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The Social Construction of What

, 1999
Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Particularly troublesome in this area is the status of the natural sciences, where there is conflict between biological and social approaches ...
I. Hacking
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Trollope in Hawaii

Trollopian, 1949
OUR at least of the major literary figures of the nineteenth century-Melville, Mark Twain, Trollope, and Stevenson-visited Hawaii: Melville in i842, Mark Twain in i866, Trollope in i872 and I875, and Stevenson in i889 and i893. Melville had not yet turned to writing; Mark Twain was a young journalist with "The Jumping Frog" to his credit; Trollope was ...
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Control of Dengue in Hawaii

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1947
DENGUE fever appeared in the Territory of Hawaii in July, 1943, for the first time since 1912, and soon after its appearance reached epidemic proportions. Usually when dengue is introduced into a non-immunized community, particularly a community where mosquitoes live and breed all the year around, a majority of the population contracts the disease ...
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Mainland Chinese Tourists to Hawaii: Their Characteristics and Preferences

, 2011
Tourism is the most economically important industry to the United States' only island state, Hawaii. With Hawaii's highest spending and largest international tourist segment, Japanese, decreasing significantly (a loss from over 2,000,000 in 1997 to just ...
J. Agrusa, S. Kim, Kuo-Ching Wang
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Rubella Seroepidemiology in Hawaii

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1982
To determine rubella susceptibility levels 10 years after the introduction of the rubella vaccine in Hawaii, a large-scale serosurvey was conducted in conjunction with a campaign to raise the immunity levels of adolescent and adult women. Each woman tested for rubella antibody was asked her age, ethnic group, migration history, number of siblings ...
Glenn Kobayashi, Ned H. Wiebenga, Mary K. Serdula, M Riduan Joesoef, Arthur C Curtis   +4 more
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Nitrogen limitation of net primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems is globally distributed.

Ecology, 2008
Our meta-analysis of 126 nitrogen addition experiments evaluated nitrogen (N) limitation of net primary production (NPP) in terrestrial ecosystems. We tested the hypothesis that N limitation is widespread among biomes and influenced by geography and ...
David LeBauer, K. Treseder
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Landslide types and processes

, 2004
Printed on recycled paper Landslides in the United States occur in all 50 States. The primary regions of landslide occurrence and potential are the coastal and mountainous areas of California, Oregon, and Washington, the States comprising the ...
Lynn Highland
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Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood.

, 1992
This study was a follow-up study of a 1955 cohort of births (614 births) on Kauai island in Hawaii. Follow-up was conducted at birth age one and two years age 10 years age 18 years and 31-32 years. The final sample in adulthood was 505 persons.
E. Werner, Ruth S. Smith
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A Risk‐Assessment System for Screening Out Invasive Pest Plants from Hawaii and Other Pacific Islands

, 2004
:  Ecosystems of Hawaii and other Pacific Islands have been greatly affected by invasive pest plants, and ongoing, deliberate plant introductions make it likely that additional pest plants will become established.
C. Daehler, J. Denslow, S. Ansari, H. Kuo   +3 more
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Bed sediment-associated trace metals in an urban stream, Oahu, Hawaii

, 2000
R. Sutherland
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