A Comparative Functional Approach to the Host Detection Behaviour of Parasitic Wasps. 1. A Qualitative Study on Eucoilidae and Alysiinae

We studied host detection behaviour in Alysiinae (Braconidae; Ichneumonoidea) and Eucoilidae (Cynipoidea), the larvae of which are endoparasitoids of fly larvae and in- vestigated whether this behaviour is determined by their descent or can be considered an adaptation to different environments. We compared the searching behaviour of fe- males of 32 alysiine and 25 eucoilid species from a variety of microhabitats and from different dipteran hosts by using qualitative behavioural variables. Three main modes of searching were detected: vibrotaxis, ovipositor searching and antennal searching, and the species could be classified according to the role these different modes play in the detection of host larvae. The searching modes are largely dependent upon the taxonomic position of the species. In most cases species belonging to one genus show a similar behaviour pattern. However, we also encountered examples of radiation; closely related species that search differently. The function of the three searching modes has not been elucidated so far. Therefore we cannot say that similar searching modes in unrelated species are examples of adaptive convergence. Especially in Drosophila parasitoids we encountered great differences in searching behaviour be- tween different species living in the same microhabitat. We believe differences at all levels of searching, including host detection behaviour may contribute to niche segre- gation and create possibilites for different parasitoid species to coexist in the same microhabitat, even when they attack the same host species

Moanaākea

Paper submitted to The Space Between: Negotiating Culture, Place, and Identity in the Pacific; based on the indigenous Oceanic concept, va, a space marked by tension and transformation and by confluences and connection

Talking with abuelo: Styling insider-outsider identities in a multi-cultural family

Taking an interactional sociolinguistic (IS) approach to discourse analysis, this study explores how multi-cultural and multi-lingual siblings interact with their monolingual grandfather (Abuelo), and how, through these interactions, they negotiate and construct multi-cultural family identities. Using Tannen’s (2007) power and solidarity framework, I analyze four excerpts from a seven hour corpus of naturally occurring face-to-face recorded conversations between my sisters, my grandfather, and myself, from 1984 in Spain to answer the following question: How do speakers style (Coupland, 2007) themselves as legitimate speakers in a multilingual and multi-cultural family? The analysis shows that resistance to Abuelo’s authority was accomplished secretly through ridicule using code-switching, simultaneously managing deference and resistance. Authority was also established among the sisters through hierarchies of translation and interpretation, which provided opportunities for resisting Abuelo’s authority through codeswitching between English and Spanish. The study demonstrates how codeswitching underscores the affiliative and disaffiliative interactional stances for achieving both solidarity and power

Tectonics of Part of the Vinodol Valley Within the Model of the Continental Crust Subduction

The Vinodol valley is analysed as an example of one of the united zones of shallow continental subduction. The structural analysis together with the interpretation of structural dynamics of the central part of the valley is performed in that sense. The structural model that accompanies the subduction process is constructed. These structures are found to be largely dependent on the subduction plane geometry

Parasitoid Lalat Pengorok Daun Pada Pertanaman Kentang Dan Tumbuhan Liar Di Wilayah Pangalengan

Parasitoids of Leafminer Fly on Potato Fields and Non-Crop Vegetation in Pangalengan Area. The damage leaves of potato and non-crop vegetation caused by leafminer fly Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) (Diptera: Agromzidae) were collected during August-October 2000 in Pangalengan area to evaluate the role of non-crop vegetation on the abundance of leafminer fly and its parasitoids. The leaves were placed into the bowls. The fly and parasitoid that emerged from the leaves were noted afterwards. The result of this survey showed that six families of plant were the host of L. huidobrensis on non-crop vegetation around the potato plantation. Those families are, Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Malvaceae, and Solanaceae. The most abundant of non-crop vegetation found in the field was galinggang (Galinsoga Parviflora). The parasitoids that emerge from non-crop vegetation were Hemiptarsenus varicornis (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and Opius sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). The proportion of emerged fly were 68.5% from non-crop vegetation and 58.8% from potato, while those of parasitoids were 31.5% from non-crop vegetation and 41.2% from potato. Generally, non-crop vegetation in Pangalengan more potent as reservoar of pest than parasitoids

Mākālei, ka Lāʻau Piʻi Ona a ka iʻa, o Moaʻulanuiākea i kaulana. He Moʻolelo Kahiko no ka huli Koʻolau o Kailua a me Waimānalo.

Masterʻs Plan B paper. Written in Hawaiian.He pepa nui laeoʻo kēia i waiho ʻia i mua o Kawaihuelani, ke keʻena ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi o ke kulanui o Hawaiʻi, ma Mānoa, i mea e kō ai kekahi o nā koina o ka palapala nui laeoʻo ma ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. Abstract in English: This masters project of "Mākālei, the famous fish attracting branch of Moaʻulanuiākea. A history of old of the Koʻolau sections of Kailua and Waimānalo," is a project that aims at refamiliarizing modern Hawaiian language audiences of today to this story of old that lies in the repository of the Hawaiian language newspapers, of which but a small handful of people have the adequate skill and language ability to access and clearly understand this rich moʻolelo. The project is also aims to be a model for similar projects and inspire the returning to many of the moʻolelo kahiko in the repository of the Hawaiian language newspapers and pave a path for those with the necessary language ability to build a similar bridge and create more adaptions and retellings of these important stories. This is so that we may once again remember the stories, values, traditions and enlightenment of our own ancestors, for in those stories of your native motherland lies the mindset and world view of those who have come before you, and lays a foundation and reconnection for those now. Mākālei is a story of a small boy of Makawao, in the uplands of Kailua, Oʻahu named Kahinihiniʻula. Mākālei is a story that tells us, if we do not look after everyone in the community, down to the smallest of children, we will be met with great difficulties and distress. Kahinihiniʻula was not given his share of fish after a workday in the fishpond of Kawainui. This sets into motion, his grandmother, Nīʻula, and his ancient ancestor, Haumea to take revenge upon the rulers of Kailua and draw the fish from the ponds of Kawainui and Kaʻelepulu, with the Mākālei branch, to the spring below their house in Makawao. Haumea takes Kahinihiniʻula on a journey were he is hidden from the search party of the aliʻi by his play friends. It is with his play friends that he learns to swim, dive and surf, the necessary skills needed to travel to ʻUpolu, the land of the gods. Mākālei is a story of the great power of the divine feminine, the Cosmic Mother, Haumea, and the journey of Kahinihiniʻula gaining knowledge from her guidance and elevating his status to the circle of chiefs

Pilina — Mālama — ʻāina Momona A Community-Driven Monitoring Program To Understand Health And Well-Being Of People And Place In Hāʻena, Kauaʻi

M.S. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2017

Who are we restoring Maunalua for? Place name resurgence and environmental restoration in Maunalua, O‘ahu

While numerous research studies have been published in recent decades on biological degradation and climate risks facing Maunalua, very few studies have centered on the sociopolitical dimensions of this region. By celebrating community pilina (intimacy, relationship) and biocultural restoration in Maunalua, this project aims to challenge the dominant narratives of degradation on this region. Centering Decolonizing and Kanaka ‘Ōiwi methodologies, this project builds on N. Ha‘alilo Solomon’s book chapter, Maunalua: Shifting Nomenclatures and the Reconfiguration of Space in Hawaii Kai (2022), celebrating ongoing projects of inoa ‘āina (place name) resurgence. Engaging snowball sampling in qualitative community-based participatory research methods, I argue for local and academic discourse to honor ongoing biocultural restoration, emphasizing the question of who Maunalua is being restored for

ALOHA is Intelligence: A Case Study of a Culturally Responsive Framework for Evaluation Capacity Building

The Aloha Evaluation Framework is a culturally responsive evaluation approach that has been developed for use in Indigenous communities. Guided by the concept of Aloha (love) as conceptualized by kūpuna (elder) ʻAnakē Pilahi Pāki, the framework is based on the values of respect, empowerment, collaboration, and sustainability, and emphasizes the importance of building evaluation capacity within the community. Aloha is defined as Akahai (gentleness), Lōkahi (harmony), ʻOluʻolu (agreeableness), Haʻahaʻa (humility) and Ahonui (patience); the synthesis of which describes different attributes of love and ultimately the spirit of Aloha. This paper describes the use of the Aloha Evaluation Framework as an approach in an evaluation capacity building effort within a Native Hawaiian serving organization. The positive feedback from the evaluation training series demonstrates the value of incorporating Aloha and its various forms of love into evaluation as a practice. The results have implications for ways to privilege the values and voices of Indigenous communities in evaluation