This research investigates age- and sex-related survival estimates incorporating tag loss for New Zealand (NZ) sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) from Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands, New Zealand, using multistate mark-recapture data from known-age individuals over 8 years (1997-1998 to...
The islands of New Zealand are populated by persons of European, Maori, and Pacific Island extraction. The purpose of this research is to quantify the levels of dental maturation of each of these three populations, in order to obtain data that will be useful in forensic identification and age...
in Travel, Travel New Zealand New Zealand Cruise Recap Last year was a big year for us so we decided to treat ourselves to a relaxing cruise holiday sailing around both the North and South Islands of ‘the land of the long white cloud’, New Zealand. We both love New Zealand, so we...
The primary objective of this study is to use data from the New Zealand census to examine which question format produces better data on age: asking respondents to state their age or asking for date of birth. "This study consists of three main parts. Initially the enumerated population age dis...
This study aims to identify empirically-driven classes of age-of-onset across multiple substances (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis) and to characterize the different classes in relation to mental health and substance use severity. The sample comprised 1,051 young adults (aged 18–25; 61.9% women), ...
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heralded a new age of activities in space exploration, contributing immensely to man’s ability [...] daccess-ods.un.org 那次飞行把世界各 地一代又一代的领导人、科学家、作家和普通人所 怀有的梦想变成了现实,从而预示了 太 空 探 索 活动 新时代的到来 ,极大促进了人类改善地球生活质量 的...
On his third voyage, as captain in charge of two ships, the Discovery and the Revolution, he came upon a group of unknown islands which he named the Sandwich Islands after his friend, the Earl (伯爵) of Sandwich. Today the islands are known at the Hawaiian Islands. When Cook sailed ...
Sectioned otoliths were used to estimate the age of 29 specimens of the smooth oreo (Pseudocyttus maculatus Gilchrist 1906) from the Falkland Islands region of the South Atlantic. This represents the first ageing study of this species in this region of the world. All specimens were immature (...
Biogeographic relationships in the southern hemisphere have puzzled biologists for the last two centuries. Once joined to form the supercontinent Gondwana, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand and South America are widely separated by the Pacific a