Historically NZ dairy farming has held a position as the lowest cost, non-subsidized producers at the farm gate. Recently, this position has been eroded as a result of increases in labor and land costs, while other emerging countries, such as Argentina and Ukraine, have adopted lower cost...

The New Zealand health care sector stands out relative to other OECD countries, with relatively low per-capita health expenditure and a public dominant health system. Efficient allocation of resources is therefore paramount. This paper creates a predictive model for patient volume using the...

Predictive Risk Models which utilize routinely collected data to develop algorithms are used in England to stratify patients according to their hospital admission risk. An individual’s risk score can be used as a basis to select patients for hospital avoidance programmes. This paper presents a...

The health care sector in New Zealand has undergone substantial structural reform since 1983 and stands out relative to other OECD countries, with relatively low per capita health expenditure and a high share of public funding. Efficient allocation of resources in this public dominant health...

The customer retention is an important factor in today’s increasingly tourism competitive markets which should be concerned seriously. At present, many academic customer retention researches mostly focused on the business market research in the hotel industry. In view of the tourism resort,...

Forecasting the demand of an integrated passenger terminal under the capacity constraints of its surrounding roads has always been a challenging problem for urban transportation terminals planning and construction in China. A bi-level model is proposed to forecast the passenger demand of an...

Network dynamics and energy consumption are two important performance issues for energy-constrained Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Current state-of-the-art research is limited to either modeling un-weighted network under some energy constraint or assuming fixed/static network model. In this...

In 2008, New Zealand became the first country to introduce a comprehensive Emissions Trading Scheme that includes all sectors and all gases. While NZ can claim the high ground in the international arena, the emissions trading scheme will impose substantial economic costs and its success will...

Three kinds of macro-encapsulated phase change materials (MacroPCMs) were fabricated, i.e., MacroPCMs with a single core–shell structure, MacroPCMs containing microencapsulated phase change materials (MicroPCMs), and composite macrocapsules of MicroPCMs/expanded graphite prepared by...