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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Federated States of Micronesia"”.
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
The history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s engagement with the outside world has been a neglected area of academic scholarship. Historians often treated the topic as a footnote since Micronesians were perceived as unseen participants of colonial processes. To this end …
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
The history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s engagement with the outside world has been a neglected area of academic scholarship. Historians often treated the topic as a footnote since Micronesians were perceived as unseen participants of colonial processes. To this end …
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Political Leadership Perceptions on the College of Micronesia System in the Federated States of Micronesia
… postsecondary education institution, the College of Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia (COM-FSM) sets its goals and priorities. During this critical juncture of the FSM nation's growth and its effort to be self-reliant, COM-FSM's purposes and priorities are intricately related to the …
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Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Norhern Pacific: Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands, and United States Territories and Political Entities
… as the Northern Pacific, including the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and in the Federated States of Micronesia. It then compares and contrast this regional substantive law to international standards governing …
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Successful Practices of Micronesian College Students in Hawai‘i: Utilizing Positive Deviants to Develop Strength-Based Student Support Services in Higher Education
Since the 1986 ratification of the Compact of Free Association between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the United States (US) government, large numbers of Micronesians have migrated to the US in search of better education, healthcare, and economic opportunities for their children. …
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Genome-Scale Genetics: Lessons from Founder Populations
<p>The potential benefits of using population isolates in genetic mapping due to reduced genetic and environmental heterogeneity are offset by the challenges posed by these populations for traditional association methods. Population isolates often contain large amounts of direct and cryptic …
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Mapping Genes for Complex Traits: Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia on the Pacific Island of Kosrae
<p>One of the current challenges in human genetics is to map genes for common, complex diseases. For powerful mapping of such phenotypes, the suggestions are to analyze the underlying quantitative traits with covariate corrections in large extended pedigrees with multipoint analysis. This is …
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Avian population responses to Anthropogenic landscape changes in Pohnpei, Federated Sates of Micronesia
… islands is also vulnerable to impending forces of global change. Scattered across the Pacific Ocean >20,000 islands range from sandspits to large islands and support some of the most unique biotic assemblages. Shaped by island size, topography and degree of isolation from other landmasses, …