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Global remedies for local needs: Corporate governance and public sector reforms in Fiji
(Emerald, 2009)Purpose – This paper aims to extend the literature on public sector reforms in less-developed countries in the Pacific. It seeks to examine the roles of accounting and control systems in the reforming of two public sector ... -
The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period) in the NGRIP ice core
(International Union of Geological Sciences, 2008-06)The Greenland ice core from NorthGRIP (NGRIP) contains a proxy climate record across the Pleistocene– Holocene boundary of unprecedented clarity and resolution. Analysis of an array of physical and chemical parameters ... -
Global tephra studies: role and importance of the international tephra research group "Commission on Tephrochronology" in its first 60 years
(Copernicus Gesellscharf MBH, 2022-07-12)Tephrochronology is a correlational and age-equivalent dating method whereby practitioners characterize, map, and date tephra (or volcanic ash) layers and use them stratigraphically as connecting and dating tools in the ... -
Global Zero: The new old agenda
(New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2009)The project of abolishing all nuclear weapons has been given fresh impetus but the old questions remain. Having regard to the manifold problems of definition and verification, is 'Global Zero' realistic in a world in which ... -
Globalisation and the reconstruction of the literate child
(University of Waikato, 2002)In New Zealand, the turn from the welfare state since 1984 to a global market driven economy in the early mid 1990s has affected the way that primary curriculum documents have been developed and implemented. Those documents, ... -
Globalisation, Citizenship and the War on Terror (Book Review)
(New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2008)The Editors of this book have put together a collection of post-modern musings by a clique of old-left academics from the University of Hull on the defects of contemporary democratic societies (like their own) and on the ... -
Globalization and economic geography: the world is curved, not flat
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This paper analyses the argument put that the world is becoming flatter from the perspective of economic geography and spatial economics. In order to do this, we consider the variety of empirical evidence available, much ... -
The Globalization of English: Its Impact on English Language Education in the Tertiary Education Sector in Taiwan
(The University of Waikato, 2007)The overall agenda for the research reported here grew out of semi-structured interviews with senior educational managers from a tertiary educational institution in Taiwan. These managers raised a number of issues, including ... -
Globalization of tephrochronology: new views from Australasia
(Sage, 2008)Tephra (or volcanic ash) studies, once confined largely to volcanic lands, have become increasingly practised in countries far removed from areas of active or recent volcanism – and Australia is no exception. At the ... -
Globalization: Countries, cities and multinationals
(2011)This paper explores the relationship between the size of a country, the size of its cities, and the importance of economies of scale in the modern era of globalization. In order to do this, it integrates three different ... -
Glycemic-aware metrics and oversampling techniques for predicting blood glucose levels using machine learning.
(2019)Techniques using machine learning for short term blood glucose level prediction in patients with Type 1 Diabetes are investigated. This problem is significant for the development of effective artificial pancreas technology ... -
Glycerol as a cheaper carbon source in bacterial cellulose (BC) production by Gluconacetobacter xylinus DSM46604 in batch fermentation system
(2015)Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a polymer of glucose monomers, which has unique properties including high crystallinity and high strength. It has potential to be used in biomedical applications such as making artificial blood ... -
GNUsmail: Open framework for on-line email classification
(IOS Press, 2011)Real-time classification of massive email data is a challenging task that presents its own particular difficulties. Since email data presents an important temporal component, several problems arise: emails arrive continuously, ... -
Goat’s vs cow’s milk consumption: Analysis of feeding behaviour, brain activation and gene expression in laboratory animals
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Milk is a complex and highly nutritive food. In Western societies, cow’s milk (CM) is most commonly consumed, but recent years have generated interest in milk from other species, especially in goat’s milk (GM). Importantly, ... -
Going 'walli' and having 'jinni': Exploring Somali expressions of psychological distress and approaches to treatment
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Western researchers conducting studies with Somali refugee participants have identified Somali-specific idioms of psychological distress as well as high rates of Western psychological disorders such as depression and ... -
Going beyond a mean-field model for the learning cortex: second-order statistics
(Springer, 2007)Mean-field models of the cortex have been used successfully to interpret the origin of features on the electroencephalogram under situations such as sleep, anesthesia, and seizures. In a mean-field scheme, dynamic changes ... -
Gold(I) complexes and co oxidation catalysts
(The University of Waikato, 1998)Isonitrile gold(I) nitrates, (RNC)AuNO₃ (R = Buᵗ, Et or Xy) have been prepared and fully characterised. These join the rare set of gold(I) species exhibiting ligation to oxygen and are the first examples of gold(I) bonded ... -
Gold(III) thiosalicylate complexes containing cycloaurated 2-arylpyridine, 2-anilinopyridine and 2-benzylpyridine ligands
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA, 2001-08-01)Reactions of the gold(III) dichloride complexes [(N_C)AuCl₂] ((N_C)=cycloaurated 2-phenylpyridine, 2-(p-tolyl)pyridine, 2-anilinopyridine or 2-benzylpyridine) with thiosalicylic acid (2-mercaptobenzoic acid, HSC₆H₄CO₂H) ... -
The golden hill gold mining company
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Formed in 1883 to rework ground at Te Aroha, the Golden Hill Company’s 18 shareholders included several experienced miners. But being under-capitalized and allegedly poorly worked, it was quickly in financial difficulties. ... -
The Goldsworthy brothers (and James Gribble, a brother-in-law): prominent Hauraki miners
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)This paper gives a basically chronological account of the lives of five prominent miners, all born into mining families. Most began their mining on the Thames field, becoming mine managers and even company directors. Some ...
