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Investigating the impact of Tourism on forest cover in the Annapurna conservation area through Remote Sensing and Statistical Analysis
(University of Waikato, 2013)Tourism is Nepal’s largest industry giving people in rural areas an alternative to subsistence farming. Tourism can have an impact on the forest cover of a region as trees provide firewood for cooking and heating and timber ... -
Investigating the interhemispheric ¹⁴C offset in the 1st millennium AD and assessment of laboratory bias and calibration errors
(Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona, 2009)Past measurements of the radiocarbon interhemispheric offset have been restricted to relatively young samples because of a lack of older dendrochronologically secure Southern Hemisphere tree-ring chronologies. The Southern ... -
Investigating the Journalistic Field:The Influence of Objectivity as a Journalistic Norm on the Public Debate on Genetic Engineering in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2007)This thesis explores the relationship between journalism as a specific type of socio-cultural practice and the production of meaning in public discussion. Through a case study of newspaper coverage of the issue of genetic ... -
Investigating the lignocellulolytic gut microbiome of huhu grubs
(University of Waikato, 2016)New Zealand’s endemic longhorned beetle (Prionoplus reticularis) larvae, huhu grub, are xylophagous and feed on a broad range of dead trees. Since insects are not believed to have the ability to fully degrade lignocellulose, ... -
Investigating the memory requirements for publish/subscribe filtering algorithms
(Department of Computer Science, 2005-01-01)Various filtering algorithms for publish/subscribe systems have been proposed. One distinguishing characteristic is their internal representation of Boolean subscriptions: They either require conversions to disjunctive ... -
Investigating the Physiological and Metabolic Requirements of the Tramway Ridge Microbial Community, Mt Erebus, Antarctica
(University of Waikato, 2012)Mount Erebus is the most active volcano on the Antarctic continent, and has the most geographically and physically isolated geothermal soil on Earth. It is exposed to some of the most extreme environmental conditions on ... -
Investigating the Professional Knowledge of New Zealand Primary School Teachers when Teaching Mathematics for Numeracy
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This research investigated the relationship between teachers’ espoused professional knowledge, professional knowledge in practice, and student learning, when teaching ‘mathematics for numeracy’ in the New Zealand primary ... -
Investigating the relationship between stakeholder opinion about wildfire management and landscape context using GIS
(Department of Economics, University of Waikato, 2006-09)Colorado residents living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) were asked about their perception of wildfire risk and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three fire management procedures: fuel reduction by thinning, fire ... -
Investigating the relationships between the yield curve, output and inflation using an arbitrage-free version of the Nelson and Siegel class of yield curve models
(2005-02)This article provides a theoretical economic foundation for the popular Nelson and Siegel (1987) class of yield curve models (which has been absent up to now). This foundation also offers a new framework for investigating ... -
Investigating the Social Supports of Successful Māori Undergraduate Appellants at the University of Waikato
(University of Waikato, 2013)Educational disparities between Māori and non-Māori tertiary students are evident in regards to participation, retention, and completion rates at secondary and tertiary levels. Instead of focusing on negative statistics, ... -
Investigating the socio-economic impacts of the introduced Asian paddle crab, Charybdis japonica, on New Zealand’s native paddle crab fishery
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Despite the body of scientific research that exists on Charybdis japonica since it’s discovery in New Zealand in 2000, an investigation into the socio-economic impacts this introduced species may have was lacking. This ... -
Investigating the understanding and implementation of Ka Hikitia, in a New Zealand primary school
(The University of Waikato, 2020)In New Zealand, the education system has underserved Māori learners for many years, with various factors contributing to this underperformance. Many of these factors stem from racism and bias, conscious or unconscious, ... -
Investigating the usability of social networking sites for teenagers with autism
(ACM, 2011)Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to be socially isolated due to the interpersonal challenges of autism, yet they enjoy using computers. This study investigated the hypothesis that social networking sites ... -
Investigating the use of activity trackers to observe high-risk work environments
(Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, 2015)The New Zealand forestry industry has the country's highest rate of workplace fatalities. The reasons are not well studied or understood and no large-scale systematic physical and physiological data has been recorded to ... -
Investigating the use of coreboards by children with developmental disabilities and teachers in a school environment.
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Coreboards have become popular as an aid for individuals with disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), who may have issues with speech-language production, but who also often lack more fundamental functional ... -
Investigating the use of wearable technology to support safety in the workplace
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Many workplaces in New Zealand can be described as hazardous. That is, the nature of the work and/or workplace, or the combination of the two, can lead to situations where workers may be at risk of workplace accidents. One ... -
Investigating Tools and Methods for Data Capture of Forestry Workers
(University of Waikato, 2016)The forestry industry in New Zealand has been in the spotlight for many years due to its poor health and safety record. Workplace locations are often remote requiring extended travel times and worksites rarely offer any ... -
Investigating transitions in mathematics from multiple perspectives
(Springer, 2012)This paper reports on school transition for 15 mathematically gifted Year 6 and Year 8 students. The data are extracted from a longitudinal qualitative study that examined student and parent perspectives, and programme ... -
Investigating Wearable Technology for Fatigue Identification in the Workplace
(Springer, 2017)Fatigue has been identified as a significant contributor to workplace accident rates. However, risk minimisation is a process largely based on self-reporting methodologies, which are not suitable for fatigue identification ... -
Investigating Z
(Oxford University Press, 2003)In this paper we introduce and investigate an improved kernel logic Zc for the specification language Z. Unlike standard accounts, this logic is consistent and is easily shown to be sound. We show how a complete shema ...
