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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"mauri"”.
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Mauri oho, mauri tu, mauri ora: Enhancing Maori health and wellbeing through a critical engagement with social marketing
This PhD research originally explored the efficacy of social marketing as potentially beneficial for Maori health providers involved with Maori health promotion activities. However, as I became conscientised to the potentially assimilist and neocolortial impacts .of functional management …
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CONNECTING TO THE MAURI OF THE MOANA: Using a community-based, intuitive and qualitative ecological monitoring process to connect with and consider the mauri of local marine ecosystems
… centred around the Māori ontological concept of mauri (life-force, vital energy). Internationally, and in Aotearoa New Zealand, there is interest in the use of community-based monitoring (CBM), including cultural monitoring frameworks, for informing the management and use of local ecosystems. …
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Tīhei Mauri Ora: Negotiating primary school teachers' personal and professional identities as Māori
Colonial attitudes that positioned Māori language, knowledge and pedagogy as inferior and deficient continue to impact on 21st century primary school contexts in Aotearoa/New Zealand. They continue to impact particularly on the personal and professional identities and experiences of Māori teachers …
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The price of Mauri: Exploring the validity of welfare economics when seeking to measure Mātauranga Māori
Since the 1980s New Zealand has pursued neo-classical or market-based policies with a particular fervour. Market-based options are seen by resource management decision makers as essential frameworks for efficiently allocating resources, an approach that continues to support the view of the inherent …
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Demography and Behavior of Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) Breeding on the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, Alaska
… studies of Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) breeding on the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, Alaska (1998-2005). In chapter one, I estimated apparent annual survival (product of true survival and site fidelity) while correcting for the probability of encounter for 237 males and 296 …
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Te mauri kōhatu : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy, The University of Massey, 2003
… belonging to my iwi Ngāti Maniapoto, on Te Mauri Kōhatu. The assignment honours the understanding of the traditional beliefs and practices associated with the ancient lore of the Kōhatu. Anchoring the practice is the traditional notion that Te Mauri Kōhatu were a means to enhance health and …
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Water Resource Management in the Lowlands of Southern Papua Using a Decision Support System and Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge
… inequity for present and future generations. The Mauri Model Decision Making Framework was developed to address this short coming is in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Its adaptation to the Papua Context has been investigated and confirmed as a feasible application in the Asmat and Merauke context. The …
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Ko ia tonu te rangatira o tana mauri: Ko te Mauritau hei tohu o te puāwaitanga o Te Aho Matua i te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae
Ko te mauri te wāhanga wairua o te tangata e whakahihiri i te tinana me te tūhonohono nei i te wairua ki te kikokiko. Ko te mauri te wāhanga ora o te tangata, ā, i te roanga atu o te oranga o te tangata ka rerekē te tau o te mauri nā ngā awenga o tōna ao. Ko te Mauritau te wā e ita pai ana te …
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Towards a Kaupapa of Ancestral Power and Talk
… and Maori notions of whakapapa, mana and mauri. The thesis concentrates on Deleuze's last writing on immanence. I discuss Deleuze's antipathy to photographic representation, looking at ideas about resemblance, figuration, beings of sensation, affect and both 'A Life' and 'The Life'. …
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When one door closes, look for a window: An indigenous autoethnography within the public service of Aotearoa, New Zealand
… of – mana, manaakitanga, rangatiratanga, and, mauri ora. A commitment to traditional principles and being accountable to whānau, hapū and iwi, are themes which have been encouraged across the authors’ Public Services career. Fundamentally, this thesis reflects the problematisation of working in …
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Tuhituhi Tonu: Arts-Based Educators Working Across Settler–Indigenous Difference
… to respond to the orooro (vibrations), mauri (vitality), auahatanga (creativity) and mana (dignity and authority) of marae learning contexts. Participant voices are presented as aesthetic texts, shaped through creative researcher–participant collaborations. Sound data, artworks, dance …
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'POPPATA DIFFICOLTOSA' NELL'ALLATTAMENTO AL SENO:QUALE ESPERIENZA DAL PUNTO DI VISTA DELLE MADRI ITALIANE.UNO STUDIO QUALITATIVO
Introduction Many professional organizations recommend breastfeeding for the first 6 months due to the numerous benefits it has for mother and child. The mother’s breastfeeding experiences in the early postpartum period, are crucial in deciding to continue it. It is important to identify, in the …
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LUMINESCENT COMPOUNDS FOR APPLICATIONS IN PHOTONICS
Luminescent compounds have seen a growing interest for the possibility to employ them for several applications, from energy conversion to the biomedical field, but also sensors, light-emitting devices, and many others. The variety of luminescent compounds is huge, and this offers a wide flexibility …
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IMPACT OF KETOGENIC DIET TREATMENT IN GLUT1 DEFICIENCY SYNDROME: DISCOVERY OF MOLECULAR MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR PHENOTYPE CHANGES IN BOTH PEDIATRIC AND ADULT PATIENTS
La sindrome da deficit di GLUT1 (GLUT1-DS) è una rara condizione neuro-metabolica, causata da mutazioni nel gene SLC2A1, che codifica per il trasportatore del glucosio, GLUT1. La carenza di GLUT1 riduce significativamente l’apporto di glucosio al cervello, compromettendone il funzionamento e …
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New views on how to stop the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment. Constructing a theory grounded in the perspective of care-experienced parents
Child maltreatment is a major issue, and it is considered a priority by public health policies around the world. Among the causes of abuse, mechanisms of intergenerational child maltreatment (ITCM) have become of central importance in research. However, although many studies have focused on this …
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A model for sigma factor competition in bacterial cells
Bacteria respond to changing environmental conditions by switching the global pattern of expressed genes. In response to specific environmental stresses the cell activates several stress-specific molecules such as sigma factors. They reversibly bind the RNA polymerase to form the so-called …
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Local Economic Investment and Crime: Neighborhood Change in Washington, DC
The purpose of this analysis is to shed light on the relationship between large-scale economic investment and crime in Washington, DC neighborhood clusters (N=39) from 2001 to 2007. Using panel data and a two-way fixed effects analytic strategy, results indicate that investment in large scale …
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Te Whare Tāhuhu Kōrero o Hauraki Revitalising 'Traditional' Māori Language of Hauraki
… i te reo ōkawa o Hauraki. Me hoki ake au ki te mauri o ōku waka o Hauraki, o ōku maunga o Moehau, o Te Aroha, o te tupuna Marutūāhu, o Te Tara o Te-Ika-a-Māui. Me hoki ahau ki te oneone tapu o ōku mātua tūpuna ki te whakatū i Te Whare Tāhuhu Kōrero o Hauraki hei whare pupuru i te mana o ngā …
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Through an Indigenous Lens Food Security is Food Sovereignty: Case studies of Maori of Aotearoa New Zealand and Andeans people of Peru
… philosophies of Allin Kawsay in Peru and Mauri Ora in Aotearoa in relation to food security. The aim is to understand food security through an indigenous lens, and potential contributions to food policy. This study contributes to food security by outlining an Indigenous ‘Food security …
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