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Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

New Zealand

Futurewatch Jennifer Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

es some significant research into brain functioning. The mental habits we are learning as we use the Internet are altering our capabilities to read, and for thinking. New habits create new brain connections , while older established ones wither or fail to form. This brain plasticity is a great quality, but it also favours "primitive" mental functions, such as quick decision making, over intelle...

Dunedin New Zealand

Geographic information systems are an important tool for the field of geocomputing. Akey component of every system is the dataÑspatial data has traditionally been labour-intensive to collect, and hence expensive. This paper establishes a new method ofacquiring spatial data from motion video. The proposed method is based upon theprinciples of photogrammetry, but allows positi...

New Zealand children

The prevalence of bronchial hyperreactivity to inhaled methacholine and of a clinical history of symptoms of asthma was determined in a birth cohort of9 year old New Zealand children. A history of current or previous recurrent wheezing was obtained in 220 of 815 children. Of 800 who had spirometric tests, 27 (3.4%) had resting airflow obstruction (FEV,/FVC < 75%). Methacholine challenge was und...