Using stratified analyses, we examined the cost-effectiveness of OEP, from a health care system perspective, among women and men who have previously fallen. This study was secondary analyses (by men), 12-month prospective economic evaluation randomized clinical trial (OEP compared with usual care). Three hundred forty four community-dwelling older adults (≥70; 172 OEP (110 women; 62 (119 53 men...

We describe a new species of extinct duck, Miotadorna catrionae sp. nov. (Anatidae, Tadornini, Tadorninae), based on right humerus from the Miocene lacustrine deposits St Bathans, Otago, New Zealand. Principal component analysis reveals that taxon is distinguished by its large size and relative proportions. This eighth largest duck described Bathans fossil assemblage further underscores global ...

The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Te Koronga Māori research and teaching excellence kaupapa. Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa, Samantha Jackson Mr Brendan Flack established in 2013 at University Otago with support late Hiria Mei Cessy Parore. refers to a yearning for esoteric knowledge practice. kaupapa is that aims uplift hopes aspirations communities context mauri ora.

Today, in Central Otago, New Zealand, with competing claims for water beyond irrigation, farmers and conservation interests are at loggerheads, freshwater management has become a site of intense debate, competition political action. We comment on the polarised politics governance writing from perspective fish gamebird management. Our commentary is allied to an interpretation allocation irrigati...

1 National Poisons Centre, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Surgical Sciences, Blå Stråket 5, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden 3 National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit) and West Midlands Poisons Unit, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK; School of Bioscience...

The concept of an intelligent software agent has emerged from its origins in artificial intelligence laboratories to become an important basis for the development of distributed systems in the mainstream computer science community. This paper provides a review of some of the ideas behind the intelligent agent approach and addresses the question “what is an agent?” Some principle application are...

M. J. Davis,1 P. B. Blakie,2 A. H. van Amerongen,3,* N. J. van Druten,3 and K. V. Kheruntsyan1 1School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia 2Jack Dodd Centre for Quantum Technology, Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 3Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Net...

D. Mouillot ([email protected]), UMR CNRS-IFREMER-UM2 5119 Ecosystemes Lagunaires, Univ. of Montpellier 2, CC 093, FR34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. B. R. Krasnov and G. I. Shenbrot, Ramon Science Center and Mitrani Dept of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Inst. for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, P.O.Box 194, IL-80600 Mizpe Ramon, Israel. R. Poulin, Dept of Zoology, Uni...