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Showing 1 to 20 of 2785 for “"Pacific"”.
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Pacific dreams : the Institute of Pacific Relations and the struggle for the mind of Asia
This dissertation examines the efforts of Pacific internationalists in the years during and after World War II to forge private intellectual connections between the West and Asia. One of the most prominent groups in this movement was the Institute of Pacific Relations (1925-61), an international …
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Process value estimation at Pacific Bell
… Estimation methodology now being pioneered at Pacific Bell. The principles of Process Value Estimation are applied to the Network Surveillance Division of Pacific Bell in
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Tryst Tropique: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities
… and anthropological representation of the South Pacific. It reads a series of contact encounters and Pacific residencies for their unfolding of European sexual inscription and discovers their inevitable entanglement with problematics of homosexual definition. This thesis arcs between two readings …
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Automotic strategic alliances in Asia Pacific
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Printing The Pacific: How American Writers Set The Terms For Pacific-American Relations In The Nineteenth Century
… Tla-o-qui-aht and Euro-American traders in the Pacific Northwest. Historians have written frequently about the Tonquin’s destruction and have often attempted to separate truth from legend when determining its fate. This paper examines the significance of mythology itself, noting not only what …
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Delay analysis of Pacific Fleet Underway Replenishments
… incurred in Underway Replenishments of the Pacific Fleet, December, 1967 - April, 1969, is conducted. Twenty specific delays are analyzed from the UNREP data of which more than 80%, was from UNREPs conducted in Southeast Asia by supply ships providing logistic support to naval units engaged …
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Vegetable kingdoms : taro irrigation and Pacific prehistory
… of agricultural intensification found in the Pacific, that of irrigation, with reference as to whether it has a more than purely technological significance in Pacific prehistory. To this encl the island of Aneityum in southern Vanuatu, where irrigation of taro (Colocasia esculenta) was …
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Glacial-Interglacial Variability of Eastern Pacific Hydroclimate
… resource management in the region. The eastern Pacific is a key modulator of rainfall variability in SWNA. Pacific ocean-atmosphere interactions affect North American monsoon intensity, the seasonal migration of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the strength, location, and waviness of …
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Vegetable kingdoms : taro irrigation and Pacific prehistory
… of agricultural intensification found in the Pacific, that of irrigation, with reference as to whether it has a more than purely technological significance in Pacific prehistory. To this encl the island of Aneityum in southern Vanuatu, where irrigation of taro (Colocasia esculenta) was …
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Optimized transfer-pricing model for Asia Pacific
… In this thesis, which focuses primarily on Asia Pacific, I will review historical transfer pricing methods, explore the factors that affect transfer price determination, and construct a mathematical model to determine the optimal transfer price by comparing and contrasting the different transfer …
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Estimating Aboveground Biomass (AGB) Throughout the Pacific
Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a significant carbon pool in forests, making AGB a good indicator of forest health and carbon storage. AGB has been studied on multiple scales, in which allometric equations were developed to find relationships between AGB and tree parameters. However, despite the …
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An Ecological Comparison Between Resource Subsidies: Pacific Lamprey (<i>Entosphenus tridentatus</i>) and Pacific Salmon (<i>Oncorhynchus</i> spp.)
<p>Historically, oligotrophic Pacific Northwest (PNW) streams received annual returns of spawning anadromous fish that provided resource subsidies in the form of marine-derived nutrients (MDN), thus driving stream food web productivity. To date, many studies in the PNW have focused on Pacific …
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Health Literacy Among Pacific Mothers in New Zealand: Exploring the Associations of Demographic and Behavioural Factors With Health Literacy of Pacific Mothers in the Context of Pacific Health and Well-being.
… contribute to the inequitable burden of NCDs in Pacific people is health literacy; almost 90% of Pacific males and females aged 15 years and over have low health literacy (MoH, 2012c; University of Otago, & Ministry of Health, 2011). Health literacy is the ability to access, read, understand and …
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The cobalt cycle in the Tropical Pacific Ocean
… of over 1000 samples collected in the Tropical Pacific Ocean reveals a dissolved cobalt distribution that is strongly coupled to dissolved oxygen, with peak concentrations where oxygen is lowest. Large cobalt plumes within anoxic waters are maintained by three processes: 1) a cobalt supply from …
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Monthly mean vertical motions over the Pacific Ocean
… year, (2) the occurrence of the eastern South Pacific intertropical maximum cloud band about 5 degrees away from the equator only in spring, and (3) the curved band of clouds in the western South Pacific.
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Siderophore cycling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
… in the upper 1000 m of the US GEOTRACES GP15 Pacific Meridional Transect. Siderophore concentration ranges from 0-70 pM, and there is no correlation between the concentration of siderophores and dissolved Fe (dFe, <0.2 μm). In contrast, most siderophore hotspots, defined by concentration that …
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