Carbon/sulphur (C/S) ratios are used in this study to indicate the marine or nonmarine nature of Beacon strata from southern Victoria Land and from the Ohio Range. Beacon Supergroup strata in the Transantarctic Mountains ...

This small-scale feminist study examines the medicalisation of childbirth, focusing on women's experience of caesarean section. Literature on both the medicalisation of childbirth and caesarean section provides background ...

This thesis calibrates the Hutt Valley section of the previously developed Wellington 3D ground shaking model, using weak motion records from seven earthquakes recorded during the Lower Hutt deployment of seismometers. The ...

Harry lived inside two skeletons. The first was the one he was born with - the ordinary skeleton of a young boy. There was nothing wrong with this skeleton, except for a bony protrusion on one of the big toes. But his body ...

Since I started to study modal logic, the canonical models which supply a large number of completeness results have been centred on my interest in logic. Contrary to a fact that they look simple at first sight, their nature ...

A large amount of evidence has been accumulated that indicates that many of the recommendations made in the research associated with personnel selection are not being adhered to by practitioners. Although providing useful ...

Standard economic theory holds that the availability of internal sources of finance to the firm will be irrelevant to the determination of its investment expenditure. Under the assumption of informational asymmetries between ...

The strategies that both invertebrate and vertebrate organism use to produce organic-inorganic composite materials for different purposes such as mechanical support and protection for the body are fascinating. While extensive ...

The morphology and evolution of small reef islands is a widely researched aspect of coral reef research. Many of these studies have however considered small islands as separate entities to their surrounding reefs, with the ...

Tutin is the poisonous principle found in the leaves, stem and berries of members of the natural order Coriariae, three of which are native to New Zealand: C. ruscifolia, C. thymofolia, C. augustissima. Easterfield and ...