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Understanding Audience Perceptions of Gender Equality in Contemporary Sports Media: A Scoping Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2026-10-09) Singha, Shamindra; Johnston, Melody; Wymer, Sarah
The underrepresentation and gendered portrayal of female athletes in sports media have significant implications for how audiences perceive and evaluate male and female athletes in contemporary society. Despite growing scholarly attention to this issue, the literature remains fragmented across disciplinary traditions. This scoping review, guided by PRISMA-ScR, examines the impact of gendered sports media representation on public perceptions of male and female athletes. Studies published in English between 2005 and 2025 were identified through Scopus, SPORTDiscus and SocINDEX and screened in Rayyan. Eligible studies used content analysis, framing analysis, or qualitative methods to examine gendered sports media portrayals and audience perceptions. 54 studies were included. For each study, the country, media type, sport, method, design or sample, and findings on portrayal and on audience perception were charted. The findings were synthesised using reflexive thematic analysis, which produced five themes: 1. Underrepresentation and Marginalisation; 2. Sexualisation and Trivialisation; 3. Framing Asymmetry; 4. Audience Perception and Gender Socialisation; and 5. Digital Media as a Site of Contestation. From a practical perspective, these five themes and the evidence underpinning them provide broadcasters, sport managers, and policymakers with a theoretically grounded and empirically supported basis for developing more equitable and impactful strategies for the representation of female athletes across contemporary sports media platforms.
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The Vehicle Collision Warning Method Based on the Information Fusion of GPS/INS and DSRC
(IOP Publishing, 2018-08-08) Wang, Gang; Chong, Peter Han Joo; Seet, Boon-Chong; Zhang, Kesong
The traditional vehicle collision avoidance systems are based on vehicle sensors. With the development of intelligent transport systems, wireless communication technologies have been widely used in the vehicle. A loose coupling mode under is proposed as vehicle collision warning strategy. The information exchange between vehicles could be available by dedicated short range communication. The adaptive Kalman filter can predict the vehicle trajectory and analyze the probability of collision. The simulation verification was carried out by the MATLAB/Simulink platform. Results show that the feasibility and validity of the algorithm are verified.
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Extrusion 3D Printing of Polybutyrate-Adipate-Terephthalate-Polymer Composites in the Pellet Form
(MDPI, 2018-08-17) Singamneni, Sarat; Smith, Dawn; LeGuen, Marie-Joo; Truong, Derryn
Fused deposition modelling is a common 3D printing technique used for the freeform fabrication of complex shapes based on polymers. Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) is the common material option, though polylactide (PLA) has also proved to be a successful candidate. There is an ever increasing demand to harness new materials as possible candidates for fused deposition. The current research is focused on evaluating polybutyrate-adipate-terephthalate-polymer (PBAT) for fused deposition modelling. Both neat and composite PBAT filled with varying wood flour fillers were experimentally analyzed for 3Dprinting by extrusion fromthe pellet forms. The results are positive and the addition of small quantities of the wood flour filler material was found to improve the thixotropic nature of the polymer composite and consequently the inter-strand and inter-layer coalescence.
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Assessing Children's Learning in Early Childhood Education: An Integrative Literature Review of Assessment and Documentation Practices in Russia and Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2026) Mezentseva, Romana; Probine, Sarah
This dissertation examines how children's learning is assessed and documented in early childhood education (ECE) in Russia and Aotearoa New Zealand, as represented in policy, scholarship, and related documentary sources. Employing an integrative literature review supported by autoethnographic reflection, the study draws on my dual positioning as a former ECE methodologist in the Russian preschool sector and as a parent navigating the Aotearoa New Zealand ECE system, using this situated perspective as an interpretive and reflexive lens throughout. The review addresses one primary research question and three supporting questions, asking what theoretical and pedagogical assumptions underpin assessment practices in each context, how national curricula and policy frameworks, including Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 1996, 2017) and Russia's federal curriculum and policy frameworks, shape those practices, and what tensions, contrasts, and points of resonance emerge when the two systems are considered together. The Russian system emerged from cultural-historical theory and federal standardisation into a framework, formalised through FGOS DO, FOP DO, and the 2023 methodological recommendations, that positions assessment as developmental and non-attestational at the policy level, while local institutional materials reveal a more structured enactment oriented towards school readiness and civic-value formation. The Aotearoa New Zealand system, in contrast, grew from the bicultural, sociocultural curriculum Te Whāriki into an approach centred on narrative documentation, most visibly through Learning Stories, that positions children as already competent and confident learners; the review also traces tensions around validity, dispositional narrowing, and political pressure on this non-prescriptive curriculum. Brought into dialogue in a synthesis chapter, the two systems are found to share a theoretical ancestor in Vygotsky despite growing in markedly different directions, and each is found to make a particular kind of visibility possible at the expense of another: diagnostic assessment renders a system legible at the cost of the individual child, while narrative assessment renders each child’s learning visible over time, without aiming to compare children with one another. Variability in assessment tools is present within both contexts, arising for structurally different reasons, the absence of a single mandated national assessment tool in one case and a deliberate philosophical non-prescription in the other. Whether national standardisation is desirable is itself contested, and is considered here in relation to children's rights. The dissertation concludes that assessment is never a neutral technical exercise but is always an answer, however partial or unstated, to a prior question about what early childhood education is for and whose interests it is ultimately designed to serve. A children's rights framework, such as the UNCRC (1989), is offered as one practical tool through which ECE leaders and policymakers in both contexts might evaluate their assessment practices against the child's right to full development. The dissertation contributes a transnational, autoethnographically informed perspective to a field in which Russian and Aotearoa New Zealand scholarship on ECE assessment has largely developed in isolation from one another, with implications for policymakers, ECE leaders, teachers, families, and future research.
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A Quiet Day Is Not a Secure Network: Multi-Timescale Evidence from a Single Enterprise Security Gateway
(MDPI AG, 2026-10-08) Hasan, Md Rajib; Alani, Noor HS; Sarkar, Nurul I
Security dashboards summarise large event streams into convenient hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly views, but aggregation can change what analysts see and therefore what they prioritise. This case study examines four overlapping Check Point Quantum Spark 1530 reports from a single enterprise edge gateway: 1 h, 24 h, 7 days, and 30 days, each ending on or near 15 September 2023. We reconstruct traffic series, normalise volumes by duration, compare application concentration, reconcile summary and detailed tables, and separate control-confirmed events from unadjudicated indicators. The one hour window corresponded to a duration-normalised 10.10 GB/day, 2.86 times the 30-day rate of 3.53 GB/day, whereas the 24 h and seven-day rates were 3.86 and 3.51 GB/day. Top five application concentration declined monotonically from 88.8% at one hour to 17.5% at 30 days. The hourly and daily summaries reported zero Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, and intrusion-prevention events. Yet, the seven-day report contained 15,641 IPS incidents and four Anti-Virus events, and the 30-day report contained 136,057 IPS incidents, 28 Anti-Virus events, and two Anti-Bot events. Reconciliation also exposed non-additive rounded totals, partial-bin coverage, conflicting high-risk-application counts, and a weekly QUIC session count larger than its 30-day counterpart. An alignment-controlled comparison of the exactly nested 7-day/30-day pair showed nearly identical traffic rates in the final week and the preceding 23 days (3.51 versus 3.54 GB/day). In contrast, a containment bound showed that part of the apparent collapse in leading-application dominance reflects vendor reporting logic rather than aggregation. Within the limits of this single-gateway case study, the results indicate that short windows are useful for burst triage but unsafe as stand-alone evidence of security state. We propose, but do not yet validate, a multi-timescale workflow for converting vendor telemetry into cyber-risk intelligence through alignment, normalisation, reconciliation, corroboration, and explicit confidence labels.