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This study is about an educational experience, which encompasses a range of educational knowledge and skills. It is an experience that is relatively unknown in educational research terms. It is also ct comparatively 'secular' educational experience within a 'religious' institution, the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (CCCS). The Pastor's School (A'oga a le... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Samoan language nests have become well established in New Zealand due to the commitment, support and contribution of the Samoan community, the church, Samoan families, parents and most importantly the efforts of mothers. Their advent has created new settings within which or through which women's roles may become redefined. This thesis explores the questions of how relationships between... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The idea for a specific industry session at OZCHI was first mooted at the 1995 conference in Wollongong, during questions following a session of short papers which happened (serendipitously) to be presented by people from industry. An animated discussion took place, most of which was about how OZCHI could be made more relevant to people in industry, be it working as usability consultants, or... [Working or Discussion Paper]

You are granted permission for the non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, BUT this permission is only for a period of 45 (forty-five) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the original CITR web site; http://citr.auckland.ac.nz/techreports/ under terms that include...The design of a video surveillance system is directed on automatic identification of events of interest, especially on tracking and classification of moving vehicles or pedestrians. In case of any abnormal activities, an alert should be issued. Normally a video surveillance system combines three phases of data processing: moving object extraction, moving object recognition and tracking, and... [Report]

The good news of this paper is that without extending Z, we can elegantly specify object-oriented systems, including encapsulation, inheritance and subtype polymorphism (dynamic dispatch). The bad news is that this specification style is rather different to normal Z specifications, more abstract and axiomatic, which means that it is not so well supported by current Z tools such as animators. It... [Working or Discussion Paper]

The management of vegetated areas by urban planners relies on detailed and updated knowledge of their nature and distribution. Manual photo-interpretation of aerial photographs is efficient, but is time consuming. Image segmentation and object-oriented classifications provide a tool to automatically delineate and label vegetation units. Object-oriented techniques were tested with a very... [Conference Item]

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This article, reports ‘Frequency Dependent Faraday Angle Resonance’ in a magnetic sample at millimetric frequencies for the first time using a fully automated rotary polariser quasi-optical system. This serves to compliment the original work performed by Raum at Terahertz frequencies in the Frequency independent region of a magnetic material. In addition, it is shown how the same instrument... [Report]

This thesis reports on a retrospective observational study that examined the complication rate of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) within a regional cancer centre. PICCs are increasingly used for delivery of chemotherapy and other intravenous therapies in oncology patients. A literature review revealed that almost all published research on PICC complications reported on silicone...

This thesis is concerned with the dynamics of the middle atmosphere over the southern-most continent on our planet, Antarctica. Building on previous observational and theoretical efforts to understand the dynamics of this region of the atmosphere, the work encompasses instrument improvements as well as data analysis studies of gravity waves in the lower and middle stratosphere, tides in...

The Kurämoó, or Blue Lorikeet (Vini peruviana), is listed by IUCN as threatened (Collar & Andrew 1988). Formerly, the species was widespread on the Society and Tuamotu Islands, but it became extinct on Tahiti, Moorea and other large islands in the Society Group early this century and is now also extinct on many other islands on which it once occurred (Forshaw 1978). Today, in French... [Journal Article]

In a series of papers, Plataniotis et al. proposed a number of filters for noise reduction in color images where the noise type is unknown. In this letter, those filters with a unified notation are summarized, and it is shown that they are essentially variants of the same filtering procedure. It is also shown that the class of adaptive vector filters can be considered as interpolants between...The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal IEEE Signal Processing Letters 11(2), (2004), (c) 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society. Further details and an abstract are available at the IEEE Signal Processing Letters webpage. [Journal Article]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. The mobility of arsenic in the sediments in Lake Ohakuri has been investigated by monitoring seasonal changes in the concentration of arsenic in the sediment interstitial water, the sediment solid phase and the overlying lake water. The behaviour of iron has been similarly... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The lifting associated with childcare has been linked to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in mothers (Griffin & Price, 2000; Sanders & Morse, 2005). The purpose of the current study was to investigate, for the first time through observation, the lifting of young children by mothers in the home environment to identify risk factors which might give rise to MSDs. Twenty five mothers with... [Thesis or Dissertation]

A multisynchronous obsolescence study has been performed on two computing journals that publish on technical aspects of computer system management (networks and operating systems). This area of computer science is found to have a relatively high obsolescence rate (a median citation rate of four years). This rate is similar to that of fields in engineering and the technology-dependent... [Working or Discussion Paper]

Almost without exception organisations have become reliant on Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) applications. Although competitive advantage, task efficiency and effective information management are considered to be among the major drivers for investing in IS/IT, recognising, valuing and realising these expected business benefits from their investments has proved to be a... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The use of enterococci as a microbiological indicator of water quality requires an understanding of the sources, persistence, and ecology of this group of bacteria in the environment. This research describes a series of investigations undertaken to describe the abundance, occurrence, and diversity of enterococci from aquatic and terrestrial environments. A screening protocol for environmentally... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) activity in cell-free extracts prepared from healthy mature flowers of Petunia hybrida (variety 'Hurrah') was studied. The SOD activity in the crude extracts was stable for more than one month when stored at -20 oC. It was found that pH 7.8 is optimal for SOD activity. Different flower tissues of petunia (stigma, style and ovary) at various stages of...

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. Current approaches to second language instruction have called for an integration of message-focused and form-focused instruction in the L2 classroom. One way this may be accomplished is through incidental focus on form which draws learners' attention to linguistic items as... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. Ocean wave and microseism properties, and particularly their generation, are studied through the analysis of long term recordings made in the Taranaki and Gt Barrier Island regions. Two years, 1980 and 1981, of ocean wave and microseism data recorded at both sites were spectral... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis reports the first observations of currents, temperature and salinity beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. They are reviewed and discussed here in conjunction with results of a numerical modelling study used to simulate current flow and to investigate local sediment deposition. The McMurdo Ice Shelf lies behind Ross Island off the Victoria Land coast of Antarctica, and...

Octakis(pyrazol-1-ylmethyl)biphenylene ethanol solvate, C₄₄H₄₀N₁₆C₂H₆O, has two independent centrosymmetric molecules, one of which is hydrogen bonded to the solvent molecule. One molecule adopts an arrangement with three arms up and one down in each benzene ring, whilst the other molecule has a conformation with two adjacent arms on the same side of the ring. In neither case is... [Journal Article]

Background and Aim: Clinical outcomes of refractive surgeries are variable due to individual wound healing responses, but might be improved by effective delivery of anti-inflammatory agents. Knockdown of connexin proteins, using an antisense oligonucleotide (AsON) approach, has been shown to significantly reduce the inflammatory response and increase the rate of wound closure after corneal... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Revised version of a paper originally published in: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 51(6):467-470 (1996).Water is the wonder substance: no other has such a wide range of 'talents' (i.e. exceptional properties). As a liquid, it is 'Nature's fluid' - the solvent and support medium for life. In all three phases (ice, liquid and vapour) it is the main controller of Earth's climate, and (elusively!) is the greatest source of uncertainties in predicting future climate... [Journal Article]

Revised version of a paper originally published in: Journal of Environmental Education, 26(1):5-8 (1994)."Good planets are hard to find", as the saying goes. This paper gives an 'extra-terrestrial' overview of the 'awesome' (literally) features of our Planet, which conspire to produce its finely-tuned, life-enabling environment. This is the first in a series of 'resource appreciation' papers. We protect what we value: these papers aim to encourage readers to... [Journal Article]