title: Perceptions of glasses as a health care product: A pilot study of New Zealand baby boomers

authors: Davey, Janet

abstract: Marketers have been slow to customize their strategies for the influential consumer segment of aging baby boomers. This qualitative research provides insights on New Zealand baby boomers' perceptions of glasses as a health care product. Appearance was a dominant theme; status was not a major concern, although style and fashion were. Wearing glasses had negative associations related to aging; however, both male and female participants recognized that glasses offered improved quality of life. Data relating to the theme of expense indicated that these New Zealand baby boomers made sophisticated perceptual associations and subsequent pragmatic trade-offs between price, quality, and style.

text: Perceptions of glasses as a health care product: A pilot study of New Zealand baby boomers Marketers have been slow to customize their strategies for the influential consumer segment of aging baby boomers. This qualitative research provides insights on New Zealand baby boomers' perceptions of glasses as a health care product. Appearance was a dominant theme; status was not a major concern, although style and fashion were. Wearing glasses had negative associations related to aging; however, both male and female participants recognized that glasses offered improved quality of life. Data relating to the theme of expense indicated that these New Zealand baby boomers made sophisticated perceptual associations and subsequent pragmatic trade-offs between price, quality, and style.

year: 2012

title: Partial Order Reduction with Compositional Verification

authors: Shaw, Adrian Mark

subjects: Partial order reduction

abstract: This thesis expands the usage of partial order reduction methods in reducing the state space of large models in model checking. The work done can be divided into two parts. In the first part we introduce two new ample conditions that utilise strongly connected components in place of two existing ample conditions that use cycles. We use these new conditions to optimise existing partial order reduction verifiers and extend them to verify nonblocking properties. We also introduce two selection strategies for choosing ample event sets and an improved ample algorithm in order to improve the efficiency of ample set computation, and investigate how the various combinations of these suggested algorithmic improvements effect several models of varying size. The second part of the thesis introduces the concept of using partial order reduction techniques in combination with compositional verification techniques. We introduce a modified version of the silent continuation rule that makes use of the independence relationship from partial order reduction methods and include algorithms by which they may be implemented in a model verifier. All of the original concepts developed in this thesis are also proven correct.

text: Partial Order Reduction with Compositional Verification This thesis expands the usage of partial order reduction methods in reducing the state space of large models in model checking. The work done can be divided into two parts. In the first part we introduce two new ample conditions that utilise strongly connected components in place of two existing ample conditions that use cycles. We use these new conditions to optimise existing partial order reduction verifiers and extend them to verify nonblocking properties. We also introduce two selection strategies for choosing ample event sets and an improved ample algorithm in order to improve the efficiency of ample set computation, and investigate how the various combinations of these suggested algorithmic improvements effect several models of varying size. The second part of the thesis introduces the concept of using partial order reduction techniques in combination with compositional verification techniques. We introduce a modified version of the silent continuation rule that makes use of the independence relationship from partial order reduction methods and include algorithms by which they may be implemented in a model verifier. All of the original concepts developed in this thesis are also proven correct.

year: 2014

title: Indigenising the screen: Screenplay and critical analysis for The Prophet

authors: Bristowe, Joseph Curtis

subjects: indiginization

abstract: This thesis tests the hypothesis that it is possible to both decolonise and indigenise the New Zealand cinema screen. Secondary research reveals how those discourses that promoted roles and expectations for Māori within the New Zealand film industry were based principally upon historical colonial ideologies imposed by various means upon the native populous, and subsequently reproduced. These discourses of race, gender and religion perpetuate negative belief systems about Māori and contribute to the reproduction of stereotypical images of Māori, such as the irrational, naive, simpleminded and warlike Māori man, or the domesticated, lustful and sexually available Māori woman. 

Research by creative practice advances the project of decolonising the New Zealand screen through the writing of a feature length screenplay based on careful research and intimate cultural knowledge, and by working according to an appropriate kaupapa Māori framework. The resulting screenplay, The Prophet, brings to life the multitude of forces that coalesced to shape the life of 19th century Māori warrior and prophet, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki. In his death, as in his life, he remains an enigmatic figure. In written accounts and in Pākehā memories he appears as a violent rebel, mass murderer and religious fanatic. This epic re-telling focuses on the character of Te Kooti, showing him to be a man who accomplished great feats in the face of injustice, adversity and hardship. 
A critical analysis of the screenplay reveals how I adopted a unique cross cultural writing approach drawing upon both the 'classic' western narrative structure as well as kaupapa Māori pūrākau oral tradition. I argue that this approach combines effectively to materialise strong anti-colonial perspectives aimed specifically at subverting long-held and dominant colonial discourses. Such an approach to scriptwriting rejects the tradition of being defined, constructed and represented through discourses that serve to promote the interests of the Pākehā majority and, in doing so, urges the utilisation of Māori philosophies, concepts and practices in the scriptwriting/film production process.

text: Indigenising the screen: Screenplay and critical analysis for The Prophet This thesis tests the hypothesis that it is possible to both decolonise and indigenise the New Zealand cinema screen. Secondary research reveals how those discourses that promoted roles and expectations for Māori within the New Zealand film industry were based principally upon historical colonial ideologies imposed by various means upon the native populous, and subsequently reproduced. These discourses of race, gender and religion perpetuate negative belief systems about Māori and contribute to the reproduction of stereotypical images of Māori, such as the irrational, naive, simpleminded and warlike Māori man, or the domesticated, lustful and sexually available Māori woman. 

Research by creative practice advances the project of decolonising the New Zealand screen through the writing of a feature length screenplay based on careful research and intimate cultural knowledge, and by working according to an appropriate kaupapa Māori framework. The resulting screenplay, The Prophet, brings to life the multitude of forces that coalesced to shape the life of 19th century Māori warrior and prophet, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki. In his death, as in his life, he remains an enigmatic figure. In written accounts and in Pākehā memories he appears as a violent rebel, mass murderer and religious fanatic. This epic re-telling focuses on the character of Te Kooti, showing him to be a man who accomplished great feats in the face of injustice, adversity and hardship. 
A critical analysis of the screenplay reveals how I adopted a unique cross cultural writing approach drawing upon both the 'classic' western narrative structure as well as kaupapa Māori pūrākau oral tradition. I argue that this approach combines effectively to materialise strong anti-colonial perspectives aimed specifically at subverting long-held and dominant colonial discourses. Such an approach to scriptwriting rejects the tradition of being defined, constructed and represented through discourses that serve to promote the interests of the Pākehā majority and, in doing so, urges the utilisation of Māori philosophies, concepts and practices in the scriptwriting/film production process.

year: 2009