INVENTORY IN POLAND - CURRENT SITUATION AND PROSPECTS by O. Kemp

“…Poland, on vedetsya in digital forms and is believed Samoa Large data base REAL ESTATE. THIS data base constantly menyaetsya. …”
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Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population - based studies with 4.4 million participants by Gyanchand Rampal, Lekhraj Rampal

“…By contrast, age-standardised adult prevalence rose by 15 percentage points in men and women in Polynesia and Micronesia. In 2014, American Samoa had the highest national prevalence of diabetes (>30% in both sexes), with age-standardised adult prevalence also higher than 25% in some other islands in Polynesia and Micronesia. …”
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Health and economic benefits of achieving contraceptive and maternal health targets in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and Caribbean by Caroline SE Homer, Jennifer Butler, Tom Walsh, Nick Scott, Dominic Delport, Howard S Friedman, Sherrie L Kelly, Debra ten Brink, Rowan Martin-Hughes, Olanike Adedeji, Davide De Beni, Federica Maurizio, Doretta Di Marco, Federico Tobar, Maria Pilar de la Corte Molina, Andre S Richards

“…To support investment decisions, we estimated the additional cost and expected health and economic benefits of achieving the United Nations targets of zero unmet need for modern contraceptive choices and 95% coverage of MH services by 2030 in select Small Island Developing States.Methods Five Pacific (Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) and four Caribbean (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Saint Lucia) countries were considered based on population survey data availability. …”
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Tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure in young adolescents aged 12–15 years: data from 68 low-income and middle-income countries by Prof. Bo Xi, PhD, Yajun Liang, PhD, Prof. Yunxia Liu, PhD, Yinkun Yan, PhD, Min Zhao, PhD, Chuanwei Ma, MS, Prof. Pascal Bovet, MD

“…Findings: The mean prevalence of current tobacco use was 13·6%, ranging from 2·8% in Tajikistan to 44·7% in Samoa. In most countries, the prevalence of tobacco use was higher for boys than girls, and higher for adolescents aged 14–15 years than for those aged 12–13 years. …”
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Global and regional emissions estimates for N[subscript 2]O by Dlugokencky, E., Ishijima, K., Dutton, G. S., Hall, B. D., Langenfelds, R. L., Tohjima, Y., Machida, Toshinobu, Manizza, Manfredi, Rigby, M., O'Doherty, Simon, Patra, P. K., Harth, C. M., Weiss, R. F., Krummel, P. B., van der Schoot, M., Fraser, P. J., Steele, L. P., Aoki, S., Nakazawa, T., Elkins, J. W., Saikawa, Eri, Prinn, Ronald G.

“…High-frequency records of tropospheric N[subscript 2]O are available from measurements at Cape Grim, Tasmania; Cape Matatula, American Samoa; Ragged Point, Barbados; Mace Head, Ireland; and at Trinidad Head, California using the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) instrumentation and calibrations. …”
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Coral reef carbonate accretion rates track stable gradients in seawater carbonate chemistry across the U.S. Pacific Islands by Hannah C. Barkley, Thomas A. Oliver, Ariel A. Halperin, Ariel A. Halperin, Noah V. Pomeroy, Noah V. Pomeroy, Joy N. Smith, Joy N. Smith, Rebecca M. Weible, Rebecca M. Weible, Charles W. Young, Charles W. Young, Courtney S. Couch, Courtney S. Couch, Russell E. Brainard, Russell E. Brainard, Jennifer C. Samson

“…Here we leverage a decade of integrated ecosystem monitoring data from American Samoa, the Mariana Archipelago, the main and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the U.S. …”
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Mosquitoes, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Public Health: A Systematic Review of <i>Anopheles</i> and <i>Aedes</i> Surveillance Strategies by Arumugam Bhuvaneswari, Ananganallur Nagarajan Shriram, Kishan Hari K. Raju, Ashwani Kumar

“…<i>bancrofti</i> is transmitted by various <i>Aedes</i> mosquito species, with <i>Aedes polynesiensis</i> and <i>Aedes samoanus</i> being the primary vectors in Samoa. The <i>Aedes scutellaris</i> and <i>Aedes kochi</i> groups are also important vectors in the South Pacific Islands. …”
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Comparing the Underwater Soundscapes of Four U.S. National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries by Samara M. Haver, Samara M. Haver, Michelle E. H. Fournet, Robert P. Dziak, Christine Gabriele, Jason Gedamke, Leila T. Hatch, Joseph Haxel, Scott A. Heppell, Megan F. McKenna, David K. Mellinger, Sofie M. Van Parijs

“…Temporal trends in band and spectrum sound levels in Glacier Bay and the National Park of American Samoa were primarily driven by biological sound sources, while trends in Stellwagen and the Buck Island Reef National Monument were primarily driven by anthropogenic sources. …”
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million childre... by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), Key, T

“…Prevalence of obesity was more than 30% in girls in Nauru, the Cook Islands, and Palau; and boys in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and American Samoa in 2016. Prevalence of obesity was about 20% or more in several countries in Polynesia and Micronesia, the Middle East and north Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA. …”

Global and regional emissions estimates for N₂O by E. Saikawa, R. G. Prinn, E. Dlugokencky, K. Ishijima, G. S. Dutton, B. D. Hall, R. Langenfelds, Y. Tohjima, T. Machida, M. Manizza, M. Rigby, S. O'Doherty, P. K. Patra, C. M. Harth, R. F. Weiss, P. B. Krummel, M. van der Schoot, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, S. Aoki, T. Nakazawa, J. W. Elkins

“…High-frequency records of tropospheric N₂O are available from measurements at Cape Grim, Tasmania; Cape Matatula, American Samoa; Ragged Point, Barbados; Mace Head, Ireland; and at Trinidad Head, California using the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) instrumentation and calibrations. …”
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Geochemistry of subducted metabasites exhumed from the Mariana forearc: Implications for Pacific seamount subduction by Jianghong Deng, Lipeng Zhang, He Liu, Haiyang Liu, Renqiang Liao, Abdul Shakoor Mastoi, Xiaoyong Yang, Weidong Sun

“…The Pacific Plate origin of these metabasites suggests they were formed in the Early Cretaceous or earlier.Two types of OIBs have been recognized from alkali metabasites, one of which is geochemically similar to the HIMU-EMI-type OIBs from the West Pacific Seamount Province, and another is similar to the EMII-type OIBs from the Samoa Island in southern Pacific, with negative Nb-Ta-Ti anomalies and enriched Nd-Hf isotopes. …”
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Global Scale Dissemination of ST93: A Divergent Staphylococcus aureus Epidemic Lineage That Has Recently Emerged From Remote Northern Australia by Sebastiaan J. van Hal, Eike J. Steinig, Eike J. Steinig, Patiyan Andersson, Matthew T. G. Holden, Matthew T. G. Holden, Simon R. Harris, Graeme R. Nimmo, Deborah A. Williamson, Helen Heffernan, S. R. Ritchie, Angela M. Kearns, Matthew J. Ellington, Elizabeth Dickson, Herminia de Lencastre, Herminia de Lencastre, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Stephen D. Bentley, Julian Parkhill, Deborah C. Holt, Phillip M. Giffard, Steven Y. C. Tong, Steven Y. C. Tong

“…We examined 459 ST93 genome sequences from Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Europe to investigate the evolutionary history of ST93, its emergence in Australia and subsequent spread overseas.Results: Comparisons with other S. aureus genomes indicate that ST93 is an early diverging and recombinant lineage, comprising of segments from the ST59/ST121 lineage and from a divergent but currently unsampled Staphylococcal population. …”
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Measurement report: The Palau Atmospheric Observatory and its ozonesonde record – continuous monitoring of tropospheric composition and dynamics in the tropical western Pacific by K. Müller, K. Müller, J. S. Tradowsky, J. S. Tradowsky, P. von der Gathen, C. Ritter, S. Patris, J. Notholt, M. Rex, M. Rex

“…Palau's <span class="inline-formula">O₃</span> <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M9" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mo>/</mo></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="8pt" height="14pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="880d1b22cfae9b4167ff115d05c6894c"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-24-2169-2024-ie00001.svg" width="8pt" height="14pt" src="acp-24-2169-2024-ie00001.png"/></svg:svg></span></span> RH distribution resembles the one in Fiji, Java and American Samoa but is unique in its seasonality and its comparably narrow Gaussian distribution around low <span class="inline-formula">O₃</span> VMR and the evenly distributed RH. …”
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Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories by Wayne Dawson, Jodey M. Peyton, Oliver L. Pescott, Tim Adriaens, Elizabeth J. Cottier‐Cook, Danielle S. Frohlich, Gillian Key, Chris Malumphy, Angeliki F. Martinou, Dan Minchin, Niall Moore, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Stephanie L. Rorke, Elena Tricarico, Katharine M. A. Turvey, Ian J. Winfield, David K. A. Barnes, Diane Baum, Keith Bensusan, Frederic J. Burton, Peter Carr, Peter Convey, Alison I. Copeland, Darren A. Fa, Liza Fowler, Emili García‐Berthou, Albert Gonzalez, Pablo González‐Moreno, Alan Gray, Richard W. Griffiths, Rhian Guillem, Antenor N. Guzman, Jane Haakonsson, Kevin A. Hughes, Ross James, Leslie Linares, Norbert Maczey, Stuart Mailer, Bryan Naqqi Manco, Stephanie Martin, Andrea Monaco, David G. Moverley, Christine Rose‐Smyth, Jonathan Shanklin, Natasha Stevens, Alan J. Stewart, Alexander G. C. Vaux, Stephen J. Warr, Victoria Werenkaut, Helen E. Roy

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Helium and lead isotope geochemistry of oceanic volcanic rocks from the East Pacific and South Atlantic by Graham, David W. (David William)

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Genetic determinants of telomere length from 109,122 ancestrally diverse whole-genome sequences in TOPMed by Margaret A. Taub, Matthew P. Conomos, Rebecca Keener, Kruthika R. Iyer, Joshua S. Weinstock, Lisa R. Yanek, John Lane, Tyne W. Miller-Fleming, Jennifer A. Brody, Laura M. Raffield, Caitlin P. McHugh, Deepti Jain, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Cecelia A. Laurie, Ali Keramati, Marios Arvanitis, Albert V. Smith, Benjamin Heavner, Lucas Barwick, Lewis C. Becker, Joshua C. Bis, John Blangero, Eugene R. Bleecker, Esteban G. Burchard, Juan C. Celedón, Yen Pei C. Chang, Brian Custer, Dawood Darbar, Lisa de las Fuentes, Dawn L. DeMeo, Barry I. Freedman, Melanie E. Garrett, Mark T. Gladwin, Susan R. Heckbert, Bertha A. Hidalgo, Marguerite R. Irvin, Talat Islam, W. Craig Johnson, Stefan Kaab, Lenore Launer, Jiwon Lee, Simin Liu, Arden Moscati, Kari E. North, Patricia A. Peyser, Nicholas Rafaels, Christine Seidman, Daniel E. Weeks, Fayun Wen, Marsha M. Wheeler, L. Keoki Williams, Ivana V. Yang, Wei Zhao, Stella Aslibekyan, Paul L. Auer, Donald W. Bowden, Brian E. Cade, Zhanghua Chen, Michael H. Cho, L. Adrienne Cupples, Joanne E. Curran, Michelle Daya, Ranjan Deka, Celeste Eng, Tasha E. Fingerlin, Xiuqing Guo, Lifang Hou, Shih-Jen Hwang, Jill M. Johnsen, Eimear E. Kenny, Albert M. Levin, Chunyu Liu, Ryan L. Minster, Take Naseri, Mehdi Nouraie, Muagututi‘a Sefuiva Reupena, Ester C. Sabino, Jennifer A. Smith, Nicholas L. Smith, Jessica Lasky-Su, James G. Taylor, VI, Marilyn J. Telen, Hemant K. Tiwari, Russell P. Tracy, Marquitta J. White, Yingze Zhang, Kerri L. Wiggins, Scott T. Weiss, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Kent D. Taylor, Moritz F. Sinner, Edwin K. Silverman, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, Wayne H.-H. Sheu, Frank Sciurba, David A. Schwartz, Jerome I. Rotter, Daniel Roden, Susan Redline, Benjamin A. Raby, Bruce M. Psaty, Juan M. Peralta, Nicholette D. Palmer, Sergei Nekhai, Courtney G. Montgomery, Braxton D. Mitchell, Deborah A. Meyers, Stephen T. McGarvey, Angel C.Y. Mak, Ruth J.F. Loos, Rajesh Kumar, Charles Kooperberg, Barbara A. Konkle, Shannon Kelly, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Robert Kaplan, Jiang He, Hongsheng Gui, Frank D. Gilliland, Bruce D. Gelb, Myriam Fornage, Patrick T. Ellinor, Mariza de Andrade, Adolfo Correa, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Eric Boerwinkle, Kathleen C. Barnes, Allison E. Ashley-Koch, Donna K. Arnett, Christine Albert, Cathy C. Laurie, Goncalo Abecasis, Deborah A. Nickerson, James G. Wilson, Stephen S. Rich, Daniel Levy, Ingo Ruczinski, Abraham Aviv, Thomas W. Blackwell, Timothy Thornton, Jeff O’Connell, Nancy J. Cox, James A. Perry, Mary Armanios, Alexis Battle, Nathan Pankratz, Alexander P. Reiner, Rasika A. Mathias

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Editorial: Community Engagement Is Key to Promoting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health

“…Using data from the Household Pulse Survey collected in 2021, Zhang et al found that Asian Americans have the highest rate of COVID-19 vaccination, but age, gender, and education gradients exist.23 The authors also cautioned on the vaccination hesitation among subgroups of Asian Americans.23 Nguyen et al conducted a community-based qualitative study using focus groups and key informant interviews among a Vietnamese American community in Houston, Texas and concluded that promoting science-based information through trusted messengers, improving awareness and access, and showcasing benefits to the community could increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among Vietnamese Americans.24 Samoa et al used data from the AA and NH/PI COVID-19 Needs Assessment Project and found that vaccine hesitancy ranged from 23% among NH/PIs to 57% among Tongans, with consistent associations between socioeconomic status and vaccine hesitancy among Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Multi-ethnic NH/PIs.25 The collection of articles has contributed to our understanding of the health disparities experienced by AAs and NH/PIs and pointed to the urgent need to address the disparities, as Ka'ai et al noted.14 First, anti-Asian hate crimes have surged after the emergence of COVID-19 and exacerbated the physical and mental suffering among AAs.14,21 The works highlighted by the Biden Administration in addressing anti-Asian bias, xenophobia, and harassment need to be applauded and sustained.26 Second, LEP among AAs has been a barrier to accessing prevention and health care services,18 including mental health and genetic testing.27?…”
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A National Status Report on United States Coral Reefs Based on 2012–2018 Data From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program by Erica K. Towle, E. Caroline Donovan, Heath Kelsey, Mary E. Allen, Hannah Barkley, Jeremiah Blondeau, Russell E. Brainard, Annie Carew, Courtney S. Couch, Maria K. Dillard, C. Mark Eakin, Kimberly Edwards, Peter E. T. Edwards, Ian C. Enochs, Chloe S. Fleming, Alexandra S. Fries, Erick F. Geiger, Laura Jay Grove, Sarah H. Groves, Matthew Gorstein, Adel Heenan, Matthew W. Johnson, Justine Kimball, Jennifer L. Koss, Tye Kindinger, Arielle Levine, Derek P. Manzello, Nathan Miller, Thomas Oliver, Jennifer C. Samson, Dione Swanson, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, T. Shay Viehman, Ivor D. Williams

“…NCRMP conducts standardized observations of biological, climatic, and socioeconomic indicators across American Samoa, Guam, the Main Hawaiian Islands, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Pacific Remote Islands, Florida, the Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. …”
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Recurrent horizontal transfer identifies mitochondrial positive selection in a transmissible cancer by Andrea Strakova, Thomas J. Nicholls, Adrian Baez-Ortega, Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Alexander T. Sampson, Katherine Hughes, Isobelle A. G. Bolton, Kevin Gori, Jinhong Wang, Ilona Airikkala-Otter, Janice L. Allen, Karen M. Allum, Clara L. Arnold, Leontine Bansse-Issa, Thinlay N. Bhutia, Jocelyn L. Bisson, Kelli Blank, Cristóbal Briceño, Artemio Castillo Domracheva, Anne M. Corrigan, Hugh R. Cran, Jane T. Crawford, Stephen M. Cutter, Eric Davis, Karina F. de Castro, Andrigo B. De Nardi, Anna P. de Vos, Laura Delgadillo Keenan, Edward M. Donelan, Adela R. Espinoza Huerta, Ibikunle A. Faramade, Mohammed Fazil, Eleni Fotopoulou, Skye N. Fruean, Fanny Gallardo-Arrieta, Olga Glebova, Pagona G. Gouletsou, Rodrigo F. Häfelin Manrique, Joaquim J. G. P. Henriques, Rodrigo S. Horta, Natalia Ignatenko, Yaghouba Kane, Cathy King, Debbie Koenig, Ada Krupa, Steven J. Kruzeniski, Marta Lanza-Perea, Mihran Lazyan, Adriana M. Lopez Quintana, Thibault Losfelt, Gabriele Marino, Simón Martínez Castañeda, Mayra F. Martínez-López, Bedan M. Masuruli, Michael Meyer, Edward J. Migneco, Berna Nakanwagi, Karter B. Neal, Winifred Neunzig, Sally J. Nixon, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco, Francisco Pedraza-Ordoñez, Maria C. Peleteiro, Katherine Polak, Ruth J. Pye, Juan C. Ramirez-Ante, John F. Reece, Jose Rojas Gutierrez, Haleema Sadia, Sheila K. Schmeling, Olga Shamanova, Alan G. Sherlock, Audrey E. Steenland-Smit, Alla Svitich, Lester J. Tapia Martínez, Ismail Thoya Ngoka, Cristian G. Torres, Elizabeth M. Tudor, Mirjam G. van der Wel, Bogdan A. Vițălaru, Sevil A. Vural, Oliver Walkinton, Alvaro S. Wehrle-Martinez, Sophie A. E. Widdowson, Irina Zvarich, Patrick F. Chinnery, Maria Falkenberg, Claes M. Gustafsson, Elizabeth P. Murchison

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Whole genome sequence analysis of blood lipid levels in >66,000 individuals by Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Akhil Pampana, David Y. Zhang, Joseph Park, Stella Aslibekyan, Joshua C. Bis, Jennifer A. Brody, Brian E. Cade, Lee-Ming Chuang, Ren-Hua Chung, Joanne E. Curran, Lisa de las Fuentes, Paul S. de Vries, Ravindranath Duggirala, Barry I. Freedman, Mariaelisa Graff, Xiuqing Guo, Nancy Heard-Costa, Bertha Hidalgo, Chii-Min Hwu, Marguerite R. Irvin, Tanika N. Kelly, Brian G. Kral, Leslie Lange, Xiaohui Li, Martin Lisa, Steven A. Lubitz, Ani W. Manichaikul, Preuss Michael, May E. Montasser, Alanna C. Morrison, Take Naseri, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Nicholette D. Palmer, Patricia A. Peyser, Muagututia S. Reupena, Jennifer A. Smith, Xiao Sun, Kent D. Taylor, Russell P. Tracy, Michael Y. Tsai, Zhe Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Wei Bao, John T. Wilkins, Lisa R. Yanek, Wei Zhao, Donna K. Arnett, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Donald W. Bowden, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Adolfo Correa, L. Adrienne Cupples, Susan K. Dutcher, Patrick T. Ellinor, Myriam Fornage, Stacey Gabriel, Soren Germer, Richard Gibbs, Jiang He, Robert C. Kaplan, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Ryan Kim, Charles Kooperberg, Ruth J. F. Loos, Karine A Viaud-Martinez, Rasika A. Mathias, Stephen T. McGarvey, Braxton D. Mitchell, Deborah Nickerson, Kari E. North, Bruce M. Psaty, Susan Redline, Alexander P. Reiner, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Stephen S. Rich, Cristen Willer, Jerome I. Rotter, Daniel J. Rader, Xihong Lin, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Gina M. Peloso, Pradeep Natarajan

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