“Pip is my story” by Colomba, Caterina

“… In Mister Pip (2006), New Zealander writer Lloyd Jones transfers Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations to Papua New Guinea. Through a skilful play of metanarrative cross-references, Jones gives lifeblood back to the Victorian text while creating a new artistic work in which the 19th century enters into a dialogue with contemporary times offering its reader a modern ‘female’ Bildungsroman. …”
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Pacific media freedom since the pandemic by Amanda H A Watson, Shailendra Singh

“…There have been two major developments in 2023: the newly elected government in Fiji has repealed the country’s controversial media law while the government of Papua New Guinea considers introducing a media law. The article highlights the importance of ongoing vigilance with regard to media freedom in Pacific Island countries. …”
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New stiletto flies from New Caledonia (Therevidae, Agapophytinae) by Michael E. Irwin, Shaun L. Winterton, Mark A. Metz

“…Stiletto-flies (Diptera: Therevidae) are highly diverse and species-rich in Australia and New Zealand, yet relatively few species have been recorded from neighbouring Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and throughout the remainder of Oceania. …”
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The coastal marind language by Olsson, Bruno

“…This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Coastal Marind, an Anim language of Southern New Guinea. The description of the language is based on 8 hours of transcribed video recordings collected during ca. 13 months of field research in Merauke (Indonesia) and in nearby Marind-speaking villages. …”
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PNG Seeks to Re-Engage Southeast Asia : Role of Disaster Preparedness by Foo, Yen Ne, Cook, Alistair David Blair

“…Following the recent political turmoil in Papua New Guinea, the new prime minister James Marape signaled a shift in its foreign policy away from traditional partners to re-engage Southeast Asia. …”
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‘Alienable’ possession in Biakic by Bach, XCA

“…Alienable possessive constructions in Biakic stand out with respect to the South Halmahera-West New Guinea language family to which they belong. This article investigates the origins of the innovative alienable possessive forms in Biakic, which constitutes an example of grammaticalization from predicative to attributive possession. …”

Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic by Zahirovic, S, Matthews, K, Flament, N, Müller, R, Hill, K, Seton, M, Gurnis, M

“…The plate reconstructions presented in this study reconcile observations from ocean basins and the onshore geological record to provide a regional synthesis, embedded in a global plate motion model, of the India-Eurasia convergence history, the accretionary growth of Southeast Asia and the Tethyan-Pacific tectonic link through the New Guinea margin.…”

A decent roof for the poor - a Malaysian perspective. by Syed Junid, Syed Mansur

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Gender bias and inequity holds women back in their conservation careers by Robyn James, Robyn James, Jonathan R. B. Fisher, Chelsea Carlos-Grotjahn, Marissa S. Boylan, Baigalmaa Dembereldash, Meaza Z. Demissie, Crystal Diaz De Villegas, Bridget Gibbs, Ruth Konia, Kristen Lyons, Hugh Possingham, Cathy J. Robinson, Tiantian Tang, Nathalie Butt

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High intraspecific variability and previous experience affect polyphenol metabolism in polyphagous Lymantria mathura caterpillars by Martin Volf, Alyssa M. Fontanilla, Suvi Vanhakylä, Tomokazu Abe, Martin Libra, Ryosuke Kogo, Roll Lilip, Naoto Kamata, Masashi Murakami, Vojtech Novotny, Juha‐Pekka Salminen, Simon T. Segar

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Blockchain Technology Applications in Healthcare Supply Chains—A Review by Sarthak Dhingra, Rakesh Raut, Koteswararao Naik, Kamalakanta Muduli

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Thermal Tolerance Data and Molecular Identification Are Useful for the Diagnosis, Control and Modeling of Diseases Caused by <i>Thielaviopsis paradoxa</i> by Abiodun Abeeb Azeez, Daniel Ofeoritse Esiegbuya, Emad Jaber, Wenzi Ren, Adebola Azeez Lateef, Amarachi Ojieabu, Fred O. Asiegbu

“…This study compared the growth rate of 41 isolates of <i>T. paradoxa</i> sourced from different hosts and two countries (Nigeria and Papua New Guinea (PNG)) under six temperature levels (22 °C, 25 °C, 30 °C, 32 °C, 34 °C and 35 °C). …”
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Mitogenomes Reveal Two Major Influxes of Papuan Ancestry across Wallacea Following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian Contact by Gludhug A. Purnomo, Kieren J. Mitchell, Sue O’Connor, Shimona Kealy, Leonard Taufik, Sophie Schiller, Adam Rohrlach, Alan Cooper, Bastien Llamas, Herawati Sudoyo, João C. Teixeira, Raymond Tobler

“…The tropical archipelago of Wallacea contains thousands of individual islands interspersed between mainland Asia and Near Oceania, and marks the location of a series of ancient oceanic voyages leading to the peopling of Sahul—i.e., the former continent that joined Australia and New Guinea at a time of lowered sea level—by 50,000 years ago. …”
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Natural Products Produced in Culture by Biosynthetically Talented <i>Salinispora arenicola</i> Strains Isolated from Northeastern and South Pacific Marine Sediments by David E. Williams, Kalindi D. Morgan, Doralyn S. Dalisay, Teatulohi Matainaho, Elodie Perrachon, Noemie Viller, Maïlys Delcroix, Jeanne Gauchot, Haruka Niikura, Brian O. Patrick, Katherine S. Ryan, Raymond J. Andersen

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ProRE: An ACO- based programmer recommendation model to precisely manage software bugs by Ashima Kukkar, Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Jaroslav Frnda, Jasminder Kaur Sandhu, Rashmi Prava Das, Nitin Goyal, Arun Kumar, Kamalakanta Muduli, Filip Rezac

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The origins of inflectional classes by Bach, X

“…This is shown to be the origins of systems of inflectional classes in Niger-Congo languages, as well as in Arapesh languages from New Guinea. In these cases, membership of the inflectional classes corresponds to the membership of each gender. …”

Identification of highly-protective combinations of Plasmodium vivax recombinant proteins for vaccine development by Camila Tenorio França, Michael T White, Wen-Qiang He, Jessica B Hostetler, Jessica Brewster, Gabriel Frato, Indu Malhotra, Jakub Gruszczyk, Christele Huon, Enmoore Lin, Benson Kiniboro, Anjali Yadava, Peter Siba, Mary R Galinski, Julie Healer, Chetan Chitnis, Alan F Cowman, Eizo Takashima, Takafumi Tsuboi, Wai-Hong Tham, Rick M Fairhurst, Julian C Rayner, Christopher L King, Ivo Mueller

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Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy by Angela Kluge

“…This paper describes serial verb constructions in Papuan Malay, an eastern Malay language, spoken in coastal West Papua, on the island of New Guinea. Papuan Malay employs serial verb constructions to encode complex events by means of verb sequences, or to express grammatical categories. …”
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Fluidity in argument indexing in Komnzo by Döhler Christian

“…This article addresses the verb morphology of Komnzo, a language of Southern New Guinea. It provides a description of verb indexing in Section 1, which is followed by a corpus analysis of a small class of verbs. …”
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Gathered fields: A tale about rhizomes by Marilyn Strathern

“…A stimulus comes from the recent World Heritage designation of a site in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea, for its evidence of the prehistoric cultivation of plants preferentially propagated by vegetative means. …”
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