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1999 heralds the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Indigenous Peoples. A number of issues will be highlighted throughout the decade and new opportunities will emerge. In recent years both Australia and New Zealand have witnessed a rebirth of interest in indigenous issues. One of the more complex issues that has emerged has been that of cultural and intellectual property rights.... [Journal Article]

This paper focuses on the reasons why information literacy is a concept that has yet to make an impact on Maori. Although Maori participation as librarians and library users has increased dramatically over the last decade there are still a range of barriers that continue to inhibit access to library and information services for Maori. The relevance of these barriers to the 'information... [Journal Article]

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This paper looks at the relationship between education for librarianship, professional development and leadership training. [Journal Article]

The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of firstly how we recruit Maori to our profession, train them in the range of skills required to be successful and lastly how to stop them leaving the profession. The preparation of this paper has been assisted through an informal email survey of Te Ropu Whakahau members. Comments from the survey are used throughout the presentation to... [Journal Article]

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As the largest provider of university education to Maori, Massey was challenged in 2003 by the newly appointed Assistant Vice Chancellor (Maori), Professor Mason Durie to become a university where Maori language and culture flourishes, aplace where Maori students are likely, a university where Maori will obtain relevant higher degrees, a university which has the teaching and research capacity... [Journal Article]

As part of a staff-development initiative the Library staff decided to develop a customer services commitment.Jo Heslop from Impact Training facilitated a one-day workshop in January 1998, which all Library staff attended.Using a customer services document developed by a United States tertiary library, Manawatu Polytechnic Library staff (as we were then) wrote a customer services standards... [Journal Article]

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Discourse, as Fairclough, Graham, Lemke, and Wodak (2004) noted in the introduction to their new journal, Critical Discourse Studies, is now well established as a category in social sciences. And yet, as they also note, we find significant differences as to what discourse and discourse analysis refer. These differences are, they argue, because of different theoretical, academic, and cultural... [Journal Article]

To overcome the directional properties of a planar meander-type sensor, a new planar micromagetic sensor having mesh-type configuration is reported in this paper. Analytical models are usually used for the characterization of the planar-type sensors. Sensors having mesh-type configuration have been fabricated for the derivation of the optimum coil pitch. [Journal Article]

Accurate gene prediction in eukaryotes is a difficult and subtle problem. Here we point out a useful feature of expected distributions of spliceosomal intron lengths. Since introns are removed from transcripts prior to translation, intron lengths are not expected to respect coding frame, thus the number of genomic introns that are a multiple of three bases (‘3n introns’) should be similar... [Journal Article]

Joint acceleration and velocity feedbacks are incorporated into a classical internal force control of a robot in contact with the environment. This is intended to achieve a robust contact transition and force tracking performance for varying unknown environments, without any need of adjusting the controller parameters, A unified control structure is proposed for free motion, contact transition,... [Journal Article]

Ambrym is an active volcanic island with 2 major vent complexes; Marum and Benbow. These vent complexes are continuously active over at least the past two thousands of years. These active vents either produce constant degassing during quite periods or sub-Plinian to Vulcanian explosive eruptions commonly influenced by magma-water interaction triggered phreatomagmatic explosive phases. The... [Journal Article]

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In the last decades low-field magnetic susceptibility measurements have become an increasingly attractive method for geological studies which use the scalar values (bulk susceptibility) as well as the directional information, the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS). Because of the potential for detecting weak fabric anisotropies, AMS has become a routine method for assessing flow... [Journal Article]

The microwave power dependence of high quality Tl(Ba, Sr)(2)Ca2Cu3Oy thin films grown on 1" diameter LSAT substrates using the Amorphous Phase Epitaxy method has been investigated in this paper. We have performed surface resistance (R-S) measurements of Tl-1223 thin films on LSAT using the Hakki-Coleman sapphire dielectric resonator technique in the temperature range 15-94 K. High accuracy... [Journal Article]

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There are many ways in which music and the management of work, space, time, bodies and feelings are linked and there is a small but rich tradition of academic research that has attempted to explore these connections. This special issue aims to contribute to this work. Our introduction identifies existing work, introduces the three articles that make up the substantive contribution of this... [Journal Article]

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Miocene rhyolitic shallow intrusions, cryptodomes and domes emplaced into soft, wet sediment in shallow subaqueous environment form a large intrusive complex in the NE side of the Tokaj Mts. at Pálháza in NE-Hungary. The intrusive complex show interaction textures with the host sediment where blocky peperites formed in a dm-scale, however, irregular contacts closely resembling globular... [Journal Article]

This essay offer a critical review of form of class analysis presented in the works of the economic geographer Richard Florida. In it we use the example of the sale of the New Zealand internet auction site Trade Me to the Australian media group Fairfax to illuminate some of the problematic features of Florida's work. [Journal Article]

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In this study the growth stubstrate of the plants Brassica juncea, Berkheya coddii and chicory were amended with thiocyanate and cyanide solutions to induce uptake and the gold concentrations in the different organs determined. Both species showed maximum uptake with cyanide amendment although thiocyanate also induced hyperaccumulation. Gold concentrations ranged from negligible in the leaves... [Journal Article]