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Traditional ecological knowledge and harvest management of Titi (Puffinus griseus) by Rakiura Māori
Rakiura Māori continue a centuries old harvest of titi chicks (sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus) which is governed primarily by Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). The sustainability of titi harvesting is of high ...
Quantitative genetic models for genomic imprinting
A gene is imprinted when its expression is dependent on the sex of the parent from which it was inherited. An increasing number of studies are suggesting that imprinted genes have a major influence on medically, agriculturally ...
The comparative ecology of Stewart Island weka (Gallirallus australis scotti) on islands with and without seabirds
The spatial ecology of Stewart Island weka (Galliralluis australis scotti) was compared between a seabird island (Taukihepa/Big South Cape Island) and a predator-free non-seabird island (Ulva Island). Both islands were ...
Techniques for utterance disambiguation in a human-computer dialogue system
Disambiguating an utterance occurring in a dialogue context is a complex task, which requires input from many different sources of information -- some syntactic, some semantic, and some pragmatic.
The central question ...
The onset of Rayleigh and Marangoni interfacial instability and their effects on penetration mass transfer across a moving interface
Interfacial convection due to the Rayleigh effect and the Marangoni effect can enhance mass transfer rates between fluids and is of importance to industrial engineering applications such as gas-liquid absorption and ...
A good woman : silencing the self, rumination and depression in romantic relationships
"Rumination" and "Silencing the Self (1)" have both been theorised to explain women's greater vulnerability to depression. Rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema, e.g., 1987, 1991) refers to a passive focus on mood and symptoms, while ...
Tracing the geochemical signature of New Zealand river sediments : transport, elemental fluxes and oceanic deposition
Chemical and physical erosion processes have been investigated in a wide range of high sediment-yielding rivers from New Zealand using major and trace element data from suspended sediments and fluvial bedload grain size ...
Running in pain : an autoethnography of power, coercion and injury in coach-athlete relationship
This autoethnographic study investigates the emotional and social dimensions of a coaching relationship from the athlete's perspective. Autoethnography is an approach that draws on highly personalised biographical accounts ...
Cyclostratigraphy of late oligocene - early miocene strata : an example from the Waiau Basin, western Southland, New Zealand.
A section of marine strata in the Waicoe sub-basin (Waiau Basin), Southland, New Zealand records the Oligocene - Miocene (O-M) epoch boundary and the Waitakian to Otaian New Zealand Stage boundary. The sedimentary succession ...
The comparative seed ecology of Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f. and Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link
The introduction of marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) to the New Zealand dune ecosystem has brought about rapid changes to dune morphology and plant assemblages . The native sand binder Pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) has ...