title: Lake Ohinewai pest fish removal

authors: Daniel, Adam Joshua

abstract: Most riverine lakes in the Waikato region have deteriorated from a macrophyte-dominated state to an algal-dominated state. Pest fish have further compounded water quality issues by resuspending nutrient-rich sediment and are believed to be a major barrier to water quality improvements. The University of Waikato has an ongoing programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Environment, to produce pest fish management tools for end users that include removing pest fish from five lakes as an objective. The goal of the fish removals is to test the assumption that removing pest fish will improve water quality. Lake Ohinewai was selected as one of the five lakes to attempt a pest fish removal in 2009 and the removal operation was scheduled for January 2011. The Department of Conservation
agreed to assist with funding for consumables and the construction of an experimental barrier to assist with the Lake Ohinewai removal project. University of Waikato staff began removing pest fish from Lake Ohinewai in January 2011 with the assistance of the Department of Conservation and volunteers. A one-way fish barrier was designed and installed during May 2011 to prevent adult pest fish from recolonising the lake.

text: Lake Ohinewai pest fish removal Most riverine lakes in the Waikato region have deteriorated from a macrophyte-dominated state to an algal-dominated state. Pest fish have further compounded water quality issues by resuspending nutrient-rich sediment and are believed to be a major barrier to water quality improvements. The University of Waikato has an ongoing programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Environment, to produce pest fish management tools for end users that include removing pest fish from five lakes as an objective. The goal of the fish removals is to test the assumption that removing pest fish will improve water quality. Lake Ohinewai was selected as one of the five lakes to attempt a pest fish removal in 2009 and the removal operation was scheduled for January 2011. The Department of Conservation
agreed to assist with funding for consumables and the construction of an experimental barrier to assist with the Lake Ohinewai removal project. University of Waikato staff began removing pest fish from Lake Ohinewai in January 2011 with the assistance of the Department of Conservation and volunteers. A one-way fish barrier was designed and installed during May 2011 to prevent adult pest fish from recolonising the lake.

year: 2011-05-25

title: Don't miss the well-being train: a radical ‎proposal for revolution in positive ‎psychology

authors: Weijers, Dan M.

abstract: Positive psychologists have added a great deal of knowledge about positive mental states and behaviors, especially over the last 20 years. As evidence is produced in support of the connections between positive psychological constructs, the model of mental flourishing is slowly being filled in. But, just like the broader well-being research and policy community (Lee et al., 2021), the discipline remains divided about how to conceptualize and measure well-being (Hone et al., 2014; Ackerman et al., 2018). This lack of unity makes it difficult to establish how measures of positive mental functioning connect with the bigger picture of the good life for the one living it, and deter its use in broader research and policy agendas. For example, the influential World Happiness Report 2020 (Helliwell et al., 2020) is edited by only economists and contains the phrase Positive Psychology just once.

text: Don't miss the well-being train: a radical ‎proposal for revolution in positive ‎psychology Positive psychologists have added a great deal of knowledge about positive mental states and behaviors, especially over the last 20 years. As evidence is produced in support of the connections between positive psychological constructs, the model of mental flourishing is slowly being filled in. But, just like the broader well-being research and policy community (Lee et al., 2021), the discipline remains divided about how to conceptualize and measure well-being (Hone et al., 2014; Ackerman et al., 2018). This lack of unity makes it difficult to establish how measures of positive mental functioning connect with the bigger picture of the good life for the one living it, and deter its use in broader research and policy agendas. For example, the influential World Happiness Report 2020 (Helliwell et al., 2020) is edited by only economists and contains the phrase Positive Psychology just once.

year: 2021

title: Character-less programming II: the spreadsheet

authors: Barbour, Robert H.

subjects: computer science

abstract: The spreadsheet is a commonly used, yet under-researched, application tool. Hendry and Green (1994) report fewer than ten entries about spreadsheets in the HCI community literature between 1984 and 1991. The 1993 Human Computer Interaction Proceedings of a Conference on Applications and Case Studies does not list the word 'spreadsheet' in the index whereas databases and wordprocessor are both referenced. The current situation in 1996 is not significantly different. For Polytechnic and University communities, many of whom are involved in teaching about application software, this situation means that the widespread teaching of the tool is simply not being reported in the research literature. The unanswered but researchable question raised in the Hendry and Green (1994) indicate the breadth of the field. Following a summary of these questions, the even more neglected issue of providing culturally appropriate spreadsheet software is raised. A set of constructs for thinking about multicultural software is presented. A model of a procedure for generating an elementary spreadsheet is provided, exemplified and demonstrated for the Maori Language in New Zealand.

text: Character-less programming II: the spreadsheet The spreadsheet is a commonly used, yet under-researched, application tool. Hendry and Green (1994) report fewer than ten entries about spreadsheets in the HCI community literature between 1984 and 1991. The 1993 Human Computer Interaction Proceedings of a Conference on Applications and Case Studies does not list the word 'spreadsheet' in the index whereas databases and wordprocessor are both referenced. The current situation in 1996 is not significantly different. For Polytechnic and University communities, many of whom are involved in teaching about application software, this situation means that the widespread teaching of the tool is simply not being reported in the research literature. The unanswered but researchable question raised in the Hendry and Green (1994) indicate the breadth of the field. Following a summary of these questions, the even more neglected issue of providing culturally appropriate spreadsheet software is raised. A set of constructs for thinking about multicultural software is presented. A model of a procedure for generating an elementary spreadsheet is provided, exemplified and demonstrated for the Maori Language in New Zealand.

year: 1995-11