Aurora Leadership Institutes: Assisting future leaders to maximise their leadership skills and potential

Paper presented at Oceans of Opportunities: Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa 2003 Conference, 7 – 10 October 2003 Napier, New ZealandThis paper provides background information on the Aurora Leadership Institutes and the Aurora Foundation. The latter part of the paper focuses on the looming leadership crisis in the library profession in New Zealand and overseas and identifies several strategies that require implementation to ensure that the crisis is averted

Reflections on professional training: A post-Auroran view

Paper presented at Capitalising on Knowledge: Australian Library and Information Association 2000 Conference, 23 – 26 October 2000 Canberra, ACTThis paper looks at the relationship between education for librarianship, professional development and leadership training

Closing the gaps: Maori and information literacy

Paper presented at User Education for User Empowerment: Commonwealth Library Association Conference 19 – 20 October 2000 Christchurch, New Zealand.This paper focuses on the reasons why information literacy is a concept that has yet to make an impact on Maori. Although Maori participation as librarians and library users has increased dramatically over the last decade there are still a range of barriers that continue to inhibit access to library and information services for Maori. The relevance of these barriers to the 'information literacy divide' are analysed and actions are identified which will allow a strategy to be created to close the gap

Indigenous intellectual and cultural property rights

Paper presented at the 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference 22-26 August 1999 Hobart, Tasmania1999 heralds the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Indigenous Peoples. A number of issues will be highlighted throughout the decade and new opportunities will emerge. In recent years both Australia and New Zealand have witnessed a rebirth of interest in indigenous issues. One of the more complex issues that has emerged has been that of cultural and intellectual property rights. Assertion of property rights over traditional forms of knowledge will become one of the leading challenges for indigenous peoples during this decade. Indigenous intellectual and cultural property rights do not fit neatly into western legal frameworks and this therefore leaves the knowledge of indigenous peoples vulnerable to exploitation. Indigenous peoples are establishing their own networks and working through international organisations such as the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations to identify sectors where cultural and/or intellectual property rights are being compromised. Libraries and information centres store and provide access to a variety of resources that fall into the category of intellectual and cultural property and this will subject our sector to intense scrutiny. This paper will identify what constitutes cultural and intellectual property rights, how it conflicts with western law, and what the implications for libraries and information centres are

Alien Registration- Lilley, Fred C. (Saint Agatha, Aroostook County)

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Precursor ion scanning for detection and structural characterization of heterogeneous glycopeptide mixtures

AbstractThe structure of N-linked glycans is determined by a complex, anabolic, intracellular pathway but the exact role of individual glycans is not always clear. Characterization of carbohydrates attached to glycoproteins is essential to aid understanding of this complex area of biology. Specific mass spectral detection of glycopeptides from protein digests may be achieved by on-line HPLC-MS, with selected ion monitoring (SIM) for diagnostic product ions generated by cone voltage fragmentation, or by precursor ion scanning for terminal saccharide product ions, which can yield the same information more rapidly. When glycosylation is heterogeneous, however, these approaches can result in spectra that are complex and poorly resolved. We have developed methodology, based around precursor ion scanning for ions of high m/z, that allows site specific detection and structural characterization of glycans at high sensitivity and resolution. These methods have been developed using the standard glycoprotein, fetuin, and subsequently applied to the analysis of the N-linked glycans attached to the scrapie-associated prion protein, PrPSc. These glycans are highly heterogeneous and over 30 structures have been identified and characterized site specifically. Product ion spectra have been obtained on many glycopeptides confirming structure assignments. The glycans are highly fucosylated and carry Lewis X or sialyl Lewis X epitopes and the structures are in-line with previous results. [Abbreviations: Hex–Hexose, C6H12O6 carbohydrates, including mannnose and galactose; HexNAc—N-acetylhexosamine, C8H15NO6 carbohydrates, including N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylgalactosamine; GlcNAc—N-acetylglucosamine; GalNAc—N-acetylgalactosamine; Fuc–Fucose; NeuAC—N-acetylneuraminic acid or sialic acid; TSE—Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Applying the Macroscopic Chemistry Method to Dissociating Oxygen

The macroscopic chemistry method [Lilley and Macrossan, Phys. Fluids, v16, p2054, 2004] was developed to model non-equilibrium chemically reacting flows with the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. The macroscopic method uses kinetic temperatures, calculated from mean particle energies, to calculate reaction rates. For strongly non-equilibrium flows, it is possible the macroscopic method might ignore reactions that should result from high-energy collisions that occur in the high-energy tail of the collision energy distribution. This could result in a "rate-reducing" effect relative to conventional collision-based DSMC chemistry models that perform reactions based on the energy of each individual collision. This effect would be most pronounced for reactions with low activation energy. We test for this possible rate-reducing effect in the macroscopic method by calculating the hypersonic flow of dissociating oxygen, which has a low dissociation energy, over a blunt cylinder. The results are compared to those obtained with the most common collision-based DSMC chemistry method, the total collision energy model. The results are in close agreement and we find no rate-reducing effect with the macroscopic method. This result extends the scope of the macroscopic method, and demonstrates its potential for modelling reacting non-equilibrium gas flows with the DSMC method

A new decoupled rotational energy exchange scheme for DSMC calculations

We present a new scheme for modeling rotational energy exchange with the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. The new scheme is fundamentally different from conventional Borgnakke-Larsen (BL) procedures, in which energy exchange is performed at the time of collision. In the new scheme, all collisions are performed elastically. Rotational energy exchanged is performed after the collision routine, in an independent step. The rotational energy of all particles in each cell is adjusted by a factor, to satisfy the desired macroscopic relaxation behavior. To conserve total energy in a cell, the thermal velocities of all particles in the cell are adjusted. DSMC calculations of shock structure show that the new scheme gives results in reasonable agreement with those provided by conventional BL procedures. The new scheme has a potential advantage over BL procedures - it is easy to use with any DSMC collision model