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Abolish usage of cars and immediately, you have huge expanse of extra land for the public use.
Yeah but that means to get around you have to take MRT and walk.
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PMD's. Even your kids can use them without needing a license.
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I recommend PMDs. They are small, light and efficient.
Yeah but arent they banned on the walkways now? So with no roads where you gonna ride PMDs?
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Yes that is why I have campaign going to unban them. They are a great mode of travel. They are all over Auckland and are perfect for getting around the city.
The irony of the situation is that while Singapore has banned PMDs two of the 3 PMD operators in Auckland are owned by Singaporeans. It's a Sim Wong Hoo situation all over again where a sinkie has to go abroad to achieve success.
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Founded in 2016, Neuron is the fastest growing shared electric scooter operator and micromobility technology developer in Asia Pacific. It provides a sustainable short-distance mobility solution to connect neighbourhoods across the region.
Neuron has some of the industry’s earliest patents pending on smart scooter and intelligent charging solutions in the personal mobility industry. The company maintains a proprietary supply chain for its pending patented commercial-grade scooter, and uses real-time analytics to power its operational deployment. Neuron actively seeks to build smart cities of the future.
Our Founders
Zachary Wang
Co-Founder and CEO
Zach is a serial entrepreneur who seeks to impact the lives of many through sustainable technology. He demonstrates this zeal as the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Neuron Mobility, an e-scooter sharing platform that brings sustainable personal mobility to Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
Zach leads the company with a passion and enthusiasm for building smart cities. He contributes to this initiative through the company’s use of data sharing and real-time analytics to bring convenience to the masses.
He founded Rezeca Renewables – the largest residential solar provider in Singapore, with a strong presence in Thailand for commercial and industrial applications. Zach has also spent several years researching Electric Vehicles and built hydrogen fuel cell electric cars since 2007.
Harry Yu
Co-Founder and CTO
Dr. Harry Yu is a data scientist who specialises in machine learning and artificial intelligence. As the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Neuron Mobility, Harry develops the key technologies that power the company’s e-scooter sharing platform.
His pioneering research work and algorithms are used in real time data analytics and scalable solutions for the rapidly expanding platform. He is focused on building Neuron as a data-driven mobility company that works with local stakeholders to build smart cities of the future.
His work involved improving the computational efficiency for an embedded inverse dynamic problem for the healthcare industry, developing predictive attrition models for the banking industry, building a geospatial simulation model for demand prediction for the transportation industry and creating a Predictive Maintenance System (PMS) based on machine sensor for the airline and semiconductor industries.
Neuron has some of the industry’s earliest patents pending on smart scooter and intelligent charging solutions in the personal mobility industry. The company maintains a proprietary supply chain for its pending patented commercial-grade scooter, and uses real-time analytics to power its operational deployment. Neuron actively seeks to build smart cities of the future.
Our Founders
Zachary Wang
Co-Founder and CEO
Zach is a serial entrepreneur who seeks to impact the lives of many through sustainable technology. He demonstrates this zeal as the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Neuron Mobility, an e-scooter sharing platform that brings sustainable personal mobility to Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
Zach leads the company with a passion and enthusiasm for building smart cities. He contributes to this initiative through the company’s use of data sharing and real-time analytics to bring convenience to the masses.
He founded Rezeca Renewables – the largest residential solar provider in Singapore, with a strong presence in Thailand for commercial and industrial applications. Zach has also spent several years researching Electric Vehicles and built hydrogen fuel cell electric cars since 2007.
Harry Yu
Co-Founder and CTO
Dr. Harry Yu is a data scientist who specialises in machine learning and artificial intelligence. As the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Neuron Mobility, Harry develops the key technologies that power the company’s e-scooter sharing platform.
His pioneering research work and algorithms are used in real time data analytics and scalable solutions for the rapidly expanding platform. He is focused on building Neuron as a data-driven mobility company that works with local stakeholders to build smart cities of the future.
His work involved improving the computational efficiency for an embedded inverse dynamic problem for the healthcare industry, developing predictive attrition models for the banking industry, building a geospatial simulation model for demand prediction for the transportation industry and creating a Predictive Maintenance System (PMS) based on machine sensor for the airline and semiconductor industries.
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Just putting this Covid-19 shit in perspective AGAIN!
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Flu killing 500 Kiwis each year, Otago University study says
By: Jamie Morton Science Reporter, NZ Herald [email protected] @Jamienzherald
3-4 minutes
The flu is killing about 500 New Zealanders each year - and men, Maori, Pacific Islanders and those living in poverty are at greatest risk of premature death from it.
That's according to new research from Otago University scientists who say the flu is likely New Zealand's single biggest infectious disease killer, accounting for about 1.8 per cent of deaths in the country.
A new study published this week has, for the first time in any country, estimated the distribution of flu deaths in relation to ethnicity and social deprivation, as well as gender and age group.
It found that, in the key 65-79 year age group, Maori were 3.6 times more likely to die of influenza than those of European or other ethnicity, while Pacific people were 2.4 times more likely to die during a typical flu season.
Those living in the most deprived 20 per cent of neighbourhoods were almost twice as likely to die of influenza compared with those living in the least deprived areas.
Men were also more vulnerable, with males aged 65-79 years almost two times more likely to die of influenza than females.
"Future work will update these estimates for the post-pandemic period, but we would expect the findings to be broadly similar," said study author Dr Trang Khieu, who carried out the work as part of her PhD.
Her study was based on a 15-year period, from 1994 to 2008, before the last influenza pandemic, which took place over 2009 and 2010.
It used modelling to estimate influenza deaths in each population group - an approach that was necessary because only about one in 23 New Zealand influenza deaths were recognised, confirmed and recorded on death certificates.
This modelling showed that the largest numbers of flu deaths (37 per cent) were circulatory conditions such as heart attacks and strokes.
In most instances, flu would not even be suspected as the cause, particularly in cases of sudden death.
The crude influenza mortality rate found in the study was 13.5 per 100,000 for all causes.
This rate was similar to those estimated for other high income countries, though none have reported the distribution of influenza mortality risk by ethnicity and socioeconomic position.
All of these studies show that increasing age was the single most important risk factor for influenza mortality.
In New Zealand, 86 per cent of deaths occurred in those 65 years of age and over, a rate of 90.3 per 100,000.
"This research illustrates how the borderline between infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease and cancer, is not particularly firm," said study co-author Professor Michael Baker, also of Otago University.
"Infectious diseases like influenza can precipitate sometimes fatal events such as heart attacks, and chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease make us more vulnerable to infections."
These results show that it is important to target flu vaccination and other interventions to the most vulnerable groups, in particular Maori and Pacific people and men aged 65-79 years and those living in the most deprived areas."
The study has been published in the Journal of Infection.
nzherald.co.nz
Flu killing 500 Kiwis each year, Otago University study says
By: Jamie Morton Science Reporter, NZ Herald [email protected] @Jamienzherald
3-4 minutes
The flu is killing about 500 New Zealanders each year - and men, Maori, Pacific Islanders and those living in poverty are at greatest risk of premature death from it.
That's according to new research from Otago University scientists who say the flu is likely New Zealand's single biggest infectious disease killer, accounting for about 1.8 per cent of deaths in the country.
A new study published this week has, for the first time in any country, estimated the distribution of flu deaths in relation to ethnicity and social deprivation, as well as gender and age group.
It found that, in the key 65-79 year age group, Maori were 3.6 times more likely to die of influenza than those of European or other ethnicity, while Pacific people were 2.4 times more likely to die during a typical flu season.
Those living in the most deprived 20 per cent of neighbourhoods were almost twice as likely to die of influenza compared with those living in the least deprived areas.
Men were also more vulnerable, with males aged 65-79 years almost two times more likely to die of influenza than females.
"Future work will update these estimates for the post-pandemic period, but we would expect the findings to be broadly similar," said study author Dr Trang Khieu, who carried out the work as part of her PhD.
Her study was based on a 15-year period, from 1994 to 2008, before the last influenza pandemic, which took place over 2009 and 2010.
It used modelling to estimate influenza deaths in each population group - an approach that was necessary because only about one in 23 New Zealand influenza deaths were recognised, confirmed and recorded on death certificates.
This modelling showed that the largest numbers of flu deaths (37 per cent) were circulatory conditions such as heart attacks and strokes.
In most instances, flu would not even be suspected as the cause, particularly in cases of sudden death.
The crude influenza mortality rate found in the study was 13.5 per 100,000 for all causes.
This rate was similar to those estimated for other high income countries, though none have reported the distribution of influenza mortality risk by ethnicity and socioeconomic position.
All of these studies show that increasing age was the single most important risk factor for influenza mortality.
In New Zealand, 86 per cent of deaths occurred in those 65 years of age and over, a rate of 90.3 per 100,000.
"This research illustrates how the borderline between infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease and cancer, is not particularly firm," said study co-author Professor Michael Baker, also of Otago University.
"Infectious diseases like influenza can precipitate sometimes fatal events such as heart attacks, and chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease make us more vulnerable to infections."
These results show that it is important to target flu vaccination and other interventions to the most vulnerable groups, in particular Maori and Pacific people and men aged 65-79 years and those living in the most deprived areas."
The study has been published in the Journal of Infection.
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Deaths in New Zealand from pneumonia and influenza could rise
09:32, May 03 2018FacebookTwitterWhats AppRedditEmailComments3
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123RF
Last month Nelson Marlborough Health chief medical officer and pediatrician Dr Nick Baker says there could be three times as many flu cases this year compared with the last season.
This year's flu season could be the most deadly in years, following trends from the northern hemisphere.
In 2015, there were 767 deaths from the flu and pneumonia, according to Ministry of Health data, and the majority were women. That's about seven people out of 100,000 - compared with 49 people per 100,000 in 1970.
Health authorities have updated this year's flu vaccine to include immunisation against the life-threatening flu strain A (H3N2), nicknamed "Aussie Flu".
Last winter, the deadly strain affected about 230,000 Australians and killed nearly 750.
READ MORE:
* Busy flu season expected to put pressure on health system
* Flu kills up to 4000 Americans a week, causing one in 10 deaths
* Chart: Cancer is New Zealand's biggest killer
Earlier this year, a new strain of the flu virus overseas resulted in a significant increase in hospitalisations and emergency department admissions from influenza and its complications. There were 40,414 deaths in the US during the third week of 2018, according to the most recent data available, and 4064 were from pneumonia or influenza.
Last month, Nelson Marlborough Health chief medical officer and pediatrician Dr Nick Baker said the flu season in Europe and the US had been as bad as the 2009 swine flu pandemic, during which 49 people in New Zealand died after contracting the A(H1N1) virus.
"It really puts pressure on emergency departments, intensive care units and in wards, with lots and lots of patients in corridors," Baker said.
Figures comparing the recent northern hemisphere influenza season with the 2009 pandemic showed there could be three times as many flu cases this year compared with the last season, in terms of admissions to hospital, he said.
People can get their flu shot for free if they're at high risk of getting influenza, including those aged 65 and older, pregnant women, and people with chronic or serious health conditions, such as heart disease, cancer or severe asthma.
Learn more about the information shown above, and explore more charts, at Figure.NZ's site.
Deaths in New Zealand from pneumonia and influenza could rise
09:32, May 03 2018FacebookTwitterWhats AppRedditEmailComments3
3 minutes
123RF
Last month Nelson Marlborough Health chief medical officer and pediatrician Dr Nick Baker says there could be three times as many flu cases this year compared with the last season.
This year's flu season could be the most deadly in years, following trends from the northern hemisphere.
In 2015, there were 767 deaths from the flu and pneumonia, according to Ministry of Health data, and the majority were women. That's about seven people out of 100,000 - compared with 49 people per 100,000 in 1970.
Health authorities have updated this year's flu vaccine to include immunisation against the life-threatening flu strain A (H3N2), nicknamed "Aussie Flu".
Last winter, the deadly strain affected about 230,000 Australians and killed nearly 750.
READ MORE:
* Busy flu season expected to put pressure on health system
* Flu kills up to 4000 Americans a week, causing one in 10 deaths
* Chart: Cancer is New Zealand's biggest killer
Earlier this year, a new strain of the flu virus overseas resulted in a significant increase in hospitalisations and emergency department admissions from influenza and its complications. There were 40,414 deaths in the US during the third week of 2018, according to the most recent data available, and 4064 were from pneumonia or influenza.
Last month, Nelson Marlborough Health chief medical officer and pediatrician Dr Nick Baker said the flu season in Europe and the US had been as bad as the 2009 swine flu pandemic, during which 49 people in New Zealand died after contracting the A(H1N1) virus.
"It really puts pressure on emergency departments, intensive care units and in wards, with lots and lots of patients in corridors," Baker said.
Figures comparing the recent northern hemisphere influenza season with the 2009 pandemic showed there could be three times as many flu cases this year compared with the last season, in terms of admissions to hospital, he said.
People can get their flu shot for free if they're at high risk of getting influenza, including those aged 65 and older, pregnant women, and people with chronic or serious health conditions, such as heart disease, cancer or severe asthma.
Learn more about the information shown above, and explore more charts, at Figure.NZ's site.
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You mean fuck the sheep?the sheep in NZ are not infected at all.... maybe the key to a vaccine is in them
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