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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 (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) ...

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 ...

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 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 ...