The aims of this study were to assess the effects of: (1) environmental enrichment with either straw bedding or a hanging manipulable toy and (2) the ratio of pigs to environmental enrichment when toys are provided. One thousand and twenty four (Large White Landrace) Large White pigs were housed contemporarily, in 32 pen groups of 32 pigs (16 pens in each housing system), in matched straw-bedde...

Gender color-coding of children’s toys may make certain toys more appealing or less appealing to a given gender. We observed toddlers playing with two gender-typical toys (a train, a doll), once in gender-typical colors and once in gender-atypical colors. Assessments occurred twice, at 20 to 40 months of age and at 26 to 47 months of age. A Sex x Time X Toy X Color ANOVA showed expected interac...

Industry throughout the world is faced with a common problem that of the disposal of waste materials from manufacturing processes. In the case of the dairy industry, one such 'waste' which is produced in enormous quantities is the whey resulting from cheese and casein manufacture. In the 1996/97 season alone it is estimated that around five billion litres of whey were produced in New Zealand. I...

Iron occurs mainly as oxide ores, though it is also found in smaller quantities as its sulfide and carbonate. These other ores are usually first roasted to convert them into the oxide. On a world scale the most important ore is haematite (Fe2O3), but in New Zealand the starting materials are magnetite (Fe3O4) and titanomagnetite (Fe2TiO4). The oxides are reduced with carbon from coal, through t...

The Chinese Enterprise entered in the transnational enterprise and the supply chain by the way of OEM(original equipment manufacture), the things made in China like the electric appliance、 clothes、toy, the productions have occupied the important share in the global market, but this is still insufficient to cause the Chinese enterprise to enter the transnational enterprise's ranks ,because the C...

(SBCE) by reasoning, developing, and communicating about sets of solutions in parallel and relatively independently (see Figure 1). As the design progresses, they gradually narrow their respective sets of solutions based on additional information from development, testing, the customer, and other participants’ sets. As they narrow, they commit to staying within the set(s), barring extreme circu...

This thesis contributes to the development of a new type of actuator for use in robotic toy automation. The work covers an incremental series of experiments that examine, analyze, prototype, and test various ideas for converting the vibration of a voice coil into rotational motion. In its final form, it is believed that this actuator will provide a lowspeed, high-torque output using a single un...

This study explores the relationship between beliefs about self-control and the ability to exercise self-control in 4to 6year-old children. Sixty-eight children were asked a series of questions to gauge whether they believed that they could freely choose to act against their desires or inhibit themselves from performing desired actions. Children were also asked to provide qualitative explanatio...