Jonathan Leaver's Ph.D. thesis has been reformatted and published by the Mauritius-based VDM Publishing House Ltd. as one of its Scientific Monographs. This is a good example of a praiseworthy initiative resulting in the much wider distribution of research material that otherwise could well languish unnoticed on the shelves of the host university.rnAs is well-summarized in the book's opening chapter, Leaver's research used three New Zealand case studies where characteristic short-period (under 25 hours) variations in several fluid parameters were measured and analyzed to find what significant information they contained. The underlying motivation was to see if such an approach would enable time-efficient and resource-efficient monitoring strategies to be developed so interested parties-environmental, developmental, scientific-could obtain information of interest and importance for their respective purposes.
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