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Incorrect ISSN printed on title page.Results of a study of people's perception of food are presented in this report. The Q method was used to factor analyse the data from 59 subjects who sorted statements about food. Four types are described and labelled the Gregarious Gourmet, the Virtuous Vegetarian, the Tradition Meat Eater and the Selective Connoisseur. These types account for the main variations in perception of food and... [Book]

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the accuracy of eleven prediction equations and one prediction table when estimating isoinertial knee extension and leg press one repetition maximum (1-RM) performance in subjects with knee injuries and knee osteoarthritis. Study Design: A descriptive quantitative research study was undertaken utilizing a cross-sectional design.... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Integrable systems that are connected with orthogonal separation of variables in complex Riemannian spaces of constant curvature are considered herein. An isomorphism with the hyperbolic Gaudin magnet, previously pointed out by one of the authors, extends to coordinates of this type. The complete classification of these separable coordinate systems is provided by means of the corresponding L...Copyright 1994 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in the Journal of Mathematical Physics and may be found at http://jmp.aip.org/jmp/top.jsp [Journal Article]

This thesis considers the problem of complete coverage of unknown environments by a mobile robot. The goal of such navigation is for the robot to visit all reachable surfaces in an environment. The task of achieving complete coverage in unknown environments can be broken down into two smaller sub-tasks. The first is the construction of a spatial representation of the environment with... [Thesis or Dissertation]

A novel objective full-reference image quality assessment metric based on symmetric geometric moments (SGM) is proposed. SGM is used to represent the structural information in the reference and test images. The reference and test images are divided into (8 £ 8) blocks and the SGM up to fourth order for each block is computed. SGM of the corresponding blocks of the reference and test images are... [Conference Paper]

I compare the research records of the 7 major economics departments in New Zealand, from 1990 onwards. The information, taken from the Econlit database, covers more than 500 economics journals, as of November 2000. Quality weights for the journals were taken from the study by Laband and Piette (1994). Four different departmental ranking measures were computed. The resulting ranking of... [Working or Discussion Paper]

Network measurement stands at an intersection in the development of the science. We explore possible futures for the area and propose some guidelines for the development of stronger measurement techniques. The paper concludes with a discussion of the work of the NLANR and WAND network measurement groups including the NLANR Network Analysis Infrastructure, AMP, PMA, analysis of Voice over IP...This article has been published in the Proceedings of the 2002 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT) Workshops. Copyright © 2002 IEEE Computer Society. [Conference Item]

The road marking industry Quality Management System (QMS) offers a good example of the manner in which an industry might collectively control quality assurance. The purchase of KC Contracting (KCC) by Fulton Hogan Southland (FHS) raises a number of QMS related issues. These issues need to be addressed in order to merge the two disparate systems, and form a unified and coherent strategy for... [Thesis or Dissertation]

There is growing research interest in the relationship between the geographic density of liquor outlets and the incidence of various harms (e.g., assault), however, to date, detail is lacking on the quality of data used in such research. The aims of this study were to (1) Assess the consistency of liquor outlet counts in New Zealand; (2) determine the spatial precision of outlet location data;... [Conference Item]

Both physical and dynamic properties of the atmosphere play important roles in determining the levels of air contaminants. In Auckland, and New Zealand generally, investigations of the impacts of weather and climatic conditions on air quality are still few in number and limited in scope. This makes it difficult to assess the potential adverse effects of air discharges and consequently limits...The University of Auckland

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. Identification and understanding of the main contributory factors to degraded air quality in Auckland has become an important research field in recent years. The present research was to achieve two main outcomes: improving understanding of the relationship between... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This research was to improve understanding of the effects of meteorological conditions and land-use features on the quality of the Aukland airshed, in an effort to assist with future air quality management in this region. The results are also valuable for the conceptual understanding of formation of high urban pollution in a more general sense in the New Zealand and wider contexts. Analyses... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This paper reports on the remapping of a carefully documented vegetation plot at Cape Hallett (72°19′S 170°16′E) to provide an assessment of the rates of vegetation change over decadal time scales. E.D. Rudolph, in 1962, mapped in detail the vegetation of a site approximately 28 m by 120 m at Cape Hallett, Victoria Land, Antarctica. This site was relocated and remapped in January 2004 and...This article is published in the journal, Antarctic Science. Copyright © Antarctic Science Ltd 2006. [Journal Article]

This paper reports on a small-scale study of the compliance costs of small New Zealand businesses. Participating firms were asked to keep a record of both time spent and expenditure directly incurred over a thirteen-week period. This differs from previous studies that rely on a firm’s recall of how much time has been spent on compliance over the previous year. The results suggest that New... [Book]

Sustainable development is now being recognised as a vital component of our society in the environmental, ethical, social, technological, economic, and institutional aspects, or dimensions, so, this thesis develops a framework to quantitatively measure sustainability. This thesis is distinctive in that it focuses on quantitative methods encapsulated in a formal assessment procedure and includes... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Computed tomographic (C.T.) images are stored digitally as arrays of C.T. numbers, the elements of which are strongly related to the linear X-ray attenuation coefficients of the corresponding tissue volumes in the patient. This thesis is concerned with this quantitative information. Relating measured C.T. numbers to the properties of materials requires the ability to compute attenuation...

The use of delta15N and delta13C signatures to infer sources of enrichment in ecological systems relies on predictability in the transfer of delta15N and delta13C ratios. This thesis examines patterns of delta15N and delta13C change as pools of nitrogen and carbon move from a sewage effluent discharge into organisms in an adjacent coastal rocky reef community (Titahi Bay, New Zealand). These...

The use of delta15N and delta13C signatures to infer sources of enrichment in ecological systems relies on predictability in the transfer of delta15N and delta13C ratios. This thesis examines patterns of delta15N and delta13C change as pools of nitrogen and carbon move from a sewage effluent discharge into organisms in an adjacent coastal rocky reef community (Titahi Bay, New Zealand). These...

In the sheep ovary, primordial follicles are formed as an oocyte surrounded by either a single layer of flattened granulosa cells (type 1) or a mixture of flattened and cuboidal granulosa cells (type 1a). Booroola sheep have a mutation in the growth factor receptor, activin-like kinase receptor 6 (ALK6) which is expressed in oocytes of follicles at the type 1 stage of development. In Booroola...

This thesis approaches the area of women's body image with the aim of expanding existing knowledge based on traditional male/female comparisons of how women respond to quantitative measures of body image. It does so by distinguishing between some different body-type groups of women. These were mostly Caucasian women aged eighteen and over who lived in the greater Auckland area. They were... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. 1. Cytotoxic lymphocytes were generated by transferring lymphoid cells from parental strain (CBA) mice to irradiated F1 (CBA/DBA) recipients. 2. A sensitive colony inhibition assay was developed for the measurement of cytotoxic lymphocytes. The colony inhibition method was... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This work follows the direction set by Sewall Wright in applying path analysis, and other multivariate statistical techniques, to the study of anthropometric variation. Data on anthropometric variation of six Solomon Island populations is analyzed using statistical models which can distinguish between within-group and between-group genetic variation. The correlation structure of 27... [Thesis or Dissertation]

In this work the development and construction of a new near-infrared imaging spectrometer utilising inexpensive components is presented. The instrument is applied to measuring the distribution of constituents in fruit, in particular, soluble solids and dry matter in kiwifruit. The spectrometer, designed for collecting spectral-images of fruit, uses a diffraction grating for spectral dispersion,... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This thesis is a collection of theoretical investigations into different aspects of the broad subject of quantum many-body theory. The results are grouped into three main parts, which in turn are divided into separate self-contained sections. Some of the work is presented in the form of published papers and papers that have been submitted for publication. The first section of Part A introduces...

Light and atoms couple together via the electromagnetic interaction. The simplest form of this interaction is the electric dipole interaction, and in its quantised form it provides a useful starting point for the investigation of quantum effects in optics. Two examples of quantum noise manipulation of the light field due to interaction with atoms will be presented, as well as an analysis of a... [Thesis or Dissertation]