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...

Soil barrenness is an important type of land degradation, which seriously restricts the food security and sustainable development agriculture in my country. This paper analyzes status quo soil barrenness, its causes trends, treatment measures, research directions order to serve as a reference for barrenness.