This thesis investigates the phenomenon known as a Māori ethnic identity. The topic is investigated using personal interviews and the findings are reported by way of personal narrative. Eight informants were interviewed. ...

The life of the pre-European Māori consisted of subsistence strategies ranging from hunter-gatherer to horticultural activities. The femur of both sexes is generally characterised by a flattened proximal shaft rotated ...

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 ...

Austrovenus stutchburyi were collected (n=1100) from Papanui Inlet on the Otago Peninsula and half were marked using the fluorescent dye, calcein, and half were marked by exposing them to an abrupt decrease in temperature ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION This essay has two purposes: to trace the history of New Zealand's first and for a long time largest clothing factory; and to investigate within the context of this case study the working of the labour ...

This study examined the occurrence of behavioural difficulties in a community sample of 128 preschoolers aged between 30 and 59 months. To obtain a comprehensive picture of children's behaviours in different situational ...

This thesis shows the level at which reliable geoidal mapping is possible over a small area using the Global Positioning System (GPS), geodetic levelling and appropriate interpolation strategies. The geoid shape over ...

Adaptive cluster sampling has been suggested as an efficient sampling technique for rare and patchy populations. In this thesis the question asked is: how useful is the design for ecologists? Simulated and real ecological ...

The aim of this study was to compare three methods of bankruptcy prediction, which were Multivariate Discriminant Analysis, Logit Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. The methods were compared based on their ability ...