title: Comparison of various methods to delineate blood vessels in retinal images

authors: Cree, Michael J.

subjects: engineering

abstract: The blood vessels in the human retina are easily visualisable via digital fundus photography and provide an excellent window to the health of a patient affected by diseases of blood circulation such as diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy is identifiable through lesions of the vessels such as narrowing of the arteriole walls, beading of venules into sausage like structures and new vessel growth as an attempt to reperfuse ischaemic regions. Automated quantification of these lesions would be beneficial to diabetes research and to clinical practice, particularly for eye-screening programmes for the detection of eye-disease amongst diabetic persons.

text: Comparison of various methods to delineate blood vessels in retinal images The blood vessels in the human retina are easily visualisable via digital fundus photography and provide an excellent window to the health of a patient affected by diseases of blood circulation such as diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy is identifiable through lesions of the vessels such as narrowing of the arteriole walls, beading of venules into sausage like structures and new vessel growth as an attempt to reperfuse ischaemic regions. Automated quantification of these lesions would be beneficial to diabetes research and to clinical practice, particularly for eye-screening programmes for the detection of eye-disease amongst diabetic persons.

year: 2005

title: Unpacking housing affordability policies in New Zealand

authors: McLeay, Colin

abstract: Recent New Zealand governments have sought to increase the provision of affordable housing by increasing the supply of land for housing and encouraging builders to include affordable housing in their developments. Despite claims to the contrary, affordable housing policies introduced by both centre-right and centre-left governments are expressive of neoliberal capture of the political process. This paper explores tension between public endorsements of affordable housing policies and acceptance of market mechanisms in the provision of affordable housing. Thus, while Members of Parliament from both National-led and Labour-led Governments have identified the distinctiveness of their respective housing policies, recent legislative provisions draw on shared acceptance of post-political conceptions of state and society.

text: Unpacking housing affordability policies in New Zealand Recent New Zealand governments have sought to increase the provision of affordable housing by increasing the supply of land for housing and encouraging builders to include affordable housing in their developments. Despite claims to the contrary, affordable housing policies introduced by both centre-right and centre-left governments are expressive of neoliberal capture of the political process. This paper explores tension between public endorsements of affordable housing policies and acceptance of market mechanisms in the provision of affordable housing. Thus, while Members of Parliament from both National-led and Labour-led Governments have identified the distinctiveness of their respective housing policies, recent legislative provisions draw on shared acceptance of post-political conceptions of state and society.

year: 2021

title: Location of Te Wahitapu Stream and other possible streams in 1877

authors: de Lange, Willem P.

abstract: Review of evidence to establish, with as much confidence as possible, the path of the Te Wahitapu Stream at Matapouri in 1877. The review also examines if other streams may have been present on or in the vicinity of Te Wahitapu Stream in 1877, and if the 1877 or later tsunami may have latered the course of the boundary stream.

text: Location of Te Wahitapu Stream and other possible streams in 1877 Review of evidence to establish, with as much confidence as possible, the path of the Te Wahitapu Stream at Matapouri in 1877. The review also examines if other streams may have been present on or in the vicinity of Te Wahitapu Stream in 1877, and if the 1877 or later tsunami may have latered the course of the boundary stream.

year: 2009