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Students’ perception of a reduction in teaching weeks in a medical programme in Fiji

The Asia Pacific Scholar
Introduction: The MBBS programme at Fiji National University reduced its teaching weeks from 18 to 14 weeks in 2018. The purpose of this study was to assess student perceptions of learning and teachers following the reduction in the number of teaching ...
Rachael Tufui Masilomani, Sophaganie Jepsen, Maria Lourdes Villaruel, Aying Wang, Alena Kotoiwasawasa, Lusiana Naikawakawavesi, Norman Bartolome, Claudia Paterson, Andrew Hill, Maria Concepcion Bartolome   +9 more
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Optimizing photoactivation of PA‐mCherry for optical pooled CRISPR screens

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Photoactivatable PA‐mCherry finds widespread use to optically tag individual cells. However, confocal 405 nm UV laser‐scanning (normal scan) is much less efficient than widefield UV illumination, limiting the use of PA‐mCherry on confocal instruments. We remedy this limitation by reporting that rapid and repeated confocal scanning with a low‐intensity,
Sravasti Mukherjee, Giulia Zanetti, Bram van den Broek, Kees Jalink   +3 more
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Prevalence of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia in women in Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and Samoa, 1995–2017: Spectrum-STI model estimates

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2020
Objectives: To estimate prevalence levels of and time trends for active syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia in women aged 15–49 years in four countries in the Pacific (Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia [FSM], Papua New Guinea [PNG] and Samoa) to ...
Takeshi Nishijima, Devina Nand, Nefertti David, Mathias Bauri, Robert Carney, Khin Cho Win Htin, Ye Yu Shwe, Anup Gurung, Guy Mahiane, Naoko Ishikawa, Melanie M Taylor, Eline L Korenromp   +11 more
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Pharmacological inhibition of the PERK pathway modulates hepatocellular carcinoma growth and immune signaling

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Pharmacological inhibition of PERK in a DEN‐induced mouse model of liver cancer does not reduce tumor burden but alters cellular stress signaling. Despite blocking PERK activity, downstream stress responses, including CHOP expression, remain active, suggesting compensatory mechanisms within the unfolded protein response that may influence tumor ...
Ada Lerma‐Clavero, Maria Kopsida, Nathalie Arendt, Hans Lennernäs, Markus Sjöblom, Femke Heindryckx   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Export performance, governance, and economic growth: evidence from Fiji - a small and vulnerable economy

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020
This article analyses the nexus between exports, established indicators of governance, and economic growth in Fiji. It finds that exports and governance co-operate to promote economic growth. The interplay between these variables is also meaningful.
Ronal Chand, Rup Singh, Arvind Patel, Devendra Kumar Jain   +3 more
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RoundMi: A quantitative method to analyze mitochondrial morphology in mitotic cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
RoundMi is a workflow for rapid analysis of mitochondrial morphology in mitotic cells. By combining adaptive preprocessing with automated segmentation and quantification, it enables accurate measurements from single focal plane images, reducing acquisition time and computational demands while remaining compatible with high‐throughput fixed and live ...
Elmira Parvindokht Bararpour, Christine Volmert, Valentina Piano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fijian students’ perceptions drawn on Indian popular culture: exploring cultural hybridity and the twice-removed-from-reality image of India

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Fiji, a multilingual and multicultural nation, is often termed ‘Little India’ where the Fijians of Indian descent (Indo-Fijians) have developed a new identity through cultural assimilation as well as accommodation.
Sakul Kundra, Nakul Kundra, Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, Nii-K Plange, Amit Sarwal, Bhawna, Romina Singh, Regina Naidu   +7 more
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Fijian infrastructural citizenship: spaces of electricity sharing and informal power grids in an informal settlement

Cogent Social Sciences, 2020
Infrastructure has historically been absent in informal settlements in Oceania. Oceanic governments have deliberately withheld infrastructure to these settlements denying them essential resources, human rights, and ways of life.
Lucas Watt
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Hyperactive ice‐binding proteins stabilize cell membranes and improve resistance to dehydration stress in Caenorhabditis elegans

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
TisIBP8, a fungal‐derived hyperactive ice‐binding protein, helps Caenorhabditis elegans survive dehydration. It localizes near cell membranes, reduces cell damage, and helps maintain membrane structure during drying. These results suggest that ice‐binding proteins can protect cells from dehydration stress as well as freezing stress.
Daiki Shimose, Kotaro Ozaki, Ryohei Kuriyama, Yuka Ikemoto, Kazuhiro Mio, Yuji C. Sasaki, Tatsuya Arai, Sakae Tsuda, Yoichi Shinkai, Masahiro Kuramochi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of terahertz irradiation on DNA damage repair in living cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We investigated the effect of terahertz (THz) wave irradiation on DNA double‐strand break (DSB) repair in living cells. We found that THz irradiation enhanced DSB repair at specific frequencies, whereas heat treatment inhibited it, indicating that this effect is nonthermal and frequency‐specific.
Yuya Ueno, Shota Yamazaki, Hiromichi Hoshina, Masahiko Harata   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source