Blue Mountain is a central type alkali ultrabasic-gabbro ring complex of Middle Cretaceous age intruding Upper Jurassic sediments, Inland Kaikoura Range, Marlborough, New Zealand. The complex (1.5km x 1km) is composed of ...

Basic rocks have been intruded into the paleozoic Arthur Marble at Rameka Creek. These basic rocks have undergone regional metamorphism, producing amphibolites, and have been considerably metasomatized. A fine grained phase ...

The Paparoa Range is a horst of basement granite and gneiss near the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Mapping in the central Paparoa Range has led to the recognition of four formations within the Charleston ...

Two purification methods, pH precipitation and ion-exchange chromatography, were examined for suitability as steps in a purification procedure for ox-kidney urate oxidase. Neither of the methods significantly increased the ...

This thesis is addressed to the classroom teacher in an age of confusion and change. The modern teacher who looks to educational theories and research for guidance is confronted by a bewildering plethora of often conflicting ...

Gene functions were studied as extensive networks comprising synergistic functional interactions between overlapping pairs of genes. Elucidation of such networks related to drug phenotypes (statins in this thesis) provides ...

Goats belong to the Bovidae family of hollow-horned ruminants, within the mammalian order of Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Their current taxonomic position is presented by Couturier (1962). Class : Mammalia L. ...

This thesis is concerned with the meaning of death from a personal point of view. The question is asked: What does my death mean to me? What is the philosophical significance of my death? To answer these questions involves ...

Non-tonal language bilinguals have been found to outperform their monolingual peers in a number of phonological awareness tasks measuring segmental awareness. No research has been conducted to investigate tonal language ...

This thesis embodies the results of work carried out under the general heading of photoacoustic spectroscopy. In this work the photoacoustic effect in mercury vapour is investigated. Chapter 1 outlines the basic principle ...