title: Editorial

authors: Martin, Rose

abstract: Welcome to the fourth volume of Dance Research Aotearoa. We are excited to share with you this unique collection of articles that explore topics connected to community dance, social justice and social transformation. The papers published within this volume are drawn from distinctive dance events held in Aotearoa in 2015—the Dance and Social Justice Symposia held in Hamilton on 3 October (hosted by The University of Waikato), and in Auckland on 5 November (hosted by the University of Auckland), along with The Moving Communities International Conference on Community Dance held in Dunedin in November 2015 (hosted by The University of Otago). Alison East provides an overview of the Moving Communities conference in her introductory comments in this volume, entitled Dance in/for/with/as/Community: Re-defining community dance in 2015–16. East begins with a significant question about how dance can play a meaningful role in fostering healthy communities. This question is explored in the articles in this volume.

text: Editorial Welcome to the fourth volume of Dance Research Aotearoa. We are excited to share with you this unique collection of articles that explore topics connected to community dance, social justice and social transformation. The papers published within this volume are drawn from distinctive dance events held in Aotearoa in 2015—the Dance and Social Justice Symposia held in Hamilton on 3 October (hosted by The University of Waikato), and in Auckland on 5 November (hosted by the University of Auckland), along with The Moving Communities International Conference on Community Dance held in Dunedin in November 2015 (hosted by The University of Otago). Alison East provides an overview of the Moving Communities conference in her introductory comments in this volume, entitled Dance in/for/with/as/Community: Re-defining community dance in 2015–16. East begins with a significant question about how dance can play a meaningful role in fostering healthy communities. This question is explored in the articles in this volume.

year: 2016

title: Post-Triassic thermal history of the Tazhong Uplift Zone in the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: Evidence from apatite fission-track thermochronology

authors: Xiang, Caifu

subjects: Apatite fission track

abstract: The Tarim Basin is a representative example of the basins developed in the northwest China that are characterized by multiple stages of heating and cooling. In order to better understand its complex thermal history, apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology was applied to borehole samples from the Tazhong Uplift Zone (TUZ). Twelve sedimentary samples of Silurian to Triassic depositional ages were analyzed from depths coinciding with the apatite partial annealing zone (∼60-120 °C). The AFT ages, ranging from 132 ± 7 Ma (from a Triassic sample) to 25 ± 2 Ma (from a Carboniferous sample), are clearly younger than their depositional ages and demonstrate a total resetting of the AFT thermometer after deposition. The AFT ages vary among different tectonic belts and decrease from the No. Ten Faulted Zone (133-105 Ma) in the northwest, the Central Horst Zone in the middle (108-37 Ma), to the East Buried Hill Zone in the south (51-25 Ma). Given the low magnitude of post-Triassic burial heating evidenced by low vitrinite reflectance values (Ro < 0.7%), the total resetting of the AFT system is speculated to result from the hot fluid flow along the faults. Thermal effects along the faults are well documented by younger AFT ages and unimodal single grain age distributions in the vicinity of the faults. Permian-early Triassic basaltic volcanism may be responsible for the early Triassic total annealing of those samples lacking connectivity with the fault. The above arguments are supported by thermal modeling results.

text: Post-Triassic thermal history of the Tazhong Uplift Zone in the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: Evidence from apatite fission-track thermochronology The Tarim Basin is a representative example of the basins developed in the northwest China that are characterized by multiple stages of heating and cooling. In order to better understand its complex thermal history, apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology was applied to borehole samples from the Tazhong Uplift Zone (TUZ). Twelve sedimentary samples of Silurian to Triassic depositional ages were analyzed from depths coinciding with the apatite partial annealing zone (∼60-120 °C). The AFT ages, ranging from 132 ± 7 Ma (from a Triassic sample) to 25 ± 2 Ma (from a Carboniferous sample), are clearly younger than their depositional ages and demonstrate a total resetting of the AFT thermometer after deposition. The AFT ages vary among different tectonic belts and decrease from the No. Ten Faulted Zone (133-105 Ma) in the northwest, the Central Horst Zone in the middle (108-37 Ma), to the East Buried Hill Zone in the south (51-25 Ma). Given the low magnitude of post-Triassic burial heating evidenced by low vitrinite reflectance values (Ro < 0.7%), the total resetting of the AFT system is speculated to result from the hot fluid flow along the faults. Thermal effects along the faults are well documented by younger AFT ages and unimodal single grain age distributions in the vicinity of the faults. Permian-early Triassic basaltic volcanism may be responsible for the early Triassic total annealing of those samples lacking connectivity with the fault. The above arguments are supported by thermal modeling results.

year: 2013

title: PIWeCS: enhancing human/machine agency in an interactive composition system

authors: Whalley, Ian

abstract: This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency in an interactive work by adapting Paine's (2002) notion of a conversational model of interaction as a ‘complex system’. The machine implementation of PIWeCS is achieved through integrating intelligent agent programming with MAX/MSP. Human input is through a web infrastructure. The conversation is initiated and continued by participants through arrangements and composition based on short performed samples of traditional New Zealand Maori instruments. The system allows the extension of a composition through the electroacoustic manipulation of the source material.

text: PIWeCS: enhancing human/machine agency in an interactive composition system This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency in an interactive work by adapting Paine's (2002) notion of a conversational model of interaction as a ‘complex system’. The machine implementation of PIWeCS is achieved through integrating intelligent agent programming with MAX/MSP. Human input is through a web infrastructure. The conversation is initiated and continued by participants through arrangements and composition based on short performed samples of traditional New Zealand Maori instruments. The system allows the extension of a composition through the electroacoustic manipulation of the source material.

year: 2004