In this paper, we describe University of Otago’s participation in Ad Hoc, Link-the-Wiki Tracks, Efficiency and Data Centric Tracks of INEX 2010. In the Link-the-Wiki Track, we show that the simpler relevance summation method works better for producing Best Entry Points (BEP). In the Ad Hoc Track, we discusses the effect of various stemming algorithms. In the Efficiency Track, we compare three q...

Fossil phytolith assemblages from a 154.5 m longdrill core from the Lower Taieri Plain, Otago, New Zealand are presented. Transfer functions, based on modern phytolith assemblages from sites within the same region, were applied to the fossil phytolith data set, and validated using Modern Analogue Technique (MAT) assemblage matching. Analogues for much of the Holocene and some of the Last Interg...

I suppose the beginnings were recognisable in medicine and medical education as long ago as 1875, when a poor frustrated Coughtrey, appointed the first professor of anatomy and physiology and trying to establish a medical school in the University of Otago, was battling with the university council. In the despair of his non-progress, in a relationship that was always fragile, he wrote that if th...