Increasingly, people with little experience of cataloguing, indexing or abstracting are using metadata schemas like the Dublin Core Metadata Elements Set (DC) and the New Zealand Government Locator Service (NZGLS) to ...

This dissertation examines the nature of the high-frequency English words that have been adopted into Japanese and their effect upon L2 English vocabulary acquisition. The findings include: (i) High-frequency English ...

The Galatea Basin, located in southern Bay of Plenty, straddles the eastern margin of the extensional Central Volcanic Region and is juxtaposed against strands of Waiohau and Te Whaiti faults. These faults are normal dextral ...

As a redesign for City Gallery Wellington, the 'Gallery of Collective Perceptions' was conceived as a critical reflection of Civic Square, the iconic urban site which the gallery faces and significantly helps to define. ...

During the Renaissance architecture was conceived as being part of an underlying harmonious order, which connected the universe and all its parts. The architect therefore used certain proportions as a way of providing a ...

Section 1 Gametes from Haliotis iris, H. australis, H. virginea virginea and H. virginea morioria were described. Electron miscroscope observations of sperm morphology allowed all species, except H. virginea subspecies, ...

Since a review of the relevant literature revealed a lack of research on the 'ludic' nature of garage sale participation, the current study was undertaken to investigate New Zealand garage sales in the context of play. ...

Gaussian processes have proved to be useful and powerful constructs for the purposes of regression. The classical method proceeds by parameterising a covariance function, and then infers the parameters given the training ...

The attempted dehydrochlorination of 1,6,7,7-tetrachlorobicyclo-[4,1,0]hept-3-ene to 7,7-dichlorobenzocyclopropene by the method used for the synthesis of the fluorine analogue was unsuccessful. Of a series of 2,5-disubs ...

New Zealand, like many other OECD nations, has introduced market-style policies into educational provision. The 'rationale' for these policies was derived from New Right or neo-liberal theory. Over the past decade there ...