http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80 The UC Research Repository digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. 2013-05-25T00:33:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4509 Title: Geomorphological and geophysical investigation of the effects of active tectonic deformation on the hydrogeology of North Culverden Basin, North Canterbury Authors: Armstrong, Mark James Abstract: This thesis examines the complex interaction between the tectonic evolution of Culverden Basin and the Late Quaternary sediments, which form the aquifer-bearing deposits, using geological and geomorphological mapping as well as near-surface geophysical investigations. Along the eastern margin of Culverden Basin, the deformation associated with the actively widening Australian-Pacific plate boundary zone, has resulted in the evolution of Culverden Basin and the progressive inversion of the basin floor. The eastern margin of the basin is structurally controlled by a NE trending, complexly segmented range-front fault system and associated thrust-propagated anticlines forming the basin boundary. Basin inversion is driven by the westward propagation of footwall imbricate thrusts and associated folds. The inversion of the basin floor lead to the creation of sub-basins within the larger basin, which have controlled the distribution and architecture of the Late Quaternary stratigraphy. The Late Quaternary sedimentary record documents periods of climatically induced aggradation during cold conditions and degradation in the intervening warmer times. The interaction between the sedimentation and ongoing tectonic deformation has resulted in complex lithological relationships between the locally sourced alluvial fans and the glacial outwash deposits of the major rivers entering the basin. The architecture of the aquifers is therefore controlled by the changing fluvial regime and its interaction with the evolving sub-basins. The progressive evolution of the sub-basins leads to increasing complexities in the facies relationships and to the confinement of the deposits into progressively smaller portions of the sub-basins. Once the basin boundaries become emergent, the basin becomes isolated, and potentially cut-off from its groundwater recharge source. Leonard Mound is an actively evolving imbricate thrust system along the eastern margin of Culverden Basin that has isolated the Wynyard sub-basin from the central portion of Culverden Basin, during the Late Pleistocene and present. The emergence of Leonard Mound is preventing the recharge to the Wynyard sub-basin from the high yielding aquifers of the central portion of the basin. In the central portion of Culverden Basin, high natural recharge combined with an irrigation scheme has allowed for transformation of the basin into a major dairy farming centre. In contrast, the Wynyard sub-basin is still subjected to frequent summer droughts, making it desirable to find a better source of groundwater for the eastern margin of the basin. The hydrogeological model provided by the Culverden Basin almost certainly has wider implications to the groundwater resources of other basins in similar active tectonic settings. 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7747 Title: A retrospective analysis of the publication of accounting research about New Zealand consequent on distant performance measurement of the academic person Authors: Dixon, K. Abstract: Purpose – University academics are important to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about accounting practice and accounting learning. This paper explores the consequences for the Pacific society of New Zealand of performance of these discovery and dissemination activities being measured at the individual level using criteria directly linked to lists of periodicals compiled in Australia and that are decidedly Atlantocentric. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal approach is taken to how knowledge about accounting practice and accounting learning in New Zealand has been disseminated, and whether trends in this dissemination are suited to New Zealand audiences, including New Zealand students, New Zealand accountants, New Zealand policymakers, Aotearoa New Zealand’s indigenous people and its diverse recent-settler populations, and Pacific New Zealand Society. Over 100 accounting journals, magazines and similar periodicals are analysed, over the past quarter century and more, for articles based on empirical data from New Zealand. The findings relate to not only the topics of articles and which journals they have been published in, and what trends are arising. They also are interpreted in the broader context of university development and activities, and tertiary education policy and funding. Findings –Of the three activities associated with accounting in New Zealand universities, research has been the last to develop, starting with occasional articles from a small band of professors in the Chartered Accountants’ Journal (CAJ). Now, it is often accorded the highest priority, as reflected in formal individual academic performance management systems, and related incentives and penalties (exemplified by Performance Based Research Fund 2012). Publication patterns are changing. The CAJ has been deserted in favour of academic journals, virtually all published outside New Zealand. Academics have modified the way they report to suit the foreign editors and readerships. To publish about New Zealand in these journals, there is some advantage in studying areas in which New Zealand is seen as a “world leader” (e.g., Structural Adjustment, New Public Management, environmental accounting) but not in areas about which the outside world is oblivious (e.g., New Zealand’s multicultural array of people and organisations, including the Maori people) or in areas in which New Zealand lacks differences of “world” interest (e.g., financial collapses and director impropriety, what can be learnt by utilising stock exchange data). There do seem to be strong incentives for New Zealand-based academics to set their research in jurisdictions of more interest to journal publishers, if they want to score highly in individual performance management systems. How fit does that then make them to teach students about practices, concepts and issues in New Zealand? Research limitations/implications – The research is still in progress. Originality/value – Most studies of this ilk attempt to rank journals or are about researcher productivity and author placement. This study is concerned with whether knowledge about accounting practice and accounting learning in New Zealand is being disseminated in a way that suits those likely to be most interested and affected. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7746 Title: Left ventricular structure and function in elite judo players Authors: Whyte, G.; George, K.; Sharma, S.; Martin, L.; Draper, N.; McKenna, W. 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7745 Title: East African cassava mosaic-like viruses from Africa to Indian ocean islands: Molecular diversity, evolutionary history and geographical dissemination of a bipartite begomovirus Authors: De Bruyn, A.; Villemot, J.; Lefeuvre, P.; Villar, E.; Hoareau, M.; Harimalala, M.; Abdoul-Karime, A.L.; Abdou-Chakour, C.; Reynaud, B.; Harkins, G.W.; Varsani, A.; Martin, D.P.; Lett, J-M. Abstract: Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a major food source for over 200 million sub-Saharan Africans. Unfortunately, its cultivation is severely hampered by cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Caused by a complex of bipartite cassava mosaic geminiviruses (CMG) species (Family: Geminivirideae; Genus: Begomovirus) CMD has been widely described throughout Africa and it is apparent that CMGs are expanding their geographical distribution. Determining where and when CMG movements have occurred could help curtail its spread and reveal the ecological and anthropic factors associated with similar viral invasions. We applied Bayesian phylogeographic inference and recombination analyses to available and newly described CMG sequences to reconstruct a plausible history of CMG diversification and migration between Africa and South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) islands. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z