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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Marshall Islands"”.
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New Destinations of Empire: Imperial Migration from the Marshall Islands to Northwest Arkansas
<p>This dissertation examines Marshall Islander migration to Arkansas as an outcome of an international agreement, the Compact of Free Association, between the U.S. and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), a former U.S. territory. While the Compact marked the formal end of U.S. colonial …
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Education in the Marshall Islands under United Nations Trusteeship Administered by the United States
The lack of a handbook in the schools of the Marshalls District has resulted in valuable information and history being lost in each successive turnover of personnel in the Trust Territory. Every year brings a group of new recruits into the educational system. This particular handbook contains …
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: An Analysis of the Consequences of 20th Century American Imperialism and Nuclear Testing Upon the Marshall Islands and its Inhabitants
… individuals who have conducted research on the Marshall Islands previously. Their oral interviews provide the heart to this thesis. Ultimately, this project seeks to amplify the voices of the Marshallese and their activist efforts.</p>
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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
… 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 contract and …
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
… nuclear weapons testing and contamination in the Marshall Islands. It uses weapons testing as a window into changing patterns of America’s offshore imperialism following World War II. Tracing the legal aspects of testing and contamination, it asks how administrators, islanders, and activists …
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Got Breadfruit? Marshallese Foodways and Culture in Springdale, Arkansas
… this study to explore the domain of traditional Marshallese foods in Springdale, Arkansas. Springdale is home to the highest population of Marshallese people outside of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); the population is expected to rise as people continue to migrate from the RMI …
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Wave-driven geomorphology of Pacific carbonate coastlines: from landscape to wavelength scale
… rise threatens to inundate low-lying reef islands, tropical cyclone intensification threatens islands with flooding and erosion, and ocean warming and acidification threaten the health of coral reefs. Unfortunately, the sediment dynamics that shape the morphology of coral reefs and atoll …
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Postcolonialism and the Marshallese Diaspora: Structural Violence and Health in the Marshallese Community in Springdale, Arkansas
… for better healthcare, among other benefits, Marshallese Compact of Free Association (COFA) migrants residing in Springdale, Arkansas continue to face similar acute health problems as Marshallese living in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and often without access to health services. …
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Method Development Using Laser Ablation And Solution Icpms And Their Application In Environmental Science And Forensic Provenance Studies
… with high-yield tests conducted in the Marshall Islands being the most likely of these sources. The second project used LA-ICPMS for sourcing iron-rich pigments used in ancient pictographs in the Pecos River Archeological Region. Potential pigment materials (siltstone, ochre, quartzite, …
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On the use of Statistical Downscaling for the Study of Coastal Hazards in the Pacific
… region, formed by a large number of low-lying islands, that even without accounting for large increases in sea level rise, are already facing numerous and devastating hazard events. These events are generally caused by the co-occurrence of a number of oceanographic processes that fluctuate at …
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Avian population responses to Anthropogenic landscape changes in Pohnpei, Federated Sates of Micronesia
Islands exhibit the planet�s most unique flora and fauna, but the diversity on 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 …