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  • Falloon, Garry (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2011)
    This study introduces findings of an initial pilot from a New Zealand government-funded initiative known as Science-for-Life, which aims to enhance the quality of science teaching through the formation of face-to-face and ...
  • Farrell, Roberta L. (2007)
    There are many challenges facing conservation of the historic huts in Antarctica including non-biological, biological and environmental impacts explains Professor Roberta L. Farrell, Department of Biological Sciences, ...
  • Reutemann, Peter; Vanschoren, Joaquin (Springer, 2012)
    We demonstrate the Advanced Data mining And Machine learning System (ADAMS), a novel workflow engine designed for rapid prototyping and maintenance of complex knowledge workflows. ADAMS does not require the user to manually ...
  • Chen, Junjun; Cowie, Bronwen (Springer, 2013)
    The benefits of connecting school students with scientists are well documented. This paper reports how New Zealand teachers brought scientists into the classrooms through the use of videos of New Zealand scientists talking ...
  • Wolfaardt, Trish; Campbell, Maxine M. (Department of Societies and Cultures, University of Waikato, 2013)
    Non-motorised scooters have increased significantly in popularity over the last few years in New Zealand, following similar trends in the US, Australia, Canada and Europe. Non-motorised scooters are an important source of ...
  • Duncan, Shona Margaret; Minasaki, Ryuji; Farrell, Roberta L.; Thwaites, Joanne M.; Held, Benjamin W.; Arenz, Brett E.; Jurgens, Joel Allan; Blanchette, Robert A. (2008)
    To survive in Antarctica, early explorers of Antarctica's Heroic Age erected wooden buildings and brought in large quantities of supplies. The introduction of wood and other organic materials may have provided new nutrient ...
  • Su, Yu-Chang; Ho, Chen-Lung; Hsu, Kuang-Ping; Chang, Hou-Min; Farrell, Roberta L.; Wang, Eugene I-Chen (2011)
    Ophiostoma species have been demonstrated to metabolize wood extractives and be useful to the pulp and paper industry. In order to have new isolates for the Asian market, Eucalyptus camaldulensis logs were harvested from ...
  • Coolbear, C.; Eames, Chris W.; Casey, Y.; Daniel, Roy M.; Morgan, Hugh W. (Wiley, 1991)
    A thermostable arginase (l-arginine amidinohydrolase, EC 3.5.3.1) was purified from the extreme thermophile ‘Bacillus caldovelox’ (DSM 411) by a procedure including DEAE-Sepharose chromatography, and gel filtration, anion ...
  • Bell, Robert G.; Goring, D. G.; de Lange, Willem P. (2000)
    This paper reviews the latest research in New Zealand surrounding the issues of sea-level rise and extreme sea levels in the context of global warming and variability in the Pacific-wide El Nino– Southern Oscillation (ENSO). ...
  • Bainbridge, David; Novak, Brook Jesse (Springer, 2010)
    In this paper we present a new framework for editing that we have called Seaweed (short for seamless web editing) which enables authors to directly edit content on web pages within any common web browser—much like a ...
  • Novak, Brook Jesse (The University of Waikato, 2010)
    The typical process of editing content on the web is strongly moded. Authors are forced to switch between editing and previewing and publishing modes before, during, and after the editing process. This thesis ...
  • Cunningham, Sally Jo; Bainbridge, David (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010)
    We explore music search behavior by identifying music-related queries in a large (over 20 million queries) search engine log, gathered over three months in 2006. Music searching is a significant information behavior: ...
  • Witten, Ian H. (2008)
    Search engines—“web dragons”—are the portals through which we access society’s treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort and filter information, yet what they do and how they do it ...
  • Bainbridge, David; Dewsnip, Michael; Witten, Ian H. (Elsevier B.V., 2005)
    There has been a recent explosion of interest in digital music libraries. In particular, interactive melody retrieval is a striking example of a search paradigm that differs radically from the standard full-text search. ...
  • Pool, Ian (Population Association of New Zealand, 2005)
    This paper is both more theoretical and highly applied; both methodological and policy-oriented. Empirically until recently there has been little work on momentum effects. By way of case-studies on momentum effects, the ...
  • Kovar, Klaus; Fürnkranz, Johannes; Petrak, Johann; Pfahringer, Bernhard; Trappl, Robert; Widmer, Gerhard (Taylor & Francis, 2000)
    This paper presents an empirical study on the possibility of discovering interesting event sequences and sequential rules in a large database of international political events. A data mining algorithm first presented by ...
  • Grant, Bevan C. (2007)
    Consumerism is the way of life in the 21st century. Everything is for sale, principally to those with the resources – which is where the profit lies. But it's a competitive market so people from all walks of life are being ...
  • Liesaputra, Veronica; Witten, Ian H.; Bainbridge, David (2009)
    Information has no value unless it is accessible. With physical books, most people rely on the table of contents and subject index to find what they want. But what if they are reading a book in a digital library and have ...
  • Greenwood, Tracey L.; Green, John D.; Hicks, Brendan J.; Chapman, M. Ann (1999)
    The seasonal changes in the dynamics and life histories of the Cladocera in Lake Mangakaware, North Island, New Zealand, were studied over 19 months by sampling at weekly or 2-weekly intervals. Lake Mangakaware is a 13.3 ...
  • Hicks, Brendan J.; Watson, N. R. N. (1985)
    Numbers and approximate sizes of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and rainbow trout (5. gairdnerii Richardson) were estimated by snorkel divers at 6 sites in the middle reaches of the Rangitikei River, North Island, New ...

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