Allophane in New Zealand - a review

Soil Research ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 343 ◽  
Author(s):  
RL Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Weathering Processes ◽  
Definition Of

Studies of allophanes from New Zealand are reviewed, and a definition of the allophane group of minerals is suggested. Three types of allophane are identified, and their structures are discussed under headings Al-rich soil allophanes, Si-rich soil allophanes and stream deposit allophanes. Examples from New Zealand soils and tephras are discussed in relation to properties, identification and weathering processes.

scholarly journals Economic Contributions and Challenges of Immigrant Entrepreneurs to Their Host Country – Case of African Immigrants in Auckland, New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Olufemi Muibi Omisakin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
Definition Of

Entrepreneurship is an important concept in both developing and developed societies today. Although there is no consensus on the definition of entrepreneurship, it is believed to be a process of creating value by bringing together a unique package of resources to exploit entrepreneurship opportunities (Morris, 2002). This study aims to discover the economic contributions and challenges of immigrant entrepreneurs to their host country, and focuses on African small business owners in Auckland, New Zealand. Literature on immigrant entrepreneurship was reviewed, resulting in a discussion of the economic contributions of immigrant entrepreneurship as well as its challenges. Data was collected using face-to-face, semi-structured interviews, observation and field notes as the sources of inquiry. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 17 participants. All participants were African immigrant small business owners running businesses in Auckland. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data collected (Braun & Clarke, 2006). 

Still doing what we do: Defining social work in the 21st century

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Staniforth ◽  
Christa Fouché ◽  
Michael O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Work ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Work Education

• Summary: Members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) were asked to provide their definition of social work. Over 300 responses were analysed thematically in order to determine if practitioner views corresponded to recent shifts in social work education and theory which emphasized the importance of social change, strengths based perspectives and the importance of local and indigenous contexts. • Findings: The findings demonstrate that while there was some recognition of social change and strengths-based perspectives in the definitions of social work provided, that those working in the field remain focused on ‘helping individuals, families and groups’ engage in change. Respondents did not, for the most part, acknowledge local or indigenous perspectives in their definitions. • Applications: Results from this study may be useful for social work professional organizations, and social work educators, students and future researchers who are interested in the definition of social work and its scopes of practice.

Isotopic ages from the Nelson region of South Island New Zealand: crustal structure and definition of the Median Tectonic Zone

1993 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.L. Kimbrough ◽  
A.J. Tulloch ◽  
E. Geary ◽  
D.S. Coombs ◽  
C.A. Landis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Crustal Structure ◽  
Tectonic Zone ◽  
Definition Of

4 Tribal Constitutionalism and Historic Claims: The Impact of Claims Settlement on Tribal Membership Governance in Australia and New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gover Kirsty
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Official Recognition

In Australia and New Zealand, the official recognition of tribes occurs alongside the settlement of land claims. This chapter investigates the scope of tribal autonomy in membership governance in Australia and New Zealand, based on the membership rules contained in institutions established to manage tribal rights to land and territory: New Zealand Treaty Settlement Entities (TSEs) and Australian Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate (PBCs). Claims settlement processes impact on tribal membership governance by requiring a legal definition of the class of beneficiaries, and by prescribing formal membership criteria. Thereafter tribes have the capacity (within certain limitations) to alter their membership criteria to exclude legal beneficiaries from tribal membership. The result is a distinction between the class of people entitled to benefit from a settlement or determination, and persons entitled, as a matter of tribal law and custom, to be recognized as members of the tribe. The categories are imperfectly aligned. This chapter examines the strategies used by tribes and states to overcome the resulting impasses.

Parliamentary privilege and defamation

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-499
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bamforth
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Domestic Courts ◽  
Wide Definition ◽  
The Times ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Court Of Appeal

IN the past five years, the conceptual ambiguities of Parliamentary privilege have come to haunt the courts with a vengeance. Ancient constitutional questions such as what constitutes a “proceeding” in Parliament and what counts as “questioning” a proceeding–encapsulated in colourful nineteenth-century cases like Stockdale v. Hansard (1839) 9 Ad.&E. 1, the Case of the Sheriff of Middlesex (1840) 11 Ad.&E. 273, and Bradlaugh v. Gossett (1884) 12 Q.B.D. 271–have been at the forefront of a clutch of recent decisions. In Prebble v. Television New Zealand [1995] 1 A.C. 321, the Privy Council gave new bite to Parliamentary privilege by ruling (in relation to the New Zealand Parliament) that it would be an abuse of both Article 9 of the 1689 Bill of Rights–which prohibits courts from questioning the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament–and of a broader principle of mutuality of respect between Parliament and the judiciary, to allow any party to litigation to “bring into question anything said or done in the House by suggesting (whether by direct evidence, cross-examination, inference or submission) that the actions or words were inspired by improper motives or were untrue or misleading” (above, at 337). As a result, domestic courts stayed two libel actions brought by Members of Parliament, on the basis that the claims and defences involved raised issues whose investigation would infringe Parliamentary privilege (see, e.g., Allason v. Haines, The Times, 25 July 1995). Parliament responded by enacting section 13 of the Defamation Act 1996, allowing individual MPs to waive Parliamentary privilege in order to bring defamation actions. But in an apparent reassertion of the spirit of Prebble, the Court of Appeal expressly approved–albeit outside the context of defamation–the Privy Council's wide definition of privilege as a matter of domestic law (R. v. Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, ex p. Fayed [1998] 1 W.L.R. 669, noted [1998] C.L.J. 6).

Dissolved trace metals and their relationship to major elements in the Manuherikia River, a pristine subalpine catchment in central Otago, New Zealand

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
WW Ahlers ◽  
JP Kim ◽  
KA Hunter
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Trace Metals ◽  
Major Element ◽  
Major Ions ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Lower Altitude ◽  
Weathering Processes ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
Dissolved Silicon ◽  
Dissolved Trace Metals

The spatial distributions of the dissolved trace metals Cu, Ni, Cd, Zn and Pb and of reactive Hg have been measured in parallel with the major elements Na, K, Mg and Ca and electrical conductivity in three sampling events in the Manuherikia River, New Zealand. The geographical span of the sampling sites ranged from a pristine subalpine upper catchment area through lower altitude sites that are increasingly affected by both natural weathering processes and moderate agricultural and domestic runoff. Major-element concentrations in the upper catchment were at or below the 1% frequency minimum of the spectrum of global river compositions, indicating a highly pristine system. Concen- trations increased steadily downstream to levels similar to world average river water. All trace metals exhibited the same spatial trends as the major ions. Typical upper-catchment concentrations were very low by global standards: Cu (150 ng L-1), Ni (100-150 ng L-1), Cd (8 ng L-I), Zn (150-200 ng L-1), Pb (20-30 ng L-1) and Hg (0.3 ng L-1). Oceanic residence times calculated from the data for Zn (80 000 years) and Cd (230 000 years) for which few reliable estimates have been made, are consistent with observed correlations between the oceanographic distributions of these elements and dissolved silicon or phosphate, respectively.

Hazards in anaesthetic practice: general considerations, injury, and drugs.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan F. Merry ◽  
Simon J. Mitchell ◽  
Jonathan G. Hardman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Myocardial Injury ◽  
Ether Anaesthesia ◽  
Mortality Review ◽  
All Cause Mortality ◽  
Zealand College ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Related Mortality

The hazards of anaesthesia should be considered in the context of the hazard of surgery and of the pathology for which the surgery is being undertaken. Anaesthesia has become progressively safer since the successful demonstration of ether anaesthesia in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in 1846 and the first reported death under anaesthesia in 1847. The best estimation of the rate of anaesthesia-related mortality comes from the anaesthesia mortality review committees in Australia and New Zealand, where data have been collected under essentially consistent definitions since 1960, and reports are amalgamated under the auspices of the Australian and New Zealand College of Surgeons. An internationally accepted definition of anaesthetic mortality is overdue. Extending the time for inclusion of deaths from 24 h to 30 days or longer substantially increases estimated rates of mortality. Attribution of cause of death may be problematic. Even quite small degrees of myocardial injury in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery increase the risk of subsequent mortality, and in older patients, 30-day all-cause mortality following inpatient surgery may be surprisingly high. Patients should be given a single estimate of the combined risk of surgery and anaesthesia, rather than placing undue emphasis on the risk from anaesthesia alone. Hazards may arise from equipment or from drugs either directly or through error. Error often underlies harmful events in anaesthesia and may be made more likely by fatigue or circadian factors, but violations are also important. Training in expert skills and knowledge, and in human factors, teamwork, and communication is key to improving safety.

The role of character in talent identification and development in New Zealand rugby union

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-418
Author(s):  
Ryan Rosevear ◽  
Tania Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Talent Identification ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
A Value ◽  
Universal Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Development Manager

The purpose of the study was to gain understanding of how character is understood in the New Zealand Rugby (NZR) ecology and how the Player Development Manager (PDM) in one Provincial Union (PU) negotiates, constructs and operationalizes interpretations of character within talent identification and development practices. The study design was informed by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model of development and the methodology was case study. The participant in the study was the PDM who worked for one provincial rugby union and NZR. Data was gained using; interviews, document analysis and observations. An iterative strategy was employed when adopting the deductive and inductive analysis. The study found that across the NZR ecology there was no universal definition of character, or set of criteria used to assess players’ character. Within the NZR macrosystem there were formal policies that explicitly identified character as a value to be assessed. Yet, implicit understandings and assessment of character also existed. The PDM working in a microsystem constructed his understanding and assessment of character based on his experiences working with, and for, NZR (macrosystem) and the PU (exosystem) respectively, as well as drawing on his personal value set. The findings of this study are significant not only for rugby, in New Zealand and elsewhere, but they are relevant and topical for any selector, recruitment agent or coach who implicitly and explicitly (de)selects participants based on character.

Reverberations in the Torrens system: a new Land Transfer Act in New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Toomey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Judicial Discretion ◽  
Content Type ◽  
System A ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose On 12 November 2018, New Zealand's Land Transfer Act 2017 came into force. The purpose of this paper is to pinpoint some of the significant changes in the Act that challenge the fundamental concepts of the Torrens system of registration. Design/methodology/approach The paper addresses three significant reforms: a definition of land transfer fraud; the concept of immediate indefeasibility with limited judicial discretion and its impact on volunteers and the Gibbs v. Messer anomaly; and the compensation regime. Case studies illustrate the effect of these changes. Findings The limited legislative definition of fraud reflects the common law and allows for any necessary flexibility. The new Act reiterates the principle of immediate indefeasibility but qualifies it with the introduction of some judicial discretion. This is a novel concept for the courts and will undoubtedly be dealt with cautiously. The author voices some disquiet with regard to some of the guidelines set out in s 55(4) of the Act. The compensation provisions introduce an element of an owner's culpability. An owner now runs the risk of reduced compensation if there has been a lack of proper care. Research limitations/implications The implications of this research are fundamental for New Zealand's land transfer system. Practical implications The limited judicial discretion will challenge the courts of New Zealand. The new compensation provisions will ensure that an owner's carelessness will be accountable. Originality/value This study is one of the first to analyse the Land Transfer Act 2017 (New Zealand). Its value extends beyond New Zealand shores as it has implications for global land transfer systems.

Exploring managers’ conceptions of wisdom as management practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahad Alammar ◽  
David Pauleen
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis paper reports on an exploratory investigation into the concept of managerial wisdom. Six senior managers from diverse and large organisations in New Zealand were interviewed about their conception of managerial wisdom. The findings show that senior managers have a practical and positive conception of wisdom consisting of four factors: experience and knowledge, emotional intelligence, mentorship, and deliberation and consultation. The findings show that concepts of ‘spirituality’, ‘religiosity’, and, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, ‘ethics’, are all absent from the participants’ descriptions of wise managers. A tentative definition of managerial wisdom is proposed based on these findings as well as an explanation for the absence of ethics. As interest in wisdom and management continues to grow, this exploratory empirical research serves as a base for further research on the understanding and place of wisdom in management.

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