An evaluation of the Raukawa Health Services Kaumatua Mirimiri Programme

The Kaumatua Mirimiri Programme was funded as a Service to Improve Access project under a contract which ran from 1st September 2004 to 30th June 2005. Its aim was to provide a “culturally based treatment and recovery programme to restore the health and independence” of people aged 40 years and over (Pinnacle Group Ltd, 2004a, p.1). However, as the service specification in the contract made clear, the programme was not designed be exclusive: it has attracted younger as well as older people, non-Māori as well as Māori, and people seeking help for a wide range of ailments and pain

Autoethnnography: A reflexive tool for event festival managers

ETHNOGRAPHIC EVENTS Lisa M Hayes and Jan C Robertson Dept. Sport & Leisure Studies, University of Waikato AUTOETHNOGRAPHY A REFLEXIVE TOOL FOR EVENT/FESTIVAL MANAGERS Practice and Advocacy: Doing Ethnography on the Ground Abstract: High‐quality production is the everyday expectation of people seeking leisure experiences through sporting events and/or (performance) festivals. People participate in events because "celebration can be experienced individually, but is realised more profoundly in significant social settings" deLisle (2009, p.6). However it is not only the event itself that contributes to the experience, it is a combination of the event and the ancillary services together that provide a 'seamless' consumer experience. There are a many strategies that can be employed to evaluate an event's successes and/or identify areas for enhancement, such as surveying participants during and post event. This paper explores an additional strategy, using auto‐ethnography as a reflexive tool, to assess an event's effectiveness in meeting consumer expectations. Two event managers attended WOMAD, Taranaki 2010, as participants, to experience the event and ancillary services provided, to identify the impacts ancillary services had on the overall WOMAD experience. This paper will take the form of a conversation between the two event managers critiquing 'space',accommodation, parking, access, catering, children's opportunities, facilities, signage and event personnel. An audio‐visual display will accompany this presentation highlighting some of the 'critical' factors that we, as participants, identified influenced our perceptions of the event's success. Watch the video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/CbfBsuCP36

A portfolio of original compositions exploring relationships between humans and the natural environment

This submission comprises a portfolio of 18 original compositions exploring relationships between humans and the natural environment. This musical examination, coming from a personal perspective, is mainly rooted in the natural environment with which I have the deepest relationship: the West Highlands of Scotland. A commentary outlines my musical language, where human sounds, including traditional music influences, interact with representations of natural sounds. It discusses how these interactions in the pieces illustrate and explore different human/ natural environment relationships. It details influences from my personal background and influential composers, including Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen and Igor Stravinsky, then explores each of the portfolio’s pieces in turn whilst examining each of eight sub-topics. Bheanna for flute, clarinet, viola, violoncello and piano and Sanderling for string ensemble, consider the first sub-topic, appreciation of my local landscapes. the light through forest leaves for solo violoncello, Seabird Cities for chamber orchestra, Birds of Migration for SSA vocal ensemble and of a liminal nature for chamber orchestra explore emotions/ spirituality prompted by nature. leum fèidh for symphony orchestra and Can we not hear the birds that sing? for solo violin, examine humans damaging the environment. Deglaciation for violin and violoncello, The Arctic Rose for two pianos, flightless birds. for flute, oboe, clarinet and trombone and to tell it like it is. for SSAATTBB choir refer to climate change. Machair for string quartet, the inimitable brightness of the air for flute, viola and violoncello explore environmental threats to my local landscapes. Lichen for string quartet and Heartwood for solo clarinet examine environmental guilt. Right to Roam for clarinet, violoncello and piano looks at land ownership and The Wet Desert: a Collection of Highland Perspectives for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello considers the cultural significance of land, concluding the exploration of human/ natural environment relationships

Re-evaluation of Seed Transmission of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis in Zea mays

The spread of Goss’s bacterial wilt and leaf blight of corn (Zea mays), caused by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis, to a wider geographic range in the early 2000s compared with the late 1960s has generated concern about the possible role of seed transmission in long-distance spread. The objectives of this research were: (1) to determine the percentage of seed infection found in seed harvested from inoculated and noninoculated plants of hybrids that varied in resistance to Goss’s wilt; and (2) to estimate the seed transmission rate from these infected seed lots. The greatest percent seed infection was detected in seed from inoculated plants of the most susceptible hybrid and the least in seed from the most resistant hybrid. Seed lots with seed infection that ranged from 3.6 to 37.0% were planted in three field and three greenhouse trials. A total of 12 seed transmission events (Goss’s wilt symptomatic seedlings) were identified among 241,850 plants examined, for a seed transmission rate of 0.005%. When the seed transmission rate was recalculated to consider only the infected seed portion of each seed lot, the rate increased to 0.040% (12 events from 30,088 potentially infected plants). Based on the low seed transmission rate observed and previous research on disease spread from a point source, it seems unlikely that seed transmission could introduce enough inoculum to create a serious disease outbreak in a single growing season. However, risk of seed transmission is relevant for phytosanitary restrictions and preventing the introduction of the pathogen to new areas. To date, Goss’s wilt has not been detected outside North America, and while the risk of seed transmission is very low, the risk is not zero. Fortunately, the presence of C. michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis in corn seed is readily detectable by established seed health testing methods

Mind the Gap: Curating Digital Commons Metadata for SHARE

The goal of the SHARE initiative, a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), is to build a “free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.” To date, more than 150 repositories and publishers have made metadata available to SHARE for harvesting, and the aggregated data set is available for searching. Many metadata providers are institutional repositories using the bepress Digital Commons platform whose metadata is harvested through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol for repository interoperability. As part of the 2016-2017 SHARE Curation Associates program, a group within the cohort began a unique project in July 2016 to review their institutional metadata and the specific elements that are being harvested by SHARE. The project arose out of the overall goal to enhance their own metadata within SHARE. And within this cohort of associates, a number of associates are at institutions utilizing the Digital Commons platform. At ACRL 2017, we presented a poster on our findings at that time. In this talk, I will share the curation activity to date and update the activity of these 4 librarians from different institutions. We will look at the result of harvesting and some thoughts on how we can continue improve our metadata for interoperability. We would also appreciate feedback on this endeavour and seek input from our colleagues