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Where did the rats of big South Cape Island come from?
(New Zealand Ecological Society, 2016)The ship rat invasion of Big South Cape Island/Taukihepa in the 1960s was an ecological catastrophe that marked a turning point for the management of rodents on offshore islands of New Zealand. Despite the importance of ... -
"Where did we go wrong?" An examination of students treatment of experimental error in engineering mechanics laboratories
(CQUniversity Australia, 2008)The ability of engineers and applied scientists to undertake experimental measurements is a fundamental requirement of the profession. However, it is not simply good enough to be able to perform experiments if we are not ... -
Where firms choose to disclose voluntary environmental information
(Elsevier, 2011)Corporate environmental performance is of increasing importance to investors, public policy makers and the general public. Firms disclose environmental information (mostly) voluntarily in their annual reports and on their ... -
Where geology meets pedology: Late Quaternary tephras, loess, and paleosols in the Mamaku Plateau and Lake Rerewhakaaitu areas
(Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2012)On this trip we focus on tephrostratigraphy and soil stratigraphy together with aspects of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction over long and short time-spans. We will examine the relationship between the deposition of tephras ... -
Where have all the children gone? Experiences of children, parents and teachers in a changing early childhood education service
(University of Waikato, 2014)This study analyses the experiences of children, parents and teachers in a changing early childhood education (ECE) service in New Zealand. This thesis derived from the researcher’s growing awareness of neo-liberal politics ... -
Where have all the flowers gone?: The wilting of university adult and community education in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2012)In the 1996 special issue of ACCESS a number of articles were commissioned to "provide a snapshot of the diverse field of Adult and Community Education (ACE) in this country" (Benseman and Findsen, 1996: i). within this ... -
Where next for low cost airlines? A spatial and temporal comparative study
(Pergamon, 2006)The purpose of this paper is to analyze the international development of the low cost airline model. The paper examines and seeks to characterize the factors which have encouraged and inhibited the spatial and temporal ... -
Where the earthly meets the ethereal
(LexisNexis, 2020)2020 has been a year of challenges and surprises in so many regards, and in keeping with this, Fa’agutu v Derhamy [2019] NZHC 406 represented a surprise for the New Zealand High Court, at least in terms of its subject-matter, ... -
Where the wild things are: Examining the intersection between the RMA 1991 and the Wildlife Act 1953
(Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc., 2009)Recent case law has drawn attention to the impact of the Wildlife Act 1953 (WA) and its intersection with the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). Some of the decisions have been summarised in previous RMLA publications and ... -
Where there's smoke there's fire? Women's experiences of smoking and cessation during pregnancy
(University of Waikato, 2014)Women who smoke during pregnancy have been identified by the New Zealand Ministry of Health as a priority group for cessation services. In addition to adverse pregnancy outcomes, the effects of cigarette exposure in utero ... -
Where to from here: Charting a way forward for language and education policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(TESOLANZ, 2002-01-01)The principle of cultural and linguistic homogeneity, upon which the organization of modern nation-states is predicated, is becoming increasingly hard to defend and maintain. At the demographic level, nation-states comprise ... -
Which future for the Hurunui? Combining choice analysis with stakeholder consultation
(University of Waikato, 2012-12)The future of the Hurunui River and its catchment has been hotly contested between those who seek to store and/or divert water from the river in order to increase agricultural production and those who would like to see the ... -
Which households are most distant from health centers in rural China? Evidence from a GIS network analysis
(2008-12)In this paper we have two objectives - one empirical; one methodological. Although China’s leaders are beginning to pay attention to health care in rural China, there are still concerns about access to health services. To ... -
Which journal rankings best explain academic salaries? Evidence from the University of California
(University of Waikato, 2012-08)The ranking of an academic journal is important to authors, universities, journal publishers and research funders. Rankings are gaining prominence as countries adopt regular research assessment exercises that especially ... -
Whisperer: A Study in Adaptation
(University of Waikato, 2012)It is becoming increasingly common in the modern theatre world for practitioners to be multi‐disciplinary. This thesis mates the skills of academia, scriptwriting, technical design and prop fabrication in order to create ... -
Whispering Birds: Site-specific dance, affect and emotion
(Routledge, 2018)Researching embodied experiences of affect, feeling and emotion in site-specific dance offers understandings beyond the visual and aesthetic aspects of performance, opening consideration of both the performers’ and audiences’ ... -
Whistleblowing: The advantages of self-regulation
(2005-09)Although whistleblowers are often portrayed as courageous individuals worthy of respect, the act of whistleblowing can be viewed as a disloyal act which may bring much harm to the whistleblower’s colleagues. We argue that ... -
White-noise susceptibility and critical slowing in neurons near spiking threshold
(American Physical Society, 2006)We present mathematical and simulation analyses of the below-threshold noisy response of two biophysically motivated models for excitable membrane due to H. R. Wilson: a squid axon (“resonator”) and a human cortical neuron ... -
Whitewashed Jasmine
(The University of Waikato, 2020)A young brown girl stands with her arms and feet apart. Snowmanned in Fair & Lovely. She does not know why she has to do this. She wonders why the way she was born isn’t enough. Why she’s not enough. Whitewashed Jasmine ... -
Whitiwhiti Korero: Exploring the researchers' relationship in cross-cultural research
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)This paper explores the intercultural relationship between two New Zealanders and its influence in an unfolding cross-cultural research project involving kaumātua (Māori elders). Using a “critical incidents” approach, the ...
