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Why honey is effective as a medicine. 2. The scientific explanation of its effects
(National Beekeepers Association of New Zealand, 2001)The effectiveness of honey as a therapeutic agent has been unequivocally demonstrated in the literature reviewed in Part 1 of this article published in 1999, but the biochemical explanation of these effects is more ... -
Why size maters: Investigating the drivers of innovation and economic performance in New Zealand using the business operation survey
(University of Waikato, 2013-09)The economic performance of the New Zealand economy is something of an enigma. Although ranked number one (of 144 countries) for four important 'growth fundamentals' New Zealand is 'middle of the pack' when it comes to ... -
Why students answer TIMSS science test items the way they do
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)The purpose of this study was to explore how Year 8 students answered Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) questions and whether the test questions represented the scientific understanding of these ... -
Why this time is different: The North Korea Crisis and New Zealand’s interests.
North Korea remains the ultimate international outlier: an isolated totalitarian state seeking to acquire a credible nuclear weapons program. As such, a simmering crisis between the North and the US has been playing out ... -
Why using the level of the active component in manuka honey to replace the UMF rating is misleading
(South City Print, 2008)There have been some news releases claiming that Professor Henle in Germany has found the chemical identity of UMF, and that in future chemical analysis will be used instead of assays of antibacterial activity to indicate ... -
Why were New Zealand levels of life-expectation so high at the dawn of the twentieth century?
(University of Waikato, Population Studies Centre, 2002-09)With population ageing becoming an issue of major importance for societies in the developed countries, in both the scientific and policy communities there is widespread interest in the determinants of these structural ... -
Widespread distribution and identification of eight novel microcystins in Antarctic cyanobacterial mats
(American Society for Microbiology, 2008)The microcystin content and cyanobacterial community structure of Antarctic microbial mat samples collected from 40 ponds, lakes and hydro-terrestrial environments were investigated. Samples were collected from Bratina ... -
Widespread nearshore and shallow marine deposition within the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin, Australia
(Elsevier, 2019)In the Surat Basin of eastern Australia, the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation are a highly prospective reservoir-seal pair for notional future carbon capture and storage. However, the succession ... -
A wiggle-match date for Polynesian settlement of New Zealand
(Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2002)Dating initial colonisation and environmental impacts by Polynesians in New Zealand is controversial. A key horizon is provided by the Kaharoa Tephra, deposited from an eruption of Mt Tarawera, because just underneath this ... -
Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating of the Taupo eruption
(Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2019)The Taupo eruption deposit is an isochronous marker bed that spans much of New Zealand’s North Island and pre-dates human arrival. Holdaway et al. (2018, Nature Comms 9, 4110) propose that the current Taupo eruption date ... -
Wild record of an apple snail in the Waikato River, Hamilton, New Zealand and their incidence in freshwater aquaria
(New Zealand Natural Sciences, 2011)We report the discovery of a single specimen of a live apple snail Pomacea diffusa Blume 1957 (Ampullariidae: Prosobranchia), from the Waikato River, Hamilton city, central North Island, New Zealand. This species, along ... -
Will scholars trump teachers in New Zealand teacher education?
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2005)The Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) assessment process in 2003 highlighted the research imperative for academic staff in New Zealand teacher education. This imperative was not new: it was implicit in the tertiary ... -
Will the teacher's laptop transform learning?
(Otago University Press, 2008)This article explores how Year to 3 teachers have made use of laptops for teaching and learning in their classroom, examining how they fit with current recommendations for effective teaching, and whether teachers' use of ... -
Will the US Dollar Remain the Sole Key Global Reserve Currency in the Future? The Implications of Rising Debt, Unorthodox Monetary Policy and Emergence of Alternative Currencies.
(The University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis studies two key risks that have the potential to dethrone the US dollar’s position as the dominant global reserve currency. Specifically, it contends the first risk stems from a future loss of confidence in the ... -
William Archibald Murray: a Piako farmer who invested in Waiorongomai mines
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Proudly Scottish and from a sheep-farming family boasting a distinguished lineage, William Archibald Murray settled in Otago with his brothers in 1858 and acquired a large estate. A successful farmer, he was elected to ... -
William Buchanan Maxwell: a veteran who became ‘Te Aroha’s pet adornment’
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Famous in Te Aroha as a veteran soldier, Maxwell had fought in the Crimea, China, and India before fighting against Maori in New Zealand. Proud of his four wounds, he would lead a detachment of volunteers marching off to ... -
William Dibsell: one of the first settlers in the Te Aroha district
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)A baker, William Dibsell arrived in New Zealand in 1862, settling in Thames in 1868. Later he moved to the Waihou district to run a hotel and store at Te Kawana, near the future Te Aroha, transferring to the latter settlement ... -
William Godwin and Catholicism
(University of Southern Queensland, 2012-07-02)This essay traces Godwin‘s changing attitude to Catholicism by exploring a variety of texts generally considered marginal to his oeuvre and a hitherto unexamined selection of his unpublished manuscripts. -
William Godwin and the puritan legacy
(San Diego State University, 2012)This essay’s analysis of Godwin’s engagement with his (and Britain’s) puritan and Dissenting legacy is significant in two respects. First, it offers a reading of two of Godwin’s lesser known, later writings and thus ... -
William Godwin’s religious sense
(Wiley InterScience, 2009)The anarchist philosopher, novelist and historian William Godwin (1756-1836) began life in a devout Dissenting or nonconformist family. As a young man he trained for the ministry, before losing his faith and turning atheist ...
