The Korowai Framework: Assessing GE through the Values the ART Confederation Associates with Ngarara

The aim of this thesis is to assess genetic engineering (GE) through the values that the Confederation of Te Ati Awa, Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga and Ngati Toarangatira (the ART Confederation) associates with ngarara. The Korowai Framework was developed to conduct this assessment. Interviews were conducted with 14 participants from across the ART Confederation on the values they associate with ngarara and their interpretations of GE. The values associated with ngarara that were identified in the interviews, were used constitute the kaupapa of the Korowai Framework. The key values identified are: mauri, whakapapa, tohu, tapu, and kaitiakitanga. It emerged from the interviews that ngarara appeal to us to be conscious of our intricately bound connection to and dependency on living systems. The assessment through the Korowai Framework found that the outcomes of GE do not uphold the values associated with ngarara. Participants articulated significant concerns that GE confounds the ART Confederation's control over their relationship with the world around them. This thesis has demonstrated that the Korowai Framework can be used as a tool for the Confederation to get to the decision making table with a comprehensive evidence based understanding of the people's position on GE from which they can negotiate. It demonstrates that robust and legitimate assessment of GE can be conducted using theories, methodologies, kaupapa, tikanga, and frameworks that are specific to the ART Confederation

Effect of age and salinity treatment on European eel (<i>Anguilla anguilla</i>) larval relative expression of selected genes.

<p>For thyroid hormone receptor αA (<i>thrαA</i>), a significant salinity × age interaction was detected, thus the model was decomposed into a series of reduced ANOVA models to determine the effect of salinity for each age (A). No significant salinity × age interactions were detected for all other genes. As such, over the entire experimental period, the main effects of age and salinity are displayed for genes relating to thyroid hormone receptors (B-E), deiodinases (F-K), and energy metabolism (L-O). Values represent means (± SEM) among three crosses at each age and treatment. Different lower case letters and asterisks represent significant statistical differences (p < 0.05).</p

Mécanique quantique: le minimum théorique

Leonard Susskind nous a enseigné la mécanique classique dans le premier volume de cette série, Le Minimum Théorique. Avec son co-auteur Art Friedman, il nous expose maintenant les bases théoriques et les concepts mathématiques associés au monde étrange de la physique quantique. Dans ce deuxième ouvrage, Susskind et Friedman proposent une introduction claire et vivante à ce domaine notoirement ardu et déroutant pour le néophyte. Ils nous font comprendre le comportement des objets sub-atomiques au travers d'abstractions mathématiques simples. A la différence de la plupart des ouvrages de vulgarisation – souvent mal à l'aise quant à la façon d'aborder les singularités de la mécanique quantique –, le livre embrasse cet univers dans sa totalité, y compris les paradoxes si contraires à notre logique. Susskind et Friedman proposent des explications limpides aux problématiques d'état quantique, d'incertitude, d'intrication quantique ou de représentation de l'état d'une particule. Accessible mais rigoureux, Mécanique quantique s'adresse, comme Le Minimum Théorique, à tous ceux désireux de s'initier à la physique, à leur propre rythme

Effect of salinity on European eel (<i>Anguilla anguilla</i>) larval mortality and biometry.

<p>Mortality (A), body area (B), growth (C), oil drop utilization (D) and growth efficiency (E) from 2 to 12 days post hatch (dph) as well as occurrence of larval deformities such as spinal curvature (F), emaciation (G) and pericardial edema (H) on 12 dph. Values represent means (± SEM) among three crosses at each age and treatment. Different lower case letters represent significant statistical differences (p < 0.05).</p

Timing of morphological features during development of larval European eel (<i>Anguilla anguilla</i>).

<p>Larval age presented in hours post-fertilization (hpf) and days post-hatch (dph) for five rearing temperature regimes. Across the different temperature treatments, Stage 1 represents the day of hatch, Stage 2 represents the timing of jaw/teeth formation, while Stage 3 represents the first-feeding stages.</p

Sequences of European eel (<i>Anguilla anguilla</i>) primers used for amplification of genes by qRT-PCR.

<p>Primers were designed from predicted or cloned cDNA sequences available in Genbank nucleotide and WGS databases. The table lists accession number and corresponding database of target gene sequences.</p