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Jovel, Eduardo M., Xi Ling Zhou, Dong Sheng Ming, Tanya R. Wahbe, and G. H. Neil Towers. "Bioactivity-guided isolation of the active compounds from Rosa nutkana and quantitative analysis of ascorbic acid by HPLCThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this special issue (part 1 of 2) on the Safety and Efficacy of Natural Health Products." Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 85, no. 9 (September 2007): 865–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/y07-053.

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Rosa nutkana Presl. (Rosaceae) is distributed abundantly throughout central and southern areas of British Columbia, Canada. Aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest have traditionally used R. nutkana as a food, medicine, and source of cultural material. The methanolic extract of the fruits of R. nutkana was previously found to have inhibitory activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In our study, bioactivity-guided fractionation of the methanol extract from R. nutkana led to the isolation of the following 10 compounds: (i) tormentic acid, (ii) euscaphic acid, (iii) ursolic acid, (iv) maslinic acid, (v) quercetin, (vi) catechin gallate, (vii) quercetin-3-O-glucoside, (viii) 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-galloyl-β-d-glucoside, (ix) l-ascorbic acid (vitamin C), and (x) 1,6-digalloyl-β-d-glucoside. Structures were elucidated by ultraviolet, infrared, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance data, as well as by comparison with those of the literature. The compounds quercetin, catechin gallate, quercetin-3-O-glucoside, 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-galloyl-β-d-glucoside, and 1,6-digalloyl-β-d-glucoside exhibited weak antibacterial activity against MRSA. Our research demonstrates the value of traditional knowledge held by Aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest with respect to uses of R. nutkana. Some described uses in the ethnobotanical literature correspond to activities observed under laboratory conditions. Further work on British Columbia Rosa spp. may contribute to identifying other potential therapeutic uses.
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Johnson, Lon. "1055 PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF SPICES, TEA HERBS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST." HortScience 29, no. 5 (May 1994): 579f—579. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.29.5.579f.

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Concurrent with the development of the U.S. market for certified organically-grown produce, there has been a growth in the production and marketing of organically-grown botanicals. This activity has been centered in the Pacific Northwest for the past 20 years. The current global market for biologically-grown botanicals has been stimulated by public interest in alternative and traditional plant-based medicines. Trout Lake Farm has organized efforts to stimulate the production and marketing of medicinal plants and spices. The efforts include R&D, growing methodologies, quality assurance, drying, and processing. Research of many ornamentals has revealed potential uses for them other than strictly ornamental. Cultivation is necessary to avoid extirpation of fragile and threatened wild medicinals. The use of organic growing practices is necessary, particularly for specialty crops which have no EPA level inclusions for pesticides. Increasing domestic production of temperate and subtropical herbs and spices helps reduce U.S. imports.
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Fialkowski, Marie K., Megan A. McCrory, Sparkle M. Roberts, J. Kathleen Tracy, Lynn M. Grattan, and Carol J. Boushey. "Dietary patterns are associated with dietary recommendations but have limited relationship to BMI in the Communities Advancing the Studies of Tribal Nations Across the Lifespan (CoASTAL) cohort." Public Health Nutrition 15, no. 10 (February 21, 2012): 1948–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980012000122.

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AbstractObjectiveTraditional food systems in indigenous groups have historically had health-promoting benefits. The objectives of the present study were to determine if a traditional dietary pattern of Pacific Northwest Tribal Nations (PNwT) could be derived using reduced rank regression and if the pattern would be associated with lower BMI and current Dietary Reference Intakes.DesignThe baseline data from the Communities Advancing the Studies of Tribal Nations Across the Lifespan (CoASTAL) cohort were used to derive dietary patterns for the total sample and those with plausibly reported energy intakes.SettingPacific Northwest Coast of Washington State, USA.SubjectsAdult PNwT members of the CoASTAL cohort with laboratory-measured weight and height and up to 4 d of dietary records (n418).ResultsA traditional dietary pattern did not evolve from the analysis. Moderate consumption of a sweet drinks dietary pattern was associated with lower BMI while higher consumption of a vegetarian-based dietary pattern was associated with higher BMI. The highest consumers of the vegetarian-based dietary pattern were almost six times more likely to meet the recommendations for dietary fibre.ConclusionsDistinct dietary patterns were found. Further exploration is needed to confirm whether the lack of finding a traditional pattern is due to methodology or the loss of a traditional dietary pattern among this population. Longitudinal assessment of the CoASTAL cohort's dietary patterns needs to continue.
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LaBeau, Kathleen M., Marianne Simon, and Steven J. Steindel. "Quality Control of Test Systems Waived by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 124, no. 8 (August 1, 2000): 1122–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/2000-124-1122-qcotsw.

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Abstract Context.—Recent advances in laboratory testing technology have resulted in a rapidly increasing number of test systems targeted for physician office, point-of-care, and home health care settings. With enhanced error detection mechanisms and unitized reagents, these new systems simplify the testing process and the assessment of analytical test performance. Many also meet the criteria set by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) to qualify as waived test systems, and laboratories using only waived tests are subject to very limited regulatory oversight. Objective.—To evaluate use patterns and perceptions about quality control requirements with respect to waived testing. Design and Setting.—Survey of a network of 431 hospital, independent, and physician office laboratories in the US Pacific Northwest. Results.—Responding laboratories (n = 221) were taking advantage of the availability of waived tests and using them to make definitive diagnoses. We found considerable differences between quality control practices and the laboratories' perceptions of quality control requirements. Most respondents were performing traditional quality control on waived tests, influenced by their interpretation of regulations, the intended use of the test, and the testing personnel employed. Conclusions.—Technology optimized for alternate quality control can represent an improvement in ease of use while meeting expectations for accuracy and providing relief from regulatory burdens. However, laboratory personnel exhibit confusion in applying new quality control systems.
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Poss, James M., Mark E. Boseley, and James V. Crawford. "Pacific Northwest Survey." Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery 134, no. 2 (February 1, 2008): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archoto.2007.25.

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Mizukami, Iori, Chloé Julie Loïs Fourreau, Sakine Matsuo, and James Davis Reimer. "Diversity and distribution of air-breathing sea slug genus Peronia Fleming, 1822 (Gastropoda: Onchidiidae) in southern Japanese waters." PeerJ 10 (July 19, 2022): e13720. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13720.

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Species of the genus Peronia Fleming, 1822, are air-breathing onchidiid sea slugs that inhabit intertidal reef flats of temperate to tropical zones. In the Ryukyu Islands of southern subtropical Japan, Peronia species are a traditional food source for local people. To date, there have been three species recorded around Okinawajima Island; P. verruculata and P. peronii, along with recently described P. okinawensis, which was described as possibly endemic to Okinawajima Island. This study aimed to map the distribution ranges of these three Peronia species within the Ryukyu Islands using molecular analyses in order to understand the specific distribution of each species. Since Peronia species are generally indistinguishable by gross external morphology, a DNA barcoding approach was employed to identify specimens. The molecular data showed that there are four species present in the Ryukyu Islands. P. verruculata (unit #1 sensu Dayrat et al., 2020) was dominant at almost all locations, while P. peronii was present in much lower numbers than P. verruculata, but found across a relatively wide range in the Ryukyu Islands. We newly record P. okinawensis and P. setoensis from Amami Oshima Island and from several places around Okinawajima Island, and also identified high levels of genetic variation within P. setoensis. Peronia okinawensis and P. setoensis have been thought to be endemic to Okinawajima Island and to Honshu, mainland Japan, respectively. However, as both species were observed around Okinawajima and Amami Oshima islands, other islands of the Ryukyus are also likely to harbor these species, and their distribution ranges are wider than previously thought. Based on the results from molecular analyses, we provide general descriptions of each species. Sizes of specimens were consistently smaller for P. setoensis and relatively larger for P. peronii specimens. On the other hand, P. verruculata and P. okinawensis had similar size ranges, but P. okinawensis had comparatively much more distinct papillae. This study revealed that the Ryukyu Islands are the only region currently known with four sympatric Peronia species, and this work provides a basis for future research on these Peronia species throughout the northwest Pacific Ocean, representing the first step in more effective management of the local Peronia fisheries in the Ryukyu Islands.
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Glawe, Dean A. "First Report of Powdery Mildew of Lycium chinense (Chinese Matrimony Vine) Caused by Arthrocladiella mougeotii in the Pacific Northwest." Plant Health Progress 5, no. 1 (January 2004): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/php-2004-1208-01-hn.

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Chinese matrimony-vine (Lycium chinense Mill.) is a traditional medicinal plant grown in China and used as a perennial landscape plant in North America. This report documents the presence of powdery mildew on L. chinense in the Pacific Northwest and describes and illustrates morphological features of the causal agent. It appears to be the first report of a powdery mildew caused by Arthrocladiella in the Pacific Northwest. Accepted for publication 10 November 2004. Published 8 December 2004.
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Tomalin, Marcus. "Reassessing Nineteenth-Century Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast." Historiographia Linguistica 35, no. 1-2 (March 7, 2008): 83–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.35.1-2.06tom.

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Summary This article reconsiders various aspects of missionary linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast in the late 19th century. In particular, it explores the complex relationship between Alfred Hall’s (1853–1918) A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Language (1888) and Charles Harrison’s (d.1926) Haida Grammar (1895), and it is shown that, in many cases, both the basic analytical framework and the clarificatory examples that Harrison used were largely derived from Hall’s work. Such connections have not been recognised previously, and yet they are of importance, since they indicate that traditional Graeco-Roman categories and paradigms were not the only templates used by missionaries who were seeking to analyse the indigenous languages of North America. In addition, Hall’s and Harrison’s accounts of numerals in Kwak’wala and Haida (respectively) are reassessed, and it is suggested that their analyses were influenced by the classificatory approaches presented in contemporaneous studies of non-Western languages (e.g., Japanese).
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Martinez-Urtaza, Jaime, Craig Baker-Austin, Jessica L. Jones, Anna E. Newton, Gladys D. Gonzalez-Aviles, and Angelo DePaola. "Spread of Pacific Northwest Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strain." New England Journal of Medicine 369, no. 16 (October 17, 2013): 1573–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1305535.

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Wood, Nathan J., and James W. Good. "Perceptions of Earthquake and Tsunami Issues in U.S. Pacific Northwest Port and Harbor Communities." International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters 23, no. 3 (November 2005): 103–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/028072700502300305.

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Although there is considerable energy focused on assessing natural hazards associated with earthquakes and tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, little has been done to understand societal vulnerability to these hazards. Part of understanding societal vulnerability includes assessing the perceptions and priorities of public sector individuals with traditional emergency management responsibilities and of private citizens who could play key roles in community recovery. In response to this knowledge gap, we examine earthquake and tsunami perceptions of stakeholders and decision makers from coastal communities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, focusing on perceptions of (1) regional hazards and societal vulnerability, (2) the current state of readiness, and (3) priorities for future hazard adjustment efforts. Results of a mailed survey suggest that survey participants believe that earthquakes and tsunamis are credible community threats. Most communities are focusing on regional mitigation and response planning, with less effort devoted to recovery plans or to making individual organizations more resilient. Significant differences in expressed perceptions and priorities were observed between Oregon and Washington respondents, mainly on tsunami issues. Significant perception differences were also observed between private and public sector respondents. Our results suggest the need for further research and for outreach and planning initiatives in the Pacific Northwest to address significant gaps in earthquake and tsunami hazard awareness and readiness.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Traditional medicine – Northwest, Pacific"

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Ingraham, Leonoor Swets. "Impact of the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 on Health Sciences Libraries in the Pacific Northwest: an Interorganizational Approach." PDXScholar, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=x9LgAAAAMAAJ.

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Hall, David Edward. "Sustainability from the Perspectives of Indigenous Leaders in the Bioregion Defined by the Pacific Salmon Runs of North America." PDXScholar, 2008. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2569.

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Extensive research suggests that the collective behavior of humanity is on an unsustainable path. As the evidence mounts and more people awaken to this reality, increased attention is being dedicated to the pursuit of answers for a just and sustainable future. This dissertation grew from the premise that effectively moving towards sustainability requires change at all levels of the dominant Western culture, including deeply held worldviews. The worldviews of many indigenous cultures offer alternative values and beliefs that can contribute to addressing the root causes of problems related to sustainability. In the bioregion defined by the Pacific Salmon runs of North America there is a rich heritage and modern day presence of diverse indigenous cultures. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 indigenous leaders from within this bioregion to explore their mental models of sustainability. These interviews followed a general structure that covered: (a) the personal background and community affiliation of each interviewee; (b) the meaning of the concept of sustainability from their perspective; (c) visions of a sustainable future for their communities; and, (d) how to achieve such a future. A content analysis of the interviews was conducted and summarized into a narrative organized to correspond with the general interview structure. A process oftestimonial validity established that most participants found the narrative to be an accurate representation of their perspectives. Participant feedback led to several phrasing changes and other identified issues are discussed, including one participant's critique of the narrative's use of a first-person plural voice. Major themes from the interviews include the role of the human being as caretaker actively participating in the web of life, the importance of simultaneously restoring culture and ecology due to their interdependence, the need to educate and build awareness, and the importance of cooperation. Understanding who we are as a living species, including our profound connection with nature, along with a holistic and intergenerational perspective are suggested as prerequisite for balancing and aligning human modes of being with the larger patterns of life. The closing discussion addresses the importance of social action and going beyond a conceptual understanding to an embodiment of sustainability.
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Bell, Lucy. "Xaad Kilang T'alang Dagwiieehldaang." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7293.

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The Haida language, Xaad Kil is dangerously close to extinction and in need of heroic action. The purpose of this study is to find out what ancient traditions and beliefs we could incorporate into our language revitalization efforts. Drawing on archival literature and community knowledge, I found almost 100 traditional ways to support Xaad Kil revitalization. There are four main chapters: Haida foods, Haida medicines, Haida rituals and ceremonies and Haida supernatural beings that could contribute to Xaad Kil revitalization. The food chapter features two-dozen traditional foods from salmon to berries that support a healthy lifestyle for Haida language speakers and that could strengthen our connections to the supernatural world. The Haida medicine chapter features two dozen traditional medicines from single-delight to salt water that could heal, strengthen and purify the Haida language learner. The ritual and ceremony chapter features over two-dozen rituals from devil’s club rituals to labret piercing ceremonies that could strengthen Haidas and our language learning. The supernatural being chapter features twenty-three supernatural beings including Greatest Crab and Lady Luck that could bring a language learner wealth, knowledge, luck and strength. This study suggests that a Xaad kil learner and the Xaad kil language need to be pure, protected, connected, lucky, strong, healthy, respected, loved and wise. The path to these qualities is within the traditions and beliefs featured in this research. This study is significant because it shows that the language revitalization answers are within and all around us.
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Andre, Alestine Mary Terese. "Nan t'aih nakwits'inahtsìh : The land gives us strength : the medicine plants used by Gwich'in people of Canada's western Arctic to maintain good health and well being." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1258.

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Boisselle, Andrée. "Law's hidden canvas: teasing out the threads of Coast Salish legal sensibility." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8921.

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This dissertation seeks to illuminate key aspects of Coast Salish legal sensibility. It draws on collaborative fieldwork carried out between 2007 and 2010 with Stó:lō communities from the Fraser Valley in southern British Columbia, and on the rich ethnohistorical record produced on, with, and by members of the Stó:lō polity and of the wider Coast Salish social world to which they belong. The preoccupation underlying this inquiry is to better understand how to approach an Indigenous legal tradition on its own terms, in a way respectful of its distinctiveness – especially in an ongoing colonial context, and from my position as an outsider to this tradition. As such, a main question drives the inquiry: What makes a legal tradition what it is? Two series of legal insights emerge from this work. The first are theoretical and methodological. The character of a legal tradition, I suggest, owes more to implicit norms than to explicit ones. In order to gain the kind of understanding that allows for respectful interactions with the principles and processes that inform decision-making within a given legal order, one must learn to decipher the norms that are not so much talked about as tacitly modelled by its members. Paying attention to pragmatic forms of communication – the mode of conveying meaning interactively and contextually, typically by showing rather than telling – reveals the hidden normative canvas upon which explicit norms are grafted. This deeper layer of normativity inflects peoples’ subjectivity and sense of their own agency – the distinctive fabric of their socialization. This lens on law – emerging from a reflection on the stories that Stó:lō friends shared with me, on the discussions had with them, and on the relational experience of Stó:lō / Coast Salish pedagogy, and further informed by scholarship on Indigenous and Western law, political philosophy and sociolinguistics – yields a second series of insights. Those are ethnographical, about Coast Salish legal sensibility itself. They attach to three central institutions of the Stó:lō legal order: the Transformer storycycle, longhouse governance practice and the figure of the witness, and ancestral names – corresponding to three sets of key relationships within the tradition: to the land, to the spirit, and to kin. Among those insights, a central one concerns the importance of interconnectedness as an organizing principle within Stó:lō / Coast Salish legal orders. Coast Salish people are not simply aware of the factual interdependence of people and things in the world, pay special attention to this, and happen to offer a description of the world as interconnected. There is a normative commitment at work here. Interconnectedness informs dominant interpretations of how the world should work. It is a source of explicit responsibilities and obligations – but more amorphously and pervasively yet, it structures legitimate discourse and appropriate behavior within contemporary Coast Salish societies.
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Books on the topic "Traditional medicine – Northwest, Pacific"

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Charnley, Susan. Traditional and local ecological knowledge about forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2008.

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F, Parsons Claire D., ed. Healing practices in the South Pacific. [Laie, Hawaii]: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1985.

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Brack, Fred. Tastes of the Pacific Northwest: Traditional & innovative recipes from America's newest regional cuisine. Edited by Bell Tina 1938-. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

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Aalbersberg, William. Traditional and modern medicine: Harmonizing the two approaches in the South Pacific. Suva, Fiji: The University of the South Pacific, 1999.

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Lelooska. Lelooska: The traditional art of the mask : carving a transformation mask. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub., 1996.

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Clark, Nora Joan. The story of the Irish harp: Its history and influence. Lynnwood, WA: North Creek Press, 2003.

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Turner, Nancy J. Food plants of coastal First Peoples. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995.

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Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest. University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

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Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest. University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

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O'Brien, Suzanne Crawford. Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest. University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

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Book chapters on the topic "Traditional medicine – Northwest, Pacific"

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Giles, Paul. "Metaregionalism: The Global Pacific Northwest." In The Global Remapping of American Literature. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691136134.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the metaregional dimensions of the Pacific Northwest and the ways in which its very inscription as a region elucidates the fraught and contested relation between text and place in American literature. Elettra Bedon coined the term “metaregionalism” to describe a self-conscious manipulation of certain forms of dialect. On analogy with metafiction, metaregionalism might be said to foreground the assumptions involved in traditional ascriptions of place. The chapter first considers the epistemology of space before discussing how the Pacific Northwest was tackled in the writings of Gary Snyder, Ursula Le Guin, and Richard Brautigan. It also analyzes the fiction of William Gibson and Douglas Coupland; Gibson deploys Vancouver to achieve critical distance from the behemoths of U.S. capitalism, and Coupland brings his native Pacific Northwest into the wider oceanic orbit of Asia and Australasia in order to chart a generational passage away from domestic security and entitlement.
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Anderson, E. N. "Learning from the Land Otter: Religious Representation of Traditional Resource Management." In Ecologies of the Heart. Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090109.003.0008.

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Throughout the forests of the Northwest Coast of North America— those few forests that have not been logged—one finds cedar trees from which long strips of bark have been removed. These strips were taken, at various times in the recent or distant past, by local Native American peoples, to use for a wide variety of reasons. The trees were never cut for their bark; only one long, narrow strip was removed. The process made it necessary for someone to climb high up in the tree to cut the top of the strip. This difficult and dangerous climb was economically reasonable; cutting a cedar is a long job, and would, in any case, eliminate the chance of future bark. But the climb was required for a more immediate and compelling reason: the cedar is sacred, and its indwelling spirit must be respected. Wanton cutting of a cedar is unthinkable. Before a cut is made, prayers and apologies are made to the tree. The cutter explains that he or she really needs the bark, and often adds that he or she will take as little as possible, in the most careful way. In spite of two centuries of contact with, and borrowing from, the outside world, this reverence for the cedar continues today. It is part of a wider religious involvement with the landscape—with water, mountains, plants, and animals— that incorporates environmental management rules as part of sacred ethics. Across the Pacific from China, the Native American peoples of the Northwest Coast maintained, until recently, a way of life based on fishing. While the Chinese changed from foragers to farmers, and slowly built the world’s most populous civilization, the Northwest Coast Indians developed more and more sophisticated ways of harvesting the abundant fish and shellfish resources of their cold and rainy coastlines and rivers. Although they built no cities and wrote down no literature, they created a brilliant, complex culture that had an extremely finetuned adjustment to its environment.
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Lichtenberg, Janene, and Tabitha Graves. "Ecological Significance of Wild Huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum)." In Edible Berries - New Insights [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1001152.

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Huckleberries (Vaccinium globare/membrenaceum complex) are a keystone species in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The fruits are a primary food source for grizzly bears and black bears, as well as an important traditional and contemporary human food. There are crucial connections between bumblebees and huckleberries. Native bee pollination is essential for successful berry development. Huckleberries flower early in the growing season when bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation and are collecting pollen and nectar for nesting. One of these species, the western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis), is in review for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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Fitzpatrick, Scott M., and Matthew F. Napolitano. "The Influence and Efflorescence of Ancient Micronesia." In The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607770.013.29.

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Abstract Micronesia is a region of the northwest tropical Pacific that, true to its name, comprises thousands of smaller islands stretching across a vast seascape. Despite their diminutive nature, the islands of Micronesia are unique in many ways and hold important clues about the settlement of Remote Oceania and subsequent cultural and historical phenomena that developed over the course of three millennia. This chapter highlights six major topics to introduce readers to the region’s archaeological record and its significance to island and coastal studies on a global scale. These include (1) the early colonization of western Micronesia when compared with other parts of Remote Oceania ca. 3,300 years ago; (2) the pervasiveness of monumental architecture, megaliths, and/or large-scale earth-moving activities; (3) sustained use of long-distance sailing, particularly in the atolls, and the sharing of traditional voyaging techniques that have helped revitalization movements elsewhere; (4) a dearth of research compared to other parts of the Pacific resulting from logistical difficulties and different colonial powers changing hands; (5) intensive conflicts taking place during World War II; and (6) Micronesia’s high susceptibility to the effects of climate change.
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Wilson, Douglas C., Kenneth M. Ames, and Cameron M. Smith. "Contextualizing the Chinook at Contact." In Frontiers of Colonialism. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054346.003.0005.

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Employing an indigenous-centered perspective, this chapter explores the impact of material objects recovered from houses, hearths, and camp facilities received by the Chinook (at the mouth of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of North America) as gifts, purchased, used, modified, repaired and discarded. These materials come from the Middle Village (qí’qayaqilxam) component of the Station Camp/McGowan site (45PC106), a traditional summer village occupied recurrently by hunter-gatherer-fishers during the early fur-trade period (ca. A.D. 1788-1825). The manner in which new forms of capital, like glass trade beads, muskets, European and Chinese ceramics, copper and iron goods, and glass bottles, were integrated into Chinook economic and political systems is important in the study of colonialism and culture contact. Combined with ethnographic and ethnohistorical data, their use is contextualized within dramatic social and demographic changes in Chinook culture as it intersected with British and American commercial trade.
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Wessen, Albert F., Antony Hooper, Judith Huntsman, Ian A. M. Prior, and Clare E. Salmond. "Health behaviour and health services in Tokelau and New Zealand." In Migration and Health in a Small Society, 264–85. Oxford University PressOxford, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198542629.003.0013.

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Abstract The influence of traditional or folk medicine on health behaviour and beliefs varies considerably in different areas of Polynesia and the South Pacific (Parsons 1985). The Tokelau Study’s anthropologists report that Tokelauans have neither an extensive range of healing agents and drugs nor a large number of recognized curers. None the less, folk medicine does play some part in the health behaviour of Tokelauans, both on the atolls and in New Zealand.
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Sarkar, Arnab, Tanmoy Banerjee, Avik Maji, Abhik Paul, and Tanmoy Guria. "Mikania Species: Revealing Phytochemicals from the Pandora’s Box." In New Avenues in Drug Discovery and Bioactive Natural Products, 149–67. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9789815136326123020009.

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Natural medicines and traditional remedies are pretty valuable. Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese medicine, and Unani have all been practised in various parts of the world and have grown into well-organized medical systems. Secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, and tannins have already established their anti-microbial, anti-diabetic, and anti-cancer attributes. Mikania is one such plant genus used in folk medicine, which belongs to the Asteraceae family and is native to Central and South America. Still, it is extensively dispersed in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands. Phytometabolites, viz., mikanolides and achalensolide, have emerged as potent antineoplastic agents. Sesquiterpene lactones such as deoxymikanolide and mikanolide possess anti-microbial activities. Apart from sesquiterpenes, several phenolic compounds comprising (+)-isolariciresinol and protocatechuic aldehyde were found in the aerial parts of Mikania micrantha. Antifungal activity of essential oil containing β.caryophyllene, δ-cadinene, and α-cubebene was characterized by GC/MS and isolated from Mikania scandens. Various steroids and diterpenoids obtained from Mikania cordata exhibited potent analgesic activity. This plant also contains germacrene D, β.pinene, and α-thujene, characterized by GC/MS. Many phenylpropanoids, sesquiterpenes, and diterpenes obtained from Mikania laevigata were characterized using NMR and mass spectrometry. Lupeol, lupeol acetate, and kaurene diterpenes were derived from Mikania glomerata and validated using RP-HPLC methods.
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Conference papers on the topic "Traditional medicine – Northwest, Pacific"

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Ni, J. S., W. Jin, B. N. Zhao, X. L. Zhang, C. Wang, S. J. Li, F. X. Zhang, and G. D. Peng. "Optic fiber pulse-diagnosis sensor of traditional Chinese medicine." In Asia Pacific Optical Sensors Conference 2013, edited by Minghong Yang, Dongning Wang, and Yun-Jiang Rao. SPIE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2031469.

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Cheng, Peng, Xiao Zhang, Hui-chao Yan, Jian-xin Sheng, Shu-ting Chen, and Jing Sun. "Information promote the international cooperation of Asia-Pacific region traditional medicine." In Education (ITIME). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/itime.2009.5236448.

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Zheng, Xiulin, Yunli Wang, and Qi An. "Analysis on Development of International Education in Traditional Chinese Medicine." In IPEC 2021: 2021 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Image Processing, Electronics and Computers. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3452446.3452593.

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Peiti Li and Huiyan Wang. "An adaptive denoising method for tongue images in traditional Chinese medicine." In 2009 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications (PACIIA 2009). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/paciia.2009.5406479.

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Peng, Jing, Dong-qing Yang, Xiao-ling Xu, Chang-jie Tang, and Zhang Jing. "A Novel Reduction Method Based On Attributes Similarity In Chinese Traditional Medicine Prescriptions." In 2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pacrim.2007.4313173.

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Huang, H. S., Q. S. Xie, and S. B. Li. "An operation mode of manufacturing system for Traditional Chinese Medicine based on equipment integration." In 2010 Second Pacific-Asia Conference on Circuits,Communications and System (PACCS). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/paccs.2010.5627024.

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Nie, Yanhui, and Ning He. "Analysis on the Allocation Efficiency of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resource in Tianjin Based on DEA Model." In 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Economic Research and Management Innovation (ERMI 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210218.019.

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Magaña, J. A., E. Cardiel, A. E. Llanas, and P. R. Hernández. "Radial Arterial Pulse Simulation System in Three Modalities for Teaching Purposes According to Traditional Chinese Medicine." In 2023 Global Medical Engineering Physics Exchanges/Pacific Health Care Engineering (GMEPE/PAHCE). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/gmepe/pahce58559.2023.10226490.

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Zhang, Yue, and Chen Chen. "The fluorescence spectroscopy recognition of the traditional Chinese medicine injection based on the lifting wavelet-BP-Fuzzy Neural Network." In 2017 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acirs.2017.7986072.

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Mirkouei, Amin, Karl R. Haapala, John Sessions, and Ganti S. Murthy. "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Sustainable Bio-Oil Production Using a Mixed Supply Chain." In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2016-59262.

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Recent growing interest in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires the application of effective energy solutions, such as the utilization of renewable resources. Biomass represents a promising renewable resource for bioenergy, since it has the potential to reduce GHG emissions from various industry sectors. In spite of the potential benefits, biomass is limited due to logistical challenges of collection and transport to bio-refineries. This study proposes a forest biomass-to-bio-oil mixed supply chain network to reduce the GHG emissions compared to a conventional bioenergy supply chain. The mixed supply chain includes mixed-mode bio-refineries and mixed-pathway transportation. Life cycle assessment is conducted for a case study in the Pacific Northwest with the assistance of available life cycle inventory data for biomass-to-bio-oil supply chain. Impact assessment, on a global warming potential (GWP) basis, is conducted with the assistance of databases within SimaPro 8 software. Sensitivity analysis for the case investigated indicates that using the mixed supply chain can reduce GHG emissions by 2–5% compared to the traditional supply chain.
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Reports on the topic "Traditional medicine – Northwest, Pacific"

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Charnley, Susan, A. Paige Fischer, and Eric T. Jones. Traditional and local ecological knowledge about forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-gtr-751.

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