Research Commons

Research Commons is an open access digital repository promoting and preserving the scholarly outputs of researchers at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

The repository contains the research of University of Waikato staff as well as Higher and Masters Degree theses deposited with The University of Waikato Library since 2006.

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Māori and Pacific Development [50]

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Science and Engineering [1758]

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University of Waikato Theses [1384]

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A population based assessment of the geographical accessibility of outdoor recreation opportunities in New Zealand

Brabyn, Lars; Sutton, S. (Elsevier, 2013)

Active participation in the outdoors not only provides enjoyment and adventure, but it is also important for health and promoting conservation values. The latter is particularly important for young people as they are at ...
Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia

Pagel, Mark; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Calude, Andreea S.; Meade, Andrew (2013)

The search for ever deeper relationships among the World’s languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative ...
The hydrodynamics of the southern basin of Tauranga Harbour

Tay, H.W.; Bryan, Karin R.; de Lange, Willem P.; Pilditch, Conrad A. (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

The circulation of the southern basin of Tauranga Harbour was simulated using a 3-D hydrodynamic model ELCOM. A 9-day field campaign in 1999 provided data on current velocity, temperature and salinity profiles at three ...
Introducing contrast and luminance normalisation to improve the quality of subtractive resolution merge technique

Ashraf, Salman; Brabyn, Lars; Hicks, Brendan J. (2013)

Subtractive resolution merge (SRM) is a contemporary image fusion method that produces highly preserved spatial and spectral resolution. This method is limited to dual sensor platforms with specific band ratios between the ...
The economic consequences of ‘Brain Drain’ of the best and brightest: Microeconomic evidence from five countries

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

This article presents results of innovative surveys that tracked academic high achievers from five countries to wherever they moved in the world to directly measure at the micro level the channels through which high-skilled ...