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Using rough sets to study expert behaviour in induction of labour
The rate of induction of labour (IOL) is increasing, despite no obvious increase in the incidence of the major indications. However the rate varies widely between different centres and practitioners and this does not seem ...
Soil water regimes of the Glendhu experimental catchments
The Otago block mountains are important water supply areas with their abundant water yield attributed to conservative water use by narrow-leaved snow tussock (Chionochloa rigida), the dominant vegetation cover of the region. ...
The NZDIS project: An agent-based distributed information systems architecture
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on distributed object and software agent technologies. This architecture is being developed as ...
Exchange of nutrients from Big Glory Bay, Stewart Island
Big Glory bay is a semi-enclosed bay located in the south-east of Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island. The bay has been used for commercial sea cage rearing of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Walbaum) since 1981 and ...
Re-staging history : historiographic drama from New Zealand and Australia
Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing emphasis on drama, in live theatre and on film, which re-addresses the ways in which the post-colonial histories of Australia and New Zealand have been written. Why is there ...
Tattooing, bodies and women : notions of resistance
Tattooing is a form of body modification that has existed in society for thousands of years. All societies place importance on the body, and bodies are modified throughout the world by a variety of practices, of which ...
Arsenic : the influence of natural parameters on its oxidation and mobilization in gold mines
Arsenic (As) is a common constituent of mining and geothermal systems. Literature has described the element as a toxin and human carcinogen particularly when it exists as As (III). Wairakei (North Island, New Zealand) ...
Eocene turtles and whales from New Zealand
This thesis documents eleven specimens of Eocene turtles (Reptilia: Testudines: Dermochelyidae, Cheloniidae) and seven specimens of archaeocete whales (Mammalia: Cetacea: Basilosauridae) from New Zealand. All taxa derive ...
A longitudinal study of tooth formation and root resorption from birth to preadolescence
The findings of the present study provide information of considerable clinical value to the orthodontist and pedodontist. They also contain basic data for those interested in child growth and they contribute to the normative ...
The classification of prehistoric stone implements by factor analysis : a consideration of New Zealand stone adzes.
The application of numerical taxonomic methods to archaeological problems is still very much in its infancy. A number of trial applications of various methods, to a wide range of archaeological data are clearly necessary.
The ...