Fostering collaboration: an exploration of knowledge exchange between Rongoā Māori practitioners and surgical clinicians.

Background: This research investigates the potential for collaboration of Rongoā Māori, the Indigenous healing practices of Māori, with New Zealand's contemporary healthcare system. It aims to bridge the gap between Rongoā Māori and Western medicine by exploring the perspectives of practitioners from both fields, identifying barriers to integration, and highlighting potential areas for collaboration.

Methods: Qualitative interviews were conducted with both Rongoā practitioners and Western surgeons.

Te Matahouroa: a feasibility trial combining Rongoā Māori and Western medicine in a surgical outpatient setting.

Aim: This feasibility study was undertaken to implement and assess a Rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing)/Western medicine collaboration model in a general surgical outpatient setting.

Methods: Six patients were recruited and consulted with both a Rongoā Māori practitioner and a Western trained surgeon three times in 6 months. Appointments were an average of 45 minutes duration, patient whānau (family) were welcome and kai (food) was provided as a culturally appropriate custom.

"Ko Au te Whenua, Ko te Whenua Ko Au: I Am the Land, and the Land Is Me": Healer/Patient Views on the Role of Rongoā Māori (Traditional Māori Healing) in Healing the Land.

In Rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing), the connection with the land stems from seeing Papatūānuku/Mother Earth as a part of our identity/whakapapa (genealogy), our culture, and our wellbeing. This qualitative study aimed to explore the holistic nature and meaning of Rongoā Māori. There were 49 practitioner and patient participants who participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups across Aotearoa/New Zealand.

The NaNO(3)/KNO(3) system: the position of the solidus and sub-solidus.

The existing evidence for the nature of the phase diagram for the binary system sodium nitrate-potassium nitrate is reviewed and in particular whether the system is of the continuous solid solution type, as has often been stated in the last 80 years, or whether this system is of the eutectic type as was earlier believed and has again been asserted recently. Additional evidence from Raman spectroscopy and Raman mapping on the 50 : 50 mol%(minimum melting point) composition is now presented, supporting the eutectic classification. Abrupt changes in wavenumber, or in the wavenumber-temperature gradient of five Raman bands indicate a solid-state transition at about 115 degrees C and are attributed to a phase transition in KNO(3)-rich areas.

5-Fluorocytosine antagonizes the action of sterol biosynthesis inhibitors in Candida glabrata.

The concentration-dependent antagonistic interaction between 5-fluorocytosine and a sterol biosynthesis inhibitor (SBI) was studied using intact cells and cell-free extracts of Candida glabrata. 5-Fluorocytosine promoted incorporation of radioactivity into 4-desmethylsterols (P < 0.01), and enhanced the relative and absolute increases of ergosterol (P < 0.