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Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. This thesis sets out to examine Michel Tournier's fictional presentation of the Holy Trinity, and to establish the Trinity as a model for the three steps of the initiatory structure which underlies Tournier's work. The thesis is divided into three major parts. (i) The... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Most work on the asymptotic properties of least absolute deviations (LAD) estimators makes use of the assumption that the common distribution of the disturbances has a density which is finite and positive at zero. We consider the implications of weakening this assumption in a regression setting. We see that the results obtained are similar in flavor to those obtained in a... [Working or Discussion Paper]

This report is a follow on to an earlier report (titled: Usability Study Report (1/2002), dated 1 July 2002) that presented the University of Waikato Usability Laboratory’s (Usability Laboratory) analysis of the Large Interactive Display Screen (LIDS) technologies as developed by the LIDS Research Project. [Working or Discussion Paper]

This report represents the University of Waikato Usability Laboratory’s (Usability Laboratory) analysis of the Large Interactive Display Screen (LIDS) technologies as developed by the LIDS Research Group. The Usability Laboratory conducted three exploratory-type studies of the LIDS technology over January and February 2002. The studies each focused on individual elements of the LIDS... [Working or Discussion Paper]

Obtaining good performance from WWW proxy caches is critically dependent on the document replacement policy used by the proxy. This paper validates the work of other authors by reproducing their studies of proxy cache document replacement algorithms. From this basis a cross-trace study is mounted. This demonstrates that the performance of most document replacement algorithms is dependent on the... [Working or Discussion Paper]

We define two lifted, total relation semantics for Event B machines: Safe B for safety-only properties and Live B for liveness properties. The usual Event B proof obligations, Safe, are sufficient to establish Safe B refinement. Satisfying Safe plus a simple additional proof obligation ACT REF is sufficient to establish Live B refinement. The use of lifted, total relations both prevents the... [Working or Discussion Paper]

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Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. This thesis, whose problematic lies at the crossroads of postcolonial criticism and postmodern theory, examines violence in the autobiographical texts of three women writing in the postcolonial entre-deux of the French-Algerian encounter. Investigating the poetics of the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. The exchange reaction between tritium gas and toluene on both γ-irradiated silica gel and Raney nickel has been studied. In addition, the study has included the exchange of a variety of other aromatic compounds on γ-irradiated silica gel. It has been found that on irradiated... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis examines the relationship of labour mobility and socioeconomic transformation in the Solomon Islands, and proposes that one cannot be understood in isolation from the other. Explanation is pursued both at the levels of structure and of agency, and integration of these levels is attempted in some places. This is discussed in the first part of the thesis, within a general discussion... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The proximity of two similar societies and economies such as New Zealand and Australia creates an excellent opportunity for the development of labour flows in accordance with conventional economic theory. Over recent years there has been large movements of people in both direction as they have sought to achieve their objectives through activity in the other country. These movements provide an... [Book]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. This biocultural study examines the relationship between nutritional stress, lactose digestion capacity, symptomatic expression, and dietary manipulation in Tokelauans residing in New Zealand. Breath hydrogen analysis and dietary surveys were conducted in a sample of 58... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. The Introduction reviews critical attitudes to Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, nearly all of them based on a reading of only the first part of the romance, which was printed in 1621. The commonest view is that the work is no more than a... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Lagrangian and Eulerian modelling approaches are compared for simulating turbulent dispersion and coalescence of droplets within a spray. Both models predict similar droplet dispersion rates and shifts in droplet size distribution due to coalescence within the spray, over a wide range of droplet and gas flows, and for sprays with different droplet-size distributions at the nozzle exit. The... [Journal Article]

In pre-european times most New Zealand lakes were of an oligotrophic type, but since then many have become altered and enriched through the various cultural activities of man, as well as through natural causes. A great number of New Zealand’s lakes lie in those areas which are considered unproductive in the general sense of the world. Thus, in the alpine region of the South Island and the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The following research was directed at establishing a comprehensive ceramic sequence for Lakeba, based on form and decoration, and to identify periods of change, or of accelerated rates of change, that occurred within the 3000 years of occupation. Other aspects of the ceramics, notably those concerning the technology involved in constructing the vessels, together with economic and site... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. The following research was directed at establishing a comprehensive ceramic sequence for Lakeba, based on form and decoration, and to identify periods of change, or of accelerated rates of change, that occurred within the 3000 years of occupation. Other aspects of the ceramics,... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This paper presents a lamb carcass classification system based on image and texture analyses together with multivariate statistical techniques (principal component analysis, cluster analysis and discriminant function analysis). Texture analysis is based on grey level co-occurrence matrix. A set of ninety texture features has been used to extract the texture information from the acquired images.... [Book]

In this study, the ability of neural network models for lamb carcass classification was compared with a multivariate statistical technique with respect to the classification accuracy. The lamb carcass classification system is based on image and texture analyses. Digital images of lamb chops were used to calculate twelve image geometric variables. In addition, a set of ninety textural features... [Book]

The assessment of land degradation through the use of tools and techniques is discussed for the measurement of sediment load in regions of great agricultural potential, such as the Paraná river basin. Land degradation for these prominent agricultural regions is defined as being the actions in land that decreases potential crop production over time. Assessment of land degradation by erosion... [Conference Paper]

Introduction to book.[Note: This abstract is for the whole book. Only the Introduction can be accessed from ResearchSpace.] Land of Beautiful Vision is the first book-length ethnography to address the role of material culture in contemporary adaptations of Buddhism and the first to focus on convert Buddhists in New Zealand. Sally McAra takes as her subject a fascinating instance of an ongoing creative process... [Book Item]

The main stated objective of government land policy has been to support closer settlement of farmland. Closer settlement has been justified in terms of economic and social benefits, and in general, has had a considerable impact on the evolving structure of agriculture in the past. However, since 1956 the impact of land policy, has declined as direct intervention gave way to a policing role... [Book]

Mountainous islands of the Pacific Rim (such as New Zealand) purportedly deliver up to 40% of the suspended sediment load and up to 35% of the riverine particulate organic carbon (POC) load to the world's oceans. On the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, the Waipaoa River drains a steep, 2205 km2 catchment located on the active collisional East Coast Continental Margin. It has...

Assessed values from the files of the New Zealand Valuation Department are the main dependent variable in this research. Unimproved values for individual parcels of land are aggregated into 301 areal units and multiple regression analysis is used to explain the spatial pattern of values in 1970. Temporal variations in the pattern of unimproved values and the influence of increasing values on... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial period through the medium of Maori-language sources of information dating from that time. A base in Maori documentary allows Maori history to exist under the same disciplines as that of other literate peoples. The thesis argues that the imposition of English meanings on Maori language has...