Origin and population structure of native dog breeds in the Korean peninsula and East Asia by Byeongyong Ahn, Mingue Kang, Hyoim Jeon, Jong-Seok Kim, Hao Jiang, Jihong Ha, Chankyu Park

“…SCHI showed greater haplotype sharing with New Guinea singing dogs, VIET, and Jindo than with other Asian breeds. …”
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An Overview of the Role of Smallholders in Oil Palm Production Systems in Changing Climate by Ahmed Abubakar and Mohd Yusoff Ishak

“…In Africa, smallholders produced more than 60% of palm oil demand, 33% in Papua New Guinea, and 40% in Malaysia. In Latin America, where 87% of oil palm growers are smallholders, they produce over 60% of the demand for palm oil. …”
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First Records of Picobiine Mites Associated with Birds-of-Paradise: Can Interspecific Sexual Behaviour of Hosts Play a Role in the Distribution of Quill Mite Parasites? by Bozena Sikora, Markus Unsoeld, Roland R. Melzer, Stefan Friedrich, Maciej Skoracki

“…The mite specimens presented in this paper were collected from birds-of-paradise that had been captured in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in the years 1910–1911 and are now deposited in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany. …”
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Balancing the scales: Preliminary investigation of total energy expenditure and daily metabolizable energy intake in Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei). by Noah T Dunham, Diana C Koester, Ellen S Dierenfeld, Rebecca Rimbach, Herman Pontzer

“…Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) is an endangered arboreal marsupial native to Papua New Guinea. Detailed field studies of its behavior and ecology are scarce due largely to its occupation of remote cloud forests and cryptic nature. …”
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Analisis Strategi Pemilihan Negara-Negara Tujuan Ekspansi Hulu Migas Studi Kasus pada PT Pertamina (Persero) by , Saptianta Aribawa Sabaris, , Amin Wibowo, M.B.A., Ph.D.

“…This thesis tries to provide alternatives as the expansion target countries of oil and gas business throughout the world where there are 31 candidate countries as follows: United States, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Norway , England, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Mozambique, China, Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea,Thailand, and Brunei.…”

Sponge Hyrtios reticulatus: Phytochemicals and Bioactivities by Mahfur, Mahfur, Setyowati, Erna Prawita, Wahyuono, Subagus, Purwantini, Indah

“…So far several reports have mentioned that this species has not been widely published except those originating from Indonesia especially Makassar island, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and collections from the National Cancer Institute in London. …”

Biak morphosyntax by Mofu, SS

“…The Biak language belongs to the West New Guinea subgroup of the Austronesian language family and is spoken by around 50,000 to 70,000 speakers in West Papua in the northern part of the Geelvink Bay. …”

Diversity of the 47-kD HtrA nucleic acid and translated amino acid sequences from 17 recent human isolates of Orientia. by Jiang, J, Paris, D, Blacksell, S, Aukkanit, N, Newton, P, Phetsouvanh, R, Izzard, L, Stenos, J, Graves, SR, Day, N, Richards, A

“…To characterize 47-kD HtrA protein diversity among human isolates of Orientia, we sequenced the full open reading frame (ORF) of the 47-kD HtrA gene and analyzed the translated amino acid sequences of 17 patient isolates from Thailand (n=13), Laos (n=2), Australia (n=1), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (n=1) and 9 reference strains: Karp (New Guinea), Kato (Japan), Ikeda (Japan), Gilliam (Burma), Boryong (Korea), TA763, TH1811 and TH1817 (Thailand), and MAK243 (China). …”

Determining the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage required for indirect protection against vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage in low and middle-income countries: a protocol f... by Chan, J, Nguyen, C, Lai, J, Dunne, E, Andrews, R, Blyth, C, Datta, S, Fox, K, Ford, R, Hinds, J, La Vincente, S, Lehmann, D, Lim, R, Mungun, T, Newton, P, Phetsouvanh, R, Pomat, W, Xeuatvongsa, A, von Mollendorf, C, Dance, D, Satzke, C, Muholland, K, Russell, F

“…We will investigate the relationship between PCV coverage and VT carriage among undervaccinated children using hospital-based NP pneumococcal carriage surveillance at three sites in Asia and the Pacific.We are recruiting cases, defined as children aged 2-59 months admitted to participating hospitals with acute respiratory infection in Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea. Thirteen-valent PCV status is obtained from written records. …”

VOLCANISM AND VERTICAL TECTONICS IN THE PACIFIC BASIN RELATED TO GLOBAL CRETACEOUS TRANSGRESSIONS by Schlanger, S, Jenkyns, H, Premolisilva, I

“…Large, benthonic, reef-associated foraminifera comprising a pseudorbitoid fauna, hitherto considered to be largely restricted to Central America, have now been additionally recorded from DSDP Sites 165, 315 and 316 in the Line Islands, Site 462 in the Nauru Basin, and in New Guinea. The distribution of this fauna, of Campanian/Maastrichtian age, is interpreted as indicating "stepping stone" connections (aseismic ridges, plateaus and seamounts) between the Caribbean, Farallon, and Pacific plates 70-80 m.y. …”

Foreign military intervention in response to microstate security crises by Gubb, M

“…Particular attention is paid to four representative case studies: <em>Vanuatu</em> (Papua New Guinea's 1980 intervention to quell a secessionist rebellion); <em>The Gambia</em> (Senegal's 1981 suppression of a coup attempt); <em>Grenada</em> (Cuba's role in respect of the 1983 American invasion); and <em>the Maldives</em> (India's thwarting of a 1988 mercenary attack).…”

Population turnover in remote Oceania shortly after initial settlement by Lipson, M, Skoglund, P, Spriggs, M, Valentin, F, Bedford, S, Shing, R, Buckley, H, Phillip, I, Ward, G, Mallick, S, Rohland, N, Broomandkhoshbacht, N, Cheronet, O, Ferry, M, Harper, T, Michel, M, Oppenheimer, J, Sirak, K, Stewardson, K, Auckland, K, Hill, A, Maitland, K, Oppenheimer, S, Parks, T, Robson, K, Williams, T, Kennett, D, Mentzer, A, Pinhasi, R, Reich, D

“…Thus, ancestors of the First Remote Oceanians must have passed by the Papuan-ancestry populations they encountered in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands with minimal admixture [1]. …”

Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest. by Novotny, V, Miller, SE, Baje, L, Balagawi, S, Basset, Y, Cizek, L, Craft, K, Dem, F, Drew, R, Hulcr, J, Leps, J, Lewis, O, Pokon, R, Stewart, A, Samuelson, G, Weiblen, G

“…We describe a complex, species-rich plant-herbivore food web for lowland rain forest in Papua New Guinea, resolving 6818 feeding links between 224 plant species and 1490 herbivore species drawn from 11 distinct feeding guilds. …”

Phylogenetic relationships of the orchid genus Coelogyne in Peninsular Malaysia inferred from morphological characteristics and Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence data by Yoh, Kok-Hon, Yong, Christina Seok-Yien, Janna Ong Abdullah, Go, Rusea

“…Coelogyne is a large genus of about 200 species distributed in pantropical areas from the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, India, Southern China and throughout South East Asia to Papua New Guinea. The widely accepted previous classification system was exclusively based on floral morphology. …”
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Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 and R. fredii USDA257 share exceptionally broad, nested host ranges by Pueppke, S.G., Broughton, W.J.

“…As both P. andersonii and NGR234 originate from Indonesia/Malaysia/Papua New Guinea, and NGR234's preferred hosts (Desmodiinae/Phaseoleae) are largely Asian, we suggest that broad host range originated in Southeast Asia and spread outward.…”

A review on molecular systematic of the genus Dendrobium Sw. by Moudi, Maryam, Go, Rusea, Yong, Christina Seok Yien, Salleh @ Japri, Mohd Nazre

“…This genus spreads from Korea and Japan through South- east Asia, west to Himalayas, east in to Philippines, and south through Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia, with more than 150 species in New Guinea . Dendrobium plants are one of the most popular orchids for its medicinal and commercial value in potted and cut flower industries. …”
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Evaluation of selected physical and mechanical properties of multiple leader Acacia crassicarpa A. Cunn. Ex. Benth. genotypes by Ab Shukor, Nor Aini, Md. Tahir, Paridah, Jaafar, Mohd Faisal, Muhammad Roseley, Adlin Sabrina

“…The study involved two classes of multiple leaders (ML), namely; ML2 (two leadered stems) and ML3 more than two leadered stems and 4 provenances: Claudie River, and Chillie Beach from Queensland (QLD) and Bensbach WP and Bimadebum WP from Papua New Guinea (PNG). ML classes showed significant difference at P<0.05 for physical properties but not between provenances. …”
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Genome size, molecular phylogeny, and evolutionary history of the tribe Aquilarieae (Thymelaeaceae), the natural source of agarwood by Azman, Farah Hanani, Lee, Shiou Yih, Gao, Zhihui, Yao, Tze Leong, Madon, Maria, Mohamed, Rozi

“…The tribe Aquilarieae of the family Thymelaeaceae consists of two genera, Aquilaria and Gyrinops, with a total of 30 species, distributed from northeast India, through southeast Asia and the south of China, to Papua New Guinea. They are an important botanical resource for fragrant agarwood, a prized product derived from injured or infected stems of these species. …”
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Radio wave propagation studies through tropical vegetation in Malaysia at lower band of VHF / by 452827 Zahri Yunos, Tharek Abd. Rahman, supervisor, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik

“…Penyelidikan yang dijalankan di kawasan tropika adalah di Thailand, New Guinea, India dan kebanyakkan penyelidikan tersebut telah dijalankan di kawasan Amerika Syarikat. …”

Assessment of IgG3 as a serological exposure marker for Plasmodium vivax in areas with moderate–high malaria transmission intensity by Yanie Tayipto, Yanie Tayipto, Jason Rosado, Dionicia Gamboa, Michael T. White, Benson Kiniboro, Julie Healer, D. Herbert Opi, D. Herbert Opi, D. Herbert Opi, James G. Beeson, James G. Beeson, James G. Beeson, James G. Beeson, Eizo Takashima, Takafumi Tsuboi, Matthias Harbers, Matthias Harbers, Leanne Robinson, Leanne Robinson, Ivo Mueller, Ivo Mueller, Rhea J. Longley, Rhea J. Longley

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