http://nzresearch.org.nz Kiwi Research Information Service Kiwi Research Information Service 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/60947?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1617 Hudson, H. Sheena This study concerns self initiated volunteer expatriation. Drawing on data from interviews and test results from a cohort of 48 New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers, it explored their experiences as overseas volunteer development workers. Most literature concerning expatriates focuses on the expatriate assignment of managers. By comparison volunteer development workers remain an... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1617 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60946?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1616 Godfrey, A. Jonathan R. Researchers are frequently faced with the problem of analyzing incomplete and often unbalanced genotype-by-environment (GxE) matrices which arise as a trials programme progresses over seasons. The principal data for this investigation, arising from a ten year programme of onion trials, has less than 2,300 of the 49,200 combinations from the 400 genotypes and 123 environments. This... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1616 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/59311?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10292%2F958 Thornton, Bernard Christopher Buchanan The work is situated in a literary and theoretical context by working with the concepts of authenticity and realism, and within that the story/world distinction. The literary context is examined in terms of realism, naturalism, and the novel of character or psychological novel. The associated research is then discussed. Finally, the novel’s societal context is analysed in terms of some... oai:http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz:10292/958 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60948?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10292%2F993 Mohd Hashim, Hishamuddin Negotiation competency is an important focus of all countries as negotiation is a core event in international relations and diplomacy. Malaysia is no exception. Existing literature indicates that there has never been any research to study the Malaysian practice in international negotiations. As far as diplomatic negotiation is concerned, there is also a dearth of literature on what is going on... oai:http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz:10292/993 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60945?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1615 Clark, Gregory Thomas Festuca novae-zelandiae (Hack.) Cockayne is an endemic New Zealand perennial tussock forming grass of the family Poaceae. Morphologically F. novae-zelandiae exhibits a number of leaf adaptations associated with dehydration postponement as reflected in the climatic distribution of this species and its occurrence as a physiognomic dominant grass in semi arid short-tussock grasslands. Biochemical... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1615 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60944?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1614 Cassells, Susan Mary New Zealand has a problem with an increasing number of motor vehicles being abandoned at the end of their useful life. The environmental and associated social costs created by this problem are expected to increase with the rising number of vehicles entering the country. In addition, there are environmental concerns regarding some aspects of the legal disposal of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs). The... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1614 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60943?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10179%2F1613 Alexander, D.L.J. A useful measure of quality of a global optimisation algorithm such as simulated annealing is the length of time it must be run to reach a global optimum within a certain accuracy. Such a performance measure assists in choosing and tuning algorithms. This thesis proposes an approach to obtaining such a measure through successive approximation of a generic stochastic global optimisation... oai:muir.massey.ac.nz:10179/1613 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60893?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4476 Khan, Basit Ali The main aim of this research is to improve our knowledge of the sea breeze circulation in the complex coastal environments, where more than one mesoscale circulations occur. Interaction of these circulations with each other and with external factors such as topographical features and large scale winds leads to pronounced changes in the thermodynamic structure of the boundary layer. The... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4476 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60880?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4475 Hasler, Michael Douglas To hasten the process of saving lives after disasters in urban areas, autonomous robots are being looked to for providing mapping, hazard identification and casualty location. These robots need to maximise time in the field without having to recharge and without reducing productivity. This project aims to improve autonomous robot navigation through allowing comparison of algorithms with various... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4475 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60895?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4472 Shao, Wei The purpose of this study was to examine changing news practices especially at the moment of going live in a convergent broadcasting newsroom. The study chose Al Jazeera English, a leading international news network, as a case and adopted content analysis and ethnographic research methods to examine both the content and process of breaking news and live reporting. The professional practices in... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4472 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60894?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4471 Restrepo Echavarria, Ricardo The thesis develops solutions to two main problems for mental realism. Mental realism is the theory that mental properties, events, and objects exist, with their own set of characters and causal powers. The first problem comes from the philosophy of science, where Psillos proposes a notion of scientific realism that contradicts mental realism, and consequently, if one is to be a scientific... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4471 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60874?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4470 Schwalm, Tanja Magical realist fiction is marked by a striking abundance of animals. Analysing magical realist novels from Australia and Canada, as well as exploring the influence of two seminal Latin American magical realist narratives, this thesis focuses on representations of animals and animality. Examining human-animal relationships in the postcolonial context reveals that magical realism embodies and... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4470 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60876?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4469 Evans, Genevieve Laura This thesis examined the enzyme dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS, E.C. 4.2.1.52) from the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. DHDPS is a validated antibiotic target for which no potent inhibitor based on substrates, intermediates or product has been found. The importance of the homotetrameric quaternary structure in E. coli DHDPS has been demonstrated by the 100-fold decrease in activity... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4469 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60881?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4468 Young, Darryl Kenneth Commonly used to excavate relatively soft materials like coal, phosphate and gypsum, surface miners have experienced recent advances in machine size, power output and cutter longevity, which has enabled them to be introduced into harder iron ore mines in Western Australia. Various rockmass parameters are known to influence excavatability and this empirical based study aims to identify and... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4468 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60884?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4467 Phang, Ing Chia Lead (Pb) is one of the most commonly occurring, highly persistent and widely distributed heavy metal contaminants in the environment. It has a tendency to bioaccumulate in animals and plants, and potentially, it is able to enter the human food chain where it poses a hazard to public health. Generally, conventional remediation technologies applied to decontaminate heavy metals from groundwater... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4467 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60883?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4466 Peddie, Victoria This thesis examines the synthesis of α-fluoro-β-amino acids, and the influence of the constituent fluorine on the conformation and biological properties of β-peptide derivatives. Chapter One discusses the unique properties of the C-F bond, and applications of fluorine substitution in organic and medicinal chemistry. This is followed by a review of fluorinated analogues of α-amino acids,... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4466 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60875?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4464 Timmins, Stacey Lee To date only a limited number of studies have focused on teacher-led functional assessments in the mainstream classroom. This purpose of this study was to observe what happens when a general education teacher attempts to individualise parts of her programme to meet the unique teaching needs of certain children. The participating teacher identified eight children with behavioural and/or... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4464 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60882?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4463 Robinson, Alison Robyn The special learning needs in Initial Teacher Education of international postgraduate students whose own education was linguistically and culturally different to that of New Zealand students are often unacknowledged and under-researched. This qualitative study, based on narrative inquiry, presents case studies of six participants from six different countries, languages and cultures. The... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4463 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60878?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4462 Derbisheva-Sutherland, Onola Opposition to the West is one of the stable characteristics of the Russian history. It is not only enshrined in the mentality of Russian people, but has become an integral part of the social and political culture of the country. The crisis facing Russia at the present time, the active modernisation and inclusion in the globalisation not only further exacerbate this confrontation, but also... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4462 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60879?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4461 Vaidyanathan, NA This thesis presents the design and evaluation of the location of a cell phone user, to enable more effective performance monitoring. One of the end-uses I propose is in emergency management, by means of a framework that distributes its functionality between establishing data-set characteristics that are relevant to the problem and a visual tool to evaluate resource-scheduling proposals.... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4461 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60877?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4460 Weston, Kerry Anne In this thesis I investigated the importance of plant-animal mutualisms to the reproductive success of three West African mistletoe species in two genera, Globimetula braunii, Agelanthus brunneus and A. djurensis, in Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve, Nigeria. The flowers of all three mistletoes were visited by 3 - 4 species of sunbird. Agelanthus flowers were also visited by honeybees (Apis... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4460 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60873?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4459 McKinnon, Hamish Alexander Biomass gasification is a technology under development that presents a means of generating hydrogen using renewable energy. While many forms of gasification have been investigated, steam gasification using a dual fluidised bed (DFB) reactor has been shown to efficiently produce high hydrogen content producer gas. The aims of this research were to increase the hydrogen yield from the 100kW DFB... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4459 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60871?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4457 Ho, Wei Hua This thesis details an in investigation of two problems arising during the testing of a jet engine in a test cell, namely the formation and ingestion of vortices and the generation and propagation of infrasound. Investigation involved the use of computational fluid dynamic as well as analytical tools. The author extended the work of previous researchers by investigating the effect when a... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4457 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60869?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4455 Zhou, Li This thesis is a study of harmonized continuous phase modulation (H-CPM) coupled with receive diversity as applied to mobile radio communication applications. H-CPM is the modulation technique specified by the American Public Safety Communication Official Project 25 (APCO P25) Phase 2 standards, which is focused on public safety applications. Practical implementation of an H-CPM maximum... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4455 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60868?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4453 Mares, Tennille Elisa The exploration for unconventional energy reserves has rapidly increased over the last five to ten years. Currently, there are a number of companies actively exploring for coalbed methane (CBM) in New Zealand. This study investigates one of these prospects, the subbituminous Huntly coalfield. Coal core was retrieved from the two major seams in the coalfield, the Renown and the Kupakupa. Three... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4453 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60866?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4452 Sadasivan, Akila Phonological awareness is known to be associated with reading disorder. Intervention for specific reading disorder that focuses on training to improve phonological processing abilities has been found an effective means of addressing reading difficulties experienced by children. However, little is known as to what happens to other neurocognitive abilities associated with the process of reading... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4452 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/46980?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F2906 Rodgers, Geoffrey William This thesis explores the design development, experimental testing, and structural implementation of high force-to-volume (HF2V) damping devices. The development of damage-free structural design methods requires an alternate means of dissipating energy, as eliminating structural damage eliminates the primary energy dissipation mechanism. The HF2V devices developed within this thesis provide a... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/2906 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60896?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10092%2F4473 Wilding, Phillipa Jane Older adults with sensorineural hearing loss have greater difficulty understanding speech than younger adults with equivalent hearing (Gates & Mills, 2005). This increased difficulty may be related to the influence of peripheral, central auditory processing or cognitive deficits and although this has been extensively debated the relative contribution to speech understanding is equivocal... oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4473 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60862?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2292%2F5902 Hilton, Zoe Physiological adaptation to divergent environments is a poorly understood factor in adaptive radiation. New Zealand (NZ) triplefin fishes (Tripterygiidae) have undergone a radiation associated with habitat diversification within NZ's coastal waters, where 26 closely-related endemic species occur in overlapping but divergent habitats, partitioned by depth and exposure. By investigating the... oai:researchspace.auckland.ac.nz:2292/5902 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60904?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10289%2F2509 Ewart, Paul The sport and leisure industry in New Zealand (NZ) has the potential to become a major user of composite materials. Given the size of NZ industry, design and manufacturing strategies based on virtual engineering should be developed to suit NZ requirements. Virtual methods use computer aided engineering capabilities to find faults, explore alternatives and optimise product performance before... oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/:10289/2509 http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/record/viewExternalRecord/60854?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10182%2F2503 Rujirawanich, Panida Innovation has long been accepted as instrumental to company success. As a result, it has been explored and studied by the business and management literature for several decades. However, very little research has been done specific to Thai SMEs, although innovation is likely to be affected by different national cultures. This case-study research looks at Thai SMEs in order to develop a basic... oai:researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz:10182/2503