Abstract Taniwha are powerful water creatures in te ao Māori (the world/worldview). sometimes affect public works Aotearoa New Zealand: for example, consultation between government agencies and tangata whenua people of the land) about proposed roading developments results route being moved to avoid dwelling place a taniwha. Mainstream media responses have tended be hostile or mocking, as you mi...

Abstract International relations scholarship concerns dyads, yet standard modeling approaches fail to adequately capture the data generating process behind dyadic events and processes. As a result, they suffer from biased coefficients poorly calibrated errors. We show how regression-based approach, Additive Multiplicative Effects (AME) model, can be used account for inherent dependencies in gle...

for the first time in English an authentic treatise on this subject. Such a work could only be the product of a master of his subject and Palmer Findley has long been recognized as a leader in American Obstetrics. Bearing in mind that "History is the essence of innumerable biographies" the author has used this approach to the subject with great effectiveness. The great personalities of obstetri...

BACKGROUND People vary in how they respond to symptoms. The purpose of this study was to assess whether serious disease is more likely to be present in patients who report that they take any symptoms less seriously than other people do, and to assess the reliability of a question which can be used to identify the extent to which patients take any symptom seriously. To do this we assessed whethe...