The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Te Koronga Māori research and teaching excellence kaupapa. Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa, Samantha Jackson Mr Brendan Flack established in 2013 at University Otago with support late Hiria Mei Cessy Parore. refers to a yearning for esoteric knowledge practice. kaupapa is that aims uplift hopes aspirations communities context mauri ora.

Due to high incidence and quality-of-life impact, upper respiratory infection substantially impacts on population health. To test or compare treatment effectiveness, a well-designed and validated illness-specific quality-of-life instrument is needed. Data reported in the current study were obtained from a trial testing echinacea for induced rhinovirus infection. Laboratory-assessed biomarkers i...

We can represent each dynamic job shop system as a network of queues, in which each service station indicates a machine or a production department. Now, assume that we can control the service rates of these service stations and also the arrival rates to the service stations, in which the arrival rate to each service station corresponds to the total rates of demands for the products which are pr...

The best practice in information system development is to model the business processes that have to be supported and the database of the information system separately. This is inefficient because they are closely related. Therefore we present a framework in which it is possible to derive one from the other. To this end we introduce a special class of Petri nets, called Jackson nets, to model th...

Dr. Robert Brodell, MD, is the Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Professor in the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Jeremy Jackson, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. William Taylor Sisson, MBA, is the D...

The genus Saetheria Jackson from the Russian Far East is reviewed. The males of S. reissi Jackson, 1977, S. tamanipparai (Sasa, 1983) and S. tylus (Townes, 1945) are redescribed and figured. The pupa of S. reissi is redescribed and illustrated. The larva of S. reissi Jackson is described for the first time. Comments on the systematics and distribution of each species are provided. Paracladopelm...