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RESUME S'anéantir ou s'épanouir : avatars d'ascétisme anorexique dans la littérature française du XIXe au XXIe siècle Intriguée par une ressemblance frappante entre quantité de comportements, caractéristiques et préoccupations chez, d'une part, des personnages des textes littéraires français du XIXe siècle, et d'autre part chez les anorexiques modernes,...Intrigued by a striking resemblance between certain behaviour, characteristics and preoccupations in characters from French literary texts, on the one hand, and in modern-day anorexics on the other, we have undertaken a study of representations of abnegation. In reading female ascetic piety, particularly in an extreme and sterile form known as “scrupulosity,” as it is seen in Madame... [Thesis or Dissertation]

This study describes the development and testing of a new instrument to measure user satisfaction. We have called this the System Satisfaction Schedule (SSS), and the associated statistic, S. In essence, this instrument is based on user-generated complaints. The findings suggest that the SSS is a viable instrument for measuring user satisfaction, despite the lack of positive factors assessed....

Both main islands of Samoa, Savai'i and Upolu need to be considered as potentially volcanically active. The most recent eruptions in historic times happened on Savai'i in 1905-1911, 1902 and 1760 (estimated). Though detailed volcanic studies and dating of volcanic events are very limited there is evidence for repeated volcanic activity on both islands since the time of human... [Journal Article]

In this study we are concerned with the modelling of multi-component, multiphase chemically reacting flows in porous media, with particular application to the spontaneous combustion of coal and the extraction of coalbed methane. These two related problems involve complex multiphase, multi-component flow in a porous medium. Chemical reactions, adsorption, gaseous diffusion and changes in... [Thesis or Dissertation]

SMS or short messaging service is a form of text messaging used extensively throughout the world. It is a cheap and mobile form of communication but there is limited research into its library use. Using Internet search techniques and content analysis, this research investigated how libraries use SMS. Fifty libraries with English language websites were found to be using SMS and were divided...

Computing the solution to a stochastic optimal control problem is difficult. A method of approximating a solution to a given continuous-time stochastic optimal control problem using Markov chains was developed in [Kra01]. This paper describes a suite of MATLAB (R) routines implementing this method.

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Most modern companies probably could not function without a database management system (DBMS). Although current DBMSs are becoming increasingly sophisticated, they are still deficient in several areas. One of these areas is deduction. Human beings have the interesting ability to derive facts from a set of data, even though these facts are not explicitly represented in the data. That is, given... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Most modern companies probably could not function without a database management system (DBMS). Although current DBMSs are becoming increasingly sophisticated, they are still deficient in several areas. One of these areas is deduction. Human beings have the interesting ability to derive facts from a set of data, even though these facts are not explicitly represented in the data. That is, given... [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.Interoperable manufacturing systems help manufacturing companies stay competitive in the environment of frequent and unpredictable market changes. An important part of a manufacturing system is computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools. Over the years, G-codes have been extensively used by CNC machine tools and are now considered as a bottleneck for making these machines adaptable and... [Journal Article]

This article examines the public relations management of communication about genetic engineering in New Zealand. The theme is explored through an analysis of work developed by the consultancy Communication Trumps for, on the one hand, a private company involved in genetic research on fish, and, on the other hand, a government-supported public information campaign about genetic engineering. In...The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Media, Culture & Society, 24(3), (2002), (c) SAGE Publications Ltd at the SAGE Journals Online. [Journal Article]

This paper explores the creative opportunities children might have to attend to their emotions and feelings following the death of a parent, grandparent or close friend. It presents the position that often children are left out of the process of caring for an adult when they are terminally ill and that has long term psychological implications. It also suggests that this has antecedents for the...

This is an authors version of an article published in the journal, Chemistry in New Zealand, (c) 2005 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry [Journal Article]

Both main islands of Samoa, Savai'i and Upolu need to be considered as potentially volcanically active. The most recent eruptions in historic times happened on Savai'i in 1905-1911, 1902 and 1760 (estimated). Though detailed volcanic studies and dating of volcanic events are very limited there is evidence for repeated volcanic activity on both islands since the time of human...

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or available through Inter-Library Loan. Two prototype impact disdrometers have been developed and deployed to measure the raindrop size distribution at several different locations in New Zealand. These disdrometers potentially offer significant improvements over existing designs: they are much cheaper, more durable,... [Thesis or Dissertation]

In working with the topics of racial discrimination and household energy reductions it is clear that just measuring attitudes is no longer sufficient. We need a fuller social context to understand what is said about these topics, as the same words can be used for many reasons. I am working with four new methods for "sampling community discourses" on topics such as racial prejudice, to... [Conference Item]

Whole document restricted at the request of the author, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy.This thesis describes the facies, architecture and development of the Tunanui Formation, a deep-marine, sand-rich, slope basin-fill of Middle Miocene age (NZ stages Clifdenian to Lillburnian). The study area is located in the northern Hawke Bay region of the East Coast Basin, North Island, New Zealand, and is within the forearc domain of the Hikurangi active margin. It is part of a structurally... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Chapter 1 Introduction. The magnetic field lines that emerge from the polar regions extend to great distances from the earth. The auroral zone closely approximate the boundary between those field lines that are closed within the magnetosphere and those that form the geomagnetic tail. the field lines int he tail may be open or possibly joined with the interplanetary field. this introduces... [Thesis or Dissertation]

I begin this thesis with a brief account of my meetings with popular South Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (1926- ) and very brief a discussion of recent fraud and sexual abuse allegations that have been made against him. I note that one of the key factors involved in this, also accountable for his extraordinary popularity, is his divine persona-especially his self-proclaimed identity as "the...

An experimental and theoretical investigation of heat transfer to liquid mixtures has been performed using binary and ternary mixtures of acetone, isopropanol and water. Two data-bases were established which contain measurements of the heat transfer coefficient under saturated pool boiling and subcooled flow boiling conditions. A third database comprises measurements of heat transfer and... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Scaffolding is widely accepted as an effective strategy to use in learning environments. It is also agreed that for successful learning, scaffolding must fade to allow the learner to be in control of his/her own learning and acquire metacognitive strategies. Although scaffolding is used in almost all intelligent educational systems, fading is usually missing. In this paper we present an... [Conference Paper]

Self-explanation is one of the most effective learning strategies, resulting in deep knowledge. In this paper, we discuss how NORMIT supports self-explanation. NORMIT is a constraint-based tutor that teaches data normalization. We present the system first, and then discuss how it supports self-explanation. We hypothesized the self-explanation support in NORMIT would result in increased problem... [Journal Article]

This research identifies and studies the techniques and strategies used by New Zealand tertiary tutors in the process of encouraging participation, and ultimately learning, when using online asynchronous discussion forums. The last decade has seen considerable growth in online learning and the discussion forum now features as a mainstream teaching tool in both fully online courses and in...

Phrase browsing techniques use phrases extracted automatically from a large information collection as a basis for browsing and accessing it. This paper describes a case study that uses an automatically constructed phrase hierarchy to facilitate browsing of an ordinary large Web site. Phrases are extracted from the full text using a novel combination of rudimentary syntactic processing and...This is an author’s version of an article published in Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries, San Antonio, Texas, United States, June 02 - 07, 2000. [Conference Item]

Extensions to general relativity are often considered as possibilities in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity on one hand, or to resolve anomalies within cosmology on the other. Scalar fields, found in many areas of physics, are frequently studied in this context. This is partly due to their manifestation in the effective four dimensional theory of a number of underlying fundamental...