The Kiwi® vacuum assisted foetal delivery device (OmniCup) is used in many maternity units globally, and is renowned for the safe delivery of babies. Why should its use be limited to assisting the delivery of a baby? Currently, open myomectomy procedures involve an abdominal incision (midline or pfannenstiel), and potentially requiring a myomectomy screw for exteriorisation. The size of the inc...

Recently, there has been a trend towards healthy food. Consumers are looking for products that have health-promoting properties in addition to their taste. Actinidia fruit, apart from being tasty, contains valuable macro and micronutrients, vitamins, polyphenols pectins. Tested cultivar Sientiabrskaja belong arguta cultivars Geneva, Issai Ken’s Red A. kolomitka. They well tolerate conditions of...

Incubation behaviour varies among the different taxa of kiwi. For North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and little spotted kiwi (A. owenii), only the male incubates the eggs, except for in the first week. Meanwhile, for Okarito brown kiwi (A. mantelli) and the tokoeka (A. australis), incubation is shared by both sexes. In addition, amongst southern tokoeka, family group members can assist ...

Kiwi (Apteryx: Struthioniformes) are a family of ratite birds confined entirely to New Zealand. Since 1813, at least ten species have been described. Recent taxonomy has accepted three species: A. owenii (little spotted kiwi), A. haastii (great spotted kiwi) and A. australis (brown kiwi). Apteryx australis has three subspecies: A. a. australis (South Island); A. a. mantelli (North Island); and ...

The objective of the project KiWi is to develop an advanced knowledge management system (the “KiWi system”) based on a semantic wiki. This poster describes the KiWi project, its technical approach, goals and the two use-cases which will be covered by the KiWi-System.

Aubergine allergy is rare outside of India and the far east, and very few cases have been reported. We describe a case of aubergine allergy in a 9-year-old girl of Anglo-Indian descent who also had sensitivity to potato, coincidental oral allergy syndrome, and latex sensitisation with mild oral symptoms on consuming kiwi fruit. Specific IgE to aubergine was negative, but skin testing was positi...

The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum L., is the source of both poppy seeds and opium. The commercially available seeds are widely used as ingredients for various kinds of food. IgE-mediated sensitization to poppy seeds is rare, but, if present, clinical symptoms are usually severe. Cross-sensitizations between poppy seeds and other food allergens have been described with sesame, hazelnut, rye gr...