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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"South Pacific"”.
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Tectonic evolution and midplate volcanism in the South Pacific
… Zone are correlated with small changes in Pacific-Farallon relative motion. The simple flexural signal of a locked fracture zone may be obscured by tectonic effects, and there is no evidence for the release of shear stress on the fracture zone by vertical slip after leaving the active …
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Airline development in the South Pacific : a turning point
The civil aviation industry in the South Pacific is experiencing a period of rapid change. A turning point for the industry has arrived in the form of new generation, long range aircraft used by Pacific Rim airlines. These aircraft have the propensity to overfly the South Pacific. This means …
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Tectonic evolution and midplate volcanism in the South Pacific
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1999.
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EU-South Pacific: trade-developments nexus in Economic Partnership Agreements
… relations between the European Union and Pacific island states. Two interrelated but competing International Relations theories are utilised as tools for analysis: the dependency theory and realist theory. The research consists of analysis of the approaches, assumptions and applicability …
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The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
… have been several Methodist denominations in the South Pacific, two of which operated under the name "Wesleyan Methodist Church". The first was from Britain in the nineteenth century and the second from America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The latter and numerically smaller of the …
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Technologies of Encounter: Exhibition-Making and the 18th Century South Pacific
… led three epic voyages from Britain into the Pacific Ocean, where he and his fellow explorers- artists, naturalists, philosophers and sailors, were to encounter societies and cultures of extraordinary diversity. These 18th Century South Pacific encounters were rich with performance, trade and …
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The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
… have been several Methodist denominations in the South Pacific, two of which operated under the name "Wesleyan Methodist Church". The first was from Britain in the nineteenth century and the second from America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The latter and numerically smaller of the …
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Phylogenetics, biogeography, and climate niche variation of South Pacific and Hawaiian Psychotria
… are the younger species. The biogeographical South Pacific Psychotria suggests strong biogeographic structure, with early divergences of major clades and very few species subsequently dispersing and colonizing other geographic regions. Results of niche breadth and climatic niche models of the …
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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 …
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Constraints on the viscosity of the Earth's mantle beneath the South Pacific
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1994.
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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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Paleoclimate reconstructions over the last century from a tropical speleothem on Niue Island, South Pacific
… carbonate platform located at the edge of West Pacific Warm Pool, can serve as archives of hydroclimate controlled by El-Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and of catastrophic cyclones that frequent the island. Niue Island is heavily karstified, with modern and fossil speleothems hosted by coastal …
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Ocean warming, acidification, and chemistry of the South Pacific & North Atlantic: a brachiopod investigation
Global CO2 emissions drive ocean warming and acidification. Local-level ocean data is limited, so natural archives like brachiopods are used to understand past oceanic conditions. Brachiopod shells record seawater temperatures, chemistry, and acidity. This thesis uses brachiopods from Paterson …
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Missionary Print Culture and Medical Knowledge in the South Pacific and Britain, ca. 1795-1850
… imperial print networks between Britain and the South Pacific in the first half of the nineteenth century (ca. 1795-1850). It focuses on the London Missionary Society and draws upon a wide range of sources, including missionary letters, journals, administrative records, books, pamphlets and …
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The implications of the French presence in the South Pacific for interstate relations in the region
… the implications of the French presence in the South Pacific for interstate relations in the region. As such it is concerned with the condition and evolution of France’s relations with the South Pacific countries from the 1960s, when most were still not independent, until the present day and …
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The implications of the French presence in the South Pacific for interstate relations in the region
… the implications of the French presence in the South Pacific for interstate relations in the region. As such it is concerned with the condition and evolution of France’s relations with the South Pacific countries from the 1960s, when most were still not independent, until the present day and …
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Foraging ecology and population structuring of baleen whales in the western South Atlantic and eastern South Pacific
… and population connectivity of whales in the Southern Hemisphere as they recover, the impact of these populations on marine ecosystems, and how they are likely to respond to the ongoing climate crisis. Historic information on population connectivity, distribution and diet prior to exploitation …
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Explaining Middle Power Military Intervention: Australia’s Use of Force in Maritime Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
… great powers, middle powers like Australia and South Africa have led a number of large and costly operations. Moreover, throughout the past decade, middle powers have exercised increasingly assertive and consequential efforts to either challenge or strengthen the normative, economic, and …
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Ocean biogeochemistry in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the East/Japan Sea, and the South Pacific with a focus on denitrification
… Mexico (GOM), the East/Japan Sea (EJS), and the South Pacific: from coastal to marginal to open ocean scale in different oceanographic conditions. Denitrification rates in the bottom layer (including bottom waters+sediments) at the shallow and often hypoxic northern GOM ranged from 103-544 …
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South Pacific Destroyers: The United States Navy and the Challenges of Night Surface Combat in the Solomons Islands during World War II.
<p>During the South Pacific campaigns of World War II, the United States Navy faced a formidable challenge in waging nighttime surface battles against the Japanese Navy. In a war that emphasized the carrier and battleship, the little destroyer became a key player in these actions. By studying this …
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