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A compilation of Pacific Dances from the Cook Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga and Sämoa. These dances were taught to, and performed by students enrolled in PACI 102: Pacific Dance - An Introduction, a paper taught in Te Tumu, School of Mäori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand [MovingImage]

New Zealand universities spend a great deal of time and money evaluating the research outputs of their staff in the cause of Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF). This time and money is wasted since the assumptions that lie behind this process are fatally flawed and the results are neither valid nor fair. Additionally PBRF is inconsistent with the universities’ obligations to be...This research report has been published online by the New Zealand Centre for Political Research (NZCPR), www.nzcpr.com. Used with permission. [Working or Discussion Paper]

Poly(ethylene glycol)-conjugated (or PEGylated) proteins are an increasingly important class of therapeutic proteins that offer improved in vivo circulation half lives over their corresponding native forms. Their production involves covalent attachment of one or more poly(ethylene glycol) molecules to a native protein, followed by purification. Because of the extremely high costs involved in... [Journal Article]

We present an approach to the design of complex logic ICs, developed from four premises. First, the responsibilities of a chip's major components, and the communication between them, should be separated from the detailed implementation of their functionality. Design of this abstract architecture should precede definition of the detailed functionality. Secondly, graphic vocabularies are... [Working or Discussion Paper]

This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency in an interactive work by adapting Paine's (2002) notion of a conversational model of interaction as a ‘complex system’. The machine implementation of PIWeCS is...This article is published in the journal, Organised Sound. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004. [Journal Article]

This thesis using oral historiographic techniques examines the changing role and function of a teachers' union during changes in the nature of a national State which can also be related to changing forms of capitalism. The teachers' union is New Zealand Post-Primary Teachers Association (the secondary school teachers' union) and the period of particular focus is between 1983 and... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis is a series of four articles examining the interface of public relations and journalism and how this affects the information the public receives as news. The central research question it aims to answer is: 'How can the public guard against manipulation of opinion?' The articles are accompanied by an exegesis which explains the research process and the role of important... [Thesis or Dissertation]

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. The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/309BACKGROUND:Large-scale genetic association studies can test hundreds of thousands of genetic markers for association with a trait. Since the genetic markers may be correlated, a Bonferroni correction is typically too stringent a correction for multiple testing. Permutation testing is a standard statistical technique for determining statistical significance when performing multiple correlated... [Journal Article]

The positive temperature coefficient of resistivity (PTCR) sensors is resistor materials that undergo a sharp change in resistivity at a designed Curie temperature due to its unique structure and chemical composition. This effect serves important control functions in a wide variety of electronic circuitry and similar applications. Conventional calcining of mixed oxides method (CMO) is used for... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This Report contains the results from a survey of resource management consultants and resource consent applicants carried out during 2001-2002 to gain factual and attitudinal information about the plan implementation processes of respective councils. It drew on the experiences of 277 applicants and consultants representing a diversity of stakeholders, and provided a valuable check on the... [Report]

The purpose of this report is to identify a Practice Development Programme (PDP) for the presentation of relevant innovative practices and tools arising out of the first two Phases of PUCM (Planning Under Co-operative Mandates). During Phase 3 of the research (2004-2006) the PDP will be extended as new findings come to hand. [Report]

This paper was prepared for the NZIAIA (NZ International Institute for Impact Assessment) newsletter.This report focuses on research on Planning and Governance under the LGA. It provides an overview of Phase 4 of the ongoing FRST-funded research programme entitled Planning Under Co-operative Mandates (PUCM). The report focuses on the first objective, related to formulation of community well-being outcomes and LTCCP monitoring and reporting frameworks. Before dealing with this objective in more... [Book]

This paper articulates a new method of linear regression, “pace regression”, that addresses many drawbacks of standard regression reported in the literature-particularly the subset selection problem. Pace regression improves on classical ordinary least squares (OLS) regression by evaluating the effect of each variable and using a clustering analysis to improve the statistical basis for... [Working or Discussion Paper]

The UNESCO Pacific Island Memory of the World Programme commissioned the NZETC to start Phase One of the Pacific Memory of the World Project. The NZETC was given a limited time frame of 7 weeks in which to create a list of the founding documents of each nation, and to gather information on the location and physical state of the original manuscripts or printed texts. The aims of the Memory of...

This article analyses the representation of Pacific women from an Orientalist theoretical framework. The analysis traces prominent representations of Pacific women within early colonial and Christian discourses, and dominant representations since colonisation. Included in this analysis is a discussion of the fantasy of Western men, that is, of the ‘easy’ Pacific women. One of the central... [Conference Item]

Oceania is an example of a region where traditional security theory based on historical enmity and competition does not fit. A history of amity and cooperation has evolved through regionalism and the region's pre-eminent organisation, the Pacific Islands Forum (the Forum). In 2004, the Forum was tasked to develop the 'Pacific Plan' (the Plan) to facilitate closer cooperation and...

Analysing the nature of political representation raises questions about the roles of political representatives: who it is they represent and what they do once in Parliament. However, the roles of MPs can be affected by several factors: institutions; political rules; identity; and the norms, values and expectations of the groups they advocate for. This thesis assumes that all of these factors...

This thesis examines Pacific women’s experiences of becoming a nurse and their first year of practice post Registration, within the New Zealand context. The participant’s stories of being students and beginning practitioners are inter-woven with my own reflections as a nurse and nurse educator who also claims a Pacific cultural heritage. To create the space in which our stories can be laid...

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan.This research reveals some of the contradictions that arise in the negotiation of place making for Pacific peoples through the arts in New Zealand society. The arts of the Pacific have been continuously reinvented throughout time and space to contend with cultural domination and assimilation by the centre. Art production presents opportunities for economic mobility while simultaneously offering... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis examines Pacific women's experiences of becoming a nurse and their first year of practice post Registration, within the New Zealand context. The participant's stories of being students and beginning practitioners are inter-woven with my own reflections as a nurse and nurse educator who also claims a Pacific cultural heritage.To create the space in which our stories can be...

There is a strong likelihood that future wireless communication systems will employ packetised transmission techniques. Such an approach would provide a number of benefits, including the ability to integrate with emerging wired systems based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). In addition, packet-based wireless networks would allow for diverse traffic types and in particular, speech and data... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Background: ‘Bronchiectasis’ is usually a progressive disease defined as bronchial dilatation, with or without associated bronchial wall and lung parenchymal damage, and classically with pus in the bronchial lumen. There is no knowledge on the prevalence, aetiology, and severity of paediatric bronchiectasis in New Zealand. Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited disorder that can... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Note: Thesis now published. Dunsford, C (2007). Painting life in extremes Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre. NZ: Global Dialogues Press. ISBN 9780968245340Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) produced a substantial body of writing that included six novels, three plays, and two collections of sermons. Despite the large audience he reached in his own time, and the interest he aroused in a number of later poets and novelists, Maturin's work has not received very much serious attention from critics. The present study attempts to take a fresh look... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis uses a discourse analytic approach to the language used by Pakeha in talk about Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The research begins with an assay of a large body of public submissions and, using the finding of common themes and patterns of ideas, images and usages running though the data, proceeds to examine texts arising from other contexts in order to comment on the generality of... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The Mangapoike River section (38.9 degrees S, 177.6 degrees E), on the eastern limb of the Wairoa Syncline, northern Hawke's Bay, is a thick (> 4000 m) and well exposed sequence of Waiauan to Waipipian sediments in which foraminiferal and radiolarian biostratigraphy and silicic tuff lithostratigraphy are well known. An Early Pliocene magnetostratigraphy has been determined by Kennett...