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GABAergic compensation in connexin36 knock-out mice evident during low-magnesium seizure-like event activity
(Elsevier, 2010)Gap junctions within the cerebral cortex may facilitate cortical seizure formation by their ability to synchronize electrical activity. To investigate this, one option is to compare wild-type (WT) animals with those lacking ... -
Gaining and Losing Respect of the New Zealand Public: Adidas' 2011 Rugby World Cup Jersey Pricing Crisis
(University of Waikato, 2013)As principal sponsors of the All Blacks over the past 13 years, Adidas have gone to great lengths to ensure their advertising campaigns reflect respect for the New Zealand public in relation to the traditions, history and ... -
Gains and losses in C and N stocks of New Zealand pasture soils depend on land use
(Elsevier, 2010)Previous re-sampling of 31 New Zealand pasture soil profiles to 1 m depth found large and significant losses of C and N over 2–3 decades. These profiles were predominantly on intensively grazed flat land. We have extended ... -
Gait analysis of pedestrians with the aim of detecting disabled people
(Trans Tech Publications, 2018)Gait classification is an effective and non-intrusive method for human identification and it has received significant attention in the recent years due to its applications in visual surveillance and monitoring systems. We ... -
Gambling with communities
(Dunmore Press Limited, 2002)In this chapter we draw attention to spoken and unspoken aspects of government policy found in the disadvantaging of community forms of gambling. Much of the rhetoric presented by government claims to be about protecting ... -
Game changer competition
(New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2016)An increasingly complex arms competition is underway between the United States, Russia and China. While the United States is in the lead across a range of current and emerging systems, it can no longer take its position ... -
A game of slides and ladders: Māori health providers and funders
(Massey University Press, 2017)Devolution of government responsibility after the neo-liberal reforms of the 1980s, and the re-orientation of health services towards public health in the 1990s, created an opportunity for Māori to take control of their ... -
Game Theory in a Napoleonic Context: Establishing Napoleon's Utility and Application to the 1805 War of the Third Coalition
(University of Waikato, 2013)Game theory has existed in the fields of mathematics and economics for over 60 years. This thesis assesses its viability for use in the field of history, and in particular, in the Napoleonic era. It does this by analysing ... -
Gamifying the EV Driving Experience: A virtual electric vehicle to change public attitudes
(2015)Although significant advances have been achieved in the range and performance of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in recent years, the rate of uptake of these vehicles is relatively slow, meaning that they will not become ... -
Gaming and Gender: Home as a Place of (Non)conformity for Women Gamers
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This research examines interactive multimedia video games that are played on technological devices such as: computers, gameboys, PlayStation, Portable PlayStation (PSP) and Xbox. Particular attention is paid to women 30 ... -
Gaming Business Communities: Developing online learning organisations to foster communities, develop leadership, and grow interpersonal education
(University of Waikato, 2012)This paper explores, through observation and testing, what possibilities from gaming can be extended into other realms of human interaction to help bring people together, extend education, and grow business. It uses through ... -
A gap in management accounting education: Fact or fiction?
(2016)Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify and gain insights into the gap that persists between management accounting education and practice. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: Management accounting education is examined ... -
Gap junctions mediate large-scale Turing structures in a mean-field cortex driven by subcortical noise
(American Physical Society: doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.011916, 2007)One of the grand puzzles in neuroscience is establishing the link between cognition and the disparate patterns of spontaneous and task-induced brain activity that can be measured clinically using a wide range of detection ... -
Gap junctions modulate seizures in a mean-field model of general anesthesia for the cortex
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)During slow-wave sleep, general anesthesia, and generalized seizures, there is an absence of consciousness. These states are characterized by low-frequency large-amplitude traveling waves in scalp electroencephalogram. ... -
Garden Place: Who Belongs Here? Individuals' Attitude Towards Hamilton's Homeless Population
(University of Waikato, 2015)Like many other countries, it was during the 1980s that homelessness emerged as a social problem in New Zealand. It first became a prominent issue in cities like Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. However, in later ... -
Gardens, transitions and identity reconstruction among older Chinese immigrants to New Zealand
(SAGE, 2010-07)Psychologists have foregrounded the importance of links between places and daily practices in the construction of subjectivities and well-being. This article explores domestic gardening practices among older Chinese ... -
Garment pattern definition, development and application with associative feature approach
(Elsevier, 2010)Garment virtual design has been evolved significantly with the rapid development of 3D CAD tools, especially with the convenient availability of NURBS surface modeling capability. Parametric development of clothes is ... -
Gary Edward Orbell MSc (Hons), MNZIAHS, MRSNZ, 12 February, 1936–17 October, 2021
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Gaseous emissions (NH₃, N₂O and CH₄) following manure or urea application to soil as influenced by amendments
(University of Waikato, 2010)Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may contribute to global warming. The three most important greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (mainly from burning fossil fuels and deforestation), methane ... -
Gathering a corpus of multimodal computer-mediated meetings with focus on text and audio interaction
(European Language Resources Association, 2006)In this paper we describe the gathering of a corpus of synchronised speech and text interaction over the network. The data collection scenarios characterise audio meetings with a significant textual component. Unlike ...
