title: Exploring te ao Māori: The role of museums

authors: Clarkin-Phillips, Jeanette

subjects: museum

abstract: Museums offer many opportunities for developing knowledge of the bicultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand. This article reports on research involving a kindergarten located in a national museum. It discusses children’s growing understanding of te ao Māori (the world of Māori) through their regular visits to the collections and exhibits in the museum and suggests teachers in early childhood centres may find connecting with their local museum a valuable resource for enhancing bicultural practice.

text: Exploring te ao Māori: The role of museums Museums offer many opportunities for developing knowledge of the bicultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand. This article reports on research involving a kindergarten located in a national museum. It discusses children’s growing understanding of te ao Māori (the world of Māori) through their regular visits to the collections and exhibits in the museum and suggests teachers in early childhood centres may find connecting with their local museum a valuable resource for enhancing bicultural practice.

year: 2012

title: Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa

authors: Simon, Hemopereki

subjects: whakapapa

abstract: The study examines how members of the historically white possessive and supremacist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States (mis)appropriated Māori genealogy, known as whakapapa. The Mormon use of whakapapa to promote Mormon cultural memory and narratives perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and white supremacy, as this paper shows. The research discusses Church racism against Native Americans and Pacific Peoples. This paper uses Anthropologist Thomas Murphy’s scholarship to demonstrate how problematic the Book of Mormon’s religio-colonial identity of Lamanites is for these groups. Application of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s white possessive doctrine and Hemopereki Simon’s adaptation to cover Church-Indigenous relations and the salvation contract is discussed. We explore collective and cultural memory and discuss key Māori concepts like Mana, Taonga, Tapu, and Whakapapa. A brief review of LDS scholar Louis C. Midgley’s views on Church culture, including Herewini Jones’s whakapapa wānanga, is followed by a discussion of Māori cultural considerations and issues. The paper concludes that the alteration perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and Pacific peoples’ racialization and white supremacy. Genetics science and human migration studies contradict Mormon identity narratives and suggest the BOM is spiritual rather than historical. Finally, the paper suggests promoting intercultural engagement on Mormon (mis)appropriation of taonga Māori.

text: Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa The study examines how members of the historically white possessive and supremacist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States (mis)appropriated Māori genealogy, known as whakapapa. The Mormon use of whakapapa to promote Mormon cultural memory and narratives perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and white supremacy, as this paper shows. The research discusses Church racism against Native Americans and Pacific Peoples. This paper uses Anthropologist Thomas Murphy’s scholarship to demonstrate how problematic the Book of Mormon’s religio-colonial identity of Lamanites is for these groups. Application of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s white possessive doctrine and Hemopereki Simon’s adaptation to cover Church-Indigenous relations and the salvation contract is discussed. We explore collective and cultural memory and discuss key Māori concepts like Mana, Taonga, Tapu, and Whakapapa. A brief review of LDS scholar Louis C. Midgley’s views on Church culture, including Herewini Jones’s whakapapa wānanga, is followed by a discussion of Māori cultural considerations and issues. The paper concludes that the alteration perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and Pacific peoples’ racialization and white supremacy. Genetics science and human migration studies contradict Mormon identity narratives and suggest the BOM is spiritual rather than historical. Finally, the paper suggests promoting intercultural engagement on Mormon (mis)appropriation of taonga Māori.

year: 2024

title: Charge capacity characteristics of a Lithium Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminum Oxide battery show fractional-derivative behavior

authors: Wilson, Marcus T.

subjects: cs.SY

abstract: Batteries experience capacity offset where available charge depends on the
rate at which this charge is drawn. In this work we analyze the capacity offset
of a 4.8 A h lithium nickel-cobalt-aluminium oxide battery using an equivalent
circuit model of a fractional capacitor in series with a resistor. In this
case, the available charge, in theory, becomes infinite in the limit of
infinitesimal rate. We show that the fractional properties of the capacitor can
be extracted from the charge against rate plot. We then use a network of RC
elements to represent the fractional capacitor in order to simulate the data
with Matlab. We find that the fractional exponent alpha obtained in this way,
0.971, agrees with that obtained in a more traditional manner from an impedance
versus frequency plot, although the fractional capacity does not. Such an
approach demonstrates the importance of a fractional description for capacity
offset even when an element is nearly a pure capacitor and is valuable for
predictions of state-of-charge when low currents are drawn.

text: Charge capacity characteristics of a Lithium Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminum Oxide battery show fractional-derivative behavior Batteries experience capacity offset where available charge depends on the
rate at which this charge is drawn. In this work we analyze the capacity offset
of a 4.8 A h lithium nickel-cobalt-aluminium oxide battery using an equivalent
circuit model of a fractional capacitor in series with a resistor. In this
case, the available charge, in theory, becomes infinite in the limit of
infinitesimal rate. We show that the fractional properties of the capacitor can
be extracted from the charge against rate plot. We then use a network of RC
elements to represent the fractional capacitor in order to simulate the data
with Matlab. We find that the fractional exponent alpha obtained in this way,
0.971, agrees with that obtained in a more traditional manner from an impedance
versus frequency plot, although the fractional capacity does not. Such an
approach demonstrates the importance of a fractional description for capacity
offset even when an element is nearly a pure capacitor and is valuable for
predictions of state-of-charge when low currents are drawn.

year: 2021