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OBITUARY: Vale Peter Lomas – a checkered journalism legacy

Pacific Journalism Review, 2022
Tributes flowed for the death of New Zealand-born Fiji Sun publisher and chief executive Peter Lomas. He spent much of his life in Fiji and the Pacific and, according to his newspaper, 'He was an industry pioneer and one of the last surviving old school
Graham Davis
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Rapid review of factors influencing dietary behaviors in Fiji

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023
IntroductionIn Fiji, multiple burdens of malnutrition including undernutrition, overweight/obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies coexist at the individual, household, and population levels.
Benjamin Boxer, Ursula Trübswasser, Viola Lesi, Asaeli Naika, Pradiumna Dahal, Sonya Sagan, Kshitij Joshi, Ana Irache, Pragya Singh, Devina Nand, Ateca Kama, Alvina Deo, Sophie Goudet   +12 more
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Modeling the potential global distribution of suitable habitat for the biological control agent Heterorhabditis indica

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) Heterorhabditis indica is a promising biocontrol candidate. Despite the acknowledged importance of EPN in pest control, no extensive data sets or maps have been developed on their distribution at global level.
Sumeet Kour, Uma Khurma, Gilianne Brodie, Sunil Singh   +3 more
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Environmental factors associated with diarrhoea prevalence among under-five children in the Mataniko settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Rural and Remote Health, 2020
Introduction: Children aged less than 5 years are often at high risk of diarrhoeal infection. In the Solomon Islands, diarrhoea is the second leading cause of under-five mortality with about one in every 10 children dying from it before reaching 5 years.
Ambrose Gali, Keshwa Krishna, John Lowry, Masoud Mohammadnezhad   +3 more
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Value of traditional oral narratives in building climate-change resilience: insights from rural communities in Fiji

Ecology and Society, 2016
In the interests of improving engagement with Pacific Island communities to enable development of effective and sustainable adaptation strategies to climate change, we looked at how traditional oral narratives in rural/peripheral Fiji communities might ...
Shaiza Z. Janif, Patrick D. Nunn, Paul Geraghty, William Aalbersberg, Frank R. Thomas, Mereoni Camailakeba   +5 more
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Knowledge and practice of care-givers who have under-five diarrhoeal children: a quantitative cross-sectional study in Mataniko settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2016

Global Health Journal, 2017
Introduction: Diarrhoea remains the second most serious health problem among children below five years old in Solomon Islands and is one of the leading causes of infant mortality, which caused about one in every ten children dying before the age of five ...
Ambrose Gali, Keshwa N. Krishna, Sabiha Khan, John Lowry, Tamara Mangum, Masoud Mohammadnezhad   +5 more
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Patterns of Substrate Bioerosion by Excavating Sponges From the Southwest and Central Pacific Ocean

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Reef rubble from a number of locations in the southwest and central Pacific (Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands) was surveyed for its level of infestation with bioeroding sponges.
Susanne M. L. Pohler, Klaus Feussner, Henry V. Kaniki, Bindiya Rashni, Hans Wendt   +4 more
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Smallholder Farmer Perceptions of Postharvest Loss and Its Determinants in Fijian Tomato Value Chains

Horticulturae, 2019
The Fiji Islands, like many small Pacific island nations, are thought to incur high rates of postharvest loss. Little work has been undertaken to quantify the amount of loss within Pacific horticultural value chains, or identify the key determinants ...
Salesh Kumar, Steven J. R. Underhill
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Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat sensory evaluation of broiler chickens fed diets with fermented cassava leaves [PDF]

Animal Bioscience
Objective The objective of the study was to determine the effects of feeding fermented cassava leaf meal (FCLM) on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat sensory evaluation of broiler chickens.
Arti Bhavna, Titus J. Zindove, Paul A. Iji, Archibold G. Bakare   +3 more
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Evolutionary Relationships and Biogeography of the Ant-Epiphytic Genus Squamellaria (Rubiaceae: Psychotrieae) and Their Taxonomic Implications. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Ecological research on ant/plant symbioses in Fiji, combined with molecular phylogenetics, has brought to light four new species of Squamellaria in the subtribe Hydnophytinae of the Rubiaceae tribe Psychotrieae and revealed that four other species ...
Guillaume Chomicki, Susanne S Renner
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