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An indescribable beauty : letters home to Germany from Wellington, New Zealand, 1859 & 1862
\"The translated letters of Friedrich Krull from Wellington back home to Germany in 1859, at the behest of German naturalist and historian Ernst Boll. Krull details people, landscapes and birds of early Wellington, Wairarapa, Kapiti and surrounds. Included are reports on meetings with Te Rauparaha's son and nephew as well as other prominent Mهaori leaders. The book is illustrated with paintings and photographs from the time\"--Publisher information.
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Vertical Living
In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realize their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre furthered education, published a magazine— Design Review—hosted modernist exhibitions in its gallery, staged an audacious campaign for political influence called \"the Project,\" and fought for better planning, better design, and better built environments in Wellington. Charting these activists and their projects over the years, Julia Gatley and Paul Walker also offer a history of urban Wellington from the 1940s to the 1990s and beyond. The book reminds us that, in modernist ideology, architecture and urban planning went hand-in-hand with visual and craft arts, graphic and industrial design. In recovering the multidisciplinary history, politics, and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in New Zealand.
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A blighted fame : George S. Evans 1802-1868, a life
\"The biography of George Evans, scholar, lawyer, editor, politician, and one of the founders of New Zealand (for whom Evans Bay in Wellington is named). It covers his early life in England, his involvement with the New Zealand Company, and his time in Wellington, New Zealand, and Victoria, Australia\"--Publisher information.
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Gauging the effects of exercises on verb-noun collocations
Many contemporary textbooks for English as a foreign language (EFL) and books for vocabulary study contain exercises with a focus on collocations, with verb-noun collocations (e.g. make a mistake) being particularly popular as targets for collocation learning. Common exercise formats used in textbooks and other pedagogic materials require learners to establish appropriate matches between sets of verbs and nouns. However, matching exercises almost inevitably carry a risk of erroneous connections, and despite corrective feedback these might leave undesirable traces in the learner's memory. The authors report four small-scale trials (total n = 135) in which the learning gains obtained from verb-noun matching exercises are compared with the learning gains obtained from a format in which the target collocations are presented to the learners as intact wholes. Pre-test to post-test gains turned out small in all of the conditions, owing in part to the learners' substitution of initially correct choices by distracters from the exercises. The latter, negative side-effect was attested more often in the matching exercises than in the exercises where the learners worked with collocations as intact wholes. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Determination of the fractal dimension of a shore platform profile
Morphological studies of shore platforms have focused on elements like width, gradient and elevation, while mostly ignoring the surface roughness as a morphometric attribute. This paper uses the Roughness-length method to show how the Fractal Dimension of a shore platform profile can be obtained. The higher the value of the fractal dimension, the higher is the roughness of the platform. The studied profile is situated in Houghton Bay on the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand. The fractal dimension of the profile under consideration was found to be 1.314. However, one profile is not sufficient to provide information about the surface roughness of a shore platform. Therefore, a number of profiles should be taken to have an idea about surface roughness. Copyright 2013 Geological Society of India
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Generative Uncle and Nephew Relationships
This study investigates generativity, or a concern for future generations, in the relationships between uncles and nephews. Using in-depth interviews, 21 uncles and 31 nephews were interviewed in Wellington, New Zealand and Bangor, Maine. Uncles describe themselves as supplements to parents, as friends, or as surrogate parents. Uncles act as mentors by providing nephews with advice and sometimes criticism. They act as intergenerational buffers and family historians by engaging in family work with nephews, providing insights into the behavior of parents or siblings. In turn, nephews provide uncles with insights into the behavior of family members. This study contributes to the literatures on generativity, men and caregiving, and more broadly third-party influences in family relationships.
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Biological effects of the toxic algal bloom of February and March 1998 on the benthos of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
Wellington Harbour is a large (~85 km²), semi-enclosed temperate ecosystem. We used unpublished baseline data from 6 subtidal and 1 intertidal harbour stations to quantify the ecological effects of the naturally occurring toxic bloom of the naked dinoflagellateKarenia brevisulcata(Chang) G.Hansen & Moestrup during February and March 1998. Species richness decreased at 6 stations and increased at 1 station, numbers of individuals decreased at 4 of 4 stations, species diversity decreased at 5 of 5 stations, evenness decreased at 2 and increased at 2 stations, and biomass decreased at 2 of 3 stations. These data indicate that theK. brevisulcatabloom of late summer 1998 resulted in a mass die-off of the subtidal benthic invertebrates over a large area of Wellington Harbour, as well as of the flora and fauna at 1 intertidal location studied. Four major phyla (echinoderms, molluscs, polychaetes and crustaceans) were equally affected by the bloom, although different species within each phylum were differentially affected (regardless of phylum, small and shallow-burrowing individuals were most affected). Multivariate statistical analyses of these data identified 3 clusters composed of 4 subtidal stations which showed the highest level of impact by the bloom and were based on a spatial/environmental component (location in the northern harbour; greater depth; low current/wave energy) as well as a temporal component (pre- vs post-bloom). The remaining 3 subtidal stations were less affected by the bloom and each formed a separate cluster according to spatial/environmental rather than temporal effects. This event has permitted us to quantify, for the first time, the effects of a natural toxic bloom on a large-scale temperate harbour ecosystem and to relate the magnitude of these effects to the geographic and environmental properties of different locations within that ecosystem.
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Macrofossil associations from mid-Pleistocene cyclothems, Castlecliff section, New Zealand; implications for sequence stratigraphy
Macrofossil associations have proved to be vital aids for resolving the sequence architecture of Castlecliff cyclothems (5th and 6th order, mid-Pleistocene depositional sequences) because of a close correlation between particular faunal associations and systems tract character. Associations from transgressive systems tracts are typically derived from mixed and transported assemblages, which, in turn, commonly occur within cross-bedded units (Type A shell-beds) at the base of Castlecliff sequences. These associations commonly represent reworked sandy shoreface and estuarine paleocommunities that are not otherwise preserved in the Castlecliff section. Associations from mid-cycle condensed shellbeds (Type B shellbeds) comprise well-preserved, near-situ, dispersed to closely-packed macrofossil assemblages in mud-rich facies. These faunas represent inner to middle shelf, shell-ground to shelly soft-ground paleocommunities. Associations from high-stand systems tracts also comprise well-preserved near situ faunas. These assemblages, however, are variably dispersed within shelf siltstones and silty fine sandstones, and represent muddy soft-ground paleocommunities. Abrupt shifts in taxonomic composition and taphonomic attributes occur across systems-tract bounding disconformities. The nature of these changes, measured against an \"idealised continuum\" of macrofossil associations, is used to gauge the magnitude of these disconformities. This approach is especially useful in determining the nature, of mid-cycle disconformities in Castlecliff sequences, which are difficult to evaluate from lithofacies characteristics alone.
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Case study: knowledge work and telework: an exploratory study
Describes a study of how knowledge workers in two Wellington, New Zealand organizations organize their workload to take advantage of information and Internet technology available to them in their work and home environments. The current issue and full-text archive of this journal is available at www.emerald-library.com.
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