Ecological release and venom evolution of a predatory marine snail at Easter Island. by Thomas F Duda, Taehwan Lee

“…METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:We examined the extent of genetic differentiation of two genes expressed in the venom of C. miliaris among samples from Easter Island, American Samoa and Guam. The population from Easter Island exhibits unique frequencies of alleles that encode distinct peptides at both loci. …”
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Pacific Utopias and National Identities in the Twenty-first Century by Sina Va'ai

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Exploring the Paradoxical Relationship of a Creb 3 Regulatory Factor Missense Variant With Body Mass Index and Diabetes Among Samoans: Protocol for the Soifua Manuia (Good Health)... by Hawley, Nicola L, Pomer, Alysa, Rivara, Anna C., Rosenthal, Samantha L, Duckham, Rachel L, Carlson, Jenna C, Naseri, Take, Reupena, Muagututia Sefuiva, Selu, Melania, Lupematisila, Vaimoana, Unasa, Folla, Vesi, Lupesina, Fatu, Tracy, Unasa, Seipepa, Faasalele-Savusa, Kima, Wetzel, Abigail I, Soti-Ulberg, Christina, Prescott, Angela T, Siufaga, Gloria, Penaia, Corina, To, Sophie B., LaMonica, Lauren C, Lameko, Viali, Choy, Courtney C, Crouter, Scott E, Redline, Susan, Deka, Ranjan, Kershaw, Erin E, Urban, Zsolt, Minster, Ryan L., Weeks, Daniel E., McGarvey, Stephen T

“…BackgroundThe prevalence of obesity and diabetes in Samoa, like many other Pacific Island nations, has reached epidemic proportions. …”
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Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: Insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes by Megan E Carey, Zoe A Dyson, Danielle J Ingle, Afreenish Amir, Mabel K Aworh, Marie Anne Chattaway, Ka Lip Chew, John A Crump, Nicholas A Feasey, Benjamin P Howden, Karen H Keddy, Mailis Maes, Christopher M Parry, Sandra Van Puyvelde, Hattie E Webb, Ayorinde Oluwatobiloba Afolayan, Anna P Alexander, Shalini Anandan, Jason R Andrews, Philip M Ashton, Buddha Basnyat, Ashish Bavdekar, Isaac I Bogoch, John D Clemens, Kesia Esther da Silva, Anuradha De, Joep de Ligt, Paula Lucia Diaz Guevara, Christiane Dolecek, Shanta Dutta, Marthie M Ehlers, Louise Francois Watkins, Denise O Garrett, Gauri Godbole, Melita A Gordon, Andrew R Greenhill, Chelsey Griffin, Madhu Gupta, Rene S Hendriksen, Robert S Heyderman, Yogesh Hooda, Juan Carlos Hormazabal, Odion O Ikhimiukor, Junaid Iqbal, Jobin John Jacob, Claire Jenkins, Dasaratha Ramaiah Jinka, Jacob John, Gagandeep Kang, Abdoulie Kanteh, Arti Kapil, Abhilasha Karkey, Samuel Kariuki, Robert A Kingsley, Roshine Mary Koshy, AC Lauer, Myron M Levine, Ravikumar Kadahalli Lingegowda, Stephen P Luby, Grant Austin Mackenzie, Tapfumanei Mashe, Chisomo Msefula, Ankur Mutreja, Geetha Nagaraj, Savitha Nagaraj, Satheesh Nair, Take K Naseri, Susana Nimarota-Brown, Elisabeth Njamkepo, Iruka N Okeke, Sulochana Putli Bai Perumal, Andrew J Pollard, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Firdausi Qadri, Farah N Qamar, Sadia Isfat Ara Rahman, Savitra Devi Rambocus, David A Rasko, Pallab Ray, Roy Robins-Browne, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Jean Pierre Rutanga, Samir K Saha, Senjuti Saha, Karnika Saigal, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Jessica C Seidman, Jivan Shakya, Varun Shamanna, Jayanthi Shastri, Rajeev Shrestha, Sonia Sia, Michael J Sikorski, Ashita Singh, Anthony M Smith, Kaitlin A Tagg, Dipesh Tamrakar, Arif Mohammed Tanmoy, Maria Thomas, Mathew S Thomas, Robert Thomsen, Nicholas R Thomson, Siaosi Tupua, Krista Vaidya, Mary Valcanis, Balaji Veeraraghavan, François-Xavier Weill, Jackie Wright, Gordon Dougan, Silvia Argimón, Jacqueline A Keane, David M Aanensen, Stephen Baker, Kathryn E Holt, Global Typhoid Genomics Consortium Group Authorship

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Health Workforce Migration in the Asia Pacific: implications for the achievement of sustainable development goals by Stephanie Short, Kanchan Marcus, Madhan Balasubramanian

“…The main implication relevant to achievement of sustainable development goals is the need for countries to work in a co-ordinated way in this region to increase substantially health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing states, most notably the Maldives, Timor- Leste, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Abbreviations: OECD – Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development; SDG – Sustainable Development Goals; SIDS – Small Island Development States.…”
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Warum wir einen Verbotsvertrag für fossile Brennstoffe brauchen by Jochen von Bernstorff

“…Während der COP 28 Konferenz schlossen sich Palau, Kolumbien, Samoa und Nauru offiziell der Forderung nach einem Vertrag über die Nichtverbreitung fossiler Brennstoffe an.  …”
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Acute Lymphatic Filariasis Infection in United States Armed Forces Personnel Deployed to the Pacific Area of Operations during World War II Provides Important Lessons for Today by Wayne D. Melrose, Peter A. Leggat

“…The deployment of United States (US) Armed Forces personnel into the central Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga, which is highly-endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF), resulted in thousands of cases of the acute form of this disease and greatly reduced their ability to carry out their mission. …”
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The root to the Galápagos mantle plume on the core-mantle boundary by Sanne Cottaar, Carl Martin, Zhi Li, Rita Parai

“…The ULVZ is comparable to other broad ULVZs mapped on the core-mantle boundary near Hawaii, Iceland, and Samoa.  Strikingly, all four hotspots where the mantle plume appears rooted by these ‘mega-ULVZs’, show similar anomalous isotopic signatures in He, Ne, and W in their ocean island basalts. …”
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‘Failed’ or resilient subaltern communities? Pacific indigenous social protection systems in a neoliberal world by Steven Ratuva

“…It focuses on kinship, reciprocity, communal obligation and communal labour as examples of social protection mechanisms in four case studies—Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati and Vanuatu. Of significance here is the role of critical and progressive journalists and media in deconstructing the ideological and cultural bias embedded in these discourses.…”
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COVID‐19 in the Pacific territories: Isolation, borders and the complexities of governance by John Connell

“…Abstract Early experience of COVID‐19 in seven Pacific politically dependent territories (Guam, American Samoa, Pitcairn, Tokelau, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, and New Caledonia) emphasises a diversity of contexts, responses, outcomes and possible futures. …”
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Chinese Assistance in the Pacific: Agency, Effectiveness and the Role of Pacific Island Governments by Matthew Dornan, Philippa Brant

“…This article explores how Pacific island governments negotiate and oversee the implementation of Chinese official development assistance in four Pacific Island case study countries where assistance has been significant: Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands. We argue that the way in which governments have pursued, overseen and implemented projects has differed considerably, and is an important determinant of the effectiveness and developmental impact of Chinese assistance.…”
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New record of anthiadine fish, Plectranthias yamakawai (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Serranidae), from the Philippines by Roxanne A. Cabebe-Barnuevo, Emmanuel S. Delloro Jr, Dianne Frances A. Penuela, Maria Celia D. Malay, Hiroyuki Motomura, Ricardo P. Babaran

“…Currently, the fish is only known to occur in Japan, Taiwan, and Samoa Islands. This anthiadine fish varies from other species of genus Plectranthias by having 30–33 lateral-line scales, a single red blotch below the lateral line, and numerous dark green blotches on the upper half of the body. …”
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Hybridized Surviving: The Diaspora Narratives of Joseph, Esther, and Daniel by Brian Fiu Kolia

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Understanding others' preferences: A comparison across primate species and human societies. by Juliane Kaminski, Roman Stengelin, Antje Girndt, Daniel Haun, Katja Liebal

“…We assessed children from three culturally-diverse societies (Namibia, Germany, and Samoa; N = 71; age range = 5-11) and four non-human great ape species (chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), and orangutans (Pongo abelii); N = 25; age range = 7-29) regarding their choices in a dyadic food-retrieval task. …”
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Problems of Evidence in Ethnography. A Methodological Reflection on the Goffman/Mead Controversies (With a Proposal for Rules of Thumb) by Joost Beuving

“…These methodological challenges are explored by juxtaposing two ethnographic controversies: Margaret MEAD's "Coming of Age in Samoa" (1973 [1928]) and Alice GOFFMAN's "On the Run. …”
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Ozone sonde cell current measurements and implications for observations of near-zero ozone concentrations in the tropical upper troposphere by H. Vömel, K. Diaz

“…In the reprocessed data set near-zero ozone events no longer occur. At Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, and San Cristóbal, nearly all near-zero ozone concentrations occur in soundings with larger background currents. …”
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A new genus and two new species of Southeast Asian Bidessini as well as new synonyms for Oceanian species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) by Michael Balke, Johannes Bergsten, Liang-Jong Wang, Lars Hendrich

“…Balfour-Browne, 1944), comb. n. described from Fiji is a new synonym of Limbodessus curviplicatus (Zimmermann, 1927) described from Samoa.…”
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Tupuna Wahine, Saina, Tupuna Vaine, Matua Tupuna Fifine, Mapiạg Hạni by Hineitimoana Greensill, Mere Taito, Jessica Pasisi, Jesi Lujan Bennett, Marylise Dean, Maluseu Monise

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Characterization of a novel member of the family Caulimoviridae infecting Dioscorea nummularia in the Pacific, which may represent a new genus of dsDNA plant viruses. by Amit C Sukal, Dawit B Kidanemariam, James L Dale, Robert M Harding, Anthony P James

“…We have characterized the complete genome of a novel circular double-stranded DNA virus, tentatively named Dioscorea nummularia-associated virus (DNUaV), infecting Dioscorea nummularia originating from Samoa. The genome of DNUaV comprised 8139 bp and contained four putative open reading frames (ORFs). …”
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Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carrying Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes: Worldwide Emergence by François Vandenesch, Timothy Naimi, Mark C. Enright, Gerard Lina, Graeme R. Nimmo, Helen Heffernan, Nadia Liassine, Michèle Bes, Timothy Greenland, Marie-Elisabeth Reverdy, Jerome Etienne

“…We assessed whether any common genetic markers existed among 117 CA-MRSA isolates from the United States, France, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Samoa by performing polymerase chain reaction for 24 virulence factors and the methicillin-resistance determinant. …”
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