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The source(s) of wealth created by managers taking a public company private in a Management Buyout (MBO) are not well understood. This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to empirically test two theories on these wealth gains, Jensen's Agency Cost of Free Cash Flow theory and the Asymmetric information theory. Prior research on these two theories has failed to produce conclusive... [Thesis or Dissertation]

In this note we represent the well known discrete time stochastic volatility (SV) model with a leverage effect and the SV model of Jacquier, Polson and Rossi (JPR) (2002) using Gaussian nonlinear state space forms with uncorrelated measurement and transition errors. With the new representations, we show that the JPR specification does not necessarily lead to a leverage effect and hence is not... [Working or Discussion Paper]

This paper proposes a new method for measuring the performance of models-whether decision trees or sets of rules-inferred by machine learning methods. Inspired by the minimum description length (MDL) philosophy and theoretically rooted in information theory, the new method measures the complexity of text data with respect to the model. It has been evaluated on rule sets produced by several... [Working or Discussion Paper]

The research project reported in this thesis considers Multiple Distributed Replications in Parallel (MDRIP), a hybrid approach to parallelisation of quantitative stochastic discrete-event simulation. Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation (PDES) generally covers distributed simulation or simulation with replicated trials. Distributed simulation requires model partitioning and synchronisation among...

This thesis investigates how information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly the World Wide Web (Web), can contribute to the role that Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Conventions, and Exhibitions (MICE) properties play in local economic development (LED). The complex linkages between MICE, ICT and LED, are explored through a literature review, a website audit, in-depth... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis looks at the problem of channel estimation and equalization in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dispersive fading environments. Two classes of MIMO receiver structure are proposed with integrated channel estimation and tracking. One is a symbol-by-symbol based receiver using a MIMO minimum mean square error (MMSE) decision feedback equalizer (DFE), and the other is a...

Keynote address to the annual conference of the NZ Psychological Society, 28 August 2004 E rau rangatira ma, tena ra koutou…. This presentation will be in four sections. The first section will introduce two major issues, mana motuhake, and manatangata, then we will consider some proposed legislation, the Seabed & Foreshore Bill and the Civil Union Bill. We will then consider strategic... [Conference Item]

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Niccolo Machiavelli is used as a guide to some of the key issues facing modern government and applies his insights into the effective management and development of civic society. Political Marketing, Good Governance, Lobbying, Ethics and Effective Communication with the Consumer is Developed. [Conference Item]

Niccolo Machiavelli is used as a guide to some of the key issues facing modern government and applies his insights into the effective management and development of civic society. Political Marketing, Good Governance, Lobbying, Ethics and Effective Communication with the Consumer is Developed. [Conference Item]

In this thesis, machinability of particle-reinforced aluminium metal matrix composites, Comral-85 and DURALCANTM, has been studied. Continuous turning of round composite bars, using polycrystalline diamond (PCD) inserts has been selected as the test method. The test conditions included cutting speeds varying from 75 to 700m/min and feed rates from 0.1 to 0.4 mm/rev with constant depth of cut of... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Information has become an important commercial commodity-indeed, possibly the most important product of the future. While we have well-developed technologies to store data, the analysis to extract information is time-consuming and requires skilled human intervention. Machine learning algorithms augment statistical analysis by providing mechanisms that automate the information discovery process.... [Working or Discussion Paper]

This document reports on an investigation conducted between November, 1995 and March, 1996 into the use of machine learning on 14 sets of data supplied by agricultural researchers in New Zealand. Our purpose here is to collect together short reports on trials with these datasets using the WEKA machine learning workbench, so that some understanding of the applicability and potential application... [Working or Discussion Paper]

The Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (weka) is a New Zealand government-sponsored initiative to investigate the application of machine learning to economically important problems in the agricultural industries. The overall goals are to create a workbench for machine learning, determine the factors that contribute towards its successful application in the agricultural industries, and... [Working or Discussion Paper]

During recent years the high country of the South Island has attracted a good deal of attention from farm economists, soil conservationists, geographers and also politicians. With the present need for increased national production the problem of keeping the high country in productive occupation is the subject of justifiable concern. The purpose of this regional study is to describe one of the...

Micro- and macrofossil data from the remains of forests overwhelmed and buried at Pureora and Benneydale during the Taupo eruption (c. 1850 conventional radiocarbon yr BP) were compared. Classification of relative abundance data separated the techniques, rather than the locations, because the two primary clusters comprised pollen and litter/wood. This indicates that the pollen:litter/wood...The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand, 25(2), 1995, (c) Royal Society of New Zealand at the Royal Society of New Zealand Journals Online webpage. [Journal Article]

This paper examines the difficulties health professionals face daily when providing care for the mentally disordered offender in the court environment. The role ofthe court nurse is to provide care for people with mental health needs in the court and health professionals can find this a restrictive environment to work in. This is mainly due to the court's legal processes which are designed...

Background Depictions of mental illnesses in the mass media have been analysed and criticised for more than forty years with little improvement, and that has serious implications for the ongoing efforts to destigmatise both mental illnesses and those who suffer from them. Aims To examine media depictions of mental illnesses within a social constructionist framework. To identify why media... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The Mount Somers Volcanic Group (MSVG) and Mandamus Igneous Complex (MIC) are the magmatic manifestations of the transition from convergence to extension at the Gondwana margin, which culminated in the separation of New Zealand from Australia and Antarctica. The MIC has been correlated both geochemically and temporally with the Central Marlborough Igneous Province (CMIP). The MSVG and CMIP are...

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Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.This paper presents an analytical solution for the magnetic field inside an unconventional ironless brushless (ILBL) dc motor design. We discuss the unique characteristics of the design, which adopts an "inside-out" construction with an internal ironless stator. With the intention of obtaining an analytical solution for the magnetic field, we propose a model based on a magnetic pole... [Journal Article]

The design and construction of a free precession proton magnetometer which give a reading of the field directly in gamma is described. This instrument has been used to obtain magnetic profiles across the Southwest Pacific Ocean during the 1963-65 summer Antarctic supply cruises of H.M.N.Z.S. Endeavour. The magnetic and bathymetric profiler obtained on these cruises have been analysed to...

The magnetic criterion for the bond-type of transitional-metal complexes is now mainly discussed from the viewpoint of ligand-field theory, which combines covalent bonding with crystal-field theory, in preference to the older valence-bond theory. [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis describes the results from an experimental study of the magnetic and transport properties of two strongly correlated transition metal oxides. The firstmaterial under study is the ferromagnetic half-metal double perovskite, Sr2FeMoO6, in which we have made isoelectronic (Ba2+) and electronic (La3+) substitutions onto the strontium site. Magnetoresistance measurements on...