“…—John Rieder, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa “This volume makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on speculative fi ction by illuminating how the concept of ‘concurrences,’ as articulated and theorized by Gunlög Fur, can serve as a valuable methodological tool in the study of speculative fi ction. …”

“…The book is world-wide in scope - ranging from Hawaii, Australia, and China to the Americas and Africa - but is unified by the central underlying theme that implicit understandings influence every culture's ideas about itself and others. …”

“…—Theodore Jun Yoo, History Department, University of Hawai’i"--Publisher's website…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Loro de CarolinaLoro de las Mascareñas; Loro del paraíso; Mamo; Mapache de Barbados; Matalote del lago Utha; Murciélago de cola corta neozelandés grande; Murciélago frugívoro de las Filipinas; ñu norafricano o alcélafo bereber; O-o' de Hawaii; O-o' nuku-umu; Orestia del lago Titicaca o amanto; Oso del Atlas o del Magreb; Ostrero canario; Paloma coronada de Choiseul; Pato cabeza roja; Pato del labrador; Petrel de Guadalupe; Picamaderos de Guadalupe; Piopio; Prolago sardo; Quíscal de Lerma; Rana incubadora gástrica; Rascón de la isla Wake; Rata almizclera de Martinica…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Putative effects of Education -- METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- The North Manhattan Aging Project and the Active Life Expectancy Study -- Our Methods for Minimizing Biases in Ethno-Racial Comparisons of Dementia -- Case Findings -- Screening and Field Classification Techniques -- Criterion Diagnosis -- Biological Indicators -- Longitudinal and Outcome Information -- Dementia and Quality of Life -- Dementia and Service Utilization -- Convergence of Conclusions -- Border-Zone Dementias and Nondementias -- Designation of Ethno-Racial Membership -- Other Socioeconomic Information -- RESULTS -- General Results -- Yields from the Survey Component -- Overrepresentation -- Differences in Prevalence Rates of Dementia -- Mislabeling -- Prevalence and Other Indices of Rates -- Effect of the Breadth of the Concept of Dementia -- Risk Factors -- Educational Associations -- Subtypes of Dementia Among Ethno-Racial Groups -- Other Risk Factors: Income and Immigration -- Quality-of-Life Impairments -- Memory Complaints -- Tasks of Daily Living -- Affective Suffering -- Service Utilization -- Nursing Homes -- Home Care -- Emergency Clinics -- Hospitalization -- DISCUSSION -- Limitations of the Findings and Potential of the Methods -- Ethno-Racial Variation in Prevalence Rates -- Ethno-Racial Consistency in the Associations of Dementia -- Working Hypotheses for the Effects of Education -- Ethno-Racial Differences in Service Utilization -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- 9 Cardiovascular Disease Among Elderly Asian Americans -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Study Population -- Baseline Examination -- Measures of Acculturation for the Hawaii Cohort -- Follow-up Examinations and Surveillance -- Definition of Cases -- Age Categories -- RESULTS -- Ni-Hon-San Comparisons -- Cultural Pathways to Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly -- DISCUSSION -- FUTURE RESEARCH…”

“…PSB 2013 will be held on January 3 - 7, 2013 in Kohala Coast, Hawaii. Tutorials and workshops will be offered prior to the start of the conference.PSB 2013 will bring together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations, and around the world t…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Making the Elf Vanish -- Flying Solo: Adding and Mixing Some Playful Elfish Music -- Making Adjustments, Rendering, and Exporting -- 19 Hollywood Movie Green Screen Techniques: The Nightly News Effect -- Flying Solo: Preparing the Project -- Flying Solo: Creating the TV News Background Text -- Adding the Anchorman -- Resizing and Moving the Anchorman -- Adding the Lower-Third Graphic -- Adding Lower-Third Text for the Anchorman -- Flying Solo: Creating the Hawaii Reporter Scene -- Adding a Cross Dissolve to End the News Feature Report -- Flying Solo: Adding a Little Music -- Flying Solo: Mixing the Music Levels -- Making Adjustments, Rendering, and Exporting -- 20 Hollywood Movie Green Screen: The Super Hero Effect -- Flying Solo: Preparing the Project -- Flying Solo: Adding the Cloud Background -- Flying Solo: Adding Superboy -- Cleaning Up the Green Screen Key -- Adjusting the Direction and Speed of the Clouds -- Setting Our Hero's Flight in Motion -- Adding a Little Rotation to Our Hero's Flight Motion -- Flying Solo: Adding Super Music and Super Sound Effects -- Making Adjustments, Rendering, and Exporting -- 21 Hollywood Movie Trailer: Creating a Movie Trailer Using InstantMovie -- Flying Solo: Preparing the Project -- Organizing and Choosing Your Clips -- Selecting a Theme for Your InstantMovie -- Customizing the Final Output of InstantMovie -- Let It Rip: Creating, Rendering, and Exporting -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gesetzgebung in einigen Bundesstaaten und ACTEC-Modellgesetz -- a) Hawaii -- b) ACTEC-Modellgesetz -- c) Florida -- d) Arizona -- e) New Hampshire -- f) Missouri -- g) South Dakota -- 2. …”

“…PSB 2019 will be held on January 3 – 7, 2019 in Kohala Coast, Hawaii. Tutorials and workshops will be offered prior to the start of the conference. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.1.3 Why a BMS Is Required in Any Energy Storage System -- 1.1.4 How a BMS Makes a Storage System Efficient, Safe, and Dependable -- 1.2 Example of a BMS in a Real System -- 1.2.1 LabView Based BMS -- 1.2.2 PLC Based BMS -- 1.2.3 Microprocessor Based BMS -- 1.2.4 Microcontroller Based BMS -- 1.3 System Failures Due to the Absence of a BMS -- 1.3.1 Dreamline Boeing Fire Incidences -- 1.3.2 Fire Accident at the Hawaii Grid Connected Energy Storage -- 1.3.3 Fire Accidents in Electric Vehicles -- References -- 2 General Requirements (Functions and Features) -- 2.1 Basic Functions of a BMS -- 2.1.1 Key Parameter Monitoring -- 2.1.2 Battery State Analysis -- 2.1.3 Safety Management -- 2.1.4 Energy Control Management -- 2.1.5 Information Management -- 2.2 Topological Structure of a BMS -- 2.2.1 Relationship Between a BMC and a Cell -- 2.2.2 Relationship Between a BCU and a BMC -- References -- 3 General Procedure of the BMS Design -- 3.1 Universal Battery Management System and Customized Battery Management System -- 3.1.1 Ideal Condition -- 3.1.2 Feasible Solution -- 3.1.3 Discussion of Universality -- 3.2 General Development Flow of the Power Battery Management System -- 3.2.1 Applicable Standards for BMS Development -- 3.2.2 Boundary of BMS Development -- 3.2.3 Battery Characteristic Test Is Essential to BMS Development -- 3.3 Core Status of Battery Modeling in the BMS Development Process -- References -- Part II Li-Ion Batteries -- 4 Introduction to Li-Ion Batteries -- 4.1 Components of Li-Ion Batteries: Electrodes, Electrolytes, Separators, and Cell Packing -- 4.2 Li-Ion Electrode Manufacturing…”

“…They come from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Hawai'i, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Jamaica as well as Australia…”

“…All of the papers use field data collected by either the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) program, the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) or the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE). …”

“…While Americans experienced an economic boom, low immigration and the conferring of statehood on Alaska and Hawaii, Britons worried about economic uncertainty, mass immigration and the dissolution of the Empire. …”