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Introduction
(2021)1.0 SPECIAL ISSUE: COVID-19 AND TAXATION From time to time the New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy (the Journal) dedicates an issue to a particular topic. Past special issues have encompassed Chinese tax law ... -
Portfolio Entrepreneurs: Structure, Strategy and Management of Business Groups
(2022)This paper draws on the experiences of portfolio entrepreneurs and develops new insights into this important mode of business development. Portfolio entrepreneurs own and manage multiple businesses simultaneously, providing ... -
Domestic Nature-Based Tourism and Wellbeing: A Roadmap for the New Normal?
(Springer, 2021)Since most tourism experiences occur in the natural environment, nature-based tourism (NBT) is probably the largest and most popular form of tourism. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a multitude of studies has investigated ... -
Work Active: Supporting the "forgotten learners" in their journey to work
(2019)The aim of the Work Active project is to develop a practice framework for an internship-based employment training programme for people with an intellectual disability. The intention is to develop a learning programme ... -
Land, land banks and land back: Accounting, social reproduction and Indigenous resurgence
(SAGE Publications, 2021)This paper situates Indigenous social reproduction as a duality; as both a site of primitive accumulation and as a critical, resurgent, land-based practice. Drawing on three distinct cases from British Columbia, Canada, ... -
The Open Access Law Book in Aotearoa New Zealand: Radicalising the Funding of Future Publishing
(2021)The budgets of university libraries in New Zealand are being squeezed by the costs of subscriptions to works necessary for teaching. This article advocates for a different approach to funding such works. Drawing upon ... -
Alarm signalling between rats : a potential model for conservation of endangered species?
(University of Canterbury, 2004)In this study male and female rats were exposed to mildly aversive stimuli, namely, an open-field and 5, 90-dB noise bursts. The rats were exposed alone and in pairs. When pairs were used, some of the partners were pre-treated ... -
Direct extraction of tau information for use in ego-motion
(University of Canterbury, 2004)Avoidance collisions with obstacles is a critical function of any autonomous vehicle. This thesis considers the problem of utilising information about time to contact available in the ambient optic array. Motion-from-smear ... -
Emotion regulation and coping of young witnesses
(University of Canterbury, 2003)This study examined coping strategies in potential and previous young court witnesses in an attempt to address the present lack of attention to child witnesses within the coping literature, despite the consensus of opinion ... -
The relationship between leadership behaviors and subordinates' job stress in Taiwan
(University of Canterbury, 2003)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership styles and subordinates' job stress in Taiwan. It was predicted that less supportive, less approachable, less communicative, more controlling ... -
Landscape change as a platform for environmental and social healing
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)Aotearoa New Zealand is characterised by dynamic landscapes. Major landscape-altering events, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides and tsunami, have deeply influenced the relationships that many Māori, the Indigenous ... -
The effects of ambient illumination change on the detection and relative intensity perception of acid tastes
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Home role and the work behaviour of married women
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Mental abnormality and crime - a comparison of remand patients and prisoners
(University of Canterbury, 1970)The aim of this study was to compare remand patients and prisoners, thereby attempting to answer a question which may be stated as follows:“What are the characteristics which mark certain offenders off from others to the ... -
An Information-Motivated Exploration Agent to Locate Stationary Persons with Wireless Transmitters in Unknown Environments
(MDPI AG, 2021)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) show promise in a variety of applications and recently were explored in the area of Search and Rescue (SAR) for finding victims. In this paper we consider the problem of finding multiple ... -
Psychology, science and statistical significance testing
(University of Canterbury, 1989)The statistical significance test is the dominant data-testing methodology in psychology, yet has many limitations which cast doubt on the suitability of the test for this position. The aim of this thesis is to outline why ... -
The performance of rats in the Hebb-Williams maze
(University of Canterbury, 1967)In experiments investigating the performance of rats and cats in the Hebb-Williams closed field test , Pollard et. al. (1961 , 1963, 1965, 1966) found that while cats made fewer errors than rats on problems ... -
Narrative accounting for mining in Ghana: An old defence against a new threat?
(2021)This article is concerned with aspects of how accounting and accountants figure in economics and policy issues related to mineral and fossil fuel extraction, production and use. Starting by appraising whether narrative ... -
Social and psychological correlates of student drug use
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Positive behavioural contrast : response suppression and the signalling of reinforcement
(University of Canterbury, 1970)In two experiments the effects of a hitherto unused technique to suppress responding by pigeons in one component of a mult VI20 VI20 schedule were explored. This technique involved the presentation of a lighted bulb ...