Combined Huntington’s Disease Clinic, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand, Older Persons Mental Health, Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand, Health Sciences Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Coordinator of Clinical Services for Families Living with HD, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, Ne...

1 National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2 Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand, 5 Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1996) 20(1): 27-35 ©New Zealand Ecological Society J.A. McLENNAN, M.A. POTTER, H.A. ROBERTSON, G.C. WAKE, R. COLBOURNE, L. DEW, L. JOYCE, A.J. McCANN, J. MILES, P.J. MILLER, and J. REID 1 Manaaki Whenua, Landcare Research New Zealand, Private Bag 1403, Havelock North, New Zealand. 2 Department of Ecology, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, Ne...

1 Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Regional Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand 3 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 4 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand 5 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Auckland City H...

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...

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...

The Auckland Stillbirth Study, a prospective populationbased case control study, was the first study to report maternal sleep related practices as risk factors for stillbirth [1]. In brief there were 155 women with a singleton late stillbirth (at or greater than 28 weeks’ gestation) without congenital abnormality, born between July 2006 and June 2009 and booked to deliver in Auckland. They were...