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Australian and New Zealand Governments Agree to Proceed with the Joint Regulatory Agency for Therapeutic Products
In 2011, the Australian and New Zealand governments announced their decision to proceed with a joint scheme for the regulation of therapeutic products such as medicines, medical devices and new medical interventions. ... -
The development of Rugby Super 12 and its implications for tourism: the case of the Otago Highlanders
This report presents a detailed analysis of the impacts of Rugby Super 12 on the tourism industry in the Otago Highlanders region. It presents the results of a qualitative programme of research for which individuals involved ... -
Political marketing and political communication: the relationship revisited
Harrop (1990) perceives political marketing as being not just about political advertising, party political broadcasts and electoral speeches but covering the whole area of party positioning in the electoral market. Kavanagh ... -
The Marketing course at Otago 1966-1990: A case study in curriculum technology, University fashions and politics
This paper is a case study of the development of the Marketing Management course at the University of Otago over 25 years. Key development phases and turning points in the history of the curriculum are presented and ... -
On the testability of BDI agent systems
Before deploying a software system we need to assure ourselves (and stake- holders) that the system will behave correctly. This assurance is usually done by testing the system. However, it is intuitively obvious that ... -
A comparison of software effort prediction models using small datasets
Constructing an accurate effort prediction model is a challenge in Software Engineering. One difficulty practitioners often experience is that they have only a very small amount of local data to construct a model. The small ... -
Marketing the mayor: political marketing and the Livingstone4London mayoral election campaign
Political marketing is commonly regarded as synonymous with the use of persuasive techniques in campaigns to promote both politicians and their policies. The borrowing of professional communication tools, such as advertising ... -
Voter apathy in British elections: causes and remedies
The turnout for the 2001 General election in Britain was the lowest ever after full adult suffrage. This essay presents the theoretical explanations of voter apathy and then reviews the literature on the causes behind the ... -
The use of fuzzy tools for small scale decision support systems
This paper discusses the use of fuzzy tools in the realm of Decision Support Systems. I have investigated the possible use of a number of different paradigms against a novel problem - that of correctly classifying the ... -
MatLab/database connectivity
This experiment was run following a visit to the University of Queensland, where a simulation engine has been created using MatLab SimuLink. This simulator is developed for use as the underlying engine in future User ... -
Does negative advertising work?
In an overview of the use of negative advertising through the years, Kaid (1999) notes a real increase in the number of negative advertisements used in presidential campaigns. From 1952 to 1996, such ads made up about 38% ... -
The roof maintenance problem — a fuzzy expert system
Roof maintenance is an issue that has ongoing ramifications for property owners, all over the world. Determining accurately what maintenance should be taken is difficult, with often-conflicting evidence further complicating ... -
Fuzzy neural networks (FuNN) in the Palm environment
This document is prepared with two purposes in mind. The first is to introduce the roof maintenance problem and the proposed solutions. The second is to describe its implementation for the Palm platform. The first section ...