Coral-based climate reconstructions of Western Pacific warm pool for the past - 280 years by Ahmad Taufiq Mohamed Mohtar

“…This and antiphase centennial SST relationships between Micronesia and Vietnam suggest a robust precipitation footprint of the PCO. …”
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Zika virus infections in pregnancy: epidemics and case management by Ali Sığ, Fatih Şahiner, Kemal Tekin, Ümit Savaşçı

“…Only a small number of cases had been described until 2007 when the first major Zika virus outbreak occurred on Yap Island, Micronesia. Approximately 80% of people infected with Zika virus do not exhibit any symptoms. …”
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Gaining Entrée into a Micronesian Islander-Based Community Organization Through Culturally Responsive Team Building and Reflection by S. Robert Spence Jr., Jacqueline Leung, Shelley Geil, Connie K. Y. Nguyen-Truong

“…A history of nuclear weapons testing by the United States in Micronesia, and subsequent ill-prepared cleanup efforts, has created a historical trauma for the Micronesian Islander community (Letman, 2013). …”
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Using Vetiver grass technology for mitigating sediment loads in the Talakhaya Watershed areas in Rota, CNMI by Mohammad H. Golabi, Sydonia Manibusan, Timothy Righetti, Dana Okano, Clancy Iyekar

“…Keywords: Watershed Management, Vetiver grass system, Coral, Badlands, Micronesia, Rota, CNMI…”
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One year after the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil: from hypotheses to evidence by Carlos Alexandre Antunes de Brito, Marli Tenorio Cordeiro

“…The first reported outbreak occurred in 2007 in the Yap Island, which belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean, and in French Polynesia, where high attack rates occurred and the first cases of associated Guillain-Barré syndrome were reported. …”
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Local Stressors, Resilience, and Shifting Baselines on Coral Reefs. by Matthew McLean, Javier Cuetos-Bueno, Osamu Nedlic, Marston Luckymiss, Peter Houk

“…We used a historical baseline from Kosrae, a typical small island in Micronesia, to examine changes in fish and coral assemblages since 1986. …”
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An Anomalous Phylogenetic Position for <i>Deraiotrema platacis</i> Machida, 1982 (Lepocreadiidae) from <i>Platax pinnatus</i> on the Great Barrier Reef by Rodney A. Bray, Scott C. Cutmore, Thomas H. Cribb

“…The monotypic genus <i>Deraiotrema</i> Machida, 1982 has only been reported once, from the orbicular batfish <i>Platax orbicularis</i> (Forsskål) in the waters around Palau in Micronesia (Machida, 1982). It has a body-shape similar to other lepocreadiids from batfishes, such as species of <i>Bianium</i> Stunkard, 1930 and <i>Diploproctodaeum</i> La Rue, 1926, but differs in having multiple testes in ventral and dorsal layers. …”
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Identification of microsatellite markers for a worldwide distributed, highly invasive ant species Tapinoma melanocephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Zima, J, Lebrasseur, O, Borovanska, M, Janda, M

“…We genotyped 30 individuals from several islands of Micronesia and Papua-New Guinea. All 24 loci exhibited strong homozygosity excess (45-100%, mean = 86%), while the number of alleles per locus reached usual values (2-18, mean = 6.5), resulting in levels of expected heterozygosity much higher than observed. …”

The Search for Species Flocks in Marine Benthic <i>Homoeocladia</i> spp. (Diatomeae: Bacillariales). I. Variations on Three Themes, Seventeen New Species by Christopher S. Lobban, Britney Sison, Matt P. Ashworth

“…Exploration of the diversity in the diatom genus <i>Homoeocladia</i> across Micronesia revealed several clusters of undescribed species based on variations around several characters. …”
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A New Species of <i>Megastigmus</i> and First Record of the Genus and Megastigmidae Family from the Paradise of the Maldives Archipelago by Irinel Eugen Popescu, Irina Neta Gostin

“…However, considering the distribution of its host plant, <i>P. acidula</i>, which ranges from East Africa to Southeast Asia, Australia, Micronesia, and French Polynesia, we anticipate that future research could significantly expand the known range of this interesting new species.…”
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Leaf Elemental Concentrations, Stoichiometry, and Resorption in Guam’s Coastal Karst Forests by Thomas E. Marler

“…Greater knowledge concerning the interspecific diversity of the plant leaf ionome is required to effectively understand the spatiotemporal dynamics of biogeochemistry, but Micronesia has been ignored in this literature. The objectives of this study were to quantify the leaf ionome, resorption efficiency, and stoichiometry of leaves from 25 plant species representing Guam’s coastal karst forests. …”
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: la fascinazione dell'alterità by Federica Usai

“…Ecco quindi apparire la fascinazione per l’alterità in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: grazie a una trave arrivata dalla lontana Micronesia. Anche il topos della balneazione, spesso trattato da Kirchner e soci, può essere visto come intersezione di diverse forme di primitivismo. …”
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IS MILTON BENNETT'S MODEL OF INTER CULTURAL SENSITIVITY REALLY INTER CULTURAL? by V. D. Knezevic, B. R. Bratina

“…Partially being based on its author's personal overseas living and working experience (US Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia from 1968-1970 and fifteen years of teaching and training experience in inter cultural communication), it resides theoretically on wider phenomenological approach to the construction of different cultural meanings. …”
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Natural resources and territorial sovereignty by Mukoyama, N

“…I also conduct additional case studies on Kuwait and colonial entities in Micronesia, West Indies, and South Arabia to further test the external validity of my theory. …”

Similarities in biomass and energy reserves among coral colonies from contrasting reef environments by Elise F. Keister, Shelby E. Gantt, Hannah G. Reich, Kira E. Turnham, Timothy G. Bateman, Todd C. LaJeunesse, Mark E. Warner, Dustin W. Kemp

“…The nearshore reef habitats of Palau, Micronesia are a proxy for a future of warmer, more acidic oceans. …”
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Peculiarities of Zika Immunity and Vaccine Development: Lessons from Dengue and the Contribution from Controlled Human Infection Model by Helton C. Santiago, Tertuliano A. Pereira-Neto, Marcela H. Gonçalves-Pereira, Ana C. B. Terzian, Anna P. Durbin

“…Isolated cases were reported until 2007, when the first major outbreaks of Zika infection were reported from the Island of Yap in Micronesia and from French Polynesia in 2013. In 2015, ZIKV started to circulate in Latin America, and in 2016, ZIKV was considered by WHO to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to cases of Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS), a ZIKV-associated complication never observed before. …”
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Videographic monitoring at caves to estimate population size of the endangered yǻyaguak (Mariana swiftlet) on Guam by PM Gorresen, P Cryan, M Parker, F Alig, M Nafus, EH Paxton

“…The yǻyaguak (Mariana swiftlet; Aerodramus bartschi) is an endangered cave-nesting species historically found on Guam and the southern Mariana Islands, Micronesia. The population on Guam has been severely affected by the introduction of the brown treesnake Boiga irregularis. …”
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Measuring and tracking the flow of climate change adaptation aid to the developing world by Simon D Donner, Milind Kandlikar, Sophie Webber

“…There was also an uneven distribution of adaptation aid between countries facing similar challenges like Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. The analysis indicates that data allowing individual projects to be weighted by their climate change relevance is needed. …”
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ENSO drives near-surface oxygen and vertical habitat variability in the tropical Pacific by Shirley Leung, LuAnne Thompson, Michael J McPhaden, K A S Mislan

“…In the western tropical Pacific, waters within the exclusive economic zones of Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, and the Marshall Islands undergo the greatest variations in oxygenated tuna vertical habitat extent: approximately 19.5 m, 23.9 m, 19.5 m, and 19.3 m, respectively, between El Niño and La Niña phases. …”
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Zika virus infections in pregnancy: epidemics and case management by Fatih sahiner, Ali Korhan Sig, Umit Savasci, Kemal Tekin

“…Only a small number of cases had been described until 2007 when the first major Zika virus outbreak occurred on Yap Island, Micronesia. Approximately 80% of people infected with Zika virus do not exhibit any symptoms. …”
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