title: Special Issue: Eigenvalues of continuous systems

authors: Ilanko, Sinniah

abstract: Editorial.  The purpose of the special session was to bring together researchers who have successfully developed established techniques for formulating or solving different types of eigenvalue problems and those who are in the process of searching for new strategies to tackle emerging or longstanding problems, to exchange ideas on furthering the knowledge base of solving eigenvalue problems, in mechanics.

text: Special Issue: Eigenvalues of continuous systems Editorial.  The purpose of the special session was to bring together researchers who have successfully developed established techniques for formulating or solving different types of eigenvalue problems and those who are in the process of searching for new strategies to tackle emerging or longstanding problems, to exchange ideas on furthering the knowledge base of solving eigenvalue problems, in mechanics.

year: 2012

title: Evaluating and using remote sensing data for studying economic activity and population change in China

authors: Zhang, Xiaoxuan

abstract: use of remote sensing data, especially night-time lights (NTL) data, has flourished
in recent decades as a proxy for measuring economic activity and the spatial distribution
of population. The availability of these data can make up for the absence of and possible
inaccuracy in traditional economic statistics, especially because NTL data are available
at fine scale and with high frequency. The growing use of these data raises the question
of how accurate is this night-time lights proxy, and for what purposes is it best suited
when studying economic development and population changes at sub-national levels.
In the first part of this thesis, a 20-year time-series of GDP at China’s third
sub-national level (counties, county-level cities and districts) and census population
counts at the same level from 2000, 2010 and 2020, are used as a benchmark to examine
the performance of multiple sources of NTL data as proxies for local economic activity
and inequality. I also test the accuracy of gridded population estimates, some of which
rely on NTL data, for estimating inter-census changes in local population.
Based on the comprehensive evaluation of different NTL sources at different levels of
spatial aggregation, the second part of the thesis uses NTL and other remote sensing
data, in conjunction with the traditional GDP and population statistics, to study a set of
economic issues that are pertinent to regional development in China. The impact of
administrative upgrading of county-level units (a type of regional policy practiced in
China) and of modern transport infrastructure is studied, using both GDP and NTL data
to measure economic impacts. These studies use spatial econometric models that allow
for spillovers. The changes in the city size distribution, in terms of land and people, is
also studied because of the possibility that China’s cities are physically expanding in
places other than where the population is moving.
Overall, the thesis contributes a nuanced understanding of how NTL data and
other remote sensing data can assist in studying complex social and economic problems,
as well as raising some caveats about the limits to the uses of such data.

text: Evaluating and using remote sensing data for studying economic activity and population change in China use of remote sensing data, especially night-time lights (NTL) data, has flourished
in recent decades as a proxy for measuring economic activity and the spatial distribution
of population. The availability of these data can make up for the absence of and possible
inaccuracy in traditional economic statistics, especially because NTL data are available
at fine scale and with high frequency. The growing use of these data raises the question
of how accurate is this night-time lights proxy, and for what purposes is it best suited
when studying economic development and population changes at sub-national levels.
In the first part of this thesis, a 20-year time-series of GDP at China’s third
sub-national level (counties, county-level cities and districts) and census population
counts at the same level from 2000, 2010 and 2020, are used as a benchmark to examine
the performance of multiple sources of NTL data as proxies for local economic activity
and inequality. I also test the accuracy of gridded population estimates, some of which
rely on NTL data, for estimating inter-census changes in local population.
Based on the comprehensive evaluation of different NTL sources at different levels of
spatial aggregation, the second part of the thesis uses NTL and other remote sensing
data, in conjunction with the traditional GDP and population statistics, to study a set of
economic issues that are pertinent to regional development in China. The impact of
administrative upgrading of county-level units (a type of regional policy practiced in
China) and of modern transport infrastructure is studied, using both GDP and NTL data
to measure economic impacts. These studies use spatial econometric models that allow
for spillovers. The changes in the city size distribution, in terms of land and people, is
also studied because of the possibility that China’s cities are physically expanding in
places other than where the population is moving.
Overall, the thesis contributes a nuanced understanding of how NTL data and
other remote sensing data can assist in studying complex social and economic problems,
as well as raising some caveats about the limits to the uses of such data.

year: 2024

title: Engaging and working with Maori? Effective practice for psychologists in education

authors: Glynn, Ted

subjects: New Zealand

abstract: I believe this whakatauki captures the reflective processes I am now engaged in, as I assess where I have come from and where I am going, as a second-generation pakeha of Irish descent, who completed postgraduate degrees in Psychology and Education in New Zealand and Canada, and who has been engaging and working with Māori in the field of education for many years.

text: Engaging and working with Maori? Effective practice for psychologists in education I believe this whakatauki captures the reflective processes I am now engaged in, as I assess where I have come from and where I am going, as a second-generation pakeha of Irish descent, who completed postgraduate degrees in Psychology and Education in New Zealand and Canada, and who has been engaging and working with Māori in the field of education for many years.

year: 2008