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(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), CAUTHE 2004: Creating Tourism Knowledge, 2004)In 1997/98 a survey was conducted of New Zealand wineries with respect to their attitudes towards wine tourism and their relationship to key wine and food tourism stakeholders (Hall & Johnson, 1998). The survey was the ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), AAA 2007 Conference & AFAANZ 2007 Conference, 2007)This study finds that the agency problems of companies with high free cash flow (FCF) and low growth opportunities induce auditors of companies in the United States to raise audit fees to compensate for the additional ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), AAA 2007 Conference & AFAANZ 2007 Conference, 2007)This study finds that the agency problems of companies with high free cash flow (FCF) and low growth opportunities induce auditors of companies in the United States to raise audit fees to compensate for the additional ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 16th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2004: A Spatio-temporal Workshop), 2004)Mental maps are a cartographic illustration of a person’s internal representation of the spatial environment in which they live. They are often used to provide an insight into how different ethnic or social groups perceive ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Oral presentation), 15th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2003: Land, Place and Space), 2003)This talk will address the problem of determining the semi-rigid motion of an ice floe from a series of grayscale images of the floe. The analysis will start with the global properties of the images. The next step is to ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)This study explores analyst annual earnings forecasts in New Zealand. The results show that forecasts of New Zealand firms do not suffer from the pessimistic biases found in studies of forecasts for United States firms. ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2004)Previous studies document a negative and significant return to equity on the announcement of a seasoned equity offering. However, the effects of such an announcement on the firms other securities has received little ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), Pan-Pacific Conference XXIV of the Pan-Pacific Business Association, 2007)Trust decreases the perceived risk of using a service. Since e-learners have no direct contact with the education providers, trust plays an important role in an e-tertiary setting. In a review of the literature, hypotheses ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Oral presentation), 18th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes), 2006)The paper introduces ARGOS, the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability and discusses the potential role GIS can play within. The ARGOS programme examines the environmental, economic and social sustainability of New ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 19th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter?), 2007)The assessment of the performance of multi-resolution image fusion, or image sharpening methods, is difficult. In the context of binary classification of snow targets in mountainous terrain, fusion methods were applied to ... -
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(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2009)Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical data-flow environment for multimedia, created by Miller Puckette of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD. It’s a fun, versatile and intuitive environment providing high-level ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), 18th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes), 2006)This research was conceived to contribute to the theoretical foundations of a general view of the dynamics of the world based on a concept of spatial order, defined and quantified in terms of differences or gradients. The ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)Fund and other investments often exhibit longer run volatility associated with macroeconomic or other dynamics to an extent inconsistent with the efficient market accumulation model. Volatility and performance models or ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Oral presentation), 15th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2003: Land, Place and Space), 2003)Modelling the relationship between the genetic distribution of a biological system on a landscape, and the diversity of this system, are fundamental concepts that can be studied using simulation models. This work examines ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Oral presentation), 16th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2004: A Spatio-temporal Workshop), 2004)We have used the DNA sequences of Pacific topshells, belonging to the genera Diloma, Melagraphia and Austrocochlea, to ascertain how this group became established over a large area of the Pacific. Phylogenetic analyses of ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), CAUTHE 2004: Creating Tourism Knowledge, 2004)People may be significant vectors for vine diseases and pests. Yet despite the potential biosecurity risks of visitation few New Zealand wineries have biosecurity strategies in place. The paper therefore aims to examine ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), E-leader Conference Bangkok 2008, 2008)In Malaysia and Singapore, Internet-based education has not attracted as many students as had been expected. It is reckoned that trust decreases the perceived risk of using a service. Since online learners have no direct ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Oral presentation), 16th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2004: A Spatio-temporal Workshop), 2004)We present a new method for calculating the transformation parameters for a rigid body undergoing planar motion parallel to the image plane. The method utilises splines to represent the outline of the rigid shape rather ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09121: Normative Multi-Agent Systems, 2009)In multi-agent systems, software agents are modelled to possess characteristics and behaviour borrowed from human societies. Norms are expectations of behaviours of the agents in a society. Norms can be established in a ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2005)I use new data made available by the 1993 Companies Act to examine trends in CEO and non-CEO executive employee (NCEE) pay and related governance issues. Following mandatory disclosure on 1 July 1997, real CEO and NCEE ...
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