A confirmation of vertical acoustic resonance and field-aligned current generation just after the 2022 Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption by Toshihiko Iyemori, Michi Nishioka, Yuichi Otsuka, Atsuki Shinbori

“…The oscillations appeared at 04:21UT at Apia, Samoa, only about 7 min after the start of eruption. …”
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Dismantling the deep earth : geochemical constraints from hotspot lavas for the origin and lengthscales of mantle heterogeneity by Jackson, Matthew G. (Matthew Gerald)

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Visualization in Big Data: A tool for pattern recognition in data stream by SOARES, V. H. A., DOS SANTOS, J. A., NALDI, M. C

“…The proposed visualization tool is add-on for SAMOA, a new variant of MOA (Massive Online Analysis) for massive data streams mining and processing distribution.…”
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On the reinstatement of R. samoensis and R. brevistyla in East Pacific red mangroves (Rhizophora, Rhizophoraceae) by Xavier Cornejo, Carmita Bonifaz

“…The identical meaning of vernacular names of R. samoensis from Samoa and coastal Ecuador is here reported for first time. …”
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School food programmes in the Pacific Islands: exploring opportunities and challenges for creating healthier school food environments by Sarah Burkhart, Ann Hayman, Fiasili Lam, Breanna Jones, Bridget Horsey, Dana Craven, Steven Underhill

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Use of Large Language Models to Assess the Likelihood of Epidemics From the Content of Tweets: Infodemiology Study by Michael S Deiner, Natalie A Deiner, Vagelis Hristidis, Stephen D McLeod, Thuy Doan, Thomas M Lietman, Travis C Porco

“…MethodsA total of 12,194 conjunctivitis-related tweets were obtained using a targeted Boolean search in multiple languages from India, Guam (United States), Martinique (France), the Philippines, American Samoa (United States), Fiji, Costa Rica, Haiti, and the Bahamas, covering the time frame from January 1, 2012, to March 13, 2023. …”
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POMETIA (SAPINDACEAE), A STUDY IN VARIABILITY by M Jacobs

“…A monograph   of   Pometia,   which   extends   from   Ceylon   throughout Malaysia to Samoa, with a few stations in SE. Asia and Formosa. …”
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INDONESIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND PALAEOECOLOGY GAUGING THE IMPACT OF PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT by Joshua Griffin

“…This paper cross-examines three major elements of remains found in island assemblages: those being avifauna, marine fauna, and palaeobotanical remains (from Henderson Island, American Samoa and Hawaii, and eastern Indonesia respectively). …”
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Corrigendum to ``Examination of population genetics of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) and the incidence of its biocontrol agent (Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus) i... by Kayvan Etebari, James Hereward, Apenisa Sailo, Emeline M. Ahoafi, Robert Tautua, Helen Tsatsia, Grahame V Jackson, Michael J. Furlong

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Investigative journalism: Challenges, perils, rewards in seven Pacific Island countries by Shailendra Singh

“…This article appraises the general state of investigative journalism in seven Pacific Island countries—Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu—and asserts that the trend is not encouraging. …”
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Marcel Schwob, epistolario by Francisco Ríos Romero

“…Una determinada correspondencia fruto de su viaje al hemisferio austral fue publicada como libro de viaje con el titulo de Viaje a Samoa, donde encontramos las cartas enviadas a su mujer Marguerite Moreno.…”
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The political gorilla and the Pacific Forum: Getting it right? by Alan Knight

“…This article examines Australian press reporting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit meeting held in Samoa in August 2004 and compares it to that of the Pacific and New Zealand regional press. …”
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The ‘Influenza’ Vaccine Used during the Samoan Pandemic of 1918 by G. Dennis Shanks

“…The Australian military used such a vaccine on Samoa in December 1918 and thought it was valuable. …”
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From Raja to Prime Minister by Kees van Dijk

“…Elsewhere in the Pacific, European and American residents and adventurers did not bother much about native titles, expanding their hold over land and its inhabitants by economic and political manipulation. In Hawaii and Samoa political reform and becoming cabinet minister or prime minister of a still independent island state served their purposes better.…”
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GAYA GELOMBANG TSUNAMI PADA BANGUNAN BERPENGHALANG by Nurhasanah, Any, Triatmaja, Radianta, Nizam, Nizam

“…Bencana tsunami dapat menimbulkan kerusakan infrastruktur, seperti pada tsunami Aceh 2004, tsunami Pangandaran 2006, dan tsunami Samoa 2009. Banyak usaha dilakukan untuk melindungi struktur akibat gempuran gelombang tsunami, salah satunya adalah dengan membuat penghalang di depan struktur. …”
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Targeted surveillance detected novel beaked whale circovirus in ten new host cetacean species across the Pacific basin by Cody W. Clifton, Cody W. Clifton, Ilse Silva-Krott, Michael G. Marsik, Kristi L. West, Kristi L. West

“…The results broaden the known geographic range of BWCV to Saipan in the Western Pacific, and American Samoa in the South Pacific, where stranded Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) tested positive. …”
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Origins of green turtle fishery bycatch in the central Pacific revealed by mixed genetic markers by John B. Horne, Suzanne E. Roden, Erin L. LaCasella, Amy Frey, Summer L. Martin, T. Todd Jones, Shawn Murakawa, Shandell Brunson, George H. Balazs, Peter H. Dutton

“…Below the Equator, the most common stocks in the bycatch were from Australia and the Coral Sea, American Samoa and French Polynesia, and the Galápagos Islands. …”
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Temporal patterns in coral reef fish assemblages with varying disturbance levels: A tale of two National Parks in Hawai´i by Atsuko Fukunaga, Sheila A. McKenna, Eric K. Brown, Amanda L. McCutcheon, John H. R. Burns

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OBITUARY: Vale Peter Lomas – a checkered journalism legacy by Graham Davis

“…He was a former editor of Islands Business, the Fiji Daily Post, and worked as a training consultant on the Samoa Observer, Solomon Star, and Elijah Communications in the Cook Islands. …”
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Strings attached: New Zealand’s climate aid in the South Pacific by Matthew Scott

“…As the effects of climate change encroach on South Pacific nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, New Zealand has implemented an aid programme via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in order to mitigate the effects of the changing climate on these countries economically and socially. …”
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