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Unraveling Leptospira transmission in Hawaiʻi: Integrating feral swine, freshwater, and genomic surveillance
(2026-04) Dahal, Prashant; Fressie, Liam F.; Norris, Michael H.; La, Thi Hau Au; Cook, Marie Therese; Smyser, Timothy; McMillan, Ian; Goldstein, Samuel M.
Leptospirosis is a severe zoonotic threat in Hawaiʻi, with incidence rates 40 times the U.S. national average. Using a comprehensive One Health framework, this study investigated pathogenic Leptospira transmission dynamics across Maui, Hawaii, and Oʻahu. Freshwater analysis revealed widespread contamination, successfully recovering viable Leptospira belonging to L. interrogans group from over half of all samples. Furthermore, about 10% of feral swine tested positive, highlighting their critical role as environmental reservoirs shedding pathogens into streams.
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Center on Disability Studies eNewsletter, September 2026
(2026-09-01) Miller, Meghan; Alo, Claire; Moriyasu, Annie; Ochmanek, Eric; Whiteside, Sierra; Yokoyama, Robert; Takahashi, Kiriko; Kia, Rosalind; Yi, Sandie; Schlaack, Nicole; Kitami, Yoko; Murphy, Kelle; Halzel, Melody; Salazar, Tani Kalei; Tam, Sheanae; Dunn, Hugh; Leong, Genesis M.K.
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Building the space workforce through experiential learning: A university curriculum for space systems education
(Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2026-08-01) Englert, Peter; Edmonson, William W.; Chiang, I-Chant A.
The space economy's growth is constrained by a shortage of professionals with hands-on experience in the design, build, and operation of space systems. This report presents the Space Engineering Technology (SET) curriculum, a four-semester university course sequence that develops space-workforce capability through experiential learning: student cohorts design, build, test, launch, and operate real spacecraft and science payloads. The curriculum's distinctive dual-track architecture divides each student generation into a payload cohort and a spacecraft cohort that follow parallel, systems-engineering-driven course sequences and are coupled by a formal handover, in which the payload cohort delivers a tested, calibrated instrument to the spacecraft cohort for integration and flight. Model-based systems engineering, implemented in an open-source digital engineering platform, runs as a continuous thread through all four semesters, carrying each design from mission requirements through formal design reviews to build authorization, verification, and mission operations. The curriculum distills more than a decade of curriculum development and six years of delivery experience from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Earth and Planetary Exploration Technology program and is designed for adoption by universities with or without established engineering programs. The report documents the complete module-level schedules for both cohort tracks across all four courses, the associated review-gate structure, and the considerations governing implementation. This report will provide the design baseline for subsequent evaluation studies of the program.
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Hawai‘i’s “Historic” Environmental Court and “Ground-Breaking” Right to a Clean and Healthful Environment
(2026) Forman, David M.
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Shaping Administrative Law for a Participatory Democracy
(2026) Turcan, Kamaile A.N.
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When readers’ minds wander: How cognitive and affective variables shape mobile-assisted L2 reading comprehension
(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2026-08-31) Yang, Xiaoming; Wang, Tengfei
Mind-wandering, characterized by a shift of attention away from the task at hand, poses a significant challenge to effective reading by inducing shallow processing. Despite its frequent occurrence in learning contexts, its impact on second language (L2) reading comprehension, particularly in mobile-assisted contexts, remains underexplored. This study aims to bridge this gap by investigating how mind-wandering influences mobile-assisted L2 reading comprehension and further exploring the moderating roles of cognitive and affective factors. Specifically, it examines the extent to which working memory capacity and reading emotions (i.e., enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom) shape the relationship between mind-wandering and reading comprehension. A sample of 208 first-year college students learning English as an L2 completed a reading comprehension test, working memory assessments, and questionnaire surveys measuring reading emotions. Linear regression analyses reveal that students who experience more mind-wandering perform worse in mobile-assisted L2 reading. Furthermore, moderation analyses indicate that reading emotions, particularly enjoyment and boredom, significantly moderate the effect of mind-wandering on L2 reading comprehension, whereas working memory capacity does not. These findings suggest that affective factors, especially enjoyment and boredom, may have a more prominent moderating role than working memory capacity in the relationship between mind-wandering and comprehension in mobile-assisted L2 reading environments.
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Sechou ma Deroech
(2025-04-10) McDonnell, Bradley; Sawyer, Gillian; Udui, Kristen
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Primary stress for related noun and verb sets in Palauan.
(2025-04-04) McDonnell, Bradley; Bialo, Kelsey; Sawyer, Gillian; Preslar, Tracy; Kolenskaia, Irina; Molina Gómez, Armando; McDonnell, Bradley; Dossett, Stephanie; Udui, Kristen
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Nominal stress patterns (continued)
(2025-04-01) McDonnell, Bradley; Bialo, Kelsey; Udui, Kristen
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Recording the Breadfruit Story
(2025-03-31) McDonnell, Bradley; Sawyer, Gillian; Udui, Kristen