Chaminade University of Honolulu

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.

Current Directions in Space Exploration

Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to set the context for the dissertation by giving an historical overview of the past and present goals of the exploration of Space and the design criteria associated with each. With the more recent objectives of establishing a human presence on Mars as the next major milestone in exploration (followed by human settlements), a new set of design challenges has emerged. In response to those challenges, human factors research has received increasing attention, considerably expanding in scope over the last two decades to now address requirements for habitability. However, despite the latest focus on habitability criteria, most current habitat design proposals are still rooted in a rigid engineering perspective and not in a deeper understanding of what promotes well-being; to remedy those oversights, habitability criteria must be re-evaluated.

Crime Scene Investigation and Examination: Underwater Crime Scenes

Abstract: Police agencies are highly adept at processing those crimes that occur on land. When crimes occur in, or under the water the approach is generally one that is founded on the presumption that evidence submerged in water is bereft of forensic value. This chapter attempts to refute that presumption and to establish a set of protocols for the processing of underwater crime scenes.

Contextualizing Escape in the Neo-slave Narratives of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose

Abstract: Analyzing how interracial relationships, violence, and notions of refuge are depicted in the neo-slave narratives of Butler’s Kindred and Williams’s Dessa Rose, Francis makes a case for why neo-slave narratives can explore and exploit the slave’s escape in ways that fugitive slave narratives could not. Exploring how the languages of feeling and judgment are used by the characters in Butler’s and Williams’s novels to complicate the meaning of escape for enslaved black women, Francis demonstrates that the neo-slave narratives by Butler and Williams are less concerned with examining the journey to freedom than with offering us fictional analyses of enslaved black women’s feelings and reactions to freedom.