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Chaminade University of Honolulu

EducationHonolulu, Hawaii, United States
About: Chaminade University of Honolulu is a education organization based out in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Experiential learning. The organization has 164 authors who have published 223 publications receiving 5381 citations.


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TL;DR: It is concluded that imagined and overt singing involves partly different brain systems in professional singers with more prefrontal and limbic activation and a larger network of higher order associative functions during imagery.

160 citations

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TL;DR: It is reported here that prevalence of malaria in Hawaiian forest birds at 1900 m on the island of Hawai’i has more than doubled over a decade, and direct evidence of tolerance to malaria, and a possible cost of tolerance, in wild native birds is reported.
Abstract: Hawaiian honeycreepers (Aves: Drepanidinae) evolved in the absence of mosquito-borne diseases such as avian malaria (Plasmodium spp.). Malaria has been largely responsible for the recent wave of extinctions and endangerment among Hawaiian forest birds, which began by the 1920s. Most honeycreepers, especially endangered species, now persist only in forests above 1500 m elevation, where cool temperatures prevent effective malaria development in mosquitoes. We report here that prevalence of malaria in Hawaiian forest birds at 1900 m on the island of Hawai‘i has more than doubled over a decade. This increase was associated with breeding of mosquitoes and warmer summertime air temperatures. We also report direct evidence of tolerance to malaria, and a possible cost of tolerance, in wild native birds. Tolerance is adding to a reservoir of malaria at upper elevations even while vectors are rare and air temperatures are too low for complete development of the parasite in the vector. The data provide a gl...

99 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate microbial and metabolomic data to advance microbial forensics in the criminal justice system, which has excellent potential to improve forensic science in the areas of postmortem interval estimation, locating clandestine graves, and obtaining soil and skin trace evidence.

91 citations

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TL;DR: It is suggested that the microbial ecological succession will be useful in medicolegal death investigation; however, observations in winter might not be applicable to summer, which indicates a need for a greater understanding of the seasonality of decomposition.
Abstract: Body-associated microbes were recently shown to change significantly during decomposition, undergoing an ecological succession in experimental conditions using rodent and swine models. We investigated microbial succession in soils associated with swine carcasses under experimental field conditions in summer and winter. We demonstrate that these postmortem microbial communities change in a specific, reproducible fashion, and that soil microbes represent a significant component of the postmortem microbial community, contrary to widespread belief in forensic science. However, the effects of decomposition on soil microbial communities were different in summer and winter. We suggest that the microbial ecological succession will be useful in medicolegal death investigation; however, observations in winter might not be applicable to summer, which indicates a need for a greater understanding of the seasonality of decomposition.

91 citations

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TL;DR: The results suggest the existence of a mechanism whereby nebulin specifies the minimum thin filament length and sarcomere length regulates and coordinates pointed-end dynamics to maintain the relative overlap of the thin and thick filaments during myofibril assembly.

89 citations


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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20223
202117
202023
201917
201814
201720