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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by exploring a variety of texts generally considered marginal to his oeuvre and a hitherto unexamined selection of his unpublished manuscripts.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 ... -
William Grey Nicholls and Rihitoto Mataia
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)The son of a Pakeha Maori, Nicholls had an illustrious ancestry on his mother’s side, and his wife Rihitoto Mataia also had a distinguished whakapapa. From the 1870s Nicholls farmed in Ohinemuri, and as a licensed interpreter ... -
William Morris Newsham: a prospector and miner in the Te Aroha district
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)New Zealand-born William Morris Newsham fought against Maori without suffering any mishaps, but when aged 35 had the most perilous experience of his life. When assisting to survey a potential railway line in the King ... -
William Nicholls, Hera Te Whakaawa, and their children
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Two years after arriving in New Zealand in 1840, William Nicholls married Hera Te Whakaawa, who had an illustrious whakapapa. For the rest of his life he lived as a Pakeha Maori, trading and farming on land owned by his ... -
William Sharman Crawford (Billy) Nicholl, the prospector who discovered the Martha lode at Waihi: his life, told largely in his own words
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Billy Nicholl was that rare miner, one who recorded his life. Born in Ireland, when still a boy he arrived in New Zealand in 1862. After his father died at an early age, he acquired a step-father, whom he disliked, with ... -
Willing workers on organic farms (WWOOF): The alternative farm stay experience
(Channel View Publications, 2006)This paper aims to contribute to knowledge about the farm stay experience by providing exploratory insights into the characteristics that are common to a hosted stay on a WWOOF farm and to investigate whether the experiences ... -
Willingness-to-Pay for prescribed fire in the Colorado (USA) Wildland Urban Interface
(2006-10)During the summer of 2001, survey data were collected from Colorado residents living near public lands (i.e., the wildland urban interface). Data were collected by telephone after mailing respondents a survey. These data ... -
Willingness-to-pay for renewable energy: Primary and discretionary choice of British households' for micro-generation technologies
(Elsevier, 2010)This paper documents the policy context of renewable energy production in the European Union. The research adopts a choice experiment approach to investigate households' WTP for these renewable energy technologies in the ... -
Wim Wenders’ Use of Space in The Million Dollar Hotel
(Massey University, 2008)Wim Wenders has been quoted as saying, of his own development as a filmmaker, that he is “a painter of space engaged on a quest for time” (qtd. in Graf, 2002, p.63). This paper offers a systematic assessment of the way ... -
Wind, shelf-current and density-driven circulation in Poverty Bay, New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2001)This thesis describes the three-dimensional hydrodynamics of Poverty Bay in context of its bathymetry, forcing parameters and typical circulation patterns. The thesis provides a model of hydrodynamic processes in an exposed ... -
A window to a magical world of adventure, secrets and spectacle: Peter Pan [Review]
(2009)Choreography: Russell Kerr Music: Philip Norman Design: Kristian Fredrikson Lighting: Jon Buswell ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET at Founders Theatre, Hamilton From 9 Dec 2009 to 10 Dec 2009 Reviewed by Terri Ripeka ... -
Wine maturation using high electric field
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)Wine maturation can take a long time and consumes storage space which can be a drawback while considering commercial aspect of wine making. In the past scientists have carried out experiments on maturing wine quickly using ... -
WinGEMS modelling and pinch analysis of a paper machine for utility reduction
(Appita, 2010-09)A multi-ply paper machine process model was developed using WinGEMS and the stream data produced was used to conduct a pinch analysis. The product stream was excluded from the analysis and the composite curves display the ...
