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Browsing Mathematics and Statistics by Date Published
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Model averaging is commonly used to allow for model uncertainty in parameter estimation. In the frequentist setting, a model-averaged estimate of a parameter is a weighted mean of the estimates from the individual models, ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Model averaging is a technique used to account for model uncertainty in the process of multimodel inference. A frequentist model-averaged estimator is defined as a weighted average of the single-model estimates resulting ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This research project develops an adaptable framework for simulating hydroelastic interaction using acceleration potential techniques. Finite Element Methods are used to solve for the motion of the fluid and of an elastic ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Students and teachers are facing challenges in teaching and learning fractions. The concepts related to fractions, ratios, and proportions are learned in primary school to cast a solid foundation in proportional reasoning ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)In this thesis the (2+1) dimensional wave map equations with the 2- sphere as target manifold is solved, using numerical methods. The focus will be on two different, but related topics. First, the numerical results obtained ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)This thesis focuses on the process of change. In particular, how schools and the individual teachers who make them up experience and manage the change process brought about by their involvement in professional development ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The response of one or more floating compliant disks to a monochromatic linear water wave is investigated theoretically and experimentally, in a regime where scattering effects dominate. A model is constructed assuming the ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)For decades, biologists believed that animals walk because the brain calculates motion trajectories for their limbs. However, an alternative hypothesis on animal locomotion suggests the opposite. The animal framework is ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This research captured the mathematical journeys of 31 New Zealand students over two years of their adolescence. The research framework combined a conceptualisation of identities with the notion in the affective domain of ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)The use of non-invasive genetic samples to identify individual animals is becoming increasingly common in wildlife studies. Sampling DNA non-invasively (often from hair or faeces) has advantages for identifying animals for ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)The central concept of this thesis is that of Leavitt path algebras, a notion introduced by both Abrams and Aranda Pino in [AA1] and Ara, Moreno and Pardo in [AMP] in 2004. The idea of using a field K and row-finite graph ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)Through the use of microarray technology researchers are now able to si- multaneously measure the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes. Amoung other things, this allows the construction of profiles of activation ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)This thesis reports on the development of number sense and mental computation proficiencies and their relationship to selected affective variables of Secondary 1 students, following an instructional intervention that lasted ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)The aim of my research was to develop a capture-recapture model to estimate both prevalence and incidence and to monitor those estimates over time. The standard way of estimating prevalence of diabetes using lists is through ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)The sooty shearwater (also known as the muttonbird, Tītī, Puffinus griseus) is a long-lived super-abundant, burrow nesting petrel, harvested by Rakiura Māori from breeding colonies, located in southern New Zealand. The ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008)This thesis presents the findings of a project with the overarching aim of exploring the role of School Based Assessment (SBA) in mathematics as a component alongside external written examinations for qualifications. The ...
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(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 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1996)
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 1994)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1993)The entry of ocean waves from the open sea into pack ice is a feature of the marginal ice zone which has important consequences for navigation and the construction of offshore structures in ice-infested seas. In turn it ...
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