Offshore Processing Arrangements: Effect on Treaty Ratifications of Receiving States by Margarita Fourer, Natalie Dietrich Jones, Yusuf Ciftci

“…This article examines offshore processing arrangements of four different time-periods and geo-political regions—the Safe Havens of the United States with Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands; the 2001 and 2012 Pacific Solutions of Australia with Nauru and Papua New Guinea; and the EU–Turkey deal. …”
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million childre... by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), Key, T

“…Prevalence of obesity was more than 30% in girls in Nauru, the Cook Islands, and Palau; and boys in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and American Samoa in 2016. …”

Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the Novel Coronavirus by Elisabeth Holland

“…As of May 3, 2020, sixteen Pacific countries and territories had yet to report their first confirmed case of COVID-19: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Pitcairn, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna. …”
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Assessment of infant mortality as a component of public policy in the field of civil health by F.R. Krynychko

“…Having conducted this study to assess the infant mortality rate, it should be noted that a significant number of infant deaths are concentrated in Mauritania, Sudan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Paraguay, Venezuela, Nauru, Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic.…”
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The Vulnerability of Health Infrastructure to the Impacts of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in Small Island Countries in the South Pacific by Subhashni Taylor

“…The low-lying coral atoll countries of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Tokelau, and Tuvalu will be highly affected as all medical facilities in these countries fall within 500 m of the coast. …”
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Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres by Rachel Sharples

“…Central to this offshore management was the transference and mandatory detention of asylum seekers in facilities that sit outside Australia’s national sovereignty, in particular on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) and Nauru. As a state-sanctioned spatial aberration meant to deter asylum seekers arriving by boat, offshore detention has resulted in a raft of legal and policy actions that are reshaping the modern state-centric understanding of the national space. …”
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Nucleic Acid Vaccines for COVID-19: A Paradigm Shift in the Vaccine Development Arena by Vivek P. Chavda, Md Kamal Hossain, Jayesh Beladiya, Vasso Apostolopoulos

“…Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has touched every country globally except five countries (North Korea, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu and Nauru). Vaccination is the most effective method to protect against infectious diseases. …”
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Diabetes epidemic in the Asia Pacific region: has hemoglobin A1C finally earned its place as a diagnostic tool? by Alexandra Bagley, Usman H. Malabu

“…Furthermore, other Pacific islands in the region have high rates of T2DM including Tonga, Fiji, French Polynesia, and Nauru. The latter has the highest prevalence of T2DM per population in the world. …”
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Coconut hispine beetle Brontispa longissima (Gestro) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by S.P. Singh, P. Rethinam

“…In recent times it has spread to Singapore, Vietnam, Nauru, Thailand, Maldives and Hainan Island (China). …”
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A systematic review of historical and contemporary evidence of trachoma endemicity in the Pacific Islands. by Becca L Handley, Chrissy H Roberts, Robert Butcher

“…Cases of trachoma have been identified in some countries (for example, Nauru and Samoa) which have no recent population-based mapping data, but may be at risk of trachoma endemcitiy. …”
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Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Colonization among Children after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction by Manoochehr Karami, Zeinab Berangi, Younes Mohammadi, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei

“…However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo Verde, Chad, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Gabon, Grenada, Guinea, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Montenegro, Nauru, Poland, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovenia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Vanuatu, and Viet Namhave not introduced PCV till April 2016.…”
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MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIA’S IMPERIALISTIC AND OCCUPATION POLICY IN UKRAINE by Nika Chitadze

“…The results of the “referendums” were not recognized by any country in the world, including the closest allies of the Kremlin such as Belarus, or even those countries that had recognized Abkhazia and the so-called “independence” of South Ossetia (Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Nauru). Accordingly, the holding of pseudo-referendums is another weak attempt by Russia to impoverish Ukraine’s statehood, especially since Russia lost control of a significant portion of its “newly-joined territories” as a result of bold actions on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.…”
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Current mapping of obesity by Carmen Pérez Rodrigo

“…In some regions, such as Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Americas, more than 50% of women are overweight. Tonga, Nauru and the Cook Islands show the highest prevalence of obesity worldwide, above 60% in men and in women. …”
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PB, SR AND BE-10 ISOTOPIC STUDIES OF VOLCANIC-ROCKS FROM THE NORTHERN MARIANA-ISLANDS - IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMA GENESIS AND CRUSTAL RECYCLING IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC by Woodhead, J, Fraser, D

“…Mariana arc together with Sr and Pb isotope analyses of sediments from the nearby Mariana and Nauru basins. In addition ten of the most recent volcanic samples were analysed for 10Be. …”

Mortality and cause-of-death reporting and analysis systems in seven pacific island countries by Carter Karen L, Rao Chalapati, Lopez Alan D, Taylor Richard

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>This paper uses a standard analytical framework to examine death registration systems in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.…”
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Seeking Refuge: Implications when Integrating Refugee and Asylum Seeker Students into a Mainstream Australian School by Wiseman Martin, O’Gorman Shannon

“…Australian government statistics released on 31 March 2016 stated that there were presently 50 children being held on Nauru, 17 children held in detention on the mainland and 317 children held in community detention on the mainland (ChilOut, 2016). …”
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Species distribution models of tropical deep-sea snappers. by Céline Gomez, Ashley J Williams, Simon J Nicol, Camille Mellin, Kim L Loeun, Corey J A Bradshaw

“…There were strong regional patterns in predicted distribution of suitable habitat, with the largest areas of suitable habitat (> 35% of the Exclusive Economic Zone) predicted in seven South Pacific countries and territories (Fiji, Matthew & Hunter, Nauru, New Caledonia, Tonga, Vanuatu and Wallis & Futuna). …”
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Regulatory measures to fight obesity in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean and Pacific, 2015 – 2017 by Nicole Foster, Anne Marie Thow, Nigel Unwin, Miriam Alvarado, T. Alafia Samuels

“…This report examines the experiences of Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean— Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and in the Pacific— Fiji, Nauru, and Tonga with specific governmental regulatory measures to reduce the risk of obesity and associated diet-related chronic ­noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), as well as the obstacles and opportunities encountered. …”
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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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Adolescent fertility and family planning in East Asia and the Pacific: a review of DHS reports by Gray Natalie, Kennedy Elissa, Azzopardi Peter, Creati Mick

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>DHS reports were available for eleven countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu and Vietnam. …”
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