The potential of reusing outmoded audio/visual (A/V) technological objects in a new, creative and artistic context was the core idea of this research. My main goal was to demonstrate that as designers and artists we can ...

This thesis attempts to explain and describe the present relevant structures which are established for the preservation of New Zealand's national interests and formulation of foreign policy. That is the "machinery of foreign ...

Granite Harbour (77° south) is a glacially scoured embayment twenty kilometres across and up to 900 metres deep on the Victoria Land coast of Antarctica. Most of the ice entering the Harbour comes from the Mackay Glacier, ...

Since the dawn of mankind madness and battle-fury have been part of human culture. These timeless and cross-cultural phenomena have always been of interest to men: their common association with aggression and violence, ...

This research project investigated the readership of two New Zealand youth magazines during the period 1945-1947. The magazines, Conquest: the magazine for youth, and Junior Digest: the magazine for girls and boys, were ...

Half-metallic ferromagnets with 100 % electronic spin polarisation are an interesting class of materials for new spin transport electronics applications. Some of the double perovskites and Heusler alloys are predicted to ...

The development of the continental drift and plate tectonics theories are reviewed historically and present day developments are outlined. A method for navigational, magnetic and bathymetric data reduction and presentation, ...

A study using Geomagnetic Deep sounding and Magnetotellurics was made of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in the North Island of New Zealand. The geomagnetic sounding measurements, were mainly made with vector proton magnetometers. ...

From the time Van Vleck: Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities put forward his theory of atomic magnetism the apparently anomalous behaviour of the Group VIII transition metals, particularly the Platinum and ...