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Re-defining teacher education of primary teachers of science in Hong Kong
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This study arises from my personal interest as a lecturer in the Hong Kong Institute of Education with a responsibility to prepare student-teachers to teach science at the primary level. This study was conducted based on ... -
Several new methods for the development of latent and blood fingerprints
(The University of Waikato, 1999)Several new methods for the development of latent and blood fingerprints have been investigated as well as a preliminary appraisal of a technique for the estimation of post-mortem interval and age of blood stains. The ... -
Habitat use and responses to odours by rodents in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 1999)Four species of introduced rodent live in New Zealand. No more than three species are sympatric here, although all four are in more tropical areas. All are pests for economic, public health and conservation reasons. The ... -
Making the invisible visible: Exploring the complex pathways between childhood experiences of maltreatment and the perpetration of family harm
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Preventing family harm and providing care for those affected is a high priority for governments and social services worldwide. Adverse consequences of family harm continue to place demands on justice, mental health and ... -
Insecure, unpredictable, hoping to survive: Four cases of Māori people living precariously in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2022)A conceptualisation of precarity is introduced and adopted. A critique of contemporary conceptualisations of precarity is presented, drawing especially on Stuart Hall’s interpretation of articulation and Marx’s concept of ... -
Lossless document image compression
(The University of Waikato, 1999)Document image compression reduces the storage requirements for digitised books or documents by using characters as the fundamental unit of compression. Compression gains can be achieved by identifying regions that contain ... -
The distribution and dynamics of planktonic rotifera in the North Island, New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 1999)The distribution and dynamics of planktonic rotifers, at various spatial and temporal scales, were investigated in lakes of the North Island, New Zealand. The overall aim was to provide a better understanding of the relative ... -
Mortality, morbidity and population health dynamics
(The University of Waikato, 1999)This thesis is concerned with the dynamics of the health of populations with low levels of mortality, using the non-Maori population in New Zealand as a case study. The primary objective is to study patterns and trends in ... -
Psychrophilic and psychrotrophic Clostridium spp. associated with meat spoilage
(The University of Waikato, 1999)Twenty two isolates of psychrophilic and psychrotrophic Clostridium spp. associated with ‘blown pack’ spoilage of vacuum-packed meats were studied with respect to their identification, differentiation and taxonomy, as well ... -
Some structural and photochemical studies in triterpenoids
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This thesis describes the photochemical behaviour of 22-hydroxyhopan-7-one, hop-22(29)-en-7-one, 22-hydroxyhopan-15-one, hop-21-en-15-one, hop-22(29)-en-15-one, hopan-15-one and 21α-H-hopan-15-one in different solvents, ... -
Studies of the formation and properties of urea-formaldehyde resin adhesives
(The University of Waikato, 2001)Urea-formaldehyde (UF) resin is used primarily as an adhesive for manufacturing wood panels (medium density fiberboard, particleboard and plywood). These are important New Zealand export products. A better understanding ... -
Effects of high energy mechanical milling on the kinetics of solid state reactions
(The University of Waikato, 2000)The effects of high energy mechanical milling on the kinetics of solid state reactions in two binary metallic systems, Al-Ni and Cu-Al, and two metal-oxide systems, Al-TiO₂ and Cu(Al)-CuO, have been investigated by using ... -
Aspects of hens’ visual behaviour
(The University of Waikato, 2000)Five experiments were conducted to examine different aspects of hens’ visual behaviour, and to assess whether hens respond to slide images in the same way as they respond to real conspecifics that those slides depict. ... -
Modeling and simulation of the dynamic process in high energy ball milling of metal powders
(The University of Waikato, 2000)Mechanical alloying/mechanical grounding by using high-energy ball milling has been considered as a promising materials processing technique to synthesize materials. In this study, modeling simulation has been carried out ... -
Managing technological innovation projects
(The University of Waikato, 2000)Technological innovation is the whole process that turns ideas into income and is becoming strategically important for creating and offering customers new choice. Traditional project management is often used to deal with ... -
Illuminated cities: transgression and transcendence in urban Scottish literature
(The University of Waikato, 2000)Canonical representation and critical appraisal of urban Scottish literature before the publication of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, in 1981, emphasizes its innate realism. This realist reading pays attention to surfaces and ... -
Design and evaluation of an optimistic CPU: the warp engine
(The University of Waikato, 2000)Instruction pipelining, out-of-order execution, and branch prediction are techniques that improve performance in processors by manipulating the flow of instructions. These control flow manipulations alone are not adequate ... -
Characterization of a novel aerobic cellulolytic thermophilic bacterium and its cellulases
(The University of Waikato, 1999)A taxonomic position was established for a thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium strain COMP.A2 on the basis of both phenotypic and phylogenetic characteristics. The bacterium was a Gram-positive, aerobic endospore-forming ... -
Growing up or growing down: Pakeha women's memories of adolescence
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This study investigated the processes by which women construct their “selves” using the memories of adolescent experiences of five Pakeha women who went to school together in the 1960’s. The study used memory-work, an ... -
Sojourners and social exchange: Family and friends’ interpersonal ties across China-New Zealand borders
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Sojourners are peripatetic, making multiple, open-ended circular trips to other countries for a range of purposes. Nonetheless, sojourners retain interpersonal ties with their families and friends who remain in the homeland, ...
