‘Carbon colonialism’: Pacific environmental risk, media credibility and a deliberative perspective by David Robie

“…The UN has declared 2014 as the International Year of SIDS and a summit was hosted in Samoa during September. Living in one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to the impact of climate change and the challenges of aid effectiveness and adaptation funding, journalists are at a critical crossroads. …”
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Inter-sexual mate competition in three cultures. by Scott W Semenyna, Francisco R Gómez Jiménez, Doug P VanderLaan, Paul L Vasey

“…However, data from two disparate non-Western cultures-Samoa and the Istmo Zapotec (Oaxaca, Mexico)-show that women frequently compete with feminine same-sex attracted males to acquire and maintain masculine male mates (i.e., men). …”
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The Pacific Island Health Care Project by Donald Ames Person

“…Introduction/BackgroundUS Associated/Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) include 3 Freely Associated States: Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau and 3 Territories: American Samoa, Guam, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. …”
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The Garden in the Laboratory: Arthur C. Pillsbury’s Time-Lapse Films and the American Conservation Movement by Colin Williamson

“…While these films are now mostly lost, they were part of Pillsbury’s prolific work as a conservationist and traveling film lecturer who used his cameras everywhere from Yosemite National Park to Samoa to promote both public understanding of plants and a desire to protect the natural world. …”
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Variability and trend in ozone over the southern tropics and subtropics by A. M. Toihir, T. Portafaix, V. Sivakumar, H. Bencherif, H. Bencherif, A. Pazmiño, N. Bègue

“…Long-term variability in ozone trends was assessed over eight Southern Hemisphere tropical and subtropical sites (Natal, Nairobi, Ascension Island, Java, Samoa, Fiji, Reunion and Irene), using total column ozone data (TCO) and vertical ozone profiles (altitude range 15–30 km) recorded during the period January 1998–December 2012. …”
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Gender and Opposition Leadership in the Pacific Islands by Kerryn Baker, Jack Corbett

“…It uses a biographical approach to consider the pathways in and through this role by four women opposition leaders: Fiame Naomi Mata’afa (Samoa), Hilda Heine (Marshall Islands), Dame Carol Kidu (Papua New Guinea), and Ro Teimumu Kepa (Fiji). …”
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Prospects for the utilization of Senna obtusifolia products as protein supplements for poultry by S.S. Diarra

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How do Pacific Island countries add up on contraception, abortion and reproductive coercion? Guidance from the Guttmacher report on investing in sexual and reproductive health by Angela Dawson, Alec Ekeroma, Donald Wilson, Amanda Noovao-Hill, Leeanne Panisi, Brooke Takala, Kirsten Black, Deborah Bateson

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The Dynamic Relationship between Real Interest Rate and Investment: An Empirical Analysis for Selected Pacific Island Countries by Shabnam Sazma Bano

“…The study reveals a significant negative relationship between real interest rate and investment in long run while a positive relationship in short run across all PICs, except for Samoa. The PMG results further show that economic variables such as growth rate, communication, foreign investment, aid and real exchange rate are investment creating in the long run while savings rate is investment reducing. …”
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On the natural spatio-temporal heterogeneity of South Pacific nitrous oxide by Babbin, Andrew R, Boles, Elisabeth L, Mühle, Jens, Weiss, Ray F

“…Here we show atmospheric monitoring station measurements in Samoa combined with atmospheric back-trajectories provide novel information on N2O variability across the South Pacific. …”
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A Brief Review of Mental Health Issues among Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in the U.S. by Mijung Park

“…APIs include individuals from Far East Asia (e.g., Korea, China), Central Asia (e.g., Afghanistan, Uzbekistan), South Asia (e.g., India, Pakistan), South East Asia (e.g., Thailand, Philippines), Western Asia (e.g., Iran, Saudi Arabia), and Pacific islands (e.g., Hawaii, Samoa, Mariana island, Fiji, Palau, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Tokelau islands, Niue, and Cook Islands). …”
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A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific by Sandra Knapp

“…A.R.Bean is known from Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) and the south Pacific as far east as Samoa. Lycianthes lucens S.Knapp sp. nov. is described from the islands of Lihir, New Ireland and the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. …”
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Human, oceanographic and habitat drivers of central and western Pacific coral reef fish assemblages. by Ivor D Williams, Julia K Baum, Adel Heenan, Katharine M Hanson, Marc O Nadon, Russell E Brainard

“…Comparisons of biomass estimates derived from visual surveys with predicted biomass in the absence of humans indicated that total reef fish biomass was depleted by 61% to 69% at populated islands in the Mariana Archipelago; by 20% to 78% in the Main Hawaiian islands; and by 21% to 56% in American Samoa.…”
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La segmentación, ¿por género o por sexo? Diferentes formas a través de la historia y el mundo. Una aproximación al caso de Villavicencio - Colombia by María Cristina Otero Gómez, Wilson Giraldo Pérez

“…El estudio hace una descripción de algunas interpretaciones dadas al concepto de homosexualidad en diferentes culturas y civilizaciones, principalmente en la India, Albani y la Isla de Samoa, así como en antiguos pueblos indígenas de América. …”
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THE MAGELLAN SEAMOUNTS - EARLY CRETACEOUS RECORD OF THE SOUTH-PACIFIC ISOTOPIC AND THERMAL ANOMALY by Smith, W, Staudigel, H, Watts, A, Pringle, M

“…The second has an age of 100.1 (±0.5, 1 σ) Ma, is compensated with a Te of 15 (±3) km, and is isotopically similar to Samoa, toward the EM-II "Dupal' mantle end-member. …”

Distribution of <it>Aedes albopictus</it> (Diptera, Culicidae) in southwestern Pacific countries, with a first report from the Kingdom of Tonga by Guillaumot Laurent, Ofanoa Reynold, Swillen Lucien, Singh Narendra, Bossin Hervé C, Schaffner Francis

“…The species was not reported from American Samoa in 2004, but it is mentioned as probably present in Vanuatu. …”
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Taro Leaf Blight—A Threat to Food Security by Tom Okpul, Tolo Iosefa, Vincent Lebot, Mary Taylor, Robert Fullerton, Danny Hunter, Grahame Jackson, Davinder Singh, Joy Tyson

“…Serious outbreaks of taro leaf blight in Samoa in 1993 and in the last few years in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria continue to demonstrate the devastating impact of this disease on the livelihoods and food security of small farmers and rural communities dependent on the crop. …”
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Effectiveness of NCD-Related Fiscal Policies: Evidence from the Pacific by Shazna M. Buksh, Annie Crookes, John B. F. de Wit

“…This study used an online survey to recruit 4116 adults from six PICs: Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. The study measured the consumption of and household access to sugar-sweetened beverages, ultra-processed packaged snacks, fruits and vegetables and attitudes on food prices and unhealthy eating. …”
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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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Brief communication: Strengthening coherence between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction by J. Mysiak, S. Castellari, S. Castellari, B. Kurnik, R. Swart, P. Pringle, R. Schwarze, H. Wolters, A. Jeuken, P. van der Linden

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