Choice of New Zealand Agricultural Production Sectors for Study

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Clustering of Farms Within Each Sector Accumulation of long-term data on a fixed number of farms can only minimise uncertainty around averages or trends in sustainability indicators at those places - it cannot...

Identified ARGOS panel differences: sheep/beef sector

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Positioning the ARGOS social science approach In the introductory document to the Social Objective of ARGOS (Rationale document— Campbell, et al. 2004), a broad distinction was made between two styles of research into...

Kiwifruit Results and Sector Comparisons

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Modifications to the list of factors The 36 factors used in the 2005 kiwifruit study (see Table 1) were the starting point for the factors used in the 2008 study. These original factors...

Farm or orchard management system and corresponding farmer characteristics

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Native birds As shown in Table 22 there was a modest range of responses to the native bird diversity and management questions. None were rated with a high score, most ranging between somewhat...

Group map data for all 20 farmers

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Group map data for all 20 farmers When the data for all 20 cases had been entered into individual Excel worksheets it was possible to create an equivalent data matrix for the group...

Identified ARGOS panel differences: kiwifruit sector

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Positioning the ARGOS social science approach In the introductory document to the Social Objective of ARGOS (Rationale document – Campbell, et al. 2004), a broad distinction was made between two styles of research...

Functional MRI correlates of category and parity judgements about rotated letters

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Mental rotation and the parietal cortex Mental rotation is considered to be a prototypical example of a visuospatial cognitive process (Corballis, 1997). As indicated earlier, according to Ungerleider and Mishkin’s (1982) model, the...

Checklist of the Ants of Fiji (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Canopy sampling The foliage of epiphytes, ferns, palms and trees (hereafter referred to as ‘trees’) were sampled by beating. Foliage was brushed/tapped with a 2 m long wooden stick five times to dislodge...

Cinematic Apparatus as a Disciplinary Structure

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Cartesian Difficulties As discussed in the previous chapter, Cronenberg utilises the body onscreen as a means of revealing previously effaced disciplinary structures that govern not just the body but, through what Sontag identifies...

Literature Review: Product Development and Management Control

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Formulations, packaging and costings During the design and testing stage I observed the CoPT members of the CoPPT making product formulation samples, examining packaging options and computing costings. These activities were done to...