The New Zealand Institute

Update: The Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand

New Zealand is a small Pacific nation 1600 km east 01 Australia and thus is far from the population centers of the Northern Hemisphere its major markets. New Zealand has an area of approximately 268,000 km2 (comparable to the area of the state of Colorado) and a population of just over three million. Its economy is based largely on the pastoral production of sheep and cattle: The meat industry ...

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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...

The distribution of the cardiac veins in the New Zealand White rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

In this investigation, 25 adult New Zealand White rabbits randomly selected from both sexes and studied.Coloured latex injection and corrosion cast methods were applied on the materials. This study was carried out to disclose the distribution of the cardiac veins of the New Zealand White rabbits. The veins that drain the heart were found to be the great cardiac vein, the middle cardiac vein, th...

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Science as a service: understanding successful knowledge transfer in a New Zealand research institute.

This paper reports on an exercise conducted within a state-owned body (Crown Research Institute) in New Zealand aimed at building greater understanding of the key factors in successful research programmes. Success was defined in this study as a high level of uptake of the emerging science, with commensurate benefits to both industry and the community. The methodology had three parts. A review o...