title: An investigation into the value proposition of classical music: The creative value chain, music as work and value measurement in a New Zealand context of opera, orchestra and composition

authors: Rosenberg, Sally Jane

subjects: Value proposition

abstract: Composition and performance of classical music provides a service offering that simultaneously fulfils the artistic goals of composer, performer and audience whilst contributing to education, community, the economy, and well-being.
Arts organisations are heavily reliant on service quality leading to the satisfaction of both performer and audience member. This forms a co-production value proposition which can be analysed in non-financial dimensions as well as traditional financial measures of economic impact.
Culture as the disrupter to the economic drive for commoditisation and relatively homogenous pricing. Therefore, the ability to fix an equivalent value on cultural objects or events is complex as it involves experience by immersion, rather than consumption. This thesis proposes that to measure the value proposition of classical music one must be able to define the degree to which it expresses the realities of the human condition, the relationship between life and music and whether that quality is quantifiable.
Measuring the value and impact value of classical music experience has not been effectively surveyed or measured in Aotearoa New Zealand to date, and other empirical surveys in Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia data relating to value have focussed on a limited number of attributes of a complex, multi-dimensional sector.
The impact that tertiary education can have on enhancing the understanding of how to understand, interpret and use the aspects of a value proposition in the generation of personal income from classical music can be accomplished through delivery of business management skills for classical musicians. This capability is needed to offset the pervasive suspicion of artists of the financial aspects of business and the comparable misinformation of the musician as structurally impoverished.
Despite the vagaries of the marketplace, the essential nature of art which classical music embodies will in the long term prevail. Proof of the value proposition of classical music may be the next important phase of assuring musicians and audience members of the sustainability and endurance of classical music.

text: An investigation into the value proposition of classical music: The creative value chain, music as work and value measurement in a New Zealand context of opera, orchestra and composition Composition and performance of classical music provides a service offering that simultaneously fulfils the artistic goals of composer, performer and audience whilst contributing to education, community, the economy, and well-being.
Arts organisations are heavily reliant on service quality leading to the satisfaction of both performer and audience member. This forms a co-production value proposition which can be analysed in non-financial dimensions as well as traditional financial measures of economic impact.
Culture as the disrupter to the economic drive for commoditisation and relatively homogenous pricing. Therefore, the ability to fix an equivalent value on cultural objects or events is complex as it involves experience by immersion, rather than consumption. This thesis proposes that to measure the value proposition of classical music one must be able to define the degree to which it expresses the realities of the human condition, the relationship between life and music and whether that quality is quantifiable.
Measuring the value and impact value of classical music experience has not been effectively surveyed or measured in Aotearoa New Zealand to date, and other empirical surveys in Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia data relating to value have focussed on a limited number of attributes of a complex, multi-dimensional sector.
The impact that tertiary education can have on enhancing the understanding of how to understand, interpret and use the aspects of a value proposition in the generation of personal income from classical music can be accomplished through delivery of business management skills for classical musicians. This capability is needed to offset the pervasive suspicion of artists of the financial aspects of business and the comparable misinformation of the musician as structurally impoverished.
Despite the vagaries of the marketplace, the essential nature of art which classical music embodies will in the long term prevail. Proof of the value proposition of classical music may be the next important phase of assuring musicians and audience members of the sustainability and endurance of classical music.

year: 2021

title: Characterization of modulated time-of-flight range image sensors

authors: Payne, Andrew D.

subjects: 3D imaging

abstract: A number of full field image sensors have been developed that are capable of simultaneously measuring intensity and distance (range) for every pixel in a given scene using an indirect time-of-flight measurement technique. A light source is intensity modulated at a frequency between 10–100 MHz, and an image sensor is modulated at the same frequency, synchronously sampling light reflected from objects in the scene (homodyne detection). The time of flight is manifested as a phase shift in the illumination modulation envelope, which can be determined from the sampled data simultaneously for each pixel in the scene. This paper presents a method of characterizing the high frequency modulation response of these image sensors, using a pico-second laser pulser. The characterization results allow the optimal operating parameters, such as the modulation frequency, to be identified in order to maximize the range measurement precision for a given sensor. A number of potential sources of error exist when using these sensors, including deficiencies in the modulation waveform shape, duty cycle, or phase, resulting in contamination of the resultant range data. From the characterization data these parameters can be identified and compensated for by modifying the sensor hardware or through post processing of the acquired range measurements.

text: Characterization of modulated time-of-flight range image sensors A number of full field image sensors have been developed that are capable of simultaneously measuring intensity and distance (range) for every pixel in a given scene using an indirect time-of-flight measurement technique. A light source is intensity modulated at a frequency between 10–100 MHz, and an image sensor is modulated at the same frequency, synchronously sampling light reflected from objects in the scene (homodyne detection). The time of flight is manifested as a phase shift in the illumination modulation envelope, which can be determined from the sampled data simultaneously for each pixel in the scene. This paper presents a method of characterizing the high frequency modulation response of these image sensors, using a pico-second laser pulser. The characterization results allow the optimal operating parameters, such as the modulation frequency, to be identified in order to maximize the range measurement precision for a given sensor. A number of potential sources of error exist when using these sensors, including deficiencies in the modulation waveform shape, duty cycle, or phase, resulting in contamination of the resultant range data. From the characterization data these parameters can be identified and compensated for by modifying the sensor hardware or through post processing of the acquired range measurements.

year: 2009

title: He Pikinga Waiora Kimi Ora lifestyle programme: Case study of a successful community-based indigenous diabetes intervention

authors: Masters-Awatere, Bridgette

subjects: adult

abstract: AIM: To co-design and implement a whānau-centred, community-based lifestyle programme (Kimi Ora) intended to ensure no worsening of HbA1c and to improve wellbeing for Māori whānau and communities with diabetes or pre-diabetes. 

METHODS: Māori healthcare providers, community members, research advisors and wider stakeholders used a co-design process underpinned by He Pikinga Waiora to collaboratively develop and implement Kimi Ora Control group comparisons and participants were recruited from Te Kōhao Health. Multi-method monitoring and collection captured individual, whānau and community data. 

RESULTS: Kimi Ora was run in two communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. In total, there were 35 participants who took part in an eight-week programme offered five times alongside a comparison group comprising 21 participants. Kimi Ora resulted in significant improvements on all biomedical measures compared to baseline, and participants had gains relative to the comparison group for variables including weight, BMI, blood pressure and waist measurement. Of particular note was the 100% retention rate and sustained community support for Kimi Ora.

CONCLUSIONS: Outcomes from Kimi Ora demonstrate this programme, which was actively tailored for and worked with Māori communities in a responsive and flexible manner, resulted in successful biomedical outcomes, high engagement and high retention.

text: He Pikinga Waiora Kimi Ora lifestyle programme: Case study of a successful community-based indigenous diabetes intervention AIM: To co-design and implement a whānau-centred, community-based lifestyle programme (Kimi Ora) intended to ensure no worsening of HbA1c and to improve wellbeing for Māori whānau and communities with diabetes or pre-diabetes. 

METHODS: Māori healthcare providers, community members, research advisors and wider stakeholders used a co-design process underpinned by He Pikinga Waiora to collaboratively develop and implement Kimi Ora Control group comparisons and participants were recruited from Te Kōhao Health. Multi-method monitoring and collection captured individual, whānau and community data. 

RESULTS: Kimi Ora was run in two communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. In total, there were 35 participants who took part in an eight-week programme offered five times alongside a comparison group comprising 21 participants. Kimi Ora resulted in significant improvements on all biomedical measures compared to baseline, and participants had gains relative to the comparison group for variables including weight, BMI, blood pressure and waist measurement. Of particular note was the 100% retention rate and sustained community support for Kimi Ora.

CONCLUSIONS: Outcomes from Kimi Ora demonstrate this programme, which was actively tailored for and worked with Māori communities in a responsive and flexible manner, resulted in successful biomedical outcomes, high engagement and high retention.

year: 2021