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  • The 2002 Banks Memorial Lecture: The flora of Mt Taranaki/Egmont: Understanding natural and garden experiments

    Clarkson, Bruce D. (Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, 2002)
    In this, the 2002 Banks Memorial Lecture, I have two main aims. First, I will trace what has been discovered by botanists about the Mt Taranaki/Egmont flora since Joseph Banks scanned the mountain from the deck of Cook’s ...
  • A 2009 survey of the Australasian clinical medical physics and biomedical engineering workforce

    Round, W. Howell (Springer, 2010)
    A survey of the Australasian clinical medical physics and biomedical engineering workforce was carried out in 2009 following on from a similar survey in 2006. 621 positions (equivalent to 575 equivalent full time (EFT) ...
  • A 2012 survey of the Australasian clinical medical physics and biomedical engineering workforce

    Round, W. Howell (Springer, 2013)
    A survey of the medical physics and biomedical engineering workforce in Australia and New Zealand was carried out in 2012 following on from similar surveys in 2009 and 2006. 761 positions (equivalent to 736 equivalent full ...
  • 2014 Fieldays in Hamilton: Economic impacts for the Waikato Region and New Zealand

    Hughes, Warren (Institute for Business Research, The University of Waikato, 2014)
    The 2014 Fieldays event over 11 –14 June attracted 119,892 gate entries which was 4.2% lower than in 2013. For the 2014 event, a total of 942 firms exhibited their goods and services (up 4.9% over 2013) including 71 overseas ...
  • 2016 Subtidal Ecological Survey of Tauranga Harbour and development of benthic health models

    Clark, Dana; Taiapa, Caine; Sinner, Jim; Taikato, Vanessa Rona; Culliford, David; Battershill, Christopher N.; Ellis, Joanne I.; Hewitt, Judi E.; Gower, Fiona; Borges, Hugo; Patterson, Murray (Massey University, 2018)
    This report summarises the results of biological and physical data collected from a broad-scale subtidal survey of Tauranga Harbour conducted between March and May 2016. The survey was designed to understand more fully the ...
  • The 2020 cannabis referendum: Māori voter support, racialized policing, and the Criminal Justice System

    Dempster, Craig; Norris, Adele N. (2022)
    In the New Zealand 2020 cannabis referendum, 50.7% of all voters rejected the creation of a legally-regulated cannabis market and instead supported retaining the current prohibitionist policy. Although the referendum failed ...
  • A 250-year periodicity in Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the last 2600 years

    Turney, Chris S.M.; Jones, Richard T.; Fogwill, Christopher J.; Hatton J.; Williams, Alan N.; Hogg, Alan G.; Thomas, Zoë; Palmer, Jonathan G.; Mooney, S; Reimer, Ron W (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2016)
    Middle Holocene cultures have been widely studied around the Eastern-Mediterranean basin in the last 30 years and past cultural activities have been commonly linked with regional climate changes. However, in many cases ...
  • A 28,000 year old excavated painted rock from Nawarla Gabarnmang, northern Australia

    David, Bruno O.; Barker, Bryce; Petchey, Fiona; Delannoy, Jean-Jacques; Geneste, Jean-Michel; Rowe, Cassandra; Eccleston, Mark; Lamb, Lara; Whear, Ray (Elsevier, 2013)
    We report new archaeological excavations from northern Australia revealing part of a charcoal design likely to be c. 28,000 years old (and chrono-stratigraphically constrained within the period 15,600-45,600 cal BP) on a ...
  • The 2nd workshop on active internet measurements (AIMS-2) report

    claffy, kc; Aben, Emile; Auge, Jordan; Beverly, Robert; Bustamante, Fabian; Donnet, Benoit; Friedman, Timur; Fomenkov, Marina; Haga, Peter; Luckie, Matthew John; Shavitt, Yuval (2010)
    On February 8-10, 2010, CAIDA hosted the second Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-2) as part of our series of Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshops. The goals of this workshop were to further ...
  • A 3-factor epistatic model predicts digital ulcers in Italian scleroderma patients

    Beretta, Lorenzo; Santaniello, Alessandro; Mayo, Michael; Cappiello, Francesca; Marchini, Maurizio; Scorza, Raffaella (Elsevier, 2010)
    Background The genetic background may predispose systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients to the development of digital ulcers (DUs). Methods Twenty-two functional cytokine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 3 HLA class ...
  • 35,000 years of hydrological variability in northern New Zealand from speleothem magnetism

    Fox, Bethany; Lascu, Ioan; Harrison, Richard; Breitenbach, Sebastian; Hartland, Adam (2018)
    Speleothem magnetism is the study of the origin and geo-enviromagnetic significance of magnetic minerals in speleothems. Allogenic magnetic particles are transported to speleothem sites from soils and sediments by hydrological ...
  • 3D face recognition using multiview keypoint matching

    Mayo, Michael; Zhang, Edmond Yiwen (IEEE, 2009)
    A novel algorithm for 3D face recognition based point cloud rotations, multiple projections, and voted keypoint matching is proposed and evaluated. The basic idea is to rotate each 3D point cloud representing an individual’s ...
  • 3D printing of bio-inspired, multi-material structures to enhance stiffness and toughness

    Zhang, Xinhan (The University of Waikato, 2021)
    In nature, many biological, multi-materials have complex microstructures and excellent mechanical properties. One shellfish material called nacre has received much attention due to its unique interlocking structure of ...
  • 3D Printing of Natural Fibre Reinforced Recycled Polypropylene

    Stoof, David; Pickering, Kim L. (The University of Auckland, 2017)
    The adverse effects that waste plastics are having on the environment is becoming increasingly apparent. However, the plastics recycling industry in New Zealand is entirely market driven, necessitating the development of ...
  • 3D Shape Measurement of Moving Objects for Industrial Applications

    Charleston, Sean Andrew (University of Waikato, 2015)
    Three dimensional (3D) cameras provide distance measurements to objects, allowing computers and instruments to interact with their environment. The applications are wide-ranging, from human gesture control to industrial ...
  • 3D Shape Reconstruction from Multiple Range Image Views

    Ganapathi Annadurai, Kartick (The University of Waikato, 2006)
    Shape reconstruction of different three dimensional objects using multiple range images has evolved recently within the recent past. In this research shape reconstruction of a three dimensional object using multiple range ...
  • 3D-printed Acoustic Directional Couplers

    MacDonell, Marcus Scott Glengarry; Scott, Jonathan B. (2014)
    Acoustic Directional Couplers permit separation of forward and reverse sound pressure waves. This separation opens the way to traceable precision acoustic reflection measurements. In order to span the audio frequency range, ...
  • 4u

    Hinton, Liam Gene (The University of Waikato, 2020)
    I was thirteen the first time I took notice of my body. My girlfriend had left me without citing a reason. I had taken a bath, grabbed a towel and caught myself out the corner of my eye. I have not unnoticed since. Not a ...
  • 5-Bromo-8-methoxy-1-methyl-β-carboline, an alkaloid from the New Zealand marine bryozoan Pterocella vesiculosa

    Till, Marisa; Prinsep, Michèle R. (American Chemical Society, 2009)
    A new alkaloid, 5-bromo-8-methoxy-1-methyl-β-carboline (1), has been isolated from the New Zealand marine bryozoan Pterocella vesiculosa. Structural elucidation was achieved through NMR spectroscopic and mass spectrometric ...
  • (6-Acetoxy-2-acetylphenyl-κ²C¹,O¹)tetracarbonylmanganese(I)

    Fester, Victor D.; Main, Lyndsay; Nicholson, Brian K. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007-10)
    The title compound, [Mn(C₁₀H₉O₃)(CO)₄], is formed by orthomanganation of 3'-acetoxyacetophenone at the sterically crowded ortho site. The atoms of the benzene and the cyclometallated rings are coplanar to within <0.018 Å, ...