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Goods not wanted: Older people's narratives of computer use rejection
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)In societies where the use of computers is pervasive, individuals who resist using the technology are often studied in order to determine how susceptible their views might be to change. This research takes a different ... -
Gossypol's effects on ingestive behaviour in mice: The first step in a systematic process to define gossypol's suitability for use in murine pest management
(University of Waikato, 2014)Gossypol, synthesised by the cotton plant, Gossypium, causes physiological and behavioural changes in mammals, suggesting it may be suitable for murine pest management. One of the most under-studied responses to gossypol, ... -
Governance and conflict in Pakistan: Developing a Conflict Prevention and Reduction (CPR) model to promote peace in Baluchistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA)
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Pakistan is an unstable country, home to a single religious nation made up of four major regional ethnic sub-nations. The inability of the political leadership of Pakistan to successfully connect and merge the interests ... -
Governance of International Rivers: Threats, Gaps and Challenges
(University of Waikato, 2015)In light of the growing water shortages world-wide and concerns over freshwater disputes arising from essentially a growing world population, an increase in per-capita consumption and the limited supplies of freshwater ... -
Governance of water based on responsible use – an elegant solution?
(Routledge, 2019)The inspiration for this chapter is a proposal said to represent "a paradigm shift" for the governance of freshwater, articulated by Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie in 2014. ² Arising out of challenges to a government plan to ... -
Governing globalization in South Asia through a legal praxis of human rights, development and democracy
(The University of Waikato, 2008)ABSTRACT This doctoral thesis in law seeks to understand, and begin to remedy, the immense and avoidable poverty that disenfranchises at least 30 percent of the world's most populous region. Defining South Asia as Bangladesh, ... -
Government accounting in the Global South: the design, implementation and use of global solutions for local needs
(Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2012)This chapter examines the impact of globalized accounting and economic reforms on the public sectors of the Global South, focusing particularly on the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last three decades, people ... -
Government Involvement in New Zealand Sport - Sport Policy: a Cautionary Tale
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Government involvement in New Zealand sport spans over 70 years from provisions of the Physical Welfare Act in 1937 to current provisions of the Sport and Recreation Act 2002. Thousands of volunteers in non-profit organisations ... -
Government policies and Indigenous tourism in New Caledonia
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2010)Governments in New Caledonia are supporting ecotourism initiatives as the French state has mandated efforts to increase the income of Kanak people. As it is generally asserted that tourism development provides economic ... -
Government regulation in the Australian popular music industry: The rhetoric of cultural protection, the reality of economic production
(Springer, 2006)In the 1990s the artistic autonomy of the territorial subsidiaries of the major record companies increased. Local scale “cultural freedom” did not mitigate the role of national regulation, with the music industry remaining ... -
The gown and the korowai: Maori doctoral students and the spatial organization of academic knowledge
(2009)This paper draws on 38 student interviews carried out in the course of the team research project Teaching and Learning in the Supervision of Māori Doctoral Students. Māori doctoral thesis work takes place in the intersections ... -
GPUTreeShap: massively parallel exact calculation of SHAP scores for tree ensembles
(PeerJ, 2022)SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) values (Lundberg & Lee, 2017) provide a game theoretic interpretation of the predictions of machine learning models based on Shapley values (Shapley, 1953). While exact calculation of ... -
Gracilaria transtasmanica: a potential novel target species for the bioremediation of nutrient enriched estuaries
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Estuaries are increasingly becoming eutrophic due to anthropogenically induced nutrient enrichment. Presently, 24% of global anthropogenically derived nutrients released into coastal catchments are delivered directly into ... -
Gradual reforms and the emergence of energy market in China: Evidence from tests for convergence of energy prices
(Elsevier, 2009)This study investigates the emergence of energy markets by testing for convergence of energy prices with a new dataset on energy spot prices in 35 major cities in China. Both descriptive statistics and unit root are employed ... -
Grain coarsening of magnesium alloys by beryllium
(Elsevier Ltd, 2004-10)A trace of beryllium can lead to dramatic grain coarsening in Mg–Al alloys at normal cooling rates. It is, however, unclear whether this effect applies to aluminium-free magnesium alloys or not. This work shows that a trace ... -
Grain growth and kinetics for nanocrystalline magnesium alloy produced by mechanical alloying
(Pergamon Press, 2001)A study on the kinetics of grain growth of an Mg-12.1 wt%Cu alloy produced by mechanical alloying was carried out. The grain sizes of as-mechanically alloyed powder and of cold-compacted annealed powder were determined ... -
Gram lines and the average of the real part of the Riemann zeta function
(American Mathematical Society, 2011)The contours ξ Λ(s) = 0 of the function which satisfies ζ(1-s) = Λ(s)ζ(s) cross the critical strip on lines which are almost horizontal and straight, and which cut the critical line alternately at Gram points and points ... -
A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
(The University of Waikato, 2009)A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu) is a synchronic account of the endangered Neverver language spoken by the Mindu and Sakhan peoples. The description is one outcome of a larger project to document ... -
A Grammar Sketch of Kwaraqae
(University of Waikato, 2010)A Grammar Sketch of Kwaraqae is a synchronic linguistic analysis of the Kwaraqae language, one of sixty-three languages which are part of the North Malaita dialect chain in the Solomon Islands. The data was collected at ... -
Grand View Garden: An investigation of tourists' motivation and satisfaction
(University of Waikato, 2012)Tourism has many derivatives that contribute to the totality of tourism, and this thesis focuses on a one of these types: namely, film tourism. Film tourism involves visits to a particular destination celebrated for ...
