This article examines masculinities in relation to the New Zealand police force Community Policing Pilot Program in Timor-Leste (East Timor). We find that despite calls for less militarized, more community-centered approaches to security sector reform, various forms of militarized masculinities persisted within the culture of the New Zealand Police during its international mission. In doing so, we not only complicate singular representations of militarized masculinity, but also challenge accounts that see masculinity as a monolithic negative, violent construct that is engaged with in only problematic ways.---
Preproduction and current models of the miniature Wright peak flow meter have been compared with the standard Wright peak flow meter on normal and abnormal subjects. Early problems in production appear to have been overcome, and the current model agrees to within 3 % with the standard peak flow meter, which is as close as the agreement between two standard instruments. The new mini-meter may be enclosed in a case, making direct comparisons with other instruments possible.A new miniature Wright peak flow meter (minimeter) has been designed to meet the need for a simple, lightweight, inexpensive instrument for clinical use, particularly for self-monitoring by patients (Wright, 1978). The aim of this study was to compare its performance with that of the standard Wright peak flow meter (PFM) (Wright and McKerrow, 1959).
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TESTING OF EARLY MODELSThe first mini-meters to be tested were preproduction models in 1976, which were compared with a standard PFM by asking subjects to blow into each instrument. Figure 1 shows the discrepancy between the mini-meter and the PFM, and changes to the scale were recommended to correct this. After the scale had been modified the instrument went into production, and two batches of the production models were tested in 1977 and early 1978. Unfortunately, despite the modified scale, the discrepancy between the minimeter and PFM still existed. This was also observed by Perks et al (1979), whose results agreed very closely with the data shown in fig 1. The manufacturers then discovered a fault in the tension spring, which they subsequently corrected, and the model with modified scale and spring is now in production.
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