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This article explains the issue of business networking for foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in China from various perspectives (including cultural, political, economic, and marketing perspectives). The article seeks to provide a basic platform for comparing business network development with corruption to clearly differentiate between these two concepts. The article clarifies... [Journal Article]

The focus of this article is to use institutional theory to provide a better understanding of environmental issues facing New Zealand wineries. Findings from a survey of New Zealand wineries indicate that institutional pressures do not fully explain the adoption of sustainable environmental practices in the New Zealand wine industry. The authors found that firms with a higher commitment to... [Journal Article]

This research examined seasonal patterns of growth and development of lucerne crops grown with different levels of crown and taproot reserves in a cool temperate environment. The approach required derivation of explanatory mathematical relationships between crop physiological processes and the main environmental variables of temperature, photoperiod and incoming radiation. To create crops with... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Despite a large number of experimental investigations, it remains difficult to predict, or even interpret, changes in soil structure under different cropping systems. The principal objective of this investigation was to devise and test a conceptual model which could provide a framework for the design and interpretation of experiments concerning the effects of cropping systems on soil structure.... [Thesis or Dissertation]

A method for the extraction of organic phosphate (Po) from soils was developed and used for the examination of samples from two chronosequences of soils. The total Po content of each soil from the Manawatu and Franz Josef chronosequences was obtained and the results compared with those obtained by the ignition method and some other extraction procedures. The danger of hydrolysis of Po to... [Thesis or Dissertation]

In order to ensure that strains of rhizobia that are efficient nitrogen fixers nodulate cultivated legumes in the field, it is important to be able to identify those that can compete effectively with indigenous strains in the fonnation of nodules. To this end, experiments have been conducted to investigate whether the timing of infection of legume plants by rhizobia is related to the ability of... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Purpose – This paper aims to extend the literature on public sector reforms in less-developed countries in the Pacific. It seeks to examine the roles of accounting and control systems in the reforming of two public sector organisations in Fiji: a process that was demanded by international financial agencies. The impacts of the reforms on the local population are also considered.... [Journal Article]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of empowerment practices within the disability support service (DSS) sector in New Zealand. The DSS framework is designed as part of the public sector reform process to promote empowerment for people with disabilities so that they can lead independent lives in their communities. Design/methodology/approach – Taking a... [Journal Article]

This thesis describes the design and construction of four synthetic antimicrobial genes, their assembly into binary vectors and the subsequent Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Resulting plants were analysed at the molecular level for expression of the antimicrobial genes, and bioassays were performed to determine whether the synthetic genes conferred a... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Aspects of the seedling physiology of Pinus radiata D. Don, and and Pinus mugo Turra, have been studied following periods in cool storage of up to 18 weeks. Prior to storage the seedlings were subject to different treatments of nurserybed wrenching and date of lifting. Storage caused a marked reduction in the rate of photosynthesis, the level of carbohydrate resources and the capacity for... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The literature is replete with studies about the importance of context in relation to teaching and learning. Major international studies such as PISA, among others, attempt to develop an understanding of achievement in science learning in a variety of educational contexts. Here we explore the influence of educational context itself on science learning as measured by PISA. Comparison is made... [Journal Article]

From the advent of association rule mining, it has become one of the most researched areas of data exploration schemes. In recent years, implementing association rule mining methods in extracting rules from a continuous flow of voluminous data, known as Data Stream has generated immense interest due to its emerging applications such as network-traffic analysis, sensor-network data analysis. For... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This study investigated understorey management in Canterbury, New Zealand, apple orchards for the enhancement of populations of Dolichogenidea tasmanica (Cameron) (Braconidae) for leafroller (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) biological control. The first objective was to determine the influence of understorey plants on the abundance of D. tasmanica and leafroller parasitism, and to investigate the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The response of autumn and spring sown crops of Vicia faba cv. 'Maris Bead' to irrigation applied during the vegetative, flowering and pod-filling phases was investigated during the 1981/82 and 1982/83 seasons on a Templeton silt-loam soil in Canterbury. During any phase trickle irrigation was applied weekly in amounts equal to the difference between the estimated potential... [Thesis or Dissertation]

In organic farming systems continued application of phosphorus (P) is necessary to maintain crop and animal production, especially in the long-term, if economically viable returns are to be sustained. The most commonly adopted organic farming systems permit the use of sparingly soluble P fertiliser such as phosphate rock (PR). One possible strategy for improving the availability and utilisation... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This study consisted of two sheep grazed dryland pasture experiments. Experiment l compared sheep production from 3-year-old cocksfoot based pastures grown in combination with white, Caucasian, subterranean or balansa clover with a ryegrass-white clover pasture and a pure lucerne forage. Sheep liveweight gain per head from each pasture treatment and the pure lucerne stand was recorded in the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Dense subsoil layers in some Canterbury soils often provide mechanical resistance sufficient to prevent root growth into subsoil layers. This can increase crop susceptibility to drought stress, resulting in a reduction in yield potential. It was hypothesised that loosening the subsoil would increase root distribution at depth, and hence increase transpiration by the crop. Provided transpiration... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Interest in sweet lupins as a possible source of high quality protein prompted the studies reported in this thesis. At the time of the inception of these studies several scientific groups in Australia and New Zealand were proceeding with agronomic evaluations of several lupin species, but sowing rates had not been defined. In Canterbury lupins grown for seed have been autumn-sown but with the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

In general, contemporary data indicate that workaholism represents a value system about the importance of working and achieving that certainly does not meet the scientific criteria for addiction, as it is associated with a similar quality of health and relationships to that of the rest of the adult population, and generally does not worsen over time (McMilIan and O'Driscoll, 2004)....This article has been published in the book: Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction. © 2006 Ronald J. Burke. Used with permission. This material is for personal use only. [Book Item]

This project is an exploration, through art making processes, of a relationship between the interpretation of symbols and the interpretation of everyday life experiences, with a view to evolving a metaphorical visual language that might translate these experiences. Individuation is a process within Jungian psychology that relates the interpretation of symbols to the interpretation of life... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Obesity is becoming a worldwide concern, with more than 300 million individuals who are obese and a further 750 million who are overweight. This increase is important as obesity has been linked to an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes mellitus, stroke and some cancers. One factor receiving increasing attention to explain variation in obesity prevalence is the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Rock and debris avalanches result from sudden rock slope failure; they occur in a variety of materials and landscapes, and often have a catastrophic and lasting impact on the society, infrastructure, and landscape of the area. In order to fully understand these events, the factors leading to failure and those influencing the course of the event must be investigated. In recent years, increased... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The purpose of this PhD thesis is to make a contribution to existing knowledge in the field of critical accounting by studying credit mechanisms and their link to income/wealth inequality in Sri Lankan society and the role of accounting technology in facilitating such mechanisms. The literature review revealed that: a) Global inequality is aggravated by the disparity of economic development... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how a major public benefit entity in New Zealand uses formal accountability mechanisms and informal reporting to justify its existence. The paper is premised on the view that the accountability relationship for public benefit entities is broader and more complex than the traditional shareholder-manager relationship in the private sector.... [Journal Article]

Purpose – In light of the low-union density and a huge representation gap in the US representation system. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of the system under majority rule and to provide some empirical evidence on how much union membership would increase in the USA if a policy of non-exclusive representation, as adopted in New Zealand, are to be implemented.... [Journal Article]

There have been some news releases claiming that Professor Henle in Germany has found the chemical identity of UMF, and that in future chemical analysis will be used instead of assays of antibacterial activity to indicate the level of UMF in manuka honey. Both of these claims are misleading. Because the level of active substance in manuka honey is an unreliable indication of the level of... [Journal Article]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the inheritance of yield per plant and yield components, their responses to single plant selection in F₂, and line selection in F₃ of the two crosses, Hilgendorf x Oroua and Kopara x Oroua. Parents, F₁, F₂ and first generation backcrosses grown in spaced planting were used in the inheritance studies. Scaling tests (Mather and Jinks, 1971),... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Grain legumes have the potential to be high yielding crops in Canterbury. However, like most grain legumes the problem of harvest index (HI) variability in Cicer arietinum, Lens culinaris, Lupinus angustifolius and Pisum sativum hinders the realisation of their full potential yield. In 1998/99, the four species were sown at four populations, viz. lentils cv. Rajah (15, 150, 300 and 600 plants... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Whole document restricted until 03/2011, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.Purpose: To ascertain the quality of life (QOL) in an adolescent population with a high prevalence of obesity, compare findings to previous research, and investigate psychosocial factors that may account for differences in results by use of psychological theory. Rationale: A landmark article by Schwimmer et al. (2003) found that the QOL of severely obese children and adolescents was similar... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This project attempts to translate my experience of the everyday street for the viewer; to reveal my experience of walking and looking through drawing. The everyday is an elusive and slippery subject that has been used for various and sometimes radical agendas by many writers and artists in the last two centuries. It is seen as having potential for finding the authenticity that is lacking in... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Over the past twenty years, increasing attention has been paid by researchers and organizations to the interface between people’s work and their family lives. In 1977, Rosabeth Kanter argued that the notion that work and life off the job are separate worlds is a ‘myth’. Since then there has been a growing volume to research on the interaction between job or work demands are experiences...This article has been published in the book: Research Companion to Organizational Health Psychology. © 2005 Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou and Cary L. Cooper. This material is for personal use only. [Book Item]

Recommender systems are increasingly being used in today’s world. Collaborative filtering, together with association rules mining are probably the most widely used methods to implement recommender systems. In this dissertation we undertake a review of past research conducted in the area of recommender systems with the focus being the use of association rule mining. We propose a novel... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This paper is concerned with an analysis of the differences in demand for meat, especially lamb and beef, between different regions in the United Kingdom. It represents an extension of earlier published work in which presented an analysis of the overall retail demand for meat in that country. It was shown that the quarterly retail demand for five types of meat (lamb and mutton, beef and veal,... [Book]

This thesis is about data mining in automotive warranty analysis, with an emphasis on modeling the mean cumulative warranty cost or number of claims (per vehicle). In our study, we deal with a type of truncation that is typical for automotive warranty data, where the warranty coverage and the resulting warranty data are limited by age and mileage. Age, as a function of time, is known for all...

The funding of civil society has become a key aspect of the governance agenda for international aid. This arises out of a number of theories linking civil society to better governance through the leveraging of social capital. These theories find their genesis in a distinctly liberal body of work that has drawn its findings from Western historical experience. In particular, the work of Robert...

This thesis is part of a small but growing literature on the activism of Christian Right 'pro-family' organisations from the United States (US) in international development politics. This thesis provides a detailed analysis of the texts of five globally active 'pro-family'organisations from 1997 until the end of 2008. One of the major findings is that the...

This research will add to the international body of knowledge around safe active transport and its benefits for individuals and their communities. In order to achieve this, the report begins with a brief description of the risks associated with active transport, 3 and considers why active transport to school should be encouraged, despite the risks. Our dependence on cars is discussed in...© 2010 Maxine Campbell, Kylie Fisher [Report]

While the numbers of accidents are not high, there is little doubt that driveway runovers are an ongoing, often fatal and inevitably avoidable tragedy for children and their families. In many cases the driver is an immediate family member, or a neighbour or friend, which serves to compound the tragedy. This type of accident is, like other unintentional child injuries, preventable. The...© 2010 John Hunter, Hayley Mills Poulgrain and Maxine Campbell [Report]

This thesis advances wearable outdoor augmented reality (WOAR) research by proposing novel visualisations, by consolidating previous work, and through several formal user studies. Wearable outdoor augmented reality combines augmented reality (AR) and wearable computing to enable novel applications. AR allows the user to perceive virtual objects as part of their real environment. Using wearable... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Macroalgae are a dominant feature of many rocky intertidal habitats worldwide. An understanding of the processes affecting their growth and survival, especially at early life history stages, is therefore important to an understanding of the structure of rocky intertidal communities. This thesis examines the role that the sediment environment has on habitat-dominating fucoid algae and intertidal... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This paper will describe how road marking can be used to influence driver behaviour in order to improve road safety and traffic flows. Extensive use will be made of examples from recent research undertaken by the authors on overtaking lane design, speed change management, managing speed around curves and improving the safety of high risk sections of roads. This research included both on-road... [Conference Item]

A literature review undertaken for Transit NZ has found that delineation has a significant effect on driver behaviour with, for example, shoulder rumble strips reducing run-off-theroad crashes by between 22% and 80% (average of 32% for all crashes and 44% for fatal run-of-the-road crashes). The concern that enhancing roadway delineation may sometimes be accompanied by an unwanted increase in...This article has been presented at The New Zealand Roadmarkers Federation Conference, Roadmarking Industry Association of Australia, Christchurch, 17-19 August, 2005. Used with permission [Conference Item]

The authors document several striking general geographic patterns in the performance of national brands using a large longitudinal scanner database that spans many consumer packaged goods categories and U.S. regional markets. Across markets, they observe that for a typical national brand, the geographic variation in market shares, perceived quality levels, and local dominance is so large that... [Journal Article]

Personal passenger transport faces several challenges in the coming decades: depletion of cheap oil reserves, increasing congestion, localised pollution, the need for reduced carbon emissions and the long term goal of sustainability. One way of solving some of these problems could be to introduce comfortable, energy efficient, battery electric vehicles. Currently, hybrid vehicles have been...This article has been published in Proceedings of the 3rd New Zealand Metals Industry Conference, Hamilton, 1-3 November, 2006. Used with Permission. [Conference Item]

The use of solar collectors with coloured absorbers for water heating is an area of particular interest when considering their integration with buildings. By matching the absorber colour with that of the roof or façade of the building, it is possible to achieve an architecturally and visually pleasing result. Despite the potential for the use of coloured absorbers very little work has been...This paper has been published in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE09), University of Hong Kong (CD), Hong Kong, 5-7 January, 2009. Used with Permission. [Conference Item]

Western Wright Valley, from Wright Upper Glacier to the western end of the Dais, can be divided into three broad geomorphic regions: the elevated Labyrinth, the narrow Dais which is connected to the Labyrinth, and the North and South forks which are bifurcated by the Dais. Soil associations of Typic Haplorthels/Haploturbels with ice-cemented permafrost at < 70cm are most common in each of...This article has been published in the journal: Antarctic Science. © Copyright Antarctic Science Ltd 2009. [Journal Article]

The rheological properties of the CMT gel were analysed. Data are presented to demonstrate that the gel is a non-homogenous, visco-elastic, non-Newtonian fluid with rheopectic, and rheodestructive behaviour. The fundamental chemistry of the CMT is reviewed and a modified theory of gel formation is presented. The implications of the rheological properties and modified theory of gel formation for...This article is published in the Journal of Dairy Research. Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 2005. [Journal Article]

Many regression schemes deliver a point estimate only, but often it is useful or even essential to quantify the uncertainty inherent in a prediction. If a conditional density estimate is available, then prediction intervals can be derived from it. In this paper we compare three techniques for computing conditional density estimates using a class probability estimator, where this estimator is...This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in Proceedings of First Asian Conference on Machine Learning, ACML 2009, Nanjing, China, November 2-4, 2009. ©2009 Springer. [Conference Item]

The effect of the environment (sowing dates and seasons), irrigation and inoculation on the growth, development and yield of pinto beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cv. Othello was investigated in two seasons on a Wakanui silt loam soil in Canterbury, New Zealand. In 1994/95, the pinto beans were sown on 27 October and 24 November under no and full irrigation and three inoculation treatments. In... [Thesis or Dissertation]

New Zealand’s isolation and periods of marine transgression have limited its biota to an extent which can be considered depauperate, even by island standards. Endemic vertebrates are rare and prominent invertebrate families, such as the renowned forest defoliators of the Lymantriidae, are absent. The proven vulnerability of the flora to introduced vertebrates reaffirms a belief in the... [Thesis or Dissertation]