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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Hawai‘i"”.
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The epidemiology of clustered risk factors compatible with Metabolic Syndrome in Hawai‘i
Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) refers to the clustering of various cardiometabolic risk factors, including glucose intolerance, abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia and elevated blood pressure. Over the past two decades the world has experienced a sharp increase in the number of people with MetS. It is …
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Invasion Ecology and Control Feasibility of the Jackson Chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii xantholophus) in Hawai‘i
… function and behavior of an invasive lizard in Hawaii. In Chapters 1 and 2 I evaluate substantial variation in head-size and horn-length among and within islands, and between native and introduced ranges. Larger heads are associated with low precipitation, and consumption and higher availability …
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The teaching and learning of Hawaiian in mainstream educational contexts in Hawai‘i: Time for change?
… to be fewer than 1,000 native speakers of Hawaiian language (ka ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i) in Hawai‘i. The majority of those who now learn Hawaiian do so in mainstream educational contexts and the majority of teachers of Hawaiian have learned the language as a second language in mainstream educational …
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Successful Practices of Micronesian College Students in Hawai‘i: Utilizing Positive Deviants to Develop Strength-Based Student Support Services in Higher Education
… of Micronesians enrolling in higher education in Hawaiʻi and other US institutions, very little research has been conducted within this population. Like many institutions of higher education, student support services for Micronesians are framed entirely by deficit-oriented models often reflecting …
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Maternal Prepregnancy Nutritional Status as a Key Link of Intergenerational Risk of Obesity and Chronic Disease in Childhood and Later Life among US Pacific Islanders: A Life Course Approach Study
… and later life among the US Pacific Islanders in Hawai‘i and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands. In a population with a high burden of chronic disease, there is a huge knowledge gap on modifiable factors associated with obesity and chronic diseases. However, many studies in other populations …
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Health among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Questioning Teens in Hawai‘i: The Role of Social Support in Reducing Problematic Alcohol Use and Suicide Attempts
… dissertation uses data from the 2011 and 2013 Hawaii Youth Risk Behavior Survey of public high school students to explore key health issues among SM youth (SMY). The first study examined how the operationalization of the construct of sexual orientation impacts the odds of current cigarette …
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
Hawai‘i was once an independent Indigenous sovereign island nation with a distinctive culture, history, and legislative past. The laws of the modern state of Hawai‘i reflect that history as Indigenous heritage has been integrated into state law. However, during the last forty years the laws …
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Satellite-based Assessments Of Ocean Acidification For The Hawaiian Islands Region
… over the world, including remote areas such as Hawai‘i. OA is gaining worldwide attention due to environmental impacts including the detrimental effects of OA on coral reefs. Increased anthropogenic release of CO2 into the atmosphere will result in increased absorption by the world oceans. There …
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The Development and function of hana keaka (Hawaiian-medium theatre): A tool for the empowering Kanaka Maoli consciousness
… into the theatrical arts to create hana keaka (Hawaiian-medium theatre). Due to the negative effects of colonization that nearly obliterated the Hawaiian language, religion, cultural practices, forms of art, and the indigenous people of the Hawaiian archipelago, hana keaka faded into the …
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The Relationship Between Burnout Experiences, Turnover Intentions, and Perceptions of Managers’ Authentic Leadership Practices: A Cross-sectional Study of Hawai'i Hospital Nurses
… with the goal of informing retention efforts in Hawai‘i hospitals. This study employed a non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational quantitative design. Three hypotheses were tested using validated instruments: The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) to assess nurses’ burnout, the Turnover …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
… ‘knowledge’ which missionaries produced. In both Hawai‘i and the Philippines, Protestant mission accompanied the 1898 arrival of formal U.S. empire, though in very different ways. In Hawai‘i, missionaries’ 1820 entrance prefigured annexation, giving rise to a hegemonic white settler society with …
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Lay Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation
… Vietnamese culture, and “local” culture in Hawai‘i. Study 1 used focus group interviews to examine lay definitions as well as components and examples of cultural appropriation. Study 2 was a quasi-experiment examining the role of context and perceiver characteristics. Study 3, a series of …
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Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Colonial Hawaii
… explorations of the role of culture in colonial Hawai‘i and in the American metropole in racializing and dominating Native Hawaiians in terms of a larger history of race-based oppression and romanticization in the US. The first essay draws from Werner Sollors’ Ethnic Modernism, in which he argues …
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The Ulu Lehua Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Policy Context and Lived Experience, a Phenomenological Case Study
… the need to have a more diverse bar in Hawai‘i. Dr. George Johnson designed the program as a PreAdmission Program, which was the name of the program until 2006. The legal context of affirmative action has dramatically changed since 1973. The project of the Ulu Lehua Program is diversity, …
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Remote sensing and GIS approaches for elaborating Sentinel-2 images: application on volcanic areas [Metodi di telerilevamento e GIS per l’elaborazione delle immagini Sentinel-2: applicazioni in aree vulcaniche]
… Etna, Stromboli, Grindavík (Islanda) e isola di Hawai‘i. Tra tutti gli indici spettrali testati, il rapporto Fe3+/Fe2+ è risultato il più affidabile, permettendo una chiara discriminazione dell’età delle colate con una risoluzione temporale di circa un secolo. La sua efficacia è rimasta …
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Watershed-scale patterns of seaward migration in Lentipes concolor, a Hawaiian stream goby
The native stream fishes of the Hawaiian Islands are uniquely adapted to colonize and thrive in lotic habitats in this extremely isolated archipelago. Chapter 1 of this dissertation introduces the five native fishes of Hawaii's streams and describes the variety of lotic habitats they occupy. All …
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Volatile metal degassing from volcanoes: source processes, atmospheric transport and deposition
… associated with the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, Hawai‘i: 1) degassing from the source vent, and 2) lava-seawater interactions at the ocean entry. Speciation modelling of magmatic gases highlights the importance of the S²⁻ ligand in highly volatile trace element degassing (e.g., Se, Te). In …