(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(2) The Maoris of New Zealand have an interesting history and culture.
(3) The prevalence of dysplastic naevi was studied in a population-based survey of 380 30 to 39-year-old and 50 to 59-year-old non-Maoris in Milton, a small town in the south of New Zealand.
(4) The most important risk factors for other preventable causes were found to be the mother being Maori (RR 4.35, CI 3.12-6.06), having a low birth weight infant (RR 3.56, CI 2.07-6.13) and being unmarried (RR 3.45, CI 2.47-4.82).
(5) When a Maori subsample is examined, an even higher degree of interest was found than that for Europeans.
(6) This analysis demonstrates that although Australian Aborigines, Canadian Registered Indians, New Zealand Maoris, and American Indians and Alaskan natives have similar patterns of high adult mortality, Australian Aborigines are generally characterized by lower life expectancies at birth and higher age- and cause-specific death rates.
(7) Smoking was estimated to be a risk factor, but only where the smokers (Maori and non-Maori) were under 25 years of age.
(8) Both Pacific Island and Maori babies had higher cord fructosamine concentrations than European babies.
(9) By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family.
(10) The age standardised coronary heart disease mortality rate for Maori men is 1.6 times higher than for European men, and the rate for Maori women is 4.2 times higher than that of European women.
(11) Some possible mechanisms of effecting behavioural change in modern Maori society are discussed.
(12) All the patients were European despite the fact that 15 per cent of the local population is either Maori or Polynesian.
(13) The age standardised rate for cervical cancer was 61.8 for Pacific Island, 69.0 for Maori and 59.3 for other women.
(14) The syndrome pursues a notably variable clinical course, affects a considerable proportion of females, occurs over a wide age range, and appears to be disporportionately common among Maoris.
(15) The presence of the rare Lewis phenotype Le(a+b+) is reported in various Polynesian groups, including Maoris, Samoans, Cook Islanders, Nuieans and Tokelau Islanders.
(16) The increased prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Maori and Pacific Islanders, but not in Asians, could be partly attributed to their increased levels of obesity compared with Europeans.
(17) There is a renewed effort by Maoris to assist their own people to rise from their predominantly lower socioeconomic class and to rebuild their culture.
(18) Maori and non-Maori males had comparable social class mortality gradients, but the Maori mortality rates were approximately 50% higher than the non-Maori rates in each class.
(19) The lack of association between CHD and the risk factors in Maori females suggests the possibility of two syndromes of CHD in Maori females.
(20) There was a tendency for a rise in reported wheeze in Europeans (24.3% to 27.4%) and a significant rise in Maoris (27.1% to 36.2%).
Poi
Definition:
(n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Females scored consistently and significantly more in the purported self-actualizing direction on the POI scales and subscales than males in this study.
(2) Slope at POI was greatest in quail and the same for turkeys and chickens.
(3) Thirty-six instances of POI in children (aged 1 month to 18 years) were treated between 1970 and 1987.
(4) These data establish that Lf binds to specific components in the bacterial OM; the heat-modifiable, anti-PoI-reactive, and LPS-associated properties suggested that the Lf-binding proteins are porins in S. flexneri.
(5) Two cases of postoperative intussusception (POI) are reported.
(6) For example, at Dora in Poi ( Via Catania 21 ) in Vanchiglietta, the restaurant where Vassily and I work, all our base ingredients are Piemontese – such as rice, garlic and salmon – but we have created dishes with influences from northern Europe, Asia and South America, so you’ll see plenty of ceviche, dim sum, ramen-style soup and quinoa.
(7) Highly significant positive correlations were obtained between one's overall score on the IPD and the two major dimensions of the POI.
(8) In classroom testing sessions, 160 high school students completed the POI and personal data sheets, which gave information about their menstrual cycle phase.
(9) Slope at POI was greater for females than for males.
(10) Nine of the 12 Shostrom POI subscales were significantly correlated with the religious participation index in the predicted direction.
(11) In the cases described, the first surgical procedure combined most causative factors for POI: young age, preoperative chemotherapy, prolonged general anaesthesia, extensive retroperitoneal dissection close to components of the neurovegetative system.
(12) The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), the Inventory of Temporal Experiences (ITE), and the Adjective Check List (ACL) were administered to 80 subjects.
(13) The 39-kDa component was also reactive to a monoclonal antibody specific for porin (PoI) proteins of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae.
(14) POI followed Nissen fundoplication in 9 patients, neuroblastoma resection in 5, small-bowel procedures in 4, inguinal herniorrhaphy in 3, pull-through procedures in 3, ureterostomy in 2, thoracic procedures in 2, ventral hernia in 1, nephrectomy in 1, hepatic resection in 1, Heller myotomy in 1, ventriculo-atrial shunt in 1, and gastrocystoplasty in 1.
(15) Compared with BUT hens, the slope of the growth curve was greater, but the BW and age at the point of inflection (POI) was decreased in NIC hens.
(16) The findings show that persons high on PIL and POI scores reported higher levels of sexual enjoyment.
(17) Although POI is a classical complication of abdominal surgery, it is often forgotten.
(18) Studied the relationship between menstrual cycle phase and self-actualization as measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI).
(19) No significative differences were poi nted out for the most part of the determined parameters between the stations upstream and downstream Cremona and Casalmaggiore, except the turbid load (turbidity, suspended matter at 105 degrees C, setteable solids) which presented at Casalmaggiore an average value absolutely higher than the calculated one which was achieved considering concentrations and river flow at Cremona and at the mouths of Arda-Ongina and Taro.
(20) Males achieved higher weights at POI and asymptote but took longer to reach these weights.