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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Pacific Islands"”.
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Practising politics in the Pacific islands : insider perspectives
… it has particular significance in the Pacific Islands where the influence of institutional transfer and the precepts of development tend to cast political practice, and by extension the politicians who undertake the job, as having been corrupted or diverted from their ideal purpose. …
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Practising politics in the Pacific islands : insider perspectives
… it has particular significance in the Pacific Islands where the influence of institutional transfer and the precepts of development tend to cast political practice, and by extension the politicians who undertake the job, as having been corrupted or diverted from their ideal purpose. …
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Political develoment of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
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Strategies for Seventh-day Adventist Theological Education in the South Pacific Islands
… of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific Islands. Current concerns include ascertaining the best type of theological education for the Adventist Church in this region; determining cultural influence on curriculum; designing a model for the coordination of theological education in …
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Distributions and diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria along onshore offshore transects near Pacific Islands
… along onshore/offshore transects near 5 distinct islands in the Pacific Ocean (Oahu, Molokai, Futuna. Aniwa, and Lord Howe) with steep environmental gradients. Abundance patterns are further explored by investigating the genetic diversity of the AAP community using pufM clone libraries and QPCR …
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Growing with the flow: Investigating nature-based approaches to mitigate flooding in the Pacific Islands
… optimised, particularly at catchment scale. Many Pacific Islands are vulnerable to flooding, exacerbated by changes in land cover and population increase, and sea level rise. Currently, there is a limited body of work on the role and diversity of NbS in reducing fluvial and pluvial flooding in …
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Innovation Ecosystems in Geographically-Remote and Resource-Limited Regions with Indigenous Populations and considering Ancestral Science, Knowledge, and Practices: Intentional Development in the Pacific Islands of Hawaiʻi, Fiji, and New Zealand
… and resource-limited, specifically the Hawaiian Islands, Fiji, and New Zealand. Using measure- ments of entrepreneurial and innovation capacities and, where possible, interviews of local stakeholders, opportunities and challenges for these regional innovation ecosystems are iden- tified. …
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A Proposed Industrial Arts Guide for Kusaie High School, Eastern Caroline Islands
… for Kusaie High School, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. This particular guide has never been proposed for this high school. Kusaie High School is rapidly enlarging its enrollment, expanding its staff, and planning a new campus. To educate adequately the increasing number of students and …
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
… 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 called upon …
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[Part One] Efficacy and Safety of Artemether-lumefantrine to Treat Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum After a Decade of Its Use as First-Line Antimalarial Treatment in Namibia; [Part Two] Characterization of Oral Cavity Lesions Within Betel Nut Users in Remote Pacific Islands
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Maternal Prepregnancy Nutritional Status as a Key Link of Intergenerational Risk of Obesity and Chronic Disease in Childhood and Later Life among US Pacific Islanders: A Life Course Approach Study
… disease in childhood and later life among the US Pacific Islanders in Hawai‘i and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands. In a population with a high burden of chronic disease, there is a huge knowledge gap on modifiable factors associated with obesity and chronic diseases. However, many studies in …
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Comparative analysis of wild and long term captive bred Partula snails using morphometrics and population data
… breathing, land snails that are endemic to the Pacific Islands. Over 100 partulid species are recognised with over half these species known to have existed and endemic to the Society Islands (within the Pacific islands). It is thought that 56 of these endemic Partula species are now extinct on …
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Breath hydrogen studies of lactose malabsorption in children resident in New Zealand, Cook Islands and Western Samoa
… designed and constructed for use in the Pacific Islands is described. Following verification on known malabsorber and. normal subjects, the technique was used to determine the prevalence of LM in Europeans at Auckland and Rarotonga, and in Samoans at two locations in Auckland and two …
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An ocean of difference: An exploration of cultural differences in learning styles
… and teaching styles among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students (NHPI) and Western teachers, this thesis suggests specific learning components necessary for academic success for Oceanic learners. This was accomplished by examining academic literature in the fields of anthropology, …
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Talking Story About Quitting Pugua - An Exploratory Study on Self-Driven Cessation of Betel Nut (Pugua) Chewing on Saipan
… nut chewing has strong cultural ties in the Pacific Islands and South and East Asia. Many believe it offers positive benefits like stimulating alertness, relaxation, and a way to manage stress. However, betel nut is a Group 1 carcinogen, and an estimated 43% of adults report chewing in the …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
<p>Oklahoma! and South Pacific were Rodgers and Hammerstein's most successful and popular musicals of the 1940's. This study demonstrates their function as modern morality plays for their audiences. Specifically, the two musicals provided Americans with a prescription for a postwar Paradise. This …
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The Sorcerers' Apprentice: A life of Reo Franklin Fortune, Anthropologist
… in cultures located as diversely as the Pacific Islands, New Guinea, East Asia and North America. Contemporary anthropology sometimes remembers Fortune for his well-known ethnographies Sorcerers of Dobu (1932) and Manus Religion (1935). More often, it merely recalls him as the second of …
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On the phylogeny and diversity of the microsoroid ferns (Polypodiaceae)
… tropical and subtropical Asia, Australasia, the Pacific Islands, Madagascar, and tropical Africa. The relationships between groups of this subfamily have long been controversial, especially the delimitation of the genus Microsorum, which, based on current understanding, is not a monophyletic …
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