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Ma hea – which way? Mo te aha – what for?
(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
(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
(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
(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 identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction
(Cambridge University Press, 2022)The end-Permian mass extinction occurred alongside a large swath of environmental changes that are often invoked as extinction mechanisms, even when a direct link is lacking. One way to elucidate the cause(s) of a mass ... -
Machine learning in practice: experience with agricultural databases
(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
(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
(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
(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. ... -
Macroclimate and topography interact to influence the abundance of divaricate plants in New Zealand
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020)The abundance of the divaricate growth form in New Zealand has been interpreted as either (a) the response of an isolated flora to cool, dry, Plio-Pleistocene climates; or (b) a defense against large browsing birds (moa) ... -
Macrofossil biofacies in the late Neogene of central Hawke's Bay: applications to palaeogeography
(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.
(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
(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
(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
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 ... -
Macrophyte architecture affects the abundance and diversity of littoral microfauna
(Springer, 2011)We tested the hypothesis that structural complexity is an important factor influencing the abundance and taxon richness of microfauna (e.g., rotifers, copepods, cladocerans) in littoral habitats. Research on littoral ... -
Macroscopic quantum phenomena
(The University of Waikato, 1994)This thesis consists of two parts. Although both are concerned with macroscopic quantum phenomena, I choose to present the two parts quite separately. Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena: Tests of Quantum Mechanics The ... -
Mad Max: Fury Road - Challenging narrative and gender representation in the action genre
(2017)This article explores the key components that made "Mad Max: Fury Road" a subversive text within the action/post-apocalyptic genre. There will be a discussion of the film’s narrative (or lack of), Miller’s visual language ... -
Magic as a Tool of Social Construction: Cultural and Gender Identity in Contemporary Fantasy
(University of Waikato, 2015)Contemporary fantasy is a genre that exists outside the boundaries of what consensus society constructs as socially normative. It re-appropriates and subverts facets of reality in order to place the reader in a position ... -
Magic: A Theory from the South, by Ernesto De Martino [Book Review]
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article reviews the book: “Magic: A Theory from the South”, by Ernesto De Martino, translated and annotated by Dorothy Louise Zinn.
