December 2021

<p>Neighbourhoods are important in our everyday lives, but physical deﬁnitions of neighbourhoods are often ambiguous. Oﬃcial representations of neighbourhood boundaries used to present geographic outcomes poorly reﬂect individuals’ perceptions of their neighbourhoods. Existing methods of collecting neighbourhood delineations commonly consist of small sample sizes or stratiﬁed surveys on residents of individual neighbourhoods. By reducing eﬀort and potentially increasing response rates, a crowdsourcing approach may be eﬀective in collecting neighbourhood delineations across an entire city. This thesis presents results from a web-based application used to crowdsource neighbourhood delineations from residents of Wellington City, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Over eight hundred responses were analysed to investigate how personal characteristics impact neighbourhood boundaries, determine areas of shared neighbourhood geographies based on overlapping demarcations, and examine how participants neighbourhood delineations compare to oﬃcial representations of neighbourhoods. Case studies of a range of geographic features are provided to explore how they impact neighbourhood delineations. This thesis found transport choices signiﬁcantly impact perceived neighbourhood area; neighbourhood areas diﬀer markedly in terms of consensus about their boundaries; and there are both similarities and discrepancies between oﬃcial and perceived neighbourhood boundaries. A variety of geographic features were found to function as diﬀerent perceptual elements in informing neighbourhood delineations. Crowdsourcing was a practical method to collect neighbourhood perceptions with possible implications for oﬃcial neighbourhood boundaries. Finally, recommendations for future research aiming to crowdsource neighbourhood delineations were made with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods being of high value.</p>
The efficient synthesis of 1-deoxymannojirimycin and its derivatives
Authors:   , Deeble Benjamin Mark Mandinka 
Published: December 2021

<p>Azasugars are structural analogues of carbohydrates whereby the oxygen in the heterocyclic ring is substituted for a nitrogen. These carbohydrates are an important class of compounds with medicinal bioactivities and have shown potential for the treatment of diabetes, viral-infection, cancers, and lysosomal storage diseases. 1-deoxymannojirimycin (DMJ), is a mannosidase inhibiting azasugar which has shown anti-cancer and anti-viral activity. There has been significant effort put towards developing methodology to produce this compound and libraries of its derivatives. This thesis presents the synthesis of DMJ and a selection of its derivatives via an efficient 4 step methodology from a carbohydrate starting material, exploiting chemo and regioselective reactions to allow for a total synthesis with minimal use of protecting groups. The synthesis of DMJ, using the methodology developed herein, surpasses published syntheses in efficiency. This synthetic strategy was then used for the preparation of N-functionalised DMJ derivatives without the requirement of additional synthetic steps. To illustrate the versatility of this methodology, a selection of derivatives incorporating different functionalities have been synthesised.</p>
Compliance Behaviour of New Zealand Exporters with Best Practices of Supply Chain Security
Authors:   , Cisternas Torres Vinka 
Published: December 2021

<p>Uninterrupted growth of international trade and the constant threats to global supply chains have led to the emergence of numerous voluntary compliance guidelines based on standards and compliance. Initiatives, such as, the Authorised Economic Operators is the result of the global efforts to facilitate, prevent and secure international trade against cross-border crime. The Authorised Economic Operator is an initiative of the World Customs Organisation and its member countries. Its core philosophy is developing public to private partnerships for the safety of international trade and trade facilitation. These initiatives are growing in scope with a variety of programmes developed by governments. The objective of these programmes is encouraging an ethos of voluntary compliance based on standards, best practices and self-governance. Certified firms can obtain a trusted trader status and cross-border benefits when they demonstrate that their supply chain is secure. New Zealand has its own programme called the Secure Export Scheme. While this programme is voluntary in nature, firms entering the programme are required to adopt, maintain, and comply with the standards of security for their supply chain. This thesis investigates the compliance behaviour of New Zealand exporters with the standards of security of the Secure Export Scheme. The Authorised Economic Programme is a new concept, and while there is scholarly research of other types of voluntary standards, research in this particular area is minimal. To the best of the researcher’s knowledge, this is one of the first studies to examine the compliance behaviour of firms that have been part of the programme since inception. Accordingly, this study is guided by the various views of the compliance theory and proffers a conceptual framework to delineate the different actors and factors that influence firms’ compliance behaviour. The study measured compliance and non-compliance of firms to understand the underlying patterns with specific best practices. This study contributes towards our current understanding of compliance behaviour. While, overall, the compliance of the New Zealand exporters with the best practices is high, there are some areas of concern. The study further identified that a number of firms were not compliant with certain best practices. This finding indicates that other factors, such as, the way the governing body presents its written requirements might influence the compliance behaviour with those specific best practices. The conceptual model proposed in this study lays the foundation for further research seeking to probe compliance behaviour of Authorised Economic Operators.</p>
Children’s Engagement with Urban Legends: Temporality and Collective Story-sharing Through Horror Narratives
Authors:   , Biswell Piper 
Published: December 2021

<p>This thesis explores how children engage with horror narratives in the digital era and how this engagement has changed over the last decade. The term ‘Horror narratives’ encompasses a wide range of genre-based storytelling from urban legends, to creepypastas, to images, YouTube videos, and internet forums. It is a broad form of story-sharing that transcends physical and digital mediums. I examine the relationship between the horror narratives, the individual child, and wider group engagement in real-life and on a digital platforms, and how this has changed over the last fifteen years. Over the past twenty years children’s access to personal devices and digital media has expanded rapidly. I ask whether oral tradition has been overtaken by digital horror narratives. What does story-sharing look like in a digital medium? Part of this paper is looking at how children’s horror narrative repertoires develop and what stories are retained and disseminated among their peers. In my childhood era the predominant form of dissemination was oral story-sharing, but during my fieldwork with young scouts I learned that children engage in a variety of media for dissemination as they now have easier access to internet communities on their personal devices. I have compared popular oral urban legends from my childhood (Click Click Slide, Drip Drip, and “Johnny, I want my liver back”) to contemporary horror narratives children engage with both in real-life and in the digital medium. My thesis also explores the relationship between young adults in their early twenties and memories of these horror narratives from their childhood, and how these memories have been impacted by nostalgia and retroactive knowledge. The major question of this thesis is how has horror storytelling changed from my childhood fifteen years ago to present time, and what have new technologies contributed to this evolution in horror narration?</p>
Factors Affecting Conversation Design for Digital Political Personae
Authors:   , Cox Reuben 
Published: December 2021

<p>Digital political personae are common on social media, representing a potential avenue to inform and engage citizens in political conversation. While personae that function as a digital extension of politicians and commentators are clearly identifiable, large numbers of automated personae of limited sophistication also engage in political exchanges in online spaces. Despite their prevalence, little prior work has addressed conversation design approaches to maximise the effectiveness of digital political personae in their interactions with users. A review of the literature highlighted a range of approaches for effective use of digital tools in political contexts, including strategies for conveying information, sustaining engagement and employing and responding to emotive language on polarising topics. Examination of interactions with existing political personae on social media revealed that many of these approaches were limited or absent from the current conversational paradigm. Chatbot software was used to explore methods that would address the issues identified with existing digital political personae through an iterative design process. A layered interaction scenario was developed that supports branching political conversation on a central topic, with a base of secondary topics to enhance the utility of the persona. The conversation design developed incorporates lessons from the literature on use of effective digital tools for political conversation, and has the potential to engage and inform large numbers of participants, as well as gather information from them for analysis.</p>
Pengembangan E-Modul Pengayaan Materi Debat Berbasis Software Sigil untuk Pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia Kelas X SMA di Purbalingga
Authors: Andiyanto Catur , Hawanti Santhy , Kuntoro Kuntoro 
Published: December 2021

Penelitian dan pengembangan bahan ajar berupa E-Modul Pengayaan Materi Debat Berbasis Software Sigil ini bertujuan agar tercapai pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia yang efektif, efisien, dan menarik. Metode penelitian ini adalah Research and Development (R&D) berdasarkan model ADDIE. Subyek penelitian ini adalah siswa SMA Negeri 1 Purbalingga dan SMA Negeri 1 Kutasari. Data penelitian diperoleh dengan teknik wawancara, angket, observasi, dan tes. Validasi melibatkan dua ahli materi dan dua ahli media dengan melalui beberapa revisi diperoleh hasil akhirnya menunjukan kategori valid (layak digunakan). Tahap uji kemenarikan skala kecil (15 responden) dan skala besar (60 responden) diperoleh hasil keduanya dikategorikan “sangat menarik”. Uji keefektifan produk dengan uji effect size diperoleh nilai akhir hasil belajar (posttest) lebih tinggi dari nilai awal (pretest) sehingga digolongkan cukup efektif. Berdasarkan hasil tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa E-Modul Pengayaan Materi Debat Berbasis Software Sigil dikategorikan layak dan cukup efektif untuk dijadikan alat bantu pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia SMA di Purbalingga.
HERNÁNDEZ FRANCO, Juan y PRECIOSO IZQUIERDO, Francisco (eds.), <em>Entornos sociales de cambio y ruptura de jerarquías en la nobleza española (siglos XVIII-XIX)</em>. Madrid, Sílex, 2020, 299 pp. ISBN: 978-84-7737-816-7
Authors: Rueda Dicenta Jerónimo 
Published: December 2021

El libro que reseñamos aborda uno de los momentos históricos más importantes para comprender la sociedad española que dejó atrás el Antiguo Régimen desde las profundas transformaciones sociales que acompañaron a los cambios políticos de los siglos XVIII y XIX. Si el papel de nuevos grupos emergentes (capas sociales intermedias y altas) con un poder económico ya no tan ligado al honor y el menguante protagonismo de la Iglesia han sido temas estrellas a la hora de profundizar en el cambio social, menos interés han despertado los miembros del otro estado privilegiado. Con frecuencia aparecen nombres de aristócratas entre los dirigentes decimonónicos, pero aun así la mayor parte de los libros de texto y manuales al uso parecen correr un tupido velo sobre la importante evo- lución de este grupo social entre siglos. Pareciera como si la nobleza estuviese ya moribunda en vísperas de los cambios, y que bastase un golpe político para que desapareciera. Precisamente, esta obra colectiva se propone combatir esta doxa explorando la conducta y los valores de distintas capas de la nobleza entre los siglos XVIII y XIX, buscando factores explicativos del cambio en dinámicas internas al propio estamento, y observando la reinvención de las prácticas que llevaron a cabo y los principios de organización que siguieron las familias nobles en los albores del liberalismo. En el capítulo introductorio (pp. 11-25), los editores presentan el tema y exponen la doble hipótesis que permea toda la obra: que las familias privilegiadas transitaron hacia el nuevo régimen incorporando a su emic nuevos patrones de modernidad, conservando y transmitiendo a un tiempo al naciente orden social parte de sus valores tradicionales.
Pengaruh pembelajaran daring dalam mengatasi kesulitan belajar siswa
Authors: Fauziah Sifa , Miskanik Miskanik , Krisnanda Veno Dwi 
Published: December 2021

tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh pembelajaran daring dalam mengatasi kesulitan belajar siswa. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode penelitian korelasional. Sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 105 siswa dengan menggunakan simple random sampling. Instrumen yang digunakan yaitu angket pembelajaran daring dan kesulitan belajar sebanyak 32 butir angket dengan menggunakan model skala Likert. Hasil analisis data perhitungan menggunakan SPSS peneliti mendapatkan nilai korelasi sebesar 0,409 dan diperoleh koefisien sebesar 0,167 yang mengandung pengertian bahwa pengaruh variabel pembelajaran daring dalam mengatasi kesulitan belajar siswa kelas XI SMA Islam As-Syafi’iyah 01 Jakarta adalah sebesar 16,7% atau dapat dikatakan berpengaruh antara pembelajaran daring dalam mengatasi kesulitan belajar siswa. Hasil penelitian ini berguna untuk sekolah dalam melakukan pembelajaran daring agar lebih efektif guna membantu mengembangkan potensi dan mengentaskan permasalahan siswa.
Influence of the Composition of Solid Fuel on the Equilibrium Characteristics of a Gasification Process in the Mixtures of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide
Authors: Donskoi I. G. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe gasification of solid fuels of different elemental compositions in O2/N2and O2/CO2mixtures was studied using equilibrium thermodynamic modeling. The dependences of process characteristics (temperature and the yield of carbon residue) on the composition of gasification agent and the stoichiometric ratio were calculated. The addition of carbon dioxide, on the one hand, promoted the conversion of carbon due to an increase in the concentration of gasifying agents and, on the other hand, decreased the process temperature due to an increase in heat capacity and an endothermic effect of the gasification reaction. The efficiency of using O2/CO2mixtures for the gasification of fuels increased with the carbon content. The highest chemical efficiency of coke and coal gasification was achieved at an initial CO2concentration of about 40–60 vol %.
ANTHOCYANIN EXTRACTION OF RED DRAGON FRUIT PEELS (Hylocereus polyrhizus) USING MACERATION METHOD
Authors: Widyasanti Asri - , Arsyad Muhammad Ziauddin , Wulandari Endah 
Published: December 2021

Anthocyanins present in the red dragon fruit peel (Hylocereus polyrhizus) can be used as natural dyes. An extraction procedure can be used to acquire anthocyanins. The maceration method was used to isolate anthocyanin dyes in this analysis. The aim of this study was to see how the solvent ratio affected the total anthocyanin content in the skin of red dragon fruit. This research used laboratory experimental method using descriptive analysis. The solvent ratios used were (1:30, 1:40, 1:50 and 1:60) with a mixture of distilled water with 10% citric acid as the solvent. Parameters observed were total yield, pH, residual solvent content, spesific gravity and total anthocyanin content. The best treatment was found to be red dragon fruit peel with a solvent ratio of 1:30, which produced the highest total anthocyanin content of 4.73 mg/L. This treatment resulted total yield 7.40%, residual solvent content 0.05%, spesific gravity 1.30, and pH 1.05, respectively. It was proven that the more solvent added could linearly decrease the effectiveness of anthocyanin extraction of dragon fruit peel extracts.
Quick-Wee method Versus Standard method for urine collection in infants 1-12 month old
Authors: Malla Kalpana Karmacharya , Singh Sandip Kumar , Chaudhary Brajesh Raj , Ray Nabal Kishore , Singh Shivani 
Published: December 2021

BACKGROUND: Urinary Tract infections [UTI] often presents with fever and nonspecific findings in infants less than one year. So urine sample collection is mandatory for diagnosis or exclusion. Collecting Urine sample is very challenging in infants and choosing the method of collection must balance the reliability, speed and contamination. Clinical guidelines have different recommendations so there is a need for reliable collection method. Therefore this study was conducted to determine if a simple stimulation method (Quick–wee Method) increases the rate of clean catch voiding of urine within five minutes.
METHODS: A prospective age and sex matched case control study in 1-12 months children conducted from June 2017 – June 2018 in Pediatric ward of Manipal college of medical sciences, Pokhara, after Ethical clearance from Institutional review Board [IRB]. The study population was randomized to either clean catch midstream urine with stimulation [Quick–Wee method] or without stimulation [Standard method]. The primary outcome was voiding of urine within 5 minute. Secondary outcome were waiting time for voiding, successful collection, parental satisfaction, and contamination. The analysis was done using SPSS version 20 and a ‘p’value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
RESULTS: Waiting time for voiding in Quick wee group was less and statistically significant compared to standard group. There was 10% increment in voiding within 5 minutes in Quick wee group . It had higher successful urine collection rate (91.4%), slightly higher contamination rate (14.28%) but better parental satisfaction.
CONCLUSIONS: Quick wee method is easy, reliable, successful method of urine collection in infants with better parental satisfaction and slightly higher contamination rate.