title: Retirement provision for New Zealand women: The relative role of demographic influence

authors: Marsault, Anyes

subjects: population

abstract: This research contributes to our knowledge of retirement provision by clarifying the obstacles that women face in relation to old age provision. By using multivariate analysis and therefore by controlling for confounding effects, this study has isolated the particular influence of important socio-economic factors. Through continued participation in the labour market, despite their childbearing roles, and the goal of enhancing the quality of their employment, women have an opportunity to strengthen their ability to provide sufficiently themselves for their own old age but this is still even today not a certainty or a source of unlimited support.

text: Retirement provision for New Zealand women: The relative role of demographic influence This research contributes to our knowledge of retirement provision by clarifying the obstacles that women face in relation to old age provision. By using multivariate analysis and therefore by controlling for confounding effects, this study has isolated the particular influence of important socio-economic factors. Through continued participation in the labour market, despite their childbearing roles, and the goal of enhancing the quality of their employment, women have an opportunity to strengthen their ability to provide sufficiently themselves for their own old age but this is still even today not a certainty or a source of unlimited support.

year: 1999-08

title: Production and characterization of titanium based alloys with potential for antifouling and biofouling

authors: Alshammari, Yousef Namlan

subjects: Titanium

abstract: Biofouling is the settlement and accumulation of microorganisms on the surface of a material submerged in sea water, and most of the time is an unwanted phenomenon and constitutes a financial burden. Titanium is a lightweight high strength metal characterised by good corrosion resistance, better than stainless steel, and would be the ideal material to be used in marine applications. However, biofouling would still happen in structures made out of titanium.
The aim of this study is to gain understanding of the biofouling process to be able to design Ti-based materials with the potential to prevent, or conversely enhance, biofouling, as both scenarios could have relevant industrial applications. In particular, it was planned to manufacture the Ti-based materials via powder metallurgy to take advantage of the intrinsic benefits of these techniques which include the freedom of designing new alloys, without the limits imposed by binary phase diagrams.
From literature, it was found that Cu and Mn could have respectively, the ability to reduce or promote biofouling. Therefore, various binary Ti-xCu and Ti-yMn compositions, where x = 0.5%, 2.5%, 5%, and y = 1%, 5%, 10%, were targeted and successfully manufactured via the conventional powder metallurgy route of cold uniaxial pressing plus vacuum sintering, obtaining fully homogeneous materials. 
It is well known that residual porosity is still present in sintered Ti-based materials, and for that the binary Ti-xCu and Ti-yMn alloys were also a thermomechanical process via forging. This hot deformation process should reduce the amount of residual porosity, but it can also be used to tailor the microstructure, and thus the mechanical behaviour, which is paramount for many industrial applications. Along this line, it was decided to investigate the effect of the forging temperature (i.e. of the starting microfeatures) and thus forging from the β and within the α+β region was considered.
From the characterisation performed, the Ti-5Cu and Ti-5Mn alloys were chosen as the most promising alloys for the investigation of the antifouling and biofouling capability of the binary Ti-xCu and Ti-yMn alloys developed

text: Production and characterization of titanium based alloys with potential for antifouling and biofouling Biofouling is the settlement and accumulation of microorganisms on the surface of a material submerged in sea water, and most of the time is an unwanted phenomenon and constitutes a financial burden. Titanium is a lightweight high strength metal characterised by good corrosion resistance, better than stainless steel, and would be the ideal material to be used in marine applications. However, biofouling would still happen in structures made out of titanium.
The aim of this study is to gain understanding of the biofouling process to be able to design Ti-based materials with the potential to prevent, or conversely enhance, biofouling, as both scenarios could have relevant industrial applications. In particular, it was planned to manufacture the Ti-based materials via powder metallurgy to take advantage of the intrinsic benefits of these techniques which include the freedom of designing new alloys, without the limits imposed by binary phase diagrams.
From literature, it was found that Cu and Mn could have respectively, the ability to reduce or promote biofouling. Therefore, various binary Ti-xCu and Ti-yMn compositions, where x = 0.5%, 2.5%, 5%, and y = 1%, 5%, 10%, were targeted and successfully manufactured via the conventional powder metallurgy route of cold uniaxial pressing plus vacuum sintering, obtaining fully homogeneous materials. 
It is well known that residual porosity is still present in sintered Ti-based materials, and for that the binary Ti-xCu and Ti-yMn alloys were also a thermomechanical process via forging. This hot deformation process should reduce the amount of residual porosity, but it can also be used to tailor the microstructure, and thus the mechanical behaviour, which is paramount for many industrial applications. Along this line, it was decided to investigate the effect of the forging temperature (i.e. of the starting microfeatures) and thus forging from the β and within the α+β region was considered.
From the characterisation performed, the Ti-5Cu and Ti-5Mn alloys were chosen as the most promising alloys for the investigation of the antifouling and biofouling capability of the binary Ti-xCu and Ti-yMn alloys developed

year: 2017

title: Decolonising professional learning: Weaving a whānau of interest

authors: Pennicott, Katie

subjects: educational leadership

abstract: Raranga (weaving) has been described as an act of decolonisation and resistance. In my experience, learning to weave was more than an act of learning the tikanga (rituals) and methods with which to weave flax and tukutuku (lattice work); it was learning about learning and learning about living, life and all the things that make us who we are. As I experienced and began to understand Māori metaphors such as whanaungatanga, kaupapa, ako and manaakitanga I found that learning the art of weaving shaped me as I shaped the weaving. This thesis ideates a metaphor of weaving to describe a model of cultural and structural school reform that emerged from a school’s teaching and learning collaborations over time. It calls for the weaving of a new, decolonised model of education.

text: Decolonising professional learning: Weaving a whānau of interest Raranga (weaving) has been described as an act of decolonisation and resistance. In my experience, learning to weave was more than an act of learning the tikanga (rituals) and methods with which to weave flax and tukutuku (lattice work); it was learning about learning and learning about living, life and all the things that make us who we are. As I experienced and began to understand Māori metaphors such as whanaungatanga, kaupapa, ako and manaakitanga I found that learning the art of weaving shaped me as I shaped the weaving. This thesis ideates a metaphor of weaving to describe a model of cultural and structural school reform that emerged from a school’s teaching and learning collaborations over time. It calls for the weaving of a new, decolonised model of education.

year: 2020