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Jostling for Position: The Future of Regional Power-Sharing and the Role of the Pacific Islands Forum
... of Pacific states’ democratic systems, illustrating the creation of a meaningful point of reference for South-Pacific interstate political ...the Pacific Islands region in three distinct ways: ...
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Effects of climate change on mangroves relevant to the Pacific Islands
... Several records exist of damage in mangroves following cyclones (Ellison, 2012a), usually resulting in a complete defoliation over the narrow area of cyclone paths, however few studies have focused on the ecological and ...
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Rapid mortality transition of Pacific Islands in the 19th century
... disease. Pacific Island populations have not been subject to such cataclysmic infectious disease mortality ...by Pacific Islands are unlikely to be the result of Darwinian ...the Pacific ...
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How Did Zika Virus Emerge in the Pacific Islands and Latin America?
... the Pacific Islands and Latin America and its association with congenital Zika virus syndrome (CZVS) (which includes microcephaly) and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) have stimulated wide-ranging ...
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Shocks and Prospects for a Pacific Islands Currency Union
... a Pacific Islands currency union in view of the recent expansion and consolidation of regional strategies such as the Pacific Plan and the PACER ...a Pacific Islands currency ...among ...
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Pacific Islands Families Study: Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Delinquent Behaviour in Pacific 11 Year Olds
... longitudinal Pacific Islands Families study, 11-year-olds Pacific youth participated in multidisciplinary interviews which included questions about involvement in delinquent ...friends. ...
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A systematic review of human and animal leptospirosis in the Pacific Islands reveals pathogen and reservoir diversity
... Because islands are relatively small, isolated, and have limited health and diagnostic facilities, the disease bur- den is often ...the Pacific Islands, including the diversity of pathogens and ...
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Design of an Energy Storage System for Pacific Islands
... the Pacific Island Countries and territories to make targets for the implementing of sustainable ...South Pacific. The current method of electrification of these islands is to provide these people ...
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Beyond Recognition: Contemporary Jurisprudence in the Pacific Islands and the Common Law Tradition
... So long as custom remains an adjunct consideration in modern legal education in and for the Pacific Islands, so long as the "traditional" (and changing) jural values, attitudes [r] ...
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Pacific Islands ichthyoarchaeology: implications for the development of prehistoric fishing studies and global sustainability
... resources, and the impact of changing climates on the world’s marine ecosystems. Within the marine sciences, global initiatives are devoted to these concerns, such as the Sea Around Us Project (www.seaaroundus.org), ...
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Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: An overview and exemplary projects
... Action has been taken in the domains of water, waste, energy, air and soil erosion. In this context, Amatuku's project aimed to create an energy pilot islet, whose lessons could be applied by other Pacific ...
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Introductory Readings in Languages of the Pacific Islands: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Fall 2016, Linguistics 150
... the Pacific was originally planned to commemo- rate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) in ...
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Tourism, the Millennium Development Goals and Climate Change in the South Pacific Islands
... All Pacific island governments endorsed the MDGs in ...the Pacific Community (SPC) prepared the Pacific Islands Regional Millennium Development Goals Report in cooperation with the United ...
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Processed foods available in the Pacific Islands
... This survey illustrated the globalisation of processed food sources for the Pacific Islands, with foods available from every corner of the globe. There appears to have been a considerable increase in the ...
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Classifying Pacific islands
... for islands to have moved considerable distances since their time of origin, the simplest explanation for the locations of Pacific islands is, depending in which of the three geo- physical situations ...
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Genetic mutations in pfcrt and pfmdr1 at the time of artemisinin combination therapy introduction in South Pacific islands of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands
... Sequences of pfcrt were examined and the prevalence of mutations determined for the three island groups. Amino acid substitutions were identified at codons 72, 76, 220, 326, and 356 whereas wild type amino acids were ...
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A practical strategy for responding to a case of lymphatic filariasis post-elimination in Pacific Islands
... The Og4C3 ELISA has a high specificity (95-100%) and positive result indicates a live W. bancrofti is present; a false positive is unlikely [20,21]. Although the antigen positive case detected by this survey would have a ...
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A practical strategy for responding to a case of lymphatic filariasis post elimination in Pacific Islands
... The availability of a group of local health professionals and village leaders trained in research theory and applied research methods allowed the field aspects of the survey to be conducted rapidly (within 1 week of ...
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'To see with their own eyes' : Australian travel writing on the Pacific islands c 1880 1941
... Australian novelists writing about the Pacific were confident of a market in Australia, England and the United States for sensational accounts of mysterious islands.^^ Most writers were [r] ...
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Rural Community-Centered. Experiences from Rural Libraries in Texas and the Pacific Islands
... Libraries collaborating with local business, education Libraries collaborating with local business, education institutions, law firms, government, private medical service agencies, and[r] ...
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