This thesis presents a non-visual game for visually impaired people which uses technology designed for interacting with Virtual Reality (VR) environments to provide a tailored experience that focuses on touch and sound. ...

It's quiet, then sounds on a Baby Monitor...

John Hancock, CGNZ, presented Twelve Months On: Blacking out through Reforming the Unreformable? contrasting international perspectives on the electricity blackouts experienced in London, Italy and New York and how electricity ...

In this thesis we investigate the magnetic properties of NdN and SmN, members of the rare-earth nitrides, a series of intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors. In rare-earth systems, the strong spin-orbit coupling of the ...

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific ...

This thesis examines the relationships between Herakles, Hera and Zeus in five mythic episodes in the Bibliotheke: the punishment of Hera; the Gigantomachy; Herakles’ birth and early life; the madness of Herakles; and his ...

The United States presidential election in 2000 was one of the closest in history. In 1960, the winner of the popular vote in that presidential election won by the narrowest of margins. Forty years separated the two results, ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) which causes demyelination and damage to the neuronal axons. MS is a significant health problem in New Zealand, affecting 1 in 1400 ...

As public policies seek to advance deployment of enhanced broadband infrastructure as a means of acquiring economic advantage the issue has arisen of the extent that additional economic performance accrues from increases ...