scholarly journals Plant invasions in New Zealand: global lessons in prevention, eradication and control

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1539-1562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip E. Hulme
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals The corporate takeover of the online public sphere: A critical examination, with reference to 'the New Zealand case'

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Alternative ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Much communications research is in agreement about the failure of mass media to adequately facilitate a public sphere of open and reflexive debate necessary for strong democratic culture. In contrast , the internet's decentralised, two-way communication is seen by many commentators to be extending such debate. However, there is some ambivalence among critical theorists as to the future role of the internet in advancing the public sphere. On the one hand, the internet is providing the means fot the voicing of positions and identities excluded from the mass media. On the other hand, a number of problem are limiting the extensiveness and effetivness of this voicing. One of the most significant problems is the corporate colonisation of cyberspace, and subsequent marginalisation rational-critical communication. It is this problem that i will focus on in this article, with reference to examples from what I refer to as the 'New Zealand online public sphere'. I show how online corporate portals and media sites are gaining the most attention orientated to public communication, including news, information, and discussion. These sites generally support conservative discourse and consumer practices. The result is a marginalisation online of the very voices marginalised offline, and also of the critical-reflexive form of communication that makes for a strong public sphere. I conclude by noting that corporate colonisation is as yet only partial, and control of attention and media is highly contested by multiple 'alternative' discursive spaces online.

Improving Data Quality in Health Care

2010 ◽  
pp. 1877-1881
Author(s):  
Karolyn Kerr ◽  
Tony Norris
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Right ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
And Control ◽  
Care Demands

The increasingly information intensive nature of health care demands a proactive and strategic approach to data quality to ensure the right information is available to the right person at the right time in the right format. The approach must also encompass the rights of the patient to have their health data protected and used in an ethical way. This article describes the principles to establish good practice and overcome practical barriers that define and control data quality in health data collections and the mechanisms and frameworks that can be developed to achieve and sustain quality. The experience of a national health data quality project in New Zealand is used to illustrate the issues.

Improving Data Quality in Health Care

2011 ◽  
pp. 218-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolyn Kerr ◽  
Tony Norris
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Right ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
And Control ◽  
Care Demands

The increasingly information intensive nature of health care demands a proactive and strategic approach to data quality to ensure the right information is available to the right person at the right time in the right format. The approach must also encompass the rights of the patient to have their health data protected and used in an ethical way. This article describes the principles to establish good practice and overcome practical barriers that define and control data quality in health data collections and the mechanisms and frameworks that can be developed to achieve and sustain quality. The experience of a national health data quality project in New Zealand is used to illustrate the issues.

Appropriate Industrial Waste Management Technologies: The New Zealand Meat Industry

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Rao Bhamidimarri
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Meat Industry ◽  
Meat Processing ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Organic Solid ◽  
Industrial Waste Management ◽  
Processing Wastes ◽  
And Control

The concepts of effluent irrigation and aerobic composting of organic solid wastes are not new, but the meat industry in New Zealand has developed these concepts further in recent years for effective treatment and recovery of resource in meat processing wastes. Significant advances have been made in developing design, operation, monitoring and control of these low-cost simple technologies, which are well suited for the treatment and utilization of meat industry wastes in New Zealand. The feasibility of utilizing these high-strength organic wastes for organic farming has been demonstrated.

The movement pattern of horses around race meetings in New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Rosanowski ◽  
C. W. Rogers ◽  
C. F. Bolwell ◽  
N. Cogger
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Movement Pattern ◽  
Infectious Disease Control ◽  
Harness Racing ◽  
Time Required ◽  
And Control ◽  
Thoroughbred Racing ◽  
Selection Of

In order to describe the implications of racehorse movement on the potential spread and control of infectious disease in New Zealand, the movement of horses due to regular racing activities needed to be quantified. Race meeting, trainer and starter data were collected in 2009 from the governing bodies for the two racing codes in New Zealand; Harness Racing New Zealand and New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing. During 2009, 507 Thoroughbred and 506 Standardbred race meetings were held. A random selection of 42 Standardbred and 39 Thoroughbred race meetings were taken from all race meetings held in 2009 and the distances travelled by trainers to these race meetings were determined. The trainers attending selected race meetings represented 50% (1135/2287) of all registered trainers in 2009. There was no seasonal pattern of when race meetings were held between racing codes (P = 0.18) or by race type (P = 0.83). There were significant differences in the distance travelled by trainers to race meetings, by racing code (P < 0.001). Thoroughbred trainers travelled a median of 91 km (IQR 40–203 km), while Standardbred trainers travelled a median of 45 km (IQR 24–113 km) (P < 0.001). Within each racing code, trainers travelled further to attend premier races than other types of race meetings (P < 0.001). These data demonstrate there is higher potential for more widespread disease dissemination from premier race meetings compared with other types of race meetings. Additionally, lack of a seasonal pattern indicates that a widespread outbreak could occur at any time of the year. Widespread disease dissemination would increase the logistic effort required for effective infectious disease control and has the potential to increase the time required to achieve control.

Wool follicle morphology and cell proliferation in New Zealand Romney sheep: a seasonal comparison of fleeceweight-selected and control rams

1994 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 769 ◽  
Author(s):  
SA Holle ◽  
PM Harris ◽  
AS Davies ◽  
MJ Birtles
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dermal Papilla ◽  
Proliferating Cells ◽  
Root Sheath ◽  
Inner Root Sheath ◽  
Dimensional Measurements ◽  
Wool Follicle ◽  
Seasonal Influences ◽  
And Control

Effects of selection for high fleeceweight in the New Zealand Romney sheep were investigated in relation to the morphology of individual follicles and changes in the germinative cell population of the follicle bulb. Two-year-old Romney rams, 10 from each of two selection lines (Massey University fleeceweight-selected (FWT) and control (CLT) flock), were run together on pasture for a period from June to early December. At three times during this observation period (June, August and November) skin samples were taken from their midside flanks after local injection of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), to assess proliferation of bulb cells and several dimensional measurements of the follicle bulb and dermal papilla. FWT sheep had larger follicle dimensions than CLT sheep during winter and summer, with a greater number of proliferating bulb cells. Both flocks showed a seasonal change in follicle size, with a decline during winter, but the size of the dermal papilla was less affected than the germinative tissue area. Measurements of proliferation density (number of proliferating cells per area/volume of bulb tissue) suggest that changes in proliferation density do not contribute to flock differences in fleece production. However, during summer, FWT showed a 40% advantage over CLT sheep in hourly cell production based on data from three dimensional follicle bulb extrapolation. The different genotypes showed variations in width, as well as area of cortex and inner root sheath (IRS), measured across the top of the dermal papilla. The expression of these differences was further enhanced through seasonal influences, suggesting that there is an interaction between genetic/flock influences and seasonal influences on cell distribution to cortex and inner root sheath.

Transference markers in New Zealand Italian

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Kinder
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
And Control ◽  
Hesitation Phenomena ◽  
Monitor And Control ◽  
Creative Language

Abstract The spoken Italian of migrant Italians in New Zealand contains verbal devices which accompany items transferred from English. These “transference markers” (paralinguistic and prosodic features, hesitation phenomena, hedges, synonymous glosses and explicative statements) convey the speaker’s awareness that the marked items are in fact transfers, and invite a response, verbal or otherwise, from the hearer. This exchange of signals is one way in which conversational interactants negotiate a consensus as to what is comprehensible and acceptable linguistic behaviour to both. Migrant bilinguals can thus be shown to be not only creative language users but also more able than is usually thought, to monitor and control the transference process in their speech.

Effects of a Curriculum-Integrated Dance Program on Children’s Physical Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 1179-1183
Author(s):  
Geeta Sharma ◽  
Tom Stewart ◽  
Scott Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Intervention Effects ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
School Time ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Children’S Physical Activity

Background: Curriculum-integrated dance programs are a promising but relatively under-researched strategy for increasing children’s physical activity (PA). The aim of this study was to determine the impact of a curriculum-integrated dance program on children’s PA. Methods: A total of 134 primary children aged 7–9 years from 4 New Zealand schools were assigned to either a dance group (n = 78) or a control group (n = 56). The dance group participated in a 6-week curriculum-integrated dance program during school time. Although the dance program focused on curricular learning, fitness and coordination were embedded in the dance sessions. Intensity of PA varied according to the focus of each dance session. PA was measured at baseline and postintervention using a waist-mounted ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer for 8 consecutive days. Results: There were no significant intervention effects on PA levels between the dance and control groups postintervention. Conclusion: Dance-embedded learning did not increase overall levels of PA in this study. Future studies may consider assessing longer term effects of a dance-based intervention, or programs that place more focus on PA promotion.

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