Building Native Hawaiian capacity in cancer research and programming

Building community capacity to participate in cancer prevention research.

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Cancer research in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations: accelerating cancer knowledge by acknowledging and leveraging heterogeneity.

The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population is large, growing, and extremely heterogeneous. Not only do they bear unique burdens of incidence and outcomes for certain cancer types, they exhibit substantial variability in cancer incidence and survival patterns across the ethnic groups. By acknowledging and leveraging this heterogeneity through investing in cancer researc...

Cancer assessment methodology in a native Hawaiian community.

BACKGROUND Limited data have been collected on cancer in Native Hawaiian communities, although Native Hawaiians tend to have higher cancer mortality rates than other ethnic groups in Hawaii. OBJECTIVES We sought to describe the community-based participatory research (CBPR) process used to deliver a culturally tailored protocol, combining traditional Native Hawaiian practices and random sampli...

Building capacity for teaching and learning research

Building research-capacity is an important element in the contemporary political economy of social science research. For example, the principal funding body, the ESRC, continues to invest substantially in the development of researchcapacity through, for example, its Research Methods Programme and its recently announced National Centre for Research Methods, to be located at Southampton Universit...