Maintaining safety : the social support and monitoring of men who have completed therapy for sexual offending : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Social Policy and Social Work at Massey University

Many consumers are conscious of the potential health problems incurred by the high consumption of fat. Consequently, they are discouraged from drinking whole milk due to its high fat content, despite its nutritional benefits, e.g. as a calcium source. A variety of low-fat milk products are currently available, with fat contents ranging from 0.1 % to 1.5 % fat. However, it is known that many consumers prefer the mouthfeel characteristics of high-fat milk. The consistency of low-fat milks was perceived as watery and the colour was often described as "green" or "grey". This identified a need for a low-fat milk product with mouthfeel characteristics and colour similar to high-fat milk. Attempts to improve the texture of low-fat milks have included the addition of non-fat milk solids to skim milk. Phillips et al. (1995) added 2 % non-fat dry milk powder to fluid skim milk. The addition of non-fat milk solids produced an objective measure of viscosity similar to milk with 2 % added fat. However, the colour and texture attributes of milk with 2 % added non-fat milk solids did not improve to such an extent that non-fat milk solids could be used as a substitute for fat

Probing the primordial Universe using the SKA in combination with other cosmological surveys

>Magister Scientiae - MScNext-generation surveys of the large-scale structure of the Universe will be of great importance in allowing us to extract invaluable information about the nature of the Universe and the physical laws that govern it, at a higher precision than previously possible. In particular, they will allow us to more closely study primordial non-Gaussianity, a feature which leaves an imprint on the power spectrum of galaxies on the ultra-large scales and which acts as a powerful probe of the physics of the early Universe. To investigate the extent to which upcoming surveys will be able to improve our knowledge of primordial non-Gaussianity, we perform a forecast to predict the observational constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity, as well as an extension that includes a scale dependence. We study the constraining power of a multi-tracer approach, where information from different surveys is combined to help suppress cosmic variance and break parameter degeneracies. More specifically, we consider the combination of a 21cm intensity mapping survey with each of two different photometric galaxy surveys, and also examine the effect of including CMB lensing as an additional probe. The forecast constraint from a combination of SKA1, a Euclid-like (LSST-like) survey and a CMB Stage 4 lensing experiment is (fNL) ' 0:9 (1:4) which displays a factor of 2 improvement over the case without CMB lensing, indicating that the surveys considered are indeed complementary. The constraints on the running index of the scale-dependent model are forecast as (nNL) ' 0:12 (0:22) from the same combination of surveys

"You have no idea": Women in Architecture in the Eighties

A number of moves in the seventies had meant that more women than ever before were in architecture schools and by the eighties they were flooding into the profession.  Over the decade their numbers quadrupled (as measured by registration) as women moved from the exception to the norm.  But their impact was variable.  This paper will try to tease out that impact from women-only practices to support groups to what they published to moves away from the profession

From subject to device, history as myth in action : the evolution of event from mythic processes as revealed in Waterfront Dispute fiction

This analysis of selected New Zealand works defends the evolving function of history as fiction-material. It is intended to establish that purpose and treatment alter, as time further separates the writing and the event. The general change is one of development from subject to device properties. In tracing history's evolving role and treatment in fiction, analysis identifies history's eventual source - shown, in fiction, to be mythic and subjectively conceptual

Outdoing Lewis Carrol: Judicial Rhetoric and Acceptable Fictions

This paper examines the functions of narrative within written legal argumentation. My purposes are these: 1) to repudiate common assumptions that differentiate argumentation and storytelling in the law; 2) to begin to theorize anew how legal argumentation functions; 3) to explore the difficulties of evaluating the law\u27s argumentative narratives, and 4) to trace some of the anxiety that judges themselves reveal about their roles as storytellers. I conclude that narrative is necessary to law\u27s claims to authority, even as it complicates our understandings about how legislative policy decisions produce effects, and even as judges themselves seek to mask its importance

Variable damping controller for a prosthetic knee during swing extension

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).Transfemoral amputees exhibit both increased metabolic consumption and gait asymmetry during level ground walking. A variable damping control strategy has been developed for swing extension in order to improve gait symmetry and reduce energy expenditure during level ground walking. Preliminary biomechanical studies suggest that the knee utilizes a variable damping control during swing extension. This thesis proposes a biologically inspired variable damping control strategy which can be simplified into a piecewise function with respect to the knee angle. The variable damping profile of the knee during swing extension has been modeled as an initial linear increase with respect to knee angle followed by a quadratic increase at the end of swing. A damping controller based on this proposed piecewise function has been implemented in a biomimetic, active, knee prosthesis (AAAKP) developed at MIT's Biomechatronics Lab. Preliminary studies on a unilateral, transfemoral amputee have shown that the AAAKP with the proposed damping control strategy is able to more closely emulate the damping profile of the unaffected leg, when compared to a conventional knee prosthesis (Otto Bock C-Leg®). This Initial study suggests that the proposed variable damping strategy for swing extension is able to more accurately emulate the joint mechanics of the unaffected knee. This work is intended to improve prosthetic knee behavior in order to reduce metabolic consumption and improve gait symmetry in transfemoral amputees during level ground walking.by Luke Matthewson Mooney.S.B

The generalized Laplace transformation with applications to problems involving finite differences

The generalized Laplace transformation is defined by an infinite sum 1 LF tE=f s=n=0infinity Fn sn+1, where F(t) must be a function of exponential order, |F(t)| \u3c Malpha|t|, and defined at all integral points. The series converges uniformly and absolutely for all values of |s| = alpha + epsilon, epsilon \u3e 0. From (1) it is readlily found that 2 LEm Ft E=smfs- k=0m-1s m-1-kFk, an equation which is useful for the solution of linear finite difference equations with constant coefficients, a type which often occurs in the theory of statistics, interpolation, structures, electrical circuits and other branches of physics and engineering. In the case of linear difference equations with rational coefficients the formula 3 Lt mFt E=-d dsmsm fs reduces the problem to a linear differential equation;The complex inversion integral and Faltung integral of the regular Laplace transformation have counterparts in the theory of the generalized Laplace transformation, 4 Ft =12ni Cztf zdz and 5 L-1 fsgs E=F tE *Gt =GtE *Ft =n=0 t-1Ft-n-1 Gn. The convolution sum may also be written as a Faltung integral of the related functions F¯(t) and G¯(t), 6 L-1 fsgs E&harrr;0 tFt-x Gxdx, where F¯(t) is defined by the power series, 7 F&d1; t= n=0infinity cnat nn!, and the cn are the Newton coefficients of a tF(t);Extension to the two dimensional case is immediate with particular emphasis on the M transformation, 8 LF tM=2 n=0infinityF nsn+1- F0s, where M F(t) = Ft+1-F t-12 and Delta F(t) = F(t + 1) - 2F(t) + F(t - 1). The M and Delta operators are useful in many complicated physical systems where they may be used to replace the first and second order differential operators, thereby reducing an unwieldy partial differential equation to a numerical solution