Gearing to success with national breastfeeding programmes: The Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) initiative experience by Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla, Fiona C. Dykes, Sally Kendall

“…The positive experience implementing BBF in Great Britain is fully consistent with findings related to this initiative in other countries with contrasting economic, social, political and health care systems; including Germany, Ghana, Mexico, Myanmar, and Samoa. In all instances BBF has led to breastfeeding policy improvements with strong implications for enabling breastfeeding environments including maternity benefits, workforce development, the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and behavior change communication campaigns. …”
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Clinical Audit: Paediatric Medical Team Attendance at Deliveries in an Outer Metropolitan Hospital in Western Australia by Gelaye Tadesse Nadew

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Hearing loss among Australian Aboriginal infants and toddlers: A systematic review by Annette Kaspar, Amanda Jane Leach

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Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Colonization among Children after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction by Manoochehr Karami, Zeinab Berangi, Younes Mohammadi, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei

“…However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo Verde, Chad, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Gabon, Grenada, Guinea, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Montenegro, Nauru, Poland, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovenia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Vanuatu, and Viet Namhave not introduced PCV till April 2016.…”
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Preliminary Investigations in Giant Taro (<i>Alocasia macrorrhiza</i> L.) Corm Meal as Energy Source in Poultry Diets by Siaka Diarra

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Bioinvasion in a Brazilian bay: filling gaps in the knowledge of southwestern Atlantic biota. by Barbara L Ignacio, Luciana M Julio, Andrea O R Junqueira, Maria A G Ferreira-Silva

“…The highest similarities were found between the Ilha Grande Bay inventory and the Atlantic coastal region (Tampa Bay, USA and the Gulf of Mexico), American Samoa and Pearl Harbor (USA) inventories.This study presents the first published comprehensive list of hard substratum sessile marine invertebrate species in a Brazilian bay. …”
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Delineating the dispersal of Y-chromosome sub-haplogroup O2a2b-P164 among Austronesian-speaking populations by Javier Rodriguez Luis, Leire Palencia-Madrid, Göran Runfeldt, Ralph Garcia-Bertrand, Rene J. Herrera

“…Moderate to high abundance of the P 164 mutation is seen in the West Pacific including the Amis of Formosa (36%) and the Filipinos of Mindanao (50%) as well as in the Kiritimati of Micronesia (70%), and Tonga and Samoa of West Polynesia (54% and 33%, respectively), and it drops to low frequencies in populations of East Polynesia. …”
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rbcL gene dataset on intra-specific genetic variability and phylogenetic relationship of Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth) S. Moore. (Asteraceae) in Nigeria by Conrad Asotie Omonhinmin, Enameguono Ethel Olomukoro, Chinedu Charles Onuselogu, Jacob Olagbenro Popoola, Stephen Oluwanifise Oyejide

“…Moore (Asteraceae) commonly called “thickhead” is underutilised, indigenous to the rainforest of West and Central Africa but has also been introduced and naturalised throughout tropical and sub-tropical Asia, Australia, Tonga and Samoa. The species is an important medicinal and leafy vegetable endemic to the South-western region of Nigeria. …”
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Community similarity and species overlap between habitats provide insight into the deep reef refuge hypothesis by Anthony D. Montgomery, Douglas Fenner, Megan J. Donahue, Robert J. Toonen

“…To establish a better framework to analyze the DRRH, we analyzed stony coral communities in American Sāmoa across MCEs and SCRs to describe the community similarity and species overlap to test the foundational assumption of the DRRH. …”
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Potensi dan konservasi jenis-jenis Hoya dataran tinggi Pulau Jawa by Sri Rahayu

“…The original distribute from the South of India to Samoa, and from South of Japan to the North –East of Australia. …”
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Tropical western and central Pacific marine heatwave data calculated from gridded sea surface temperature observations and CMIP6 by Jules B. Kajtar, Vanessa Hernaman, Neil J. Holbrook, Paola Petrelli

“…Marine heatwave timeseries metrics are also provided for three case study regions: Fiji, Samoa, and Palau.…”
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Metatheme Analysis: A Qualitative Method for Cross-Cultural Research by Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer, Jessica Hardin

“…We demonstrate this method with data from a collaborative cross-cultural ethnographic research project (exploring weight-related stigma) that used the same sampling frame, interview protocol, and analytic process in four cross-cultural research sites in Samoa, Paraguay, Japan, and the United States. Detecting metathemes that transcend data collected in different languages, cultures, and sites, we discuss the benefits and challenges of qualitative metatheme analysis.…”
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Synthesis of Known and New Host Plant Records of the Fijian Ginger Weevil, <i>Elytroteinus geophilus</i> (Lucas) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae) Suggests a Preference... by Ryan J. Whitehouse, M. Lourdes Chamorro

“…More significantly, <i>E. geophilus</i>, the Fijian Ginger Weevil, has been linked, along with two wound invading fungal pathogens, to a passion fruit collar rot in Samoa. This species is considered a high-risk insect pest and it is included in the USDA&#8217;s prioritized offshore pest list. …”
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Fishing trip cost modeling using generalized linear model and machine learning methods - A case study with longline fisheries in the Pacific and an application in Regulatory Impact... by Hing Ling Chan, Minling Pan

“…This modeling approach is applied to estimate the trip-level fishing costs using the empirical sampled trip costs and the associated trip-level fishing operational data and vessel characteristics in the Hawaii and American Samoa longline fisheries. Using this approach to build models is particularly important when there is no strong theoretical guideline on predictor selection. …”
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Forest plant and bird communities in the Lau Group, Fiji. by Janet Franklin, David W Steadman

“…The unique avifauna of West Polynesia (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa) has been subjected to prehistoric human-caused extinctions but little was previously known about this topic in the Lau Group. …”
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A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS) by Ilan Kelman, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Kelly Rose-Clarke, Audrey Prost, Espen Ronneberg, Nicola Wheeler, Nicholas Watts

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Three new species of Nautilus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) from the Coral Sea and South Pacific by Gregory J. Barord, David J. Combosch, Gonzalo Giribet, Neil Landman, Sarah Lemer, Job Veloso, Peter D. Ward

“…Here, three new species of Nautilus from the Coral Sea and South Pacific region are formally named using observations of shell and soft anatomical data augmented by genetic information: N. samoaensis sp. nov. (from American Samoa), N. vitiensis sp. nov. (from Fiji), and N. vanuatuensis sp. nov. …”
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Prevalence of addictive behaviours among adolescents from 73 low-and middle-income countries by Alejandro de la Torre-Luque, Fatos Ozeylem, Cecilia A. Essau

“…The findings also revealed that smoking and the consumption of marijuana and amphetamine were the most common among adolescents in Samoa, whereas the prevalences for these substances were the lowest in Laos. …”
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Whole genome sequence of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum, strain Mexico A, suggests recombination between yaws and syphilis strains. by Helena Pětrošová, Marie Zobaníková, Darina Čejková, Lenka Mikalová, Petra Pospíšilová, Michal Strouhal, Lei Chen, Xiang Qin, Donna M Muzny, George M Weinstock, David Šmajs

“…The Mexico A genome sequence was compared to the whole genome sequences of three TPA (Nichols, SS14 and Chicago) and three TPE (CDC-2, Samoa D and Gauthier) strains. No large rearrangements in the Mexico A genome were found and the identified nucleotide changes occurred most frequently in genes encoding putative virulence factors. …”
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Vector Competence of Aedes aegypti and Aedes polynesiensis Populations from French Polynesia for Chikungunya Virus. by Vaea Richard, Tuterarii Paoaafaite, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau

“…Ae. polynesiensis was probably involved in the recent chikungunya outbreaks in Samoa and the Cook Islands. Moreover, this vector may contribute to the risk for CHIKV to emerge in other Polynesian islands like Fiji, and more particularly Wallis where there is no Ae. aegypti.…”
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