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Ma hea – which way? Mo te aha – what for?

Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia (2003-08)

Keynote address to the annual conference of the NZ Psychological Society, 28 August 2004 E rau rangatira ma, tena ra koutou…. This presentation will be in four sections. The first section will introduce two major issues, ...

Machine learning and statistics: a matter of perspective

Cunningham, Sally Jo (University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 1995-04)

Information has become an important commercial commodity-indeed, possibly the most important product of the future. While we have well-developed technologies to store data, the analysis to extract information is time-consuming ...

Machine learning applied to fourteen agricultural datasets

Thomson, Kirsten; McQueen, Robert J. (1996-09)

This document reports on an investigation conducted between November, 1995 and March, 1996 into the use of machine learning on 14 sets of data supplied by agricultural researchers in New Zealand. Our purpose here is to ...

Machine Learning for Adaptive Computer Game Opponents

Miles, Jonathan David (The University of Waikato, 2009)

This thesis investigates the use of machine learning techniques in computer games to create a computer player that adapts to its opponent's game-play. This includes first confirming that machine learning algorithms can ...

Machine learning in practice: experience with agricultural databases

Garner, Stephen R.; Cunningham, Sally Jo; Holmes, Geoffrey; Nevill-Manning, Craig G.; Witten, Ian H. (University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 1995-05)

The Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (weka) is a New Zealand government-sponsored initiative to investigate the application of machine learning to economically important problems in the agricultural industries. ...

Machine translation for te reo Māori

Keegan, Te Taka Adrian Gregory (Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao / Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, the University of Waikato, 2017)

What is Machine Translation? Machine Translation (MT) is a process where computer software is used to translate texts from one natural (or spoken) language to another. Early research centred on two distinct approaches: ...

Machine vision system grading of pine tree seedlings

Mcguinness, Benjamin John; Duke, Mike (2017)

A PC-based machine vision system for grading pine tree seedlings has been tested at a forestry nursery. The machine has been designed to be implemented in the field at the point of harvesting, removing the need for extra ...

MacKinder meets Buzan: A Geopolitical Extension to Security complex Theory with an emphasis on the Polar Regions

Gibbs, Denis Richard (University of Waikato, 2011)

Throughout the centuries interstate wars have been fought over territory to satisfy the requirement of states’ to secure sufficient land and resources to meet the lifestyle needs and economic aspirations of their citizens. ...

Macrofossil biofacies in the late Neogene of central Hawke's Bay: applications to palaeogeography

Bland, Kyle J.; Hendy, Austin J.W.; Kamp, Peter J.J.; Nelson, Campbell S. (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

The Late Miocene–Early Pleistocene (Tongaporutuan–Nukumaruan) sedimentary succession in the forearc basin in central and western Hawke's Bay, encompassed by the Tolaga and Mangaheia Groups, comprises a wide variety of ...

Macrofossils and pollen representing forests of the pre-Taupo volcanic eruption (c. 1850 yr BP) era at Pureora and Benneydale, central North Island, New Zealand.

Clarkson, Beverley R.; McGlone, Matt S.; Lowe, David J.; Clarkson, Bruce D. (R S N Z Publishing, 1995-06-01)

Micro- and macrofossil data from the remains of forests overwhelmed and buried at Pureora and Benneydale during the Taupo eruption (c. 1850 conventional radiocarbon yr BP) were compared. Classification of relative abundance ...

Macroinvertebrates and water quality: a teaching guide

Hicks, Brendan J. (University of Waikato, 2002)

Streams support a diverse community of plants and animals on or in the stream bed. These organisms comprise the benthos. Among the benthos are worms, molluscs, crustaceans, and larval insects. Insect larvae are usually the ...

Macroinvertebrate–pressure relationships in boatable New Zealand rivers: Influence of underlying environment and sampling substrate

Collier, Kevin J.; Clapcott, Joanne E.; David, Bruno O.; Death, Russell G.; Kelly, David; Leathwick, John R.; Young, Roger G. (John Wiley & Sons, 2012)

Responses of macroinvertebrate communities to human pressure are poorly known in large rivers compared with wadeable streams, in part because of variable substrate composition and the need to disentangle pressure responses ...

Macromolecular Rate Theory (MMRT) Provides a Thermodynamics Rationale to Underpin the Convergent Temperature Response in Plant Leaf Respiration

Liang, Liying L.; Arcus, Vickery L.; Heskel, Mary A.; O'Sullivan, Odhran S.; Weerasinghe, Lasantha K.; Creek, Dainelle; Egerton, John J.G.; Tjoelker, Mark G.; Atkin, Owen K.; Schipper, Louis A.

Temperature is a crucial factor in determining the rates of ecosystem processes, for example, leaf respiration (R) – the flux of plant respired CO₂ from leaves to the atmosphere. Generally, R increases exponentially with ...