"Towards a New Oceania": On Contemporary Pacific Islander Poetry Networks

China in Oceania: New Forces in Pacific Politics

Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry

In his article "Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry" the debate on hybridization tends to overemphasize the blurring of boundari types in all possible forms: combination of types within a given work (multimodal "image comics and photo-novels, sound poetry, etc.), adaptation and remediation one (filmic adaptations of novels or novelizations of films, for instance), and, more generall...

Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, although constituting <3% of the total U.S. population in 1990, comprise a very diverse group, with >20 population groups. The majority (~95%) are Asian, with the major categories being Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Asian Indian, Korean, and Vietnamese. These numbered almost 7 million in the 1990 U.S. Census. The major categories of Pacific Islanders are Haw...

Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation

In this paper we describe the difficulties of poetry generation, particularly in contrast to traditional informative natural language generation. We then point out deficiencies of previous attempts at poetry generation, and propose a stochastic hillclimbing search model which addresses these deficiencies. We present both conceptual and implemented details of the most important aspects of such a...

Family Model of Diabetes Education With a Pacific Islander Community.

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to use a community-based participatory research approach to pilot-test a family model of diabetes education conducted in participants' homes with extended family members. METHODS The pilot test included 6 families (27 participants) who took part in a family model of diabetes self-management education (DSME) using an intervention-driven pre- and posttest de...