INVESTIGATIONS OF GALVESTON AIRPORT PAVEMENTS AFTER HURRICANE IKE IN 2008 AND LIQUEFACTION SITES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS AFTER THE NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKE IN 2010

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. Stokoe ◽  
J.-S. Lee ◽  
B.-H. Nam ◽  
B. R. Cox ◽  
E. Oshinski
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Hurricane Ike

Space-time analysis of unhealthy food advertising: New Zealand children’s exposure and health policy options

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-820
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Michelle Barr ◽  
Amber L Pearson ◽  
Tim Chambers ◽  
Karin A Pfeiffer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Food Advertising ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Density Mapping ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Wearable Cameras ◽  
Children’S Exposure

Abstract Reducing children’s exposure to unhealthy food advertising is an accepted strategy to end childhood obesity. This study aimed to (i) measure children’s space-time exposures to unhealthy food advertising in public outdoor spaces, using GPS and wearable cameras; and (ii) test effectiveness of banning options. We compiled data (collected July 2014—June 2015) on 138 12-year-old children in Wellington, New Zealand, using wearable cameras and GPS devices worn over 4 days. In 2017–18, we linked 59 150 images taken in public outdoor spaces to GPS data. Of these, 1631 contained unhealthy food advertising exposures, defined as ≥50% of an advertisement observed in each image. We examined spatial patterns using kernel density mapping and graphed space-time trends. We interpolated a kriged exposure rate across Wellington to estimate exposure reductions for potential bans. Children were exposed to 7.4 (95% CI 7.0–7.8) unhealthy food advertisements/hour spent in outdoor public spaces. Exposures occurred in shopping centres, residential areas and sports facilities, commonly involving fast food, sugary drinks and ice cream. Peak exposure times were weekend afternoons/evenings and weekdays before/after school. In Wellington, we estimated that banning such advertising within 400 m of playgrounds would yield a 33% reduction in exposure, followed by in residential areas (27%), within 400 m of schools (25%), and 50% for a ban combining all above. This work documents the extent of children’s exposure to unhealthy food advertising and the potential impact of bans. Given the ubiquity of advertising in public spaces, this New Zealand research offers innovative methods and findings likely relevant in other jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Evaluating targeted aerial spraying for insect control

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 168-171
Author(s):  
B. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Insect Control ◽  
Spray Application ◽  
Riparian Areas ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Target Zones ◽  
High Release ◽  
Spray Droplets ◽  
Main Target ◽  
Riparian Strips

The main target zones in early plans for eradicating painted apple moth (PAM) (Teia anartoides) in Auckland New Zealand were narrow riparian strips of vegetation and steep gullies However there were concerns that achieving high levels of Bacillus thuringiensis var kurstaki (Btk) deposition in these riparian areas with minimal drift onto residential areas would be difficult This is because with a combination of small droplets and high release heights there would be considerable downwind movement of the spray cloud The concept of targeting riparian strips was evaluated using an aerial spray application simulation model Results indicated that targeted spraying is not a practical proposition at least where small droplets are used and high release heights are required The only solution would be to build larger target areas around the riparian strips For targeted spraying to become a practical proposition techniques must be developed for achieving efficacy using much larger spray droplets

Spatial Patterns in Suburban Evaluations

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Semantic Differential Technique ◽  
Selection Of

Studies of various types have indicated that residential areas of a city differ in their characteristics, and have suggested that these differences are the bases of residents' choices of where to obtain a home. Although people have been asked why they have made a certain choice, however, no attempts have been made to investigate the number of dimensions to residents' evaluations of suburbs, or the number of criteria on which they rate areas. The present study suggests that there might be five such dimensions, these being amalgams of a large number of terms which could be used to describe an area. The semantic differential technique has been used to test whether these five are relevant to a selection of residents of Christchurch, New Zealand; the analyses suggest that in fact there are probably three interrelated dimensions, and that these three are invariant with area of residence in the city. Although these dimensions of the criteria for evaluation are the same, however, the various suburbs were rated at different levels by groups living in different areas. Apparently both the social and the spatial distance between the respondent's home suburb and that which he is rating are influences on these variations.

Comparative Factorial Ecology: Some New Zealand Examples

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
D W G Timms
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Ecological Structure ◽  
Factorial Ecology ◽  
Residential Differentiation

The use of factorial ecology in the analysis of residential differentiation is illustrated by data on the four main urban areas in New Zealand and by some historical data on Auckland. The article concludes by examining some of the implications of factorial ecology for urban theory. Recent community analyses have indicated a renewed interest in one of the chief concerns of the early human ecologists: the effects and implications of residential differentiation and segregation. A notable aspect of the trend has been the application of factor-analytic methods to data generated for urban sub-communities(1). Analyses of census tract or enumeration district data in several North American, Scandinavian, and Australasian cities have shown that much of the detailed variation in the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the urban population may be expressed in terms of a small number of underlying factors relating to social rank, style of life or family type and, in ethnically heterogeneous populations, ethnic composition. Beshers (1962) suggests that the axes of differentiation are so clear that virtually any form of analysis will reveal their existence. Within the general pattern, however, it may be anticipated that local and regional differences in socio-cultural, economic, and political circumstances will result in variations in ecological structure. An attempt to delineate these variations is essential if the goal of developing a genuinely cross-cultural model of urban society is to be attained. It is in the pursuit of this end that the procedures of factorial ecology promise most. According to Sweetser (1965, p.219): “Modern factor analysis, using factor structure as a model for ecological structure, is the method par excellence for comparing cross-nationally (and intranationally) the ecological differentiation of residential areas in urban and metropolitan communities”. In the present example data from New Zealand is used to examine the usefulness of the factorial ecology approach for comparative studies at both the inter-city and the temporal levels.

Fragmented Urban Spaces? Ethnic Residential Areas in New Zealand Cities, 1996

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
RON JOHNSTON ◽  
MICHAEL POULSEN ◽  
JAMES FORREST
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Residential Areas

scholarly journals An investigation into the ideals of New Zealand school children in urban and rural areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mavis Jannette Ross
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
School Children ◽  
Education System ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Bearing in mind the thoughts clothed in the above quotations, it was decided to try to find how far our New Zealand school children had progressed towards the "desired goal." As far as the adult population is concerned, one can judge only by the sensational pleasure loving crowds which flock nightly to the luridly, and often lewdly, advertised "talkies"; by the crowded jazz dance halls; by the half empty churches; by the sordid, ugly streets in the residential areas adjoining factories; by the aspidistra nestling coyly among the hideous yellow and blue frilly curtains; by the ill-kept and inartistically planned gardens; by the huge and garish baubles encircling neck and arms of both society lady and factory girl. But for the children, we still hoped; New Zealand's education system has enjoyed a high reputation in the educational world, and the Director of Education, in his report to the Minister of Education, presented on April 16th 1936 after an extended tour abroad, wrote: "The New Zealand system of education, primary and post-primary, is fundamentally sound, modern, and well suited to our requirements."

Waste stabilisation pond developments in New Zealand

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.E. Archer ◽  
D.D. Mara
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Statistical Probability ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Waste Stabilisation Ponds ◽  
Pond System ◽  
In Series ◽  
Odour Emissions

Waste stabilisation ponds have been a popular form of wastewater treatment in New Zealand both for large cities and small communities. Over 100 systems have been constructed ranging in size from over 500 ha to less than 0.1 ha. The largest pond system in New Zealand was at Manukau, Auckland and consisted of four ponds with a total of 530 ha. However, ongoing odour and midge releases and an algae parasite problem plus a requirement to reduce ammonia and total nitrogen in summer, led to the decision to decommission the ponds and allow the area to revert to tidal mudflats. The second largest pond system is at Christchurch and totals 226 ha. In contrast to Manukau, the Christchurch ponds have not caused significant odours and final effluent quality has been good. Christchurch has two parallel trains each with three ponds in series. It is proposed to retain and develop the ponds into a seven cells in series arrangement to reduce short-circuiting. Odour emissions from the Manukau and Christchurch ponds have been measured by the use of olfactometry. Dispersion of odours has been modelled and the extent of “odour travel” determined on a statistical probability basis using actual meteorological data. It can be demonstrated that residential areas can co-exist with ponds, which are not overloaded, with separation distances of 200 metres.

scholarly journals An investigation into the ideals of New Zealand school children in urban and rural areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mavis Jannette Ross
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
School Children ◽  
Education System ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Bearing in mind the thoughts clothed in the above quotations, it was decided to try to find how far our New Zealand school children had progressed towards the "desired goal." As far as the adult population is concerned, one can judge only by the sensational pleasure loving crowds which flock nightly to the luridly, and often lewdly, advertised "talkies"; by the crowded jazz dance halls; by the half empty churches; by the sordid, ugly streets in the residential areas adjoining factories; by the aspidistra nestling coyly among the hideous yellow and blue frilly curtains; by the ill-kept and inartistically planned gardens; by the huge and garish baubles encircling neck and arms of both society lady and factory girl. But for the children, we still hoped; New Zealand's education system has enjoyed a high reputation in the educational world, and the Director of Education, in his report to the Minister of Education, presented on April 16th 1936 after an extended tour abroad, wrote: "The New Zealand system of education, primary and post-primary, is fundamentally sound, modern, and well suited to our requirements."

Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries: Primary Distance Indicators

1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 563-566
Author(s):  
J. D. Pritchard ◽  
W. Tobin ◽  
J. V. Clausen ◽  
E. F. Guinan ◽  
E. L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Eclipsing Binaries ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Distance Indicators

Our collaboration involves groups in Denmark, the U.S.A. Spain and of course New Zealand. Combining ground-based and satellite (IUEandHST) observations we aim to determine accurate and precise stellar fundamental parameters for the components of Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries as well as the distances to these systems and hence the parent galaxies themselves. This poster presents our latest progress.

Heat-Etching with a Bullivant Type II Simple Freeze-Cleave Device

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The University

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.

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