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The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2023 Summary: Background: Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face unique challenges in providing surgical care. We assessed the surgical care capacity of five PICs to inform the development of National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAP). Methods:
Rennie X. Qin +18 more
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An Elusive Dream: Multiracial Harmony in Fiji 1970-2000. [PDF]
, 2007 The common perception of Fiji, which is unique in the South Pacific, is that of an ethnically divided society with the indigenous and immigrant communities often at loggerheads.
Gaunder, Padmini
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing frequency of global crises has intensified concerns regarding climate vulnerability and the resilience of global production systems. This study examines the heterogeneous effects of supply chain development and supply chain digitalisation on climate vulnerability across countries, while accounting for institutional and investment ...
Ziwei Li +4 more
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Only a pawn in their games? environmental (?) migration in Kiribati – past, present and future
DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2016 The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICT) are exposed to the impacts of climate change. In extreme cases entire states may disappear. Kiribati is one of these countries.
Weber, Eberhard
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Climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Fiji [PDF]
, 2000 All nations, including Fiji, that are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) are obliged to provide National Communications to the Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC. The COP4 stressed the need for parties
Kenny, Gavin J. +5 more
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Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Arp2/3 complex is a seven‐component protein complex that facilitates the assembly of branched actin filament networks by binding to pre‐existing “mother” actin filaments and initiating the nucleation of new branched “daughter” filaments. Arp2/3 complex must be activated by a nucleation promoting factor such as the WASP/Scar protein family. The
Caitlin A. Anderson +8 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Animals often exhibit distinct microbial communities when maintained in captivity as compared to when in the wild. Such differentiation may be significant in headstart and reintroduction programs where individuals spend some time in captivity before ...
Samuel J. Eliades +8 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the Mediterranean region's critical dependence on tourism, the empirical relationship between tourism development and multidimensional sustainable development remains underexplored. Existing studies predominantly rely on unidimensional sustainability proxies, failing to capture the holistic nature of sustainability. This study examines
Emin Ahmet Kaplan +3 more
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The Indigeneity of Archaeological Research in Fiji: Issues and Opportunities [PDF]
, 2010 A literature review showed that there are substantial materials written on Fiji with regards to the search to identify the origin of Fijians. Archaeologists, in particular, began their work in the early 1900s (see Chapter 5).
Vunidilo, Tarisi Sorovi
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