Managing change in North Shore’s Residential 3 Built Heritage zone: An evaluation of resource consent outcomes

The goal of the study presented in this report has been to determine the extent to which resource consent outcomes in North Shore City’s Residential 3 Built Heritage zone comply with the District Plan. To this end, a sample of 250 properties was selected representing a sample size of 6.5%. The records for each of these properties was checked to identify those that have had a consent granted for additions and alterations to buildings, new and relocated buildings, and the demolition or removal of houses in the Residential 3 zone. This revealed that 100 properties in the sample (or 40%) have been granted a total of 126 resource consents for one or more of these activities. Each of the 100 properties was visited and the outcomes of the consents were compared against the District Plan assessment criteria

Plan effectiveness monitoring: Built heritage, Wellington City District Plan

The goal of this project has been to assess the effectiveness of the built heritage provisions in the Wellington City District Plan. To this end, sixty nine buildings were chosen from the Plan’s Heritage List: Buildings (a sample size of around 14%), which include: 55 buildings that have had at least one resource consent granted under the District Plan. A total of 80 consents were assessed for these buildings as part of this project; 14 buildings that have had no resource consents granted. Each building was visited and an evaluation was undertaken regarding the effects of consented activities on heritage values. The effects of permitted activities (i.e. repair and maintenance) were assessed for the buildings that have no consent history. The evaluation relates only to the effects that could be viewed from the street

Textiles See Action

As clothing rationing comes closer to reality, textiles approach the importance of metal and rubber supplies. Now that modern warfare has introduced parachutes, camouflage nets, barrage balloons, dirigibles and other articles of equipment which require fabrics, war needs come before those of civilians

Benefits of Integrating High-Fidelity Simulation into nurse Practioner Graduate Programs and Contining Education Courses: Patient Saftey

Today\u27s health care environment is changing quickly with advancement in teclmology and complexity of patient care management. As a result, many universities and health care facilities are integrating the use of high fidelity simulation into their curriculum to increase patient safety with the evidence of 35 years of success from other disciplines such as the military and aviation. Evidence of positive outcomes with use of high fidelity simulation is emerging and includes improved interdisciplinary interaction, enhanced critical thinking, self efficacy and overall increased patient safety in a nonthreatening enviro1m1ent. These findings are innovative and should be disseminated to nurse practitioners and educators so that the integration of high fidelity simulation into graduate nurse practitioner curricula and continuing education programs can translate to positive patient safety outcomes

That Hosiery Problem

Rapid changes in the hosiery industry within the last year have left buyers bewildered. With the transition from the silk stocking era to the nylon and now to the rayon many new problems must be worked out

The commuters\u27 alma mater: Profiles of college student experiences at a commuter institution

Writers have criticized the literature on college student involvement as being biased, starting from the premise that the residential experience is the normative one, and have called for a reexamination of the concept of student involvement. Thus in response to that need, this study explored the concept of student involvement from commuter college students\u27 perspectives.;Focused on both Astin\u27s theory of student involvement and Pace\u27s work on quality of effort, it was hypothesized that there were differences between highly involved commuter college students and commuter college students who were minimally involved in the college experience. Since student involvement has both quantitative and qualitative features, the study explored the concept of student involvement by utilizing both research methods. The quantitative portion of the study applied the College Student Experiences Questionnaire. This instrument not only provided a snapshot of student involvement but also identified highly involved and minimally involved college students who served as the sample frame for the qualitative portion of the study which involved the use of field notes, semi-structures interviews, focus groups, and paper and pencil exercises.;Through a combination of a series of statistical procedures, matrix displays, content analysis, and narration, it was concluded that highly involved commuter college students differed from those students minimally involved in the college experience. Students described a variety of opportunities for involvement and perceived that the opportunity for involvement did exist on a commuter campus.;Although students who were highly involved in the college experience were diverse with regard to age, gender and other characteristics, overall, those students who were enrolled full time and were younger than 26 tended to put forth more effort toward utilizing group facilities and participating in organized activities than did part-time students and students 26 years of age or older. Furthermore, evidence was presented to suggest that a key to involvement inequities among commuter students, and between commuter and resident students may involve the difficulty in engaging in constructive peer relationships. Based on the students\u27 experiences 13 suggestions for facilitating the involvement of commuter students were offered. Among other things it was concluded that where one lives (resident or commuter) may not be the sole determinant of one\u27s college experience. Further research is needed with regard to this topic