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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2011)The traditional medical system of cold desert Ladakh is principally based on a Tibetan system of medicine and is popularly known as the Amchi system of medicine, which provides treatment and relief to local indigenous ...
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Household Energy Demand and its Challenges for Forest Management in the Kakamega Area, Western Kenya (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008)The presented study investigated the energy demand of a sample of 201 households adjacent to Kakamega Forest. The aim of the study focused on the evaluation of possible threats to the forest under the scenario that the ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004)
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Identification and use of plant material for the manufacture of New Zealand indigenous woven objects (Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012)Significant collections of objects manufactured by Māori are held, prized and exhibited by cultural institutions such as the Bishop, British, Field and Pitt Rivers Museums; and Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand). ...
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(Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012)Woody plant species are threatened in Uganda. To conserve these species there is need to generate information that may be used to design management plans. This study was conducted in Balawoli Sub-county, Kamuli District, ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)The use of banana plants in the historical iron production industries of several pre-colonial kingdoms of southern and western Uganda has been documented by the presence of banana pseudostem impressions preserved in slag, ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006)
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)Ethnopharmacological knowledge is common and import among tribal populations but much of the information is empirical at best lacking scientific validation. Despite widespread use of plant resources in traditional medicines, ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006)An analysis of taxa used and that are salient to Vietnamese in Hawai‘i compared with southern Vietnam reflects an evolution of the assemblage of food plants demonstrated by substitutions, insertions, and deletions of plant ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)The Integrated Health Care System is presented as an appropriate system capable of helping meet global health care needs in a satisfactory manner. It is a system that consciously targets and harnesses peoples’ links with ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010)Biodiversity conservation at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya in the Eastern Arc Mountains relies on understanding how plants are distributed on the mountain and integrated into local livelihoods. We focus on woody plants, and ask: (1) ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)Recent reports from Jamaica tell of an increase in the incidence of coconut lethal yellowing disease and raise the spectre of the epidemic of forty years ago. Is this just another coincidence in a series that seem to link ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010)Helicobacter pylori is the major agent in the etiology of chronic active gastritis, duodenal and gastric ulcers and has been linked to gastric carcinoma. The increasing antibiotic resistance of this organism and other ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008)Hedysarum mackenziei Richardson (wild sweet pea, bear root) is widely regarded as toxic and warnings about confusing it with its edible cousin Hedysarum alpinum Richardson (Eskimo potato) abound. To find the chemical basis ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004)We argue that kava (Piper methysticum Forst. f.) is a Pacific domesticate that originated in Melanesia. We provide botanical, chemical, genetic and cultural evidence to suggest that farmers in the northern part of Vanuatu ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)Kam Guilzhouh nyim Guangxxih di Benxtux Wenchual nyim Zihyuanc dih Gonxliix: Kam Local Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Resource Management in Guizhou and Guangxi Provinces. Historically, the Han Chinese forcibly ...
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008)
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(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)Researchers have often equated ethnobotanical knowledge collected through interview questions with actual uses of plants, but knowledge and uses of plants might or might not move in lockstep. Using data from 132 adults ...