(a.) Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.
(n.) A native of Hawaii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(2) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(3) A diet history method was tested for reproducibility among 106 older men from the five major ethnic groups (Japanese, Caucasian, Hawaiian, Filipino, and Chinese) of Hawaii.
(4) This paper describes a trial of the traditional Hawaiian diet fed ad libitum to Native Hawaiians with multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease to assess its effect on obesity and cardiovascular risk factors.
(5) Sequencing identified an Antennapedia-class gene encoding a homeobox that is the homologue of the Hawaiian sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla homeobox gene.
(6) The combined results of the Hawaiian and Brisbane studies (total population studied over five years 1 600 000) showed that no epileptic children died from accidents in the sea or in swimming pools; and the 2.9% incidence of immersion accidents due to seizures in the Hawaiian study compares well with the incidence found in other series.
(7) 5,7-dimethoxycoumarin and isopimpinellin, together with the well-known phototoxic, photo-irritant furanocoumarins psoralen and 8-methoxypsoralen, were isolated and identified from leaves and fruits of Pelea anisata H. Mann, a plant whose fruit are used in the construction of mohikana leis used in parts of the Hawaiian Islands.
(8) Drosophila differens, endemic to Molokai, Drosophila planitibia of Maui, and Drosophila silvestris and Drosophila heteroneura from the island of Hawaii are chromosomally homosequential species that presumably have colonized the newer islands of the Hawaiian archipelago by sequential founder events.
(9) Scientists say they have discovered what might be a new species of octopus while searching the Pacific Ocean floor near the Hawaiian Islands.
(10) The hypothesis is advanced that while the Hawaiian Islands contain one of the world's largest percentages of endemic species in the flora, only a few of these species were used for illnesses, though many endemic species were used for building, tapa making, and the foundation of the elaborate and renowned feather cloaks.
(11) Hybridization of Drosophila homeo box DNA probes to Southern transfers of genomic DNA from the Hawaiian sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla has revealed that the sea urchin genome contains at least five homeo boxes.
(12) To determine whether the primary personality factors of Hawaiian, middle adolescents were the same as those Cattell postulated in 1970, for adolescents on the mainland of the United States, and in 1974 for adolescents in Germany, a personality questionnaire representing those factors completed by 694 Hawaiian, middle adolescents (M age = 15.9 yr.) was factor analyzed.
(13) The lowest prevalence in the Hawaiian islands estimated at about 15% to 20% in adults, was observed in Japanese.
(14) The most plausible genetic model is the presence of major gene effects with the multifactorial component for the Hawaiian and Caucasian groups, whereas no major gene action is evident for the Oriental group.
(15) New Mexico Hispanic men and Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and Filipino men and women had significantly higher rates (weighted rate ratios ranged from 1.56 to 3.17).
(16) Evidence from in situ hybridizations of DNA from the transposable element hobo to polytene salivary gland chromosome squashes reveals that hobo occupies both cytological breakpoints of three of four endemic inversions sampled from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in the Hawaiian islands.
(17) Of 1716 questionnaires distributed at various Hawaiian hospitals and clinics, 492 were collected from women 17 to 46 years of age at the time of sterilization.
(18) However, it could be worse in some locations, just as we saw record thermal stress in the northernmost Mariana Islands and the north-western Hawaiian islands in 2014.” Predicted thermal stress in Indian Ocean.
(19) The validity of a quantitative diet history method was evaluated among 262 men and women from the five major ethnic groups of Hawaii (Japanese, Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, and Hawaiian) in 1984-1987.
(20) These are Bermuda, the Galápagos Islands, the Great Barrier Reef, the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, the Hawaiian islands, the Mediterranean Sea, Monterey Bay, the Arctic, the Patagonian Shelf, the Antarctic and the Western Indian Ocean.
Samoan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.
(n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Samoan men showed an increase in the frequency of obesity with increasing modernity of residence or occupation.
(2) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
(3) The largest number were in Samoans (61%) although the infection was present in some other Pacific Islanders.
(4) The presence of the rare Lewis phenotype Le(a+b+) is reported in various Polynesian groups, including Maoris, Samoans, Cook Islanders, Nuieans and Tokelau Islanders.
(5) The Samoan children appear larger than their European counterparts in early infancy, although this difference is lost by nine months of age.
(6) Ninety-three percent of Polynesians exhibited this 9-bp deletion, including 100% of Samoans, Maoris, and Niueans.
(7) The data from the first 3 years of the Samoan pilot filariasis control programme were reanalysed using incidence instead of prevalence statistics.
(8) Although cases may have been missed, it seems likely that incidence rates among Samoans are substantially lower than those recorded in Polynesian populations elsewhere.
(9) The frequencies of genes in these various systems suggest that Samoans fall partly into an island Melanesian-Micronesian pattern, and partly are unique.
(10) Variation in physical activity due to residence and occupation in Western Samoan men is related to lipoprotein cholesterol levels, but not to total cholesterol levels, and some effects may be secondary to differences in body composition.
(11) A single-dose of diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC, 6 mg per kg body weight) was administered in three mass treatment campaigns to > 80% of the estimated total Samoan population (160,000) in 1982, 1983, and 1986.
(12) In 1975, 461 American Samoan men responded to the CMI.
(13) Rarely does an entire nation get behind something as wholeheartedly as the Samoans did.
(14) If his forthcoming album, Doris, is anything like last year's Chum , on which he stitched together observations about his absent father and his time at a Samoan reform school, even the staunchest Odd Future critics will have to put down their copy of Illmatic and pay attention.
(15) As an element of verbalized group sentiment, it is a positive assertion of Samoan values, astatement of social solidarity.
(16) The prevalence of malabsorption varied with location: for Samoans it ranged from 41% to 60% in Western Samoa and 0% to 35% in New Zealand; white children had rates of 27% in the Cook Islands and 5% in New Zealand.
(17) On digestion with Bgl II the third alpha-globin gene was found in an additional 3.7 kb fragment in all seven Samoans with triplicated alpha-globin loci, while digestion with Bam HI produced an abnormal elongated 18.2 kb fragment carrying alpha-globin genes in addition to the normal 14.5 kb fragment.
(18) Results of the lifestyle characteristic comparisons show that the villagers have greater life satisfaction, emotional stability, agreement with Samoan customs, and familial responsibility (P less than 0.05).
(19) The higher norepinephrine excretion rate in the more modernized Samoan groups may be related to differences in relative work load associated with changes in body weight, work capacity, and work patterns which accompany modernization.
(20) The purpose of this study was to examine whether the relationships between the rates of urinary catecholamine excretion and blood pressure were similar in more traditionally living and more acculturated Western Samoan men.