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Background: Entrepreneurship potential amongst rural Nama youth should be considered a courageous idea to enhance the motivation and development of the community. At independence in 1990, Namibia developed its own economic and youth policies which were drafted in alignment with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which address concerns about the role rural young people, can play in their... [Thesis or Dissertation]

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© Larry Fenson 1993. Adapted, with permission, by Thomas Klee, Claire Marr, Elaine Robertson and Claire Harrison, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1999. Please do not copy or use without permission. [Working or Discussion Paper]

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Images and detailed descriptions of the postnatal maternal body have become more common in popular women's magazines than they have in the past. Although researchers generally accept that popular media's representations of the female body contribute to body image concerns among some women, there has been little research that has focused on the recent media constructions of the...

Ethnic status is one of the most protected demographic groups in terms of test bias and discrimination in personnel selection, as such bias breaches many laws, morals, and ethical procedures. To date there has only been two published studies that have used New Zealand relevant ethnic groups when analysing whether personality measures used in pre-employment settings exhibit different mean... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Students studying in university contexts often find learning to write English for academic purposes especially challenging. Some of the challenges reside in acquiring the necessary skills and strategies to be successful academic writers. A less tangible consideration which has received recent attention from first and second language writing researchers is the relationship between writing and...

A postal survey of parents was conducted at ‘around the time of their child’s third birthday’, consisting of a set of separate screening questionnaires and a further questionnaire about their child’s current or past language problems (hereafter, Parent report). Completion rate ranged from 90 – 98.8% across the five questionnaires. Five screening questionnaires were evaluated: (1)... [Journal Article]

A postal survey of parents was conducted at ‘around the time of their child’s third birthday’, consisting of a set of separate screening questionnaires and a further questionnaire about their child’s current or past language problems (hereafter, Parent report). Completion rate ranged from 90 – 98.8% across the five questionnaires. Five screening questionnaires were evaluated: (1)... [Journal Article]

It has been suggested 'expert systems' might have a significant role in the future through enabling many more people to access human experts. It is, therefore, important to understand how potential users interact with these computer systems. This study investigates the effect of extension agents' attitudes towards the features and use of an example expert system for rice disease... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The field of workplace communication continues to grow, and globalisation has encouraged researchers to focus on the phenomenon of intercultural interaction in multi-cultural workplaces. Usually, but not exclusively, framed within the constructs of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory, intercultural studies have typically concentrated on instances of miscommunication taking a partial,...

Benzylpiperazine (BZP) is a stimulant drug that produces effects similar to amphetamines (Campbell, Cline, Evans, Lloyd, & Peck, 1973). It has been sold legally in New Zealand in the form of 'party pills' since 2000. The legal status of BZP party pills has been debated in New Zealand as the media reported cases of apparent overdoses and adverse reactions leading to hospitalization...

Adger (2006) argues that morphosyntactic variability within the speech of an individual can be captured in an approach where competing variants have uninterpretable features that may be checked in the same syntactic context. The results of a written survey of 90 native speakers of English suggest that the distribution of pronoun case forms in coordinates (1)-(3) and other strong pronoun... [Conference Paper]

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This paper looks at the occurrence of possessive have and (have) got in the speech of New Zealanders born between 1857 and 1976. [Conference Item]

This paper looks at the occurrence of possessive have and (have) got in the speech of New Zealanders born between 1857 and 1976. [Conference Item]

This paper examines diachronic changes in the form-meaning mapping of English pronoun case forms. I propose that the increasing influence of surface position on pronoun case is a by-product of a shift in the licensing of arguments during the Middle English period, and I argue that the direction of the observed changes follows the predictions of the Blocking Principle. [Conference Paper]

This paper examines diachronic changes in the form-meaning mapping of English pronoun case forms. I propose that the increasing influence of surface position on pronoun case is a by-product of a shift in the licensing of arguments during the Middle English period, and I argue that the direction of the observed changes follows the predictions of the Blocking Principle. [Conference Paper]

Epistemic modals are used to convey judgments about the probability of an event (cf. Palmer 1990: 50f). In Present-Day New Zealand English, epistemic utterances that concern past events usually contain a ‘perfective’ have that follows the modal. However, especially in the speech of NZers born between the late 19th and mid-20th century, we also find utterances where no have is present, even... [Conference Paper]

Epistemic modals are used to convey judgments about the probability of an event (cf. Palmer 1990: 50f). In Present-Day New Zealand English, epistemic utterances that concern past events usually contain a ‘perfective’ have that follows the modal. However, especially in the speech of NZers born between the late 19th and mid-20th century, we also find utterances where no have is present, even... [Conference Paper]

Despite evidence to the contrary, policy makers, some researchers and many who provide health and social services to sex workers continue to reflect and reinforce the notion that sex workers are dysfunctional and constitute a threat to public health. This thesis presents the results of a study which explicitly examined how indoor sex workers look after their psychological wellbeing. Twelve... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune syndrome characterized by a severe and rapid onset of paralysis that ascends without warning. It has an unknown aetiology and is generally unknown by most people, including medical professionals. When a person who has had GBS is asked to speak about their experience, they are likely to talk about aspects of it that are personally meaningful. Their... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Resilience is a term of increasing prevalence in many aspects of society including the workplace. This thesis has sought to examine the relationship resilience has with coping, engagement, and life satisfaction. Data was collected via a survey that included standard measures for the variables of interest and two open-ended questions targeting sources of stress and sources of satisfaction.... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Morality, or what is considered right or wrong, varies seemingly across cultures. However, the literature shows that moral psychologists have mainly investigated moral reasoning assuming a universal morality. Cross-cultural psychologists in contrast have widely neglected moral issues such as prescriptive beliefs of what people ought to do in a culture, and have predominantly measured culture...