title: Pedagogies of kindness for student completion, retention, and wellbeing

authors: Weijers, Dan M.

abstract: Participants will hear reasons and small scale evidence for being very supportive to students in the way they communicate with them, especially around late assignments.

text: Pedagogies of kindness for student completion, retention, and wellbeing Participants will hear reasons and small scale evidence for being very supportive to students in the way they communicate with them, especially around late assignments.

year: 2023-11-27

title: Demonstration of a strategy to create hybrid materials with stochastic 3D mesostructures

authors: Hussein, A

abstract: A strategy to create hybrid materials with stochastic 3D mesostructures is proposed. The strategy entails the combination of commodity materials significantly different in terms of length-scale and their processing via induction sintering. Materials composed of a ferrous filaments mesostructure embedded in a sintered titanium microstructure are manufactured as representative example. The study shows that the presence of the random 3D mesostructure prevents the catastrophic fracture by impact of the hybrid materials.

text: Demonstration of a strategy to create hybrid materials with stochastic 3D mesostructures A strategy to create hybrid materials with stochastic 3D mesostructures is proposed. The strategy entails the combination of commodity materials significantly different in terms of length-scale and their processing via induction sintering. Materials composed of a ferrous filaments mesostructure embedded in a sintered titanium microstructure are manufactured as representative example. The study shows that the presence of the random 3D mesostructure prevents the catastrophic fracture by impact of the hybrid materials.

year: 2025

title: Indigenous people with disabilities: The argument for representation in human rights legislation (with specific reference to the development stage of the United Nations International Disability Convention)

authors: Hickey, Huhana

subjects: Tangata whaikaha

abstract: Until comparatively recently, human rights legislation was largely based on a universalist analysis. In treating all human beings alike, in failing to acknowledge the need for special measures to combat the marginalisation and oppression of particular groups, such as indigenous people and people with disabilities, it actually contributed to their invisibility and, hence, to their marginalisation and oppression. More recently, however, there has been a global trend towards the recognition of marginalised groups in human rights legislation. Even so, universalism, and the prejudice that so often accompanies it, is still in evidence. For example, although the United Nations is currently involved in drafting a Disabled Persons Convention, indigenous people with disabilities are not specifically represented. Their particular situation, one that involves a dual form of oppression (as indigenous people and as people with disabilities) is not acknowledged. Unless this situation is remedied, the Convention will inevitably be both less acceptable and less useful than would otherwise be the case.

text: Indigenous people with disabilities: The argument for representation in human rights legislation (with specific reference to the development stage of the United Nations International Disability Convention) Until comparatively recently, human rights legislation was largely based on a universalist analysis. In treating all human beings alike, in failing to acknowledge the need for special measures to combat the marginalisation and oppression of particular groups, such as indigenous people and people with disabilities, it actually contributed to their invisibility and, hence, to their marginalisation and oppression. More recently, however, there has been a global trend towards the recognition of marginalised groups in human rights legislation. Even so, universalism, and the prejudice that so often accompanies it, is still in evidence. For example, although the United Nations is currently involved in drafting a Disabled Persons Convention, indigenous people with disabilities are not specifically represented. Their particular situation, one that involves a dual form of oppression (as indigenous people and as people with disabilities) is not acknowledged. Unless this situation is remedied, the Convention will inevitably be both less acceptable and less useful than would otherwise be the case.

year: 2005-09