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The case study presented in Chapter Four, Louise’s lifeworld, is hermeneutic both in the nature of the interview and in the form of analysis. The decision to present Louise’s lifeworld as a monologue, and thereby to dramatise it, arose from both a phenomenological perspective and the influence of post-modernist thinking about the textual forms through which academic research is communicated. This case study is representative of other in-depth interviews conducted. The analysis of material is through a hermeneutic process that has a number of phases. Firstly, presenting the monologue as research outcome, stresses a respect for the lifeworld of the other. In creating the monologue interrogation of my own foreunderstanding was vital. Secondly, whilst continuing with the same Gadamerian hermeneutics (Gadamer 1975), I then go on to include in the hermeneutic process, Heidegger’s ontology of the lifeworld (Heidegger 2000/1926). Thus a new hermeneutic circle of interpretation is used to critique and develop Heidegger’s ontology in relation to Louise’s lifeworld. Finally, in considering the Louise’s mathematical lifeworld as alienated, I begin to widen the analysis more in the spirit of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics (Ricoeur 1970). Chapter Five is a theoretical discussion of the nature of participation and social formation in school mathematics.

20 technology (ICT) have accelerated the information flow and shortened the cycle of technological development. With ever-increasing customer expectations and rapidly changing business environments, there is an urgent requirement for today’s manufacturing firms to be innovative to sustain competitive advantage in global competition. Due to such enormous pressure and coping with the changing business activities, many manufacturing companies worldwide have adopted ERP systems to sustain their business survival and existence (Bingi et al, 1999). According to Wallace (2001) “ERP as an organisation wide set of management tools that balances demand and supply that contains the ability to link suppliers and customers into a complete supply chain that employs proven business processes for decision making, that provides higher degree of cross functional integration, that provides foundation for e-commerce and enables people to run their business with high levels of customer service, high level of productivity, low level of cost and inventory” (Kiadehi and Mohammadi, 2012).

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reminiscent of Gummo both visually and structurally in many ways, it also differs noticeably in others. Like Gummo, julien is creatively motivated by Korine’s aesthetic philosophy that is driven by his notion of poetic truth, his anti-plot method of episodic storytelling, and his keenness for the incidental, the accidental, and the improvised. However, although julien maintains a largely fragmented structure, he explains that Gummo is primarily about the succession of isolated images themselves; whereas julien is far more oriented around character and the development of character without losing the improvisational freedom that a more formalized script would likely curtail. 80 However, according to Korine, like Gummo, julien does not adhere to a causal narrative plot. It is highly episodic and often drifts from one scene to the next, yet it remains anchored by its recurring main characters. Unlike in Gummo, where the narrative strands of the principal characters carried equal weight, in julien, Julien’s, and to a lesser extent, Pearl’s, stories carry the most emphasis throughout. Moreover, whereas the character psychologies and the interpersonal relationships of characters are never really explored in Gummo, there are more psychological developments of character and especially of interpersonal relationships in julien. In this way the film is framed around the complexities of the family unit and how they deal individually as well as collectively with Julien’s mental illness. Korine summarily points out how the “father feels only shame and hatred and resentment and the brother is embarrassed and the grandmother is just oblivious and the sister is very affectionate.” 81

However, in the results presented in this paper the prin- cipal source of the offsets did not come from instrument noise, certainly not for all the components and in particular not for the z-component. We cite the additional results pro- vided in Ⓔ Tables S1 – S3 (see supplement) from Chi-Chi (1999) and Christchurch (2010) and Ⓔ Tables S4 and S5 (see supplement) from the ICEARRAY stations (Halldorsson and Sigbjornsson, 2009; Halldorsson et al., 2009; Decriem et al., 2010; Halldorsson et al., 2010; Rupakhety et al., 2010) for which we present results from 11 of the 14 stations, at 50 m between each station, spanning an aperture of 1.9 km, that were installed in the SISZ. The results in Ⓔ Table S5 (see supplement) for the ICEARRAY show consis- tency for each set of components over the 11-ICEARRAY stations. In particular for the 11-EW components, for which the acceleration spikes are much greater than for either one of the other two components and with similar magnitudes and in the same direction (all positive) in the east – west compo- nents, that is, without any difference in the initial spike, implying the same initial displacement trends for all 11- CUSP instrument stations. In the light of the above and from Wang et al. (2003), then it is strongly suggested that certainly for the east – west component the acceleration spikes are a measure of ground rotations. The z-component and the north – south component shown in Ⓔ Table S5 (see supple- ment) both display smaller acceleration spikes compared to the east – west component and suggest that these may be due to instrument or other noise. Instrument noise may certainly be a factor and a possible source of the recovered small acceleration transients for the z- and maybe the north – south component as well. The z-component transient, however, shows a bit more dispersion than the north – south component in its acceleration magnitudes, suggesting that for the z- component the transients are due to noise. However, for the horizontal east – west components, the magnitudes of the transients are large even after subtracting out the noise esti- mates. It is inferred, therefore, from the above that these tran-

Additionally, it was reported in this thesis that treatment of isolated CD23+CD25- B cells, which were characterised to be FO-I B cells, with rShh, lead to an increased death. Hence, it is possible, that FO-I B cells may have lost the ability to respond to a Hh signal or no longer express the receptors for Hh. It is also possible that they require the presence of another B cell subset to secrete Hh protein. Thus, it would be important to characterise the different peripheral B cell subset including, T1, T2, FO-I, FO-II, T2- MZP and MZ in terms of their expression for the Hh signalling component including Ptch, Smo and Gli proteins. Using, flow cytometry, the expression of Ptch and Smo could be investigated in the peripheral B cell subsets. Using RT-PCR, the expression of the Gli proteins in the different peripheral subsets could be investigated. Also, it was observed that treatment of B cells with exogenous rShh, could increase the expression of genes including Bnip3, Traf2, Btk, Nfatc1 and Bmp2/4. It would be important to investigate whether these genes are induced differently in the different peripheral subsets observed in our culture including CD23+CD25-, (subset I) CD23+CD25+ (subset II) and CD23-CD25+ (subset III). Thus, it would be important to sort the subsets, and examine them in isolation for their expression of these genes. A pilot experiment has been carried out, although inconclusive, it remains very promising.

The compani onship and advi ce o f other post -graduate student s and s t a f f members o f the Department o f An ima l S c ience are grat e fu l l y acknowledged . F in a l l y , I would l ike to thank to my fami l y for a l l the i r support before and during my studie s in New Z e a l and, and thank a l l my friends who supported and encouraged me to obt ain thi s degree .