It has been recognised for more than two hundred years that the basic style of poetry in the Hebrew Bible is parallelism, and its system has been minutely studied. More recently ethnographers have noted the same style in ...

Injuries are an important health problem for young adults (15-24 years of age), especially males. In New Zealand, the leading causes of young adult injuries that result in death or hospital admission are motor vehicle ...

Risk factors for serious suicide attempts among young people were examined in a case control study in which a consecutive series of 129 young people aged 13 to 24 years who made serious suicide attempts was compared with ...

As a public medium and a vehicle of "culture", which frames and comprehends social priorities, relations and identities, news has received scant anthropological attention (Spitulnik 1993). Whanganui Iwi's occupation of ...

In 1893 the Liberal Government in New Zealand under R.J. Seddon introduced and passed the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act. This marked the beginning of a new era in New Zealand's liquor licensing system and encouraged ...

There has been a crisis in socialist thought in the post-war era and increasing pessimism concerning the political effectiveness of the working class as a force for change. A study is presented of the New Zealand Trade ...

Solvent-producing clostridial strains were used extensively during the first part of this century for the industrial production of acetone and butanol and in the last two decades have again become the focus of investigation ...

The incidence rate of melanoma has shown large increases in New Zealand over the past 30 years, with the result that New Zealand has one of the highest incidence rates of melanoma in the world. Primary prevention and early ...

Previous osteological studies of East Polynesian populations have primarily focused on the identification of ancestral homelands and have ignored issues relating to regional and local populations. This thesis examines East ...

Thermoregulatory behaviour, terrestrial locomotion and postcranial skeletal morphology of the New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) and Hooker's sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri) are quantified and the results compared ...