http://nzresearch.org.nz Kiwi Research Information Service Kiwi Research Information Service http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/61005?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10652%2F1460 Crawford, Richard James In an age of expanding educational accountability driven by pressures to lift student achievement the role of Data Driven Decision Making (DDDM) within schools has escalated. In a New Zealand context the 2001 Education Standards Act signalled an expectation that schools were required to make greater use of data in their reporting and planning is an indication of this. Within this environment,... oai:unitec.researchbank.ac.nz:10652/1460 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60999?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2521 Pickett, Rachel Cara A palaeolimnological study was carried out on a high-resolution, 7.62 m-long core (RU188-07) from northern Lake Rotorua, North Island. The core consists predominantly of olive diatomaceous ooze, laminated in places, and contains five tephras including Tarawera (1886 A.D.), Kaharoa (c. 1314 A.D.), Taupo (c. 233 A.D.) and Whakatane (c. 5500 cal. years B.P.). The core terminated in Whakatane... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2521 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60138?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4322 Pearson, L.K.; Hendy, C.H.; Hamilton, David P.; Pickett, Rachel Cara Global atmospheric sources of lead have increased more than 100-fold over the past century as a result of deforestation, coal combustion, ore smelting and leaded petroleum. Lead compounds generally accumulate in depositional areas across the globe where, due to low solubility and relative freedom from microbial degradation, the history of their inputs is preserved. In lakes there is rapid... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4322 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60993?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F132 Henderson, William; Oliver, Allen G.; Nicholson, Brian K. The reaction of cis-[PtCl₂(PPh₃)₂] with one equivalent of N-cyanoacetylurethane, EtO₂CNHC(O)CH₂CN and silver(I) oxide, in dichloromethane at room temperature for short reaction times gives the complex cis-[PtCl{N(CO₂Et)C(O)CH₂CN}(PPh₃)₂] in high yield. This complex is an intermediate to the previously reported platinalactam complex [Pt{N(CO₂Et)C(O)CHCN}(PPh₃)₂]. The new... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/132 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60995?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2186 Henderson, William; Nicholson, Brian K.; Hor, T.S. Andy Suspension of [Pt₂( -S)₂(PPh₃)₄] in lower alcohols results in recrystallisation, forming yellow to yellow-orange microcrystals of the solvates [Pt₂( -S)₂(PPh₃)₄]•nROH (R = Me, Et, nBu). The di-ethanol solvate was characterised by means of a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study and 1H NMR spectroscopy. The structure consists of an ethanol molecule hydrogen-bonded in an... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2186 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60994?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F138 Henderson, William; Nicholson, Brian K. One-pot reactions of [MCl₂(cod)] (cod=cyclo-octa-1,5-diene; M=Pt, Pd) with two equiv of PPh₃ or AsPh₃, one equiv of thiosalicylic acid, and an excess of triethylamine base, followed by the addition of excess Na[BPh₄] to the hot reaction mixture gives complexes [(Ph₃E)₂M(SC₆H₄CO₂) HNEt₃]⁺[BPh4]⁻ (E=P, As). Analogous pyridinium and platinum–thioglycolate... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/138 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/61004?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4554 Cheesman, Sue Tempo Festival of Dance this year featured many shorter works in shared programme formats. The venue, TAPAC, acted as an ambient hub for this festival. oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4554 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/61003?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4553 Pratt, Douglas This article reviews the book “What I believe”, edited by Tariq Ramadan. oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4553 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/61002?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4552 Pratt, Douglas This article reviews the book “Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations”, edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samin Akgonul, Ahmeht Alibasic, Brigitte Marechal, and Christian Moe, Leiden, Brill, 2009, viii + 562 pp., E159.00/US$225.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-04-17505-1 oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4552 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60998?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2805 Mudge, Paul Lawrence Soil carbon (C) is important because even small changes in soil C can affect atmospheric concentrations of CO₂, which in turn can influence global climate. Adequate soil carbon is also required to maintain soil quality, which is important to if agricultural production is to be sustained. The soil carbon balance of New Zealand's pastoral soils is poorly understood, with recent research... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2805 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60990?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F444 Longhurst, Robyn The recent growth in critical geography suggests this may be a ‘critical’ time for raising issues about the intersections between feminist and critical geography. This is not the first time these issues have been aired. For example, the Women and Geography Study Group (1997: 49–85) questions whether feminist geographers ought always to accord primacy to gender as the central analytical... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/444 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60992?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F446 Longhurst, Robyn; Johnston, Lynda 'Place matters' in the production of knowledge. This article examines the production of feminist geographical knowledge at a particular place - the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato. Feminist geography at Waikato represents a nexus of international, national, regional, and local politics. It represents the efforts, personalities,... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/446 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60991?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F432 Longhurst, Robyn The article examines the ways in which pregnant women in the West use clothing as a means of constructing a range of complex and seemingly contradictory gendered subjectivities in public spaces. The article draws on interview data collected from 19 first-time pregnant women in Hamilton, New Zealand. These women were asked about maternity wear, body image, fashion, activities they had continued,... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/432 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60997?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2780 Johnson, Katie Andrea Elizabeth I have enjoyed this year, writing pieces that are special to me because they relate to experiences during 2008. I've written for orchestra, choir and an ensemble of xylophones and saxophone. Each piece has extended my skills and creativity in different ways from previous compositions. Prelude to the Unspoken This work is for symphony orchestra. Last year, it was rehearsed and recorded by... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2780 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60989?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1626 Weake, Vikki Marie Male Drosophila melanogaster double the transcription of most of the genes on their single X chromosome, to equal that from the two female X chromosomes, in a process termed dosage compensation. This process is mediated by the MSL complex, consisting of both protein and non-coding RNA components. This complex is only active in males due to the presence of MSL2, which is not translated in... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1626 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60988?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1625 Wang, Cynthia Dewi We propose an improved technique to calculate the linear response of a single and multiple plates models due to ocean waves. The single plate model is the basis for the multiple plates model which we take to be a periodic array of identical plates. For the single plate model we solve the plate displacement by the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the water potential by the Boundary Element Method... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1625 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60987?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1624 Sanders, Jacqueline Ruth This thesis presents an ethnographic account of everyday life for eighteen healthy and safe, small town, Aotearoa/New Zealand children aged between ten and eleven years. It undertakes a social constructionist analysis of five domains of the children's lives; self and identity, their relationships with each other, their relationships with adults, time and space, and safety and risk. These... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1624 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60986?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1623 Nyamori, Robert Ochoki This study seeks to illuminate how markets and private sector managerial practices, especially strategic performance measurement systems (SPMS) have come to be a central part of the government of the local domain and with what effects, following far-reaching reforms to the New Zealand public sector commencing in the mid 1980s. The study uses Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality to... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1623 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60996?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2623 Lee, Matthew Colin John A bondingness term is further developed to aid in heat of formation (ΔfHº) calculations for C, N, O and S containing molecules. Bondingness originated from qualitative investigations into the antibonding effect in the occupied MOs of ethane. Previous work used a single parameter for bondingness to calculate ΔfHº in an alkane homologous series using an additivity scheme. This work modifies... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2623 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/61000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4550 Bright, Deborah Ann This thesis explores some of the many elements and influences of lived experience that are present in acts of art-making. Reflective practice in art-making adds the intentional and purposive act of reflective learning to the experience of art-making. In an academic context the challenge arises for a researcher to adequately represent the breadth and richness of the lived experiences of... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4550 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/61001?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4551 Gillespie, Lorna The release of The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) will inevitably yield challenges and possibilities for teachers of Physical Education in both primary and secondary schools. In this paper I describe the vision and key competencies embedded in this new curriculum and discuss their relationship to Physical Education. Drawing on the voices of secondary school students, I interrogate the... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4551 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60984?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4549 White, Elizabeth Jayne Dialogic research, building on the dialogic philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin, is fundamentally concerned with the social, discursive nature of language. This article describes an application of dialogic research methods in a pilot study conducted in an Education and Care setting in Wellington, New Zealand focusing on an 18-month-old toddler and his teacher. The purpose of this exploratory study... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4549 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60910?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4520 Isler, Robert B.; Starkey, Nicola J. This study used a video-based braking simulation dual task to carry out a preliminary evaluation of the effect of a sudden brake warning system (SBWS) in a leading passenger vehicle on the response time of the following driver. The primary task required the participants (N = 25, 16 females, full NZ license holders) to respond to sudden braking manoeuvres of a lead vehicle during day and night... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4520 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60970?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1622 Mutsaers, Lilian This thesis examines unsewn cloth pieces which once belonged to Victoria Wood and places them into their social and historical context. It uses the biography of Victoria Wood and her fabrics to argue for the importance of fabric collecting and dressmaking for New Zealand women from 1935 to 1955. It questions why ubiquitous fabrics bought for dress making are not represented in historical... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1622 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60983?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4548 Brown, Mike Experiential approaches to learning underpin teaching and learning strategies in outdoor adventure education (OAE). Recent critiques of experiential learning have problematised the individualistic and overly cognitive focus of this approach which creates binaries between experience-reflection and the learner-situation. This paper summarises these critiques and investigates the possibilities... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4548 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60982?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4547 Rajan, Anila; Nair, Giridhar R. Peanut α-galactosidase was immobilised in calcium alginate beads and used to hydrolyse the flatulence-causing oligosaccharides, raffinose and stachyose, in soya milk in batch and in packed bed reactor with recycle. The immobilised enzyme exhibited a slightly lower activity than the free enzyme. The activity yield of immobilised -galactosidase was 75.1% and the immobilisation yield was 82.6%.... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4547 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60080?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4318 Zhao, SongXin The particle gun method and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling was used to study stickiness and deposition mechanisms of skim milk powder in an impingement jet hitting a stainless steel plate. The particular focus was on the effect of jet velocity and particle size distribution on deposition. Low jet velocities of 10.3, 14.8 and 19.4 m/s were studied at fine particle size levels of... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4318 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60527?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4434 Lima, Ismar Borges de This social science, interdisciplinary research deals with 'competing discourses' and 'collaboration'. The thesis examines issues of power in (eco)tourism development as manifested in the discursive construction and positionality of local stakeholders. It then inquires whether collaborative schemes can bridge the various interest groups dealing with nature tourism activities... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4434 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60981?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4546 Atkins, Martin; Morrison, Andrew; Walmsley, Michael R.W.; Riley, Joseph A multi-ply paper machine process model was developed using WinGEMS and the stream data produced was used to conduct a pinch analysis. The product stream was excluded from the analysis and the composite curves display the enthalpy contained only in the inputs and outputs to the various sections of the paper machine. The pinch point for the overall paper machine was 55.9 C while the minimum hot... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4546 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60980?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4545 Pratt, Douglas Since the epoch-making Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) the engagement of the Roman Catholic Church in interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations has developed and expanded. Other faiths, hitherto the object of missionary outreach for proselytising purposes, have been re-appraised as valued partners in dialogue. Islam, once regarded as the hostile 'other' to be held at bay,... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4545 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60702?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F5945 Kenny, Jill A. (Jill Antoinette) The area mapped comprises 180 km2 of rolling hill country between Waitahaia and Ihungia, 70 km north of Gisborne, in the extreme northeast of the North Island of New Zealand. The region is within Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of the northern part of the northeast-trending East Coast Deformed Belt. Six formations and one group (containing seven lithofacies) have been recognised. Mokoiwi... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/5945 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59690?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F5873 Henrys, S.(Stuart) The structure of the Broadlands-Ohaaki hot water geothermal field has been studied by analysis of seismic and gravity data. The 1984 seismic survey provided 26 km of multifold (12-fold) reflection data and refraction data (up to 1 km) along 6 profiles in the vicinity of the geothermal field. Test data were acquired along 2 profiles of 1 km length and included a walk-away noise spread. An... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/5873 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60971?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10523%2F389 McKelvey, Kelly Joanne B-lymphocytes have been implicated as key mediators of inflammation and autoimmune disease. However, the mechanisms involved have yet to be fully elucidated. What is known is summarised in Chapter 1. The overall aim of the work reported in this thesis was to identify and expand the current knowledge of genes and molecular pathways involving B-lymphocytes in inflammation using Rheumatoid... oai:ourarchive.otago.ac.nz:10523/389 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60969?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1621 Nash, William Content removed due to copyright restriction: Nash, W., Pinder, D.N., Hemar, Y., Singh, H. Dynamic light scattering investigation of sodium caseinate and xanthan mixtures (2002) International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 30 (5), pp. 269-271. Pinder, D.N., Nash, W., Hemar, Y., Singh, H. Dynamic light scattering investigation of guar/dextran mixtures in aqueous solutions (2003) Food... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1621 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60968?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1620 Moretto, Giovanna Lucia Since their discovery in the late 1970s conducting polymers have become increasingly used materials in many applications. They are utilised for their conductivity and/or their electroactive properties. These applications include sensor technologies, actuators, and battery materials. The properties of conducting polymers rely on the extent of the reduction / oxidation or redox state, and hence... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1620 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60967?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1619 Lunt, Neil T. The substantive task of the thesis is to explore a dimension of social change - the emergence of social science research within New Zealand by 1984. The thesis begins by asking questions about the status of any account - as description, understanding, or explanation. In the first instance, these questions are discussed within positivist and anti-positivist traditions. Following on from these,... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1619 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60973?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2172 Mayo, Michael; Zhang, Edmond A novel method of face gender classifier construction is proposed and evaluated. Previously, researchers have assumed that a computationally expensive face alignment step (in which the face image is transformed so that facial landmarks such as the eyes, nose, chin, etc, are in uniform locations in the image) is required in order to maximize the accuracy of predictions on new face images. We,... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2172 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60975?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2854 Zhang, Edmond; Mayo, Michael Many state-of-the-art object recognition systems rely on identifying the location of objects in images, in order to better learn its visual attributes. In this paper, we propose four simple yet powerful hybrid ROI detection methods (combining both local and global features), based on frequently occurring keypoints. We show that our methods demonstrate competitive performance in two different... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2854 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60978?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4544 Zhang, Edmond; Mayo, Michael This paper presents a new model for capturing spatial information for object categorization with bag-of-words (BOW). BOW models have recently become popular for the task of object recognition, owing to their good performance and simplicity. Much work has been proposed over the years to improve the BOW model, where the Spatial Pyramid Matching (SPM) technique is the most notable. We propose a... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4544 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60972?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2170 Mayo, Michael; Zhang, Edmond A novel algorithm for 3D face recognition based point cloud rotations, multiple projections, and voted keypoint matching is proposed and evaluated. The basic idea is to rotate each 3D point cloud representing an individual’s face around the x, y or z axes, iteratively projecting the 3D points onto multiple 2.5D images at each step of the rotation. Labelled keypoints are then extracted from... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2170 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60979?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4543 Schofield, L.R.; Neal, T.L.; Patchett, M.L.; Strange, R.C.; Daniel, Roy M.; Morgan, H.W. The use of heat treatment to purify enzymes by selective denaturation and then by the subsequent precipitation of denatured protein is a simple, rapid, and well established procedure. Successful applications are limited to those few enzymes that possess a thermostability considerably higher than the majority of cell proteins. The introduction of thermostable enzymes into the protein population... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4543 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60977?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4542 Hudson, J. Andrew; Daniel, Roy M.; Morgan, Hugh W. A bacterium capable of growth from 59 to 72° C was isolated from geothermal soil collected from Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica. The isolate was enriched in medium containing thiosulphate and bicarbonate. Subsequently the organism was found also to be capable of heterotrophic growth and autotrophic growth in the presence of hydrogen and carbon dioxide. In a comparison with Bacillus... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4542 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60976?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F3282 Hempstalk, Kathryn A keyboard is a simple input device. Its function is to send keystroke information to the computer (or other device) to which it is attached. Normally this information is employed solely to produce text, but it can also be utilized as part of an authentication system. Typist verification exploits a typist's patterns to check whether they are who they say they are, even after standard... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/3282 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60974?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2533 Webber, Simon This thesis was designed to investigate the effect of task complexity upon how humans estimate duration. Previous task complexity research suggests that duration is overestimated with simple tasks and underestimated with complex tasks. One-hundred and forty-two first and second year university students participated. Twelve experiments were conducted, which required participants to complete... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2533 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60966?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1618 Richardson, Jane M; Fuller, Ian C The Rangitikei River, a large gravel‐bed wandering river located in the North Island of New Zealand, has outstanding scenic characteristics, recreational, fisheries and wildlife habitat features. Recently concerns have been raised over the potential negative impact that perceived channel changes in the latter part of the 20th century may be having on the Rangitikei River recreational fishery.... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1618 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60985?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10063%2F1358 Cresko, Hilary Misha Sex ratio imbalances in wild bird populations have been a challenge for wildlife managers for decades. Differences between sexes during natal dispersal has long been thought to promote sex ratio imbalances. Natal dispersal distances may differ between sexes because of competition for food and space, or intrasexual competition and aggression. I investigated natal dispersal and intrasexual... oai:researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz:10063/1358 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60949?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4527 Patel, B.K.C.; Morgan, H.W.; Daniel, Roy M. A new species of extremely thermophilic, glycolytic anaerobic bacterium, Fervidobacterium nodosum isolated from a New Zealand hot spring, is described. Fervidobacterium nodosum strains were Gram-negative, motile, non-sporulating obligately anaerobic rods that existed singly, in pairs or in chains. Electron micrographs of thin sections revealed a two-layered cell wall structure. The outer layer... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4527 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60963?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4541 Hudson, J. Andrew; Daniel, Roy M. Soil samples with temperatures up to 64°C were collected from Mount Erebus, an active volcano located on Ross Island, Antarctica. Acridine orange direct counts and most probable number counts of soil samples stored at 4°C for 2 months showed a wide variation in the number of thermophilic microorganisms in different soils. Organisms similar to Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum, Bacillus... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4541 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60962?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4540 Jones, Colin W.; Morgan, Hugh W.; Hugh W., Roy M. Thirteen strains of Thermus isolated from New Zealand hot pools were screened for their ability to grow on minimal or near-minimal media and to exhibit extracellular protease activity. Environmental regulation of protease production by one such strain, Thermus Ok6, was investigated in detail. Protease activity was maximally derepressed during growth under conditions which lead to energy... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4540 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60961?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F4539 Hudson, J.A.; Morgan, H.W.; Daniel, Roy M. In a preliminary investigation the isolation of a caldoactive filamentous microorganism from a New Zealand hot spring was reported. This organism is described here as a new species belonging to the genus Thermus, namely, Thermus filiformis, based on ultrastructural, phenotypic, and anomalous Gram type characteristics. The cell wall of T. filiformis resembles that of Thermus aquaticus apart from... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/4539