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Australia’s future role in the Indo-Pacific national security dynamics and strategic scenarios

Pólusok Folyóirat
This article examines how Australia is repositioning itself as a security actor in the Indo‑Pacific amid sharpening strategic competition between the United States and China.
József Sáfrán
doaj   +1 more source

Diet, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Nutritional Status in Fiji: A Scoping Review

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is essential for transitioning toward healthier, more sustainable diets. To design effective intervention programmes to promote F&V intake, it is crucial to understand intake levels and dietary patterns across different demographic groups as well as populations' nutritional status.
Fusta Azupogo, Sonja Y. Hess, Anasaini Moala Silatolu, Deanna K. Olney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary legacies structure the geography of seagrass traits across the world's oceans

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Traits modulate species' ability to track shifts in climate, yet the extent to which traits have been shaped by the contemporary environment and/or historical processes remains poorly understood. Here, we fill this gap for the world's seagrasses, habitat‐forming species that provide critical ecosystem services.
Nestor E. Bosch, Matthew McLean, Fernando Tuya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small powers in the Indo-Pacific : strategies, opportunities, and challenges

, 2023
The chapter’s attempt is to assess the contribution of small state IR theory to the understanding of small powers’ strategies in the IP in relation to different variables – economic, cultural, military. The chapter is divided as follows. The first section will introduce an overview of the scholarly debate around small powers, emphasising how small ...
Paolo Pizzolo, Stefano Pelaggi
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South Korea's THAAD Decision at the Domestic–International Nexus: Preferences, Information, and Constraints

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Korean President Park Geun‐hye's 2016 decision to authorize the deployment of the U.S. Forces Korea THAAD system—and Beijing's subsequent economic and diplomatic coercion—marked a decisive inflection point in Seoul's China policy.
Joel Atkinson
wiley   +1 more source

How Well Can Words Capture Facial Appearance? A Cross‐Linguistic Exploration

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract When describing faces, people often struggle with verbalizing facial features. Free descriptions seem to focus predominantly on aspects of faces that are inferred, for example, psychological traits, age, attractiveness, and so on, whereas facial features themselves are often described in a limited and imprecise fashion.
Ewelina Wnuk, Jan Wodowski
wiley   +1 more source

Colonisation History of Freshwater Snails Across the Atlantic and Mediterranean Islands: Insights From Mercuria (Littorinimorpha, Hydrobiidae)

Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Islands harbour unique biodiversity, and depending on their geological origin, they have fundamentally different colonisation histories: continental islands may contain relict faunas shaped by vicariance and sporadic gene flow, whereas oceanic islands must have been colonised across open seas, often through long‐distance dispersal events ...
Jonathan P. Miller, Omar Sánchez, Vincent Prié, Diana Delicado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Japanʼs Aid Promote the Economic Growth of Pacific Island Countries?

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Pacific Island countries (PICs) are among the worldʼs most aid‐dependent nations. This study examines relations between Japanʼs aid and the economic growth of 13 PICs during 2000–2023. After evaluating overall effects of Japanʼs aid, specific types are analysed: economic, social, production, and multi‐sector aid.
Wesley Steve Aru
wiley   +1 more source

Age‐ and Growth‐Based Life‐History Traits of Striated Surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus striatus) and Achilles Tang (Acanthurus achilles) from Miti‘āro, Cook Islands

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.
Striated surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus striatus) and Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles) are two surgeonfish species commonly harvested for subsistence on Miti‘āro, Cook Islands. Using individuals collected by local fishers, this study provides the first age‐ and growth‐based assessment of these species from Miti‘āro.
Antony Vavia, Elizabeth D. L. Trip, Valerio Visconti, Julian Lilkendey, Jingjing Zhang, Charlie Owen, Armagan Sabetian   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syndromic Convergence in Aquaculture Disease Management: A Critical Review of Climate‐Pathobiome Interactions, Diagnostic Frameworks, and Knowledge Gaps

Reviews in Aquaculture, Volume 18, Issue 4, September 2026.
Syndromic convergence (SyCo) reframes aquaculture disease as the synergistic product of climate‐driven stressors, pathobiome communities, and host immune compromise, not single pathogens. A five‐criterion scoring matrix, composite early warning index, and three‐layer intervention framework together operationalize this shift toward predictive ...
Ilhan Altinok
wiley   +1 more source