Rotorua Hospital

PROSPECTIVE DOUBLE-BLINDED RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL ON ROBOTIC ARM-ASSISTED VERSUS CONVENTIONAL ONE-STAGE BILATERAL TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY WITH TWO-YEAR FOLLOW-UP

Introduction Robotic arm assisted total knee arthroplasty(RA-TKA) has gained popularity. Yet for postoperative pain and patient reported outcomes, high quality evidence is lacking. We hypothesize that RA-TKA would provide better postoperative pain control and patient reported out...

From Storm Damage Detection to Windthrow Susceptibility Mapping: Evaluating Regional Transferability in Radiata Pine Plantations

Windthrow is a major disturbance risk for radiata pine (Pinus radiata D. Don) plantations, but operational susceptibility models must transfer across regions and storm events. We developed a multi-regional framework combining airborne laser scanning (ALS), aerial imagery, mapped...

Fabrication of photoresist SU-8 pyrolyzed carbon electrodes and their integration in a microfluidic hematocrit detection system

Carbon microelectrodes are attractive for microfluidic biosensing due to their wide potential window, low overpotentials, chemical stability, and compatibility with low-cost microfabrication. Pyrolysis of photopatterned SU-8 offers a scalable route to carbon electrode fabrication...

Characterising fibre alignment in moulded fibre materials across X, Y, and Z axes

Abstract Moulded fibre is emerging as a sustainable alternative to single-use plastic items, commonly used for food and non-food packaging. Yet its mechanical properties are often inferior to oriented paper products, due to the limited fibre alignment during forming. This study i...

SNP genotyping in Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus radiata using targeted genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS): improved Bayesian SNP calling using a beta-binomial distribution and other optimized input parameters

Single-nucleotide polymorphism markers (SNPs) have important applications in gene conservation, breeding, and fundamental genetics research. Our long-term goal is to develop routine approaches for SNP genotyping in forest trees. Ideally, these approaches would be inexpensive, abl...