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How Nutritional and Genetic Factors affect New Zealand Goat Milk Composition
(University of Waikato, 2012)Demand for goat milk produced in New Zealand (NZ) is rapidly growing, particularly in expanding Asian markets. The aim of this study was to investigate how genetic and nutritional factors influence milk composition of NZ ... -
How old are Australia's pictographs? A review of rock art dating
(Elsevier, 2013)Australia contains some of the world's richest and apparently longest traditions of rock pictographs. Dating this art, however, has been problematic, with few 'direct' and reliable dates of Pleistocene or early Holocene ... -
How Pākehā in not-for-profit organisations implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The aims of this research are to understand what is happening in not-for-profit organisations in relation to our obligation to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and to describe some strategies Pākehā can use to implement Te ... -
How people find videos
(ACM, 2008)At present very little is known about how people locate and view videos 'in the wild'. This study draws a rich picture of everyday video seeking strategies and video information needs, based on an ethnographic study of New ... -
How prepared are Pākehā tertiary teachers to teach Māori students? Teachers’ own perceptions of their preparedness
(University of Waikato, 2014)In the past three decades New Zealand has seen an increasing government commitment to realising the promises of both equality and tino rangatiratanga embedded in the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. There is acknowledgement ... -
How pro-poor is the selection of seasonal migrant workers from Tonga under New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program?
(2008-06)Temporary migration programs for unskilled workers are increasingly being proposed as a way to both relieve labour shortages in developed countries and aid development in sending countries without entailing many of the ... -
How reading published stories and making story webs can work together to enhance classroom story writing
(The New Zealand Literacy Association, 2015)Many students find story writing a challenge (Beard & Burrell, 2010; Calfee & Patrick, 1995; Dunn & Finley, 2010; Dymock & Nicholson, 2010; Richards, Sturm, & Cali, 2012; Saunders & Smith, 2014). Teachers need a simple ... -
How reflective exchanges of second language students can have an impact on their learning outcomes and on future curriculum planning in a tertiary environment
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato, 2005)Teaching academic English and study skills at tertiary level can be a restricted and pressured environment due to factors such as heavy course content, large numbers of students or lack of time to teach all areas that are ... -
How reliable are household expenditures as a proxy for permanent income? Implications for the income-nutrition relationship
(University of Waikato, 2011-03)Measurement error in short-run expenditures from household surveys may attenuate estimated effects of permanent income on economic outcomes. Repeated observations on households during the year are used to calculate reliability ... -
How reliable are household expenditures as a proxy for permanent income? Implications for the income–nutrition relationship
(Elsevier, 2013)Using short-run expenditures from household surveys as a proxy may create attenuated estimates of the impact of permanent income on economic outcomes. We use repeated observations to calculate reliability ratios and estimate ... -
How school culture affects teachers’ classroom implementation of learning from professional development
(Springer, 2023)A core element of almost all educational improvement efforts is an intention to improve teacher practice in order to enhance student- and system-level outcomes. To this end, a range of strategies are deployed to facilitate ... -
How school leaders address violence against girls/women in schools and its significance for the implementation of universal basic education policy in Papua New Guinea
(University of Waikato, 2013)The goal of Universal Basic Education (UBE), as agreed to in the formulation of the Education For All Goals in 1990 and later the development of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations (UN) in 2000, ... -
How Spirituality Shapes the Formation of Entrepreneurial Venture: The Case of Malay Muslim Entrepreneurs
(University of Waikato, 2016)Studies have shown that spirituality in the workplace can positively impact the performance of individuals, work units, and organisations. What once was thought to be just a short-lived trend has now grown into an established ... -
How structural and symbolic violence during resettlement impacts the social and mental wellbeing of forced migrant women: the lived experiences of Arabic speaking survivors of IPV resettled in Melbourne, Australia.
(2022-11-11)Forced migrant women experience high levels of violence across their journeys and violence can be characterised as having three overarching forms: structural, symbolic, and interpersonal. It is important to understand the ... -
How successful are government interventions in food markets? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007)This paper investigates the Philippine government's price stabilization policy for rice. Seemingly unrelated regressions are used to examine the effectiveness of the program at regional and national levels over a 21-year ... -
How sustainable are OECD current account balances in the long run?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)The study examines the long-run sustainability of OECD current account balances. For this purpose, tests for current account stationarity and then cointegration between exports and imports are based on recently developed ... -
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects transgender health care - A cross-sectional online survey in 63 upper-middle-income and high-income countries
(2021)Background Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, access to medical care is restricted for nearly all non-acute conditions. Due to their status as a vulnerable social group and the inherent need for transition-related treatments, ... -
How the dragons work: searching in a web
(ACM, 2006)Search engines -- "web dragons" -- are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort and filter information, yet how they work is one of ... -
How the Marsden Fund has failed to achieve its full potential in the ESA panel: evidence of limitations in scope, biased outcomes, and futile applications
(New Zealand Association of Scientists, 2014)We have analysed the scope of proposals funded by the ‘Earth Sciences and Astronomy’ (ESA) panel of the Marsden Fund for the period 2004 to 2013. The scope of proposals funded is very limited and does not reflect the full ... -
How to express your feelings (with a little help from Google)
(2008)This paper describes an attempt to capitalize on the vast amount of human-generated text readily available on the Web to help language learners express their own feelings. We avoid errors, idiosyncrasies, and other dross ...
