title: Delivering on sustainability's global and local orientation

authors: Collins, Eva Marie

subjects: New Zealand

abstract: A sustainability instructor takes her graduate-level sustainability class to an eco-village on an island off of Auckland, New Zealand. The students have the opportunity to make mud bricks for homes, visit houses powered "off the grid" from solar and wind energy, and tour community gardens that provide fresh fruit and vegetables. Rain water is collected from roofs for use in the homes. At the end of the day, several New Zealand students approach the instructor and enthuse about how inspired they are by this alternative lifestyle. Two international students also approach the instructor; one student is from China and the other from Tajikistan. And although they approach the instructor separately, they have the same message: "This is how we live at home. We don't want to live this way. We want to live the way you do here in New Zealand."

text: Delivering on sustainability's global and local orientation A sustainability instructor takes her graduate-level sustainability class to an eco-village on an island off of Auckland, New Zealand. The students have the opportunity to make mud bricks for homes, visit houses powered "off the grid" from solar and wind energy, and tour community gardens that provide fresh fruit and vegetables. Rain water is collected from roofs for use in the homes. At the end of the day, several New Zealand students approach the instructor and enthuse about how inspired they are by this alternative lifestyle. Two international students also approach the instructor; one student is from China and the other from Tajikistan. And although they approach the instructor separately, they have the same message: "This is how we live at home. We don't want to live this way. We want to live the way you do here in New Zealand."

year: 2010

title: An investigation of a Mollicute-like organism inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract

authors: Care, Andrew Shane

subjects: Mollicute

abstract: The microflora inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract can be considered an essential 'metabolic organ', in a symbiotic relationship with its host. Due to the low cultivability and inappropriate sampling methodology the microflora is poorly explored and ill-defined. 

Preliminary, molecular-based research at the University of Waikato revealed the presence of 16S rRNA gene sequences originating from novel Mollicute-like species inhabiting the human GI tract. A ~830bp 'consensus' sequence representing these novel Mollicute-like sequences was classified within the Mollicute Genus Anaeroplasma the type species of which is Anaeroplasma abactoclasticum. It also displayed near exact matches with 16S rRNA sequences obtained from the human GI tract and matches of high similarity to those from the mouse GI tract in the NCBI database.

This thesis describes an attempt to design and create primers that would amplify and characterize full-length versions of these Mollicute-like sequences from samples obtained from the mucosal surface of the human gastrointestinal tract. Primers sets targeted extended 5' and 3' versions of these novel 'known' sequences and were designed from sequence matches found in the preliminary work and other related sequences from the NCBI database.

The attempt to amplify a full-length version of these novel Mollicute-like sequences was proven to be unsuccessful. No sequences were classified within the Genus Anaeroplasma, although 81% of amplicons from the 5' extending primer sets were classified within the same division as the Mollicutes, the Firmicutes, only 6% of the sequenced amplicons from the 3' extending primer set belonged to this division. Phylograms containing these 'relevant' sequences and the 'consensus' sequence grouped the 'consensus' sequence separately, indicating a lower relatedness than would have been seen if any of the amplicons contained the 'consensus' sequence.

text: An investigation of a Mollicute-like organism inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract The microflora inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract can be considered an essential 'metabolic organ', in a symbiotic relationship with its host. Due to the low cultivability and inappropriate sampling methodology the microflora is poorly explored and ill-defined. 

Preliminary, molecular-based research at the University of Waikato revealed the presence of 16S rRNA gene sequences originating from novel Mollicute-like species inhabiting the human GI tract. A ~830bp 'consensus' sequence representing these novel Mollicute-like sequences was classified within the Mollicute Genus Anaeroplasma the type species of which is Anaeroplasma abactoclasticum. It also displayed near exact matches with 16S rRNA sequences obtained from the human GI tract and matches of high similarity to those from the mouse GI tract in the NCBI database.

This thesis describes an attempt to design and create primers that would amplify and characterize full-length versions of these Mollicute-like sequences from samples obtained from the mucosal surface of the human gastrointestinal tract. Primers sets targeted extended 5' and 3' versions of these novel 'known' sequences and were designed from sequence matches found in the preliminary work and other related sequences from the NCBI database.

The attempt to amplify a full-length version of these novel Mollicute-like sequences was proven to be unsuccessful. No sequences were classified within the Genus Anaeroplasma, although 81% of amplicons from the 5' extending primer sets were classified within the same division as the Mollicutes, the Firmicutes, only 6% of the sequenced amplicons from the 3' extending primer set belonged to this division. Phylograms containing these 'relevant' sequences and the 'consensus' sequence grouped the 'consensus' sequence separately, indicating a lower relatedness than would have been seen if any of the amplicons contained the 'consensus' sequence.

year: 2009

title: Kia reo Māori anahe te reo karanga

authors: Puke, Haupai

subjects: Karanga

abstract: Mā taku karanga o runga ake nei tēnei tuhinga e wāwāhi. Ahakoa he aha te ahurea ōna tikanga me ōna kawa, kua hurihia i roto i ngā rautau. Ko ngētehi kei te pupuruhia tonutia hāunga anō he hou ōna āhuatanga. Ko te kaupapa rangahau o tēnei tuhinga ko te karanga me ngētehi āhuatanga ōna hei tautoko i te whakahau kia noho reo Māori anahe te reo karanga. He aha e pēnei na ai te whakaaro mō tēnei o ngā tikanga o te ao Māori? I runga anō i ngā āhuatanga hou, i ngā whakarerekētanga tikanga o te karanga i roto i tēnei ao hurihuri kāore e tautāwhina te take. Ko ngā kōrero, ngā whakaaro hoki e whai ake nei e wānangahia ai hei tautoko i tēnei whakapae āku.

text: Kia reo Māori anahe te reo karanga Mā taku karanga o runga ake nei tēnei tuhinga e wāwāhi. Ahakoa he aha te ahurea ōna tikanga me ōna kawa, kua hurihia i roto i ngā rautau. Ko ngētehi kei te pupuruhia tonutia hāunga anō he hou ōna āhuatanga. Ko te kaupapa rangahau o tēnei tuhinga ko te karanga me ngētehi āhuatanga ōna hei tautoko i te whakahau kia noho reo Māori anahe te reo karanga. He aha e pēnei na ai te whakaaro mō tēnei o ngā tikanga o te ao Māori? I runga anō i ngā āhuatanga hou, i ngā whakarerekētanga tikanga o te karanga i roto i tēnei ao hurihuri kāore e tautāwhina te take. Ko ngā kōrero, ngā whakaaro hoki e whai ake nei e wānangahia ai hei tautoko i tēnei whakapae āku.

year: 2012-05