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This paper presents a hybrid transport modal choice model in which the genetic algorithm is applied for estimating parameters of a Multinomial Logit Model. The model has a simple decision structure which requires relatively modest computational capabilities and time to be estimated. Linear Utility Functions are defined for the transport modes which are included in the model structure as the... [Conference Paper]

At the Wangaloa Coal Mine, South-East Otago, ArcGIS is being used to manage, integrate, analyse and visualise the diverse range of datasets being generated from an interdisciplinary research team. GIS will assist with identifying spatial and temporal patterns associated with the current site rehabilitation strategy. The Wangaloa opencast coal mine, owned by Solid Energy NZ Ltd, was closed in... [Conference Item]

This research employs a deterministic seismic risk assessment methodology to assess the potential damage and loss at meshblock level in the Christchurch CBD and Mount Pleasant primarily due to building damage caused by earthquake ground shaking. Expected losses in terms of dollar value and casualties are calculated for two earthquake scenarios. Findings are based on: (1) data describing the...

As local authorities are becoming more interested in the assessment of pollutant loads, this study offers a Geographic Information System (GIS) model for assessing nonpoint source of pollution for two scenarios: the current and ultimate stage of urbanization.The Puhinui Catchment, Manukau City, has been used as a case study in developing and testing this model. This catchment has all the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a range of techniques which allow ready access to data, and the opportunity to overlay graphical location-based information for ease of interpretation. They can be used to solve complex planning and management problems. All phases of emergency management (reduction, readiness, response and recovery) can benefit from GIS, including applications... [Journal Article]

Report on the theme of the conference Globalisation and Landscape Architecture, held at St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, Russia, 3-6 June 2007.Globalisation has both positive and negative effects on education and practice in landscape architecture, and was the central theme of a recent conference held at the St Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy. This is not a review of the conference itself, but rather a reflection on the issues that motivated it. The recent shifts in the political climate of Russia have created an arena in... [Journal Article]

Due to rugby's increasing level of professionalism, rugby union performance analysis is in a rapid state of evolution. Coaches, media, administrators and players are demanding greater access to more detailed analysis of team and player performance. Owing to the dynamic nature of the game and high frequency of events, nobody can adequately recall all aspects of the game; therefore... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. The particle-gamma coincidence method was used to investigate the properties of states in 40Ar, 33S and 19O. In 40Ar, Ge(Li) and NaI(Tl) γ-ray spectrometry was used to determine mean lifetimes, spins and decay modes, while in 33S and 19O, spin and decay mode data were... [Thesis or Dissertation]

One of the grand puzzles in neuroscience is establishing the link between cognition and the disparate patterns of spontaneous and task-induced brain activity that can be measured clinically using a wide range of detection modalities such as scalp electrodes and imaging tomography. High-level brain function is not a single-neuron property, yet emerges as a cooperative phenomenon of... [Journal Article]

This thesis examines the writing of Garvin Robert Gilbert (1915-1992) following the candidate's retrieval of a large amount of unpublished material from the writer's deceased estate in 1999 and interviewing of his widow, Joy Gilbert. Some account of this process is given in the introduction. The purposes of the thesis are to construct an account, hitherto unavailable, of the sequence...

Gas chromatography is a variation of column chromatography in which a gas is used for elution. The separations achieved depend either on absorption or on partition between the gas phase and a non-mobile liquid column packing known as the stationary phase. The technique can be used as a means of identification or as a semi-micro preparative method. [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. Gas Permeability through Polymer membranes Yang Wang The primary objectives of this work were to (a) determine gas transport properties of polymer-based packaging films in conditions relevant to their use in food packaging; (b) investigate the relationship between polymer... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The published book “Agua, Gas y Agroindustria: Gestión Sostenible de Agua para Riego Agrícola en Santa Cruz, Bolivia” or Water, Gas and Agro Industry. Sustainable use of water for agricultural irrigation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia is a detailed study that analyzes the potential for large-scale irrigation in Bolivia’s most important agricultural region and the environmental impacts that... [Book]

Aquatic macrophytes possess an internal lacunar system of proliferated intercellular airspaces. Lacunar gas exchange processes were investigated in Egeria densa Planch., a submerged freshwater angiosperm. Investigations of oxygen exchange between Egeria shoot segments and the water revealed that up to 17% of the photosynthetically-produced oxygen is retained within the lacunae. A consequence of... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The syndrome known as Gastric Dilation Air Sacculitis (GDAS) has recently been described by Lumsden et al. (2002) for Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Walbaum), in seawater (SW) culture in New Zealand. The syndrome is characterised by distended abdomens, gastric dilation and air sacculitis, increased feed conversion ratios (FCR) and mortality. Consequently, financial returns on...

In order to debug and tune stand-alone FPGA image processing configurations, it is necessary for a developer to also create the required debug tools and to implement them on the FPGA. This process takes both time and effort that could be better spent on improving the image processing algorithms. The Gate Array Terminal Operating System (GateOS) is proposed to relieve the developer of the need... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Gaussian processes have proved to be useful and powerful constructs for the purposes of regression. The classical method proceeds by parameterising a covariance function, and then infers the parameters given the training data. In this thesis, the classical approach is augmented by interpreting Gaussian processes as the outputs of linear filters excited by white noise. This enables a...

This thesis offers a detailed reading of the adult fiction of the New Zealand writer Maurice Gee in order to examine their representations of a settler community in a post-colonial society. The works of social historians, political economists and sociologists are used to make relevant connections between events and attitudes in the actual world and those portrayed in the novels. Observations... [Thesis or Dissertation]

We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit greater trust than women do while women show higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior... [Working or Discussion Paper]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. My personal interest in television news originates from my experience working as a newscaster in Japan during the 1980s. This experience left me with an enduring interest in issues related to women and Japanese television news and a belief in the potential for significant... [Thesis or Dissertation]

New Zealand, like many other OECD nations, has introduced market-style policies into educational provision. The 'rationale' for these policies was derived from New Right or neo-liberal theory. Over the past decade there has been an increasing amount of research aimed at exploring the impact of market-style policies in education, with particular emphasis on issues of equity. However,...

Only recently have studies included a female Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) sample when investigating neurocognitive functioning of individuals with ADHD. As such, the generalisability of findings of impaired executive functioning is limited to ADHD males. This study compared four groups aged 13-17 years: 30 male controls, 35 female controls, 24 males with ADHD, and 25 females... [Journal Article]

An exploration of how year 12 students in a New Zealand high school make meaning of their experiences of different specialist IT (information technology) courses shows that gender identity is a potent factor in their experiences. At a personal level, individual students, males and females, construe their experiences of CPS (computer studies) and TIM (text and information management) courses... [Conference Paper]

Whole thesis restricted at the request of the author, no access availableThis thesis examines comparatively the first parts of four twentieth-century women's autobiographies that have never been studied together: Simone de Beauvoir's Memoires d' une jeune fille rangdee (1958), Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982) and Marguerite Duras's L'Amant (1984). Its aim is to show how... [Thesis or Dissertation]