Study Areas: Recent submissions
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Field study to compare and evaluate summer thermal comfort of school buildings with different moderate thermal mass in their building elements
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2023-11-22)Previous studies show that moderate thermal mass in school building elements can pos itively impact the winter indoor thermal environment in a temperate climate with mild, humid winters. Based on a field study, this research ... -
Embracing tradition: Classical Studio in 2022
(Epress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-12-31)The year 2022 saw the return of Classical Studio the Unitec | Te Pūkenga School of Architecture after a ten-year hiatus. In Classical Studio, the goal isn’t necessarily to teach how to design a classical building, but to ... -
Feature-based systematic analysis of advanced persistent threats
(InTech, 2023-05-22)Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and Targeted Attacks (TA) targeting high-value organizations continue to become more common. These slow (sometimes carried on over the years), fragmented, distributed, seemingly unrelated, ... -
Pedro Ilgenfritz entrevista Michael Craven [= Pedro Ilgenfritz interviews Michael Craven]
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Cultural perspectives on the concept of whānau and health decisions
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2023-11-27)This is a combined reflective presentation developed from the series of the Chinese and Pacific cultural perspectives workshops that the authors have designed and delivered at Unitec for the Social Practice, Medical Imaging ... -
Learner engagement with where-to-next feedback in early tertiary studies
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-29)Learners on the New Zealand Diploma in Business are early tertiary learners and do not perform as well as it is believed that they should. In addition, there is a disparity between ethnicities and age groups. This study ... -
An early childhood education lens on the practice of reflection in Aotearoa New Zealand
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-29)Reflection is a well-researched concept in the field of education. However, the authors find the book resources are limited in terms of current practice in early childhood education (ECE) within the context of Aotearoa New ... -
Yttrium-90 based bremsstrahlung Imaging with a solid state detector gamma camera: A first imaging experience with GE-NM CT 850
(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2023-08-28)INTRODUCTION Yttrium-90 (Y90) is an efficient therapeutic radioisotope for tumour treatment due to its high-energy beta rays. However, due to the vast energy spectra of Y-90, its always been challenging for Y-90 ... -
FAP still more question to be answered: A review-based analysis
(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2023-08-28)Over ninety percent of epithelial malignancies have elevated levels of fibroblast activation protein (FAP), a type II transmembrane serine protease that is closely associated with tumour invasion, metastasis, and prognosis. ... -
An overview of radiochemical identity and radiochemical purity of 18F-FDG and factor affecting the RCP
(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2023-08-28)INTRODUCTION The radiopharmaceutical known as fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) is the one that is utilised most frequently in PET-CT imaging. In the first place, it is applied to the diagnosis and evaluation of various stages ... -
Early reflections on a collaborative research project about the safety of rainbow ākonga on Te Pūkenga campuses
(ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga., 2023-11-29)This paper reports on the experiences of a research team designing and beginning to implement a research project exploring how safe and inclusive the various campuses of Te Pūkenga are for Rainbow ākonga (students). As ... -
Katamari Kart: A serious and hilarious sub/urban game for more serendipitous, playful and friendly public art
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The article presents the sub/urban game-method Katamari Kart, where people roam industrial and suburban areas collecting waste materials and progressively building a large and mobile public sculpture. This game-method ... -
Resilient hub
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The proposal describes a community hub; a site located within the suburban and urban built environment, made up of an arrangement of community-run buildings and facilities. Modern sustainable technologies and building ... -
The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Upon introduction, Māori will often, ask “Ko wai koe?”, or at the beginning of a pepeha, Māori might say, “Ko wai au?” The concept of ‘ko wai au’ is both a question and a statement in one. In one sense ‘ko wai au’ is asking ... -
Decolonising and re-indigenising neighbourhood design
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)How do we create a fairer, more equitable future? How do we create neighbourhoods that serve and nurture us; spaces that reflect us, that bring beauty, that inform our identities? Urbanists are generally reluctant to address ... -
Designing neighbourhoods to facilitate intercultural encounters: Negotiating between self, society and place
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Globalisation, and the consequent migratory processes, have radically transformed many countries across the world. A greater number of people with diverse backgrounds have been travelling to more places for numerous reasons. ... -
Imagining a narrative form for place
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Applying long-term thinking to placemaking is challenging when practitioners work within short timeframes to deliver a project – usually from the length of a funding window to that of an on-the-ground build. In order for ... -
Walking backwards into the future in Te Pokapū Tāone, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s city centre
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Te pokapū tāone o Tāmaki, Auckland’s city centre, is the belly of Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand’s fastest growing residential neighbourhood and a significant contributor to the region and to the country. Globally, ... -
Can form-based codes be the opportunity to achieve a quality built environment in Aotearoa New Zealand?
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)This article suggests that our current land-use planning is routinely failing to make good places where people want to live. The inability of land-use zoning to generate mixed-use neighbourhoods is one reason. Instead of ... -
A pleasurable methodology: Joyously reimagining our neighbourhoods
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland neighbourhood of Ellerslie has undergone destructive erasures of ecology and indigeneity since colonisation. This is exemplified by the filling with concrete of the sacred subterranean caves, ...