scholarly journals Research Into Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand: An Overview

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Morrison
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Made In

The purpose of this overview is to take stock of the research into labour, employment and work undertaken in New Zealand as represented by this conference and to summarise as succinctly as possible the key points made in each paper.

scholarly journals Apprenticeship in New Zealand : its development, present organization and administration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Vaughan Kriby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
The Village ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

"Lumen Accipe et Imperti ", says the motto of Wellington College; and, in becoming a teacher, after being a pupil of the College, I fully accepted the injunction to receive the light and impart it. But it took the preparation of this thesis on the apprenticeship system to bring home to me the<br>strength of the human impulse implied in those four<br>Latin words.<br>In the ideal, the impulse is personified in Oliver Goldsmith's description of the village schoolmaster who "...tried each art, reproved each dull delay; Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way."<br><div>It is this impulse to seek skills and to hand them on which helps to explain the enigma of a system apparently always on the point of being out-moded, and yet surviving time and change, depression and prosperity, wars and its greatest challenge, the machine age.</div><div>In 1898 - before the Boer War - a Member of the New Zealand Parliament announced that a pair of boots had been made in 25 minutes, passing through 53 different machines and 63 pairs of hands. The tone of the brief, ensuing discussion was one suited to the occasion of an imminent demise, and a Bill for improvement of the apprenticeship system then before the House quietly expired.<br><br></div>

scholarly journals Earthquake insurance

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-118
Author(s):  
J. L. Gill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Earthquake Insurance ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Fire Insurance ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Made In

Property owners in New Zealand obtain indemnity against loss or damage occurring as a direct result of earthquake shock or earthquake fire under a compulsory extension to a contract of fire insurance. A special earthquake and war damage premium is levied under fire insurance contracts made in New Zealand and is paid by the insurer into a fund which is administered by the Commission under the Earthquake and War Damage Act 1944.

scholarly journals Prospects for Trifolium Improvement Through Germplasm Characterisation and Pre-breeding in New Zealand and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy M. Egan ◽  
Rainer W. Hofmann ◽  
Kioumars Ghamkhar ◽  
Valerio Hoyos-Villegas
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Temperate Grassland ◽  
Exotic Germplasm ◽  
Forage Legumes ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Breeding Programmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Trifolium is the most used pastoral legume genus in temperate grassland systems, and a common feature in meadows and open space areas in cities and parks. Breeding of Trifolium spp. for pastoral production has been going on for over a century. However, the breeding targets have changed over the decades in response to different environmental and production pressures. Relatively small gains have been made in Trifolium breeding progress. Trifolium breeding programmes aim to maintain a broad genetic base to maximise variation. New Zealand is a global hub in Trifolium breeding, utilising exotic germplasm imported by the Margot Forde Germplasm Centre. This article describes the history of Trifolium breeding in New Zealand as well as the role and past successes of utilising genebanks in forage breeding. The impact of germplasm characterisation and evaluation in breeding programmes is also discussed. The history and challenges of Trifolium breeding and its effect on genetic gain can be used to inform future pre-breeding decisions in this genus, as well as being a model for other forage legumes.

Coverage with evidence development: A very good beginning, but much to be done. Commentary to Hutton et al.

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean R. Tunis ◽  
Kalipso Chalkidou
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Coverage With Evidence Development ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Policy Discussion ◽  
Made In

The study by Hutton, Trueman, and Henshall provides a thoughtful and helpful set of observations about the potential benefits of linking reimbursement to requirements for further clinical research (coverage with evidence development—CED), as well as the likely challenges and obstacles to implementation. In this commentary, we will expand upon several of the key points made in their study and offer some additional suggestions for moving this policy discussion forward

Correction - The Australasian genera of pericomoid Psychodidae (Diptera) and the status of related Enderlein genera in the neotropics

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 721
Author(s):  
DA Duckhouse
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The Status ◽  
Taxonomic Problem ◽  
Actual Relationship ◽  
Made In

Australasian pericomoids, psychodids resembling northern hemisphere species of Pericoma Walker (tribe Pericomini), are mostly members of the tribe Maruinini, here re-defined. Amongst Maruinini, they are like several neotropical genera named by Enderlein (1937), but their actual relationship to Enderlein's genera, and hence their identity, has been a long-standing taxonomic problem. Consideration of extensive new collections and observations made in the southern hemisphere now shows that they consist of the following: Genus Notiocharis Eaton. Tribe Maruinini: genus Didicrum Enderlein, and five new genera, Eremolobulosa, Rotundopteryx, Alloeodidicrurn, Satchellomyia and Ancyroaspis. Of these, the Australian Eremolobulosa is the possible sister group of the European Lobulosa Szabo, and the New Zealand genera Satchellomyia and Ancyroaspis are possible sister groups. Of Enderlein's neotropical genera, five classified by Quate (1963) as synonyms, or in one case a subgenus, of Pericoma (Didicrum, Desmioza, Synmormia, Syntomolaba and Podolepria) are recognised as full genera. A key to Australasian pericomoid genera is provided.

Soil classification in New Zealand - Legacy and lessons

Soil Research ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 843 ◽  
Author(s):  
AE Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Soil Classification ◽  
Soil Taxonomy ◽  
Regional Correlation ◽  
Reconnaissance Survey ◽  
Soil Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intensive Land Use ◽  
Made In

A brief review of the history of soil classification in New Zealand is made in order to place the most recent work in its historical context. The first comprehensive system was inspired by the Russian concepts of zonality, and was published as the New Zealand Genetic Soil Classification by Taylor in 1948. It may be regarded as a grand soil-landscape model that related soil classes to environmental factors. Although successful in stimulating the reconnaissance survey of New Zealand soils, it failed to support the requirements of more intensive land use. Soil Taxonomy was tested as an alternative modem system for a period of 5 years but was found to make inadequate provision for important classes of New Zealand soils. The New Zealand Soil Classification was developed using many of the features of Soil Taxonomy while preserving successful parts of the New Zealand Genetic Soil Classification. Historical lessons include the increasing importance of electronic databases and regional correlation, the importance of nomenclature, the necessity of a national system and the divorce of soil classification from soil-landscape modelling.

scholarly journals Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jane McLaughlan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Janet Frame ◽  
Made In

Do contemporary practices of attribution go far enough in acknowledging the contribution that others make to our work, particularly when they speak from the archive? The autobiographical fiction Faces in the Water (1961) from acclaimed author Janet Frame (1924-2004) draws on her experiences of residing in various New Zealand mental hospitals between 1945 and 1953. It is a rare and comprehensive account of the patient experience of these institutions that provided a critical lens for my doctoral research. Perhaps more importantly, through this text Frame taught me how difficult histories should be written, about the ambiguities we must accept and the value adjustments to be made in order to make sense of confounding inhumanity. Nowhere within my dissertation is the depth of this contribution acknowledged; a position developed out of respect for her family’s active opposition to the ‘patronising’ and ‘pathologising discourse’ that continues to haunt contemporary receptions of Frame’s work. Within this paper I employ autoethnography to make explicit the process of working through a question that haunted me well beyond the completion of my doctoral research: whether contemporary practices of citation and acknowledgement are sufficient to value research contributions from beyond the grave. I will examine whether Frame’s contribution is commensurate with contemporary qualifications for co-authorship and the burdens of academic practice that act to suppress these conversations.

Outstanding Challenges in Scientific Research on Mindfulness and Meditation

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Davidson ◽  
Cortland J. Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Contemplative Practices ◽  
Large N ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Made In

Van Dam et al. raise a number of critical issues in contemporary research on mindfulness and meditation and offer a prescriptive agenda for future work in this area. While we agree with all of the key points made in their article, there are a number of important issues omitted that are central to a comprehensive agenda for future research in this area. This commentary highlights five key points: (a) Many of the key methodological issues the article raises are not specific to research on mindfulness; (b) contemplative practices are varied, and the landscape of modern scientific research has evolved to focus almost exclusively on one or two types of practice to the exclusion of other forms of practice that are potentially highly impactful; (c) mindfulness and related contemplative practices were not originally developed to treat disease; (d) key issues of duration, intensity and spacing of practice, and the extent to which formal meditation practice is required or whether practice can be piggybacked onto other non–cognitively demanding activities of daily living (e.g., commuting) remain as among the most important practical questions for disseminating these practices more widely, yet have received scant serious research attention; and (e) the use of mobile technology in both disseminating contemplative training and assessing its impact is going to be required to solve some of the key methodological challenges in this area including standardizing training across sites and addressing individual differences (which will require very large- N studies).

The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Settlement Systems ◽  
Coastline Evolution ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Future Research Directions

The prehistory of Oceania begins with the occupation of New Guinea over 50,000 years ago, up to the settlement of Aotearoa/New Zealand in the last 700 years. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents this history in regional overviews and debates through 21 chapters by leading archaeologists and scholars of allied fields. Chapters present the latest findings and future research directions on the New Guinea region and archipelagos from Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa in the western Pacific. Micronesia, East Polynesia, Hawaii, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Easter Island are also discussed in individual chapters. Chapters on wider disciplinary issues summarize key points of method and theory in Oceanic archaeology, including the generation of explanations, building chronologies, linguistic prehistory, coastline evolution, settlement systems, and maritime migration.

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