BACKGROUND Intravenous fluid therapy is one of the most common interventions used in acute medicine. Worldwide, there are variations in the prescription of intravenous fluids and no consensus on the best intravenous fluid ...

Held every two years in Washington DC and run by the US Department of Energy the Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges architecture and engineering students from all over the world to come up with new ...

Thailand’s Bangkok has experienced rapid population growth and subsequent expansion over recent decades. It has resulted in an unintentional increase in vulnerability within rural-residential and metropolis areas. Flood ...

Bone tissue engineering and synthetic biomineralization are two widely researched areas, the principles of which have been combined from time to time in efforts to develop replacement materials for natural bone grafts. ...

Onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic reflection and refraction data are combined with multi-channel seismic reflection profiles to model crustal structure within a 32,000 km2 block of the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, ...

This thesis aims to ascertain lessons which can be learnt from the provision of accommodation at a progression of hydro projects in the south of New Zealand. Seven case studies have been distilled from a wide range (and ...

The negative impact of user fees on the utilisation of the health services by the poor in developing countries such as Uganda and Jamaica is well documented. Therefore, various governments have been engaged in reforming ...

Increasingly divergent housing needs together with dilapidated housing stock requires us to consider upgrading many inner-city suburban areas. Renovations to individual dwellings rarely take advantage of the opportunity ...

Successful reinforcement learning requires large amounts of data, compute, and some luck. We explore the ability of abstraction(s) to reduce these dependencies. Abstractions for reinforcement learning share the goals of ...