title: Editorial: Work Family & Gender

authors: Haar, Jarrod M.

subjects: work family

abstract: Welcome to the third issue in our set of Special Editions of the New Zealand Journal of Human Resource Management (NZJHRM). As mentioned previously (Issues 1 and 2), the current set of Special Issue’s seeks to promote emerging research and researchers from New Zealand and Australasia undertaking research of interest to Human Resource Management professionals, academics, and researchers. As with the two previous issues, a number of these papers were presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference in Auckland 2008. Let me reiterate my thanks to those reviewers for their initial work with the conference. This Special Issue focuses on work-family and gender, and I have combined these due to their complimentary nature, rather than suggesting they are inexorably linked together. As a work-family researcher myself, I believe work-family issues are important and relevant to all employees, not just females. However, I combined papers into this stream because clearly there are issues and theoretical underpinnings that make these streams of HRM research sufficiently close to relate.

text: Editorial: Work Family & Gender Welcome to the third issue in our set of Special Editions of the New Zealand Journal of Human Resource Management (NZJHRM). As mentioned previously (Issues 1 and 2), the current set of Special Issue’s seeks to promote emerging research and researchers from New Zealand and Australasia undertaking research of interest to Human Resource Management professionals, academics, and researchers. As with the two previous issues, a number of these papers were presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference in Auckland 2008. Let me reiterate my thanks to those reviewers for their initial work with the conference. This Special Issue focuses on work-family and gender, and I have combined these due to their complimentary nature, rather than suggesting they are inexorably linked together. As a work-family researcher myself, I believe work-family issues are important and relevant to all employees, not just females. However, I combined papers into this stream because clearly there are issues and theoretical underpinnings that make these streams of HRM research sufficiently close to relate.

year: 2009

title: Purification and properties of an aryl beta-xylosidase from a cellulolytic extreme thermophile expressed in Escherichia coli.

authors: Hudson, R.C.

subjects: beta-xylosidase

abstract: An aryl beta-xylosidase was purified to homogeneity from an Escherichia coli strain containing a recombinant plasmid carrying a beta-xylosidase (EC 3.2.1.37) gene from the extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolate Tp8T6.3.3.1 ('Caldocellum saccharolyticum'). It has a pI of 4.3 and shows optimal activity at pH 5.7. The enzyme is highly specific, acting on o- and p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xylopyranosides and minimally on p-nitrophenyl alpha-L-arabinopyranoside. It does not act on xylobiose. The Km for p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xylopyranoside at the optimum pH for activity is 10 mM, and at pH 7.0 is 6.7 mM. Xylose is a competitive inhibitor with Ki 40 mM. Thermal inactivation follows first-order kinetics at 65 and 70 degrees C with t1/2 values of 4.85 h and 40 min respectively. The t1/2 at 70 degrees C is increased 3-fold and 4-fold by the addition of 0.5 mg of BSA/ml and 2 mM-dithiothreitol respectively.

text: Purification and properties of an aryl beta-xylosidase from a cellulolytic extreme thermophile expressed in Escherichia coli. An aryl beta-xylosidase was purified to homogeneity from an Escherichia coli strain containing a recombinant plasmid carrying a beta-xylosidase (EC 3.2.1.37) gene from the extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolate Tp8T6.3.3.1 ('Caldocellum saccharolyticum'). It has a pI of 4.3 and shows optimal activity at pH 5.7. The enzyme is highly specific, acting on o- and p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xylopyranosides and minimally on p-nitrophenyl alpha-L-arabinopyranoside. It does not act on xylobiose. The Km for p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xylopyranoside at the optimum pH for activity is 10 mM, and at pH 7.0 is 6.7 mM. Xylose is a competitive inhibitor with Ki 40 mM. Thermal inactivation follows first-order kinetics at 65 and 70 degrees C with t1/2 values of 4.85 h and 40 min respectively. The t1/2 at 70 degrees C is increased 3-fold and 4-fold by the addition of 0.5 mg of BSA/ml and 2 mM-dithiothreitol respectively.

year: 1991

title: The importance of whakapapa for understanding fertility

authors: Rarere, Moana

abstract: The Māori fertility transition—which saw a shift from high to low birth rates between 1966 to 1976—was one of the most rapid fertility declines observed anywhere in the world. Since then, Māori fertility has hovered around replacement level (2.1 births per woman), somewhat above that of Pākehā (European) New Zealanders. More striking are differences in timing with Māori women bearing their children younger and over a longer duration. This paper sits within a broader research project that asks: What are the important influences that have sustained contemporary Māori fertility patterns? Drawing on Mana Wahine (Māori women’s discourses) and whakawhiti kōrero (interviews) with wāhine Māori (Māori women) this paper highlights whakapapa (genealogy) as an important concept in broadening and deepening our understandings of fertility, and situating individual fertility and reproduction within a broader set of relations.

text: The importance of whakapapa for understanding fertility The Māori fertility transition—which saw a shift from high to low birth rates between 1966 to 1976—was one of the most rapid fertility declines observed anywhere in the world. Since then, Māori fertility has hovered around replacement level (2.1 births per woman), somewhat above that of Pākehā (European) New Zealanders. More striking are differences in timing with Māori women bearing their children younger and over a longer duration. This paper sits within a broader research project that asks: What are the important influences that have sustained contemporary Māori fertility patterns? Drawing on Mana Wahine (Māori women’s discourses) and whakawhiti kōrero (interviews) with wāhine Māori (Māori women) this paper highlights whakapapa (genealogy) as an important concept in broadening and deepening our understandings of fertility, and situating individual fertility and reproduction within a broader set of relations.

year: 2022