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(Discussion Paper, 2013)When economists' subjective beliefs about the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test are internally consistent (i.e., satisfying Bayes' Rule), their beliefs about prostate ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)One of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to ‘promote gender equality and empower women.’ However, only 1% of official foreign aid is currently spent on gender equality and human rights. Using individual-level survey ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)There is now a large empirical literature on the effect of the aggregate inflation rate on (i) the dispersion of prices across goods or locations (relative price variability, or RPV) and (ii) the dispersion of inflation ... -
Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada (Discussion Paper, 2013)This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)Using search engine query data as a measure for public awareness of sexual health outcomes, this study extracts a measure of general interest in sexually transmitted disease for the United States (2004 – 2012). This trend ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)This paper addresses the issue of integrating agents with a variety of external resources and services, as found in enterprise computing environments. We propose an approach for interfacing agents and existing message ... -
(Book, 2013)The Energy Cultures research project (2009-2012) was planned to help inform policy making related to residential energy use and energy efficiency in New Zealand. It sought, in part, to help address the difficulties faced ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)The role of structural breaks in long spans of ex-post real interest rates for ten industrialized countries is studied. First, the persistence of the real interest is assessed with newly proposed low-frequency tests of ... -
An Agent-based Model of Interdisciplinary Science and the Evolution of Scientific Research Networks (Discussion Paper, 2013)This study proposes an agent-based model of the impact of research success on the structure of scientific communities. In the model, heterogeneous scientists scattered about a ‘social landscape’ influence each other through ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)Vampires are a prominent feature of modern culture. Past research identifies the ecological and economic relationship between vampires and living humans under the assumption that ‘representative agents’ are capable of ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)Background: This scoping study examines the degree to which students use their personal computers to support their undergraduate academic practice in their daily study habits. Methods: Three data sources were used in ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women struggled to find a public voice amidst an oppressive patriarchal culture. Women turned to private writing forms in order to find a voice, and thus the diary and the letter ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Juveniles have limited foraging ability compared to adults, due to physiological, morphological and behavioural constraints that ultimately affect their fitness and survival. Therefore, constraints on juvenile foraging ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)The gonadal steroid estradiol has widespread and diverse actions within the brain, although many of the cellular mechanisms responsible are unknown. This study extends a previous observation that estradiol can modulate ...
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(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)In this thesis I describe the results of a web-based choice survey of homeowner preferences for attributes of behaviours and technologies to improve energy-efficiency in the home. The choice survey is novel in that respondents ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)This thesis discusses the application of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods in electrical impedance tomography (EIT). This topic arises in the Bayesian approach to the reconstruction problem of EIT. This study is a ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)A common feature of mood disorders is disturbances of circadian rhythm and fluctuations in body weight. These are also common side effects of clinical anxiolytics. Likewise, those with eating disorders usually have comorbid ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)In bioenergy developments in the South Pacific cultural factors are known to influence the long-term sustainability of these projects. However, little is known about how cultural parameters influence the amount of biomass ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)This study investigates how students renegotiate their membership of the school community following being stood-down from school. In New Zealand stand-down is the least serious of the school exclusion provisions available ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability. A major complication is that mild cognitive impairment is commonly associated ...
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