Southern ladybird (<i>Cleobora mellyi</i>) is now well established in New Zealand

Dune Slack Vegetation in Southern New Zealand

A range of slack vegetation in southern New Zealand was described by detailed sampling of four dune slacks, contrasting in topographic situation and in vegetation. Comparison is made with a slack previously sampled on Stewart Island. The five slacks differed markedly in the plant communities present. One slack, where there was considerable peat accumulation, was dominated by the megaherb Phormi...

That was then, this is now...: processes, services and the future of New Zealand government portals

This paper describes a new approach to service and process metadata description for an all of government portal, to enable users to gain access to New Zealand government “processes”.

It Is Now Reasonably Well Established That Obstructive Sleep Apnea (osa) Constitutes an Independent Risk Factor for Daytime

IT IS NOW REASONABLY WELL ESTABLISHED THAT OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) CONSTITUTES AN INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR DAYTIME HYPERTENSION.1,2 The potential mechanisms that could link OSA to hypertension include chronic exposure to intermittent hypoxia, large intrathoracic pressure swings, and repetitive arousals from sleep occurring at the termination of each obstruction.3 However, the extent to...

IS Development Practice in New Zealand Organisations

A survey of New Zealand organisations with 200 or more full-time employees was undertaken in order to obtain an updated assessment of IS development practice. Over the period surveyed (2001-2003), larger organisations (500 or more FTEs) or those with larger IS functions (10 or more IS FTEs) undertook significantly more IS projects, more expensive projects, more projects in which users participa...

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