title: Agency costs, ownership structure and corporate governance mechanisms: A case study in New Zealand unlisted small companies

authors: Hewa Wellalage, Nirosha

subjects: corporate governance

abstract: This study investigates the linkage between agency costs, ownership structure and corporate governance in small business. Eleven years of data for 100 unlisted small businesses, are collected and 1099 observations are analysed using as dynamic panel GMM estimation. Various diagnostic tests are utilised to check for stationary and convergence of variables. The results indicate that ownership concentration has the most significant governance effect and also has the largest impact on corporate governance. Moreover, this study finds U-shape relationship between internal ownership and performance, which under that agency proxy. Agency costs vary with leverage the life of the business and with its size.

text: Agency costs, ownership structure and corporate governance mechanisms: A case study in New Zealand unlisted small companies This study investigates the linkage between agency costs, ownership structure and corporate governance in small business. Eleven years of data for 100 unlisted small businesses, are collected and 1099 observations are analysed using as dynamic panel GMM estimation. Various diagnostic tests are utilised to check for stationary and convergence of variables. The results indicate that ownership concentration has the most significant governance effect and also has the largest impact on corporate governance. Moreover, this study finds U-shape relationship between internal ownership and performance, which under that agency proxy. Agency costs vary with leverage the life of the business and with its size.

year: 2011

title: Functional Analysis of  Vitelline Membrane Outer Layer 1 (VMO1)

authors: Sagvekar, Pranjali

abstract: Hearing loss is an auditory impairment affecting millions of people world-wide. It has considerable impact psychologically, socially, and physically in adults; with the affected numbers increasing with age, and those with learning disabilities are at a particular risk. With the current advancements in audiological technologies and research related to regeneration of inner ear cells, it is important to understand hearing loss at a molecular level and the proteins involved in the mechanism.
Because of the many complications involved in isolating genes from the actual human ear, the use of animal/bacterial models and commercial mammalian cell lines have become important and informative. In addition, bioinformatics analysis makes it possible to converge the similarities between the human genome and genes from other species in real time. This aids in screening the genetic causes which underlie hearing loss and improve our understanding to unravel diagnostic strategies. 
The Vitelline Membrane Outer Layer 1 homolog (Vmo1) gene is of particular interest as it was uniquely and highly expressed in the inner ear of mouse. The function of this gene is currently unknown. The aim of this research is to induce recombinant human VMO1 protein in a prokaryotic system (E. coli) and ascertain its expression using a range of molecular and cellular assays. To do so, this research focuses on four objectives.

text: Functional Analysis of  Vitelline Membrane Outer Layer 1 (VMO1) Hearing loss is an auditory impairment affecting millions of people world-wide. It has considerable impact psychologically, socially, and physically in adults; with the affected numbers increasing with age, and those with learning disabilities are at a particular risk. With the current advancements in audiological technologies and research related to regeneration of inner ear cells, it is important to understand hearing loss at a molecular level and the proteins involved in the mechanism.
Because of the many complications involved in isolating genes from the actual human ear, the use of animal/bacterial models and commercial mammalian cell lines have become important and informative. In addition, bioinformatics analysis makes it possible to converge the similarities between the human genome and genes from other species in real time. This aids in screening the genetic causes which underlie hearing loss and improve our understanding to unravel diagnostic strategies. 
The Vitelline Membrane Outer Layer 1 homolog (Vmo1) gene is of particular interest as it was uniquely and highly expressed in the inner ear of mouse. The function of this gene is currently unknown. The aim of this research is to induce recombinant human VMO1 protein in a prokaryotic system (E. coli) and ascertain its expression using a range of molecular and cellular assays. To do so, this research focuses on four objectives.

year: 2018

title: Transitioning from kōhanga reo to kura

authors: Hohepa, Margie Kahukura

abstract: This is a collaborative cross-sector research project involving a kōhanga reo (Māori immersion early childhood language nest) kura (Māori language immersion school) and university-based researchers. It focuses on tamariki (children) moving from kōhanga reo to kura classrooms and will examine the development of an 'akoranga whakawhiti', a transition programme that will be based at Te Kōhanga Reo o Ngā Kuaka in Hamilton. The over arching research question for this project is: Pēhea rā te āhuatanga me te kounga o ngā whakawhitinga mai i te kōhanga ki te kura mō ngā tamariki, whānau, kaiako me te hāpori? - What do effective transitions from kōhanga reo to kura look like, feel like, and sound like, for tamariki, whānau, kaiako and the community? The project aims to provide important new insights into learning and teaching in Māori-medium settings and into ways of enhancing transitions from Maori-medium early childhood education to Māori medium classrooms.

text: Transitioning from kōhanga reo to kura This is a collaborative cross-sector research project involving a kōhanga reo (Māori immersion early childhood language nest) kura (Māori language immersion school) and university-based researchers. It focuses on tamariki (children) moving from kōhanga reo to kura classrooms and will examine the development of an 'akoranga whakawhiti', a transition programme that will be based at Te Kōhanga Reo o Ngā Kuaka in Hamilton. The over arching research question for this project is: Pēhea rā te āhuatanga me te kounga o ngā whakawhitinga mai i te kōhanga ki te kura mō ngā tamariki, whānau, kaiako me te hāpori? - What do effective transitions from kōhanga reo to kura look like, feel like, and sound like, for tamariki, whānau, kaiako and the community? The project aims to provide important new insights into learning and teaching in Māori-medium settings and into ways of enhancing transitions from Maori-medium early childhood education to Māori medium classrooms.

year: 2014