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Notes on the amphipacific relations of Hawaiian Cladoniaceae [PDF]

, 1993
The total number of currently accepted species of Cladoniaceae in the Hawaiian Islands is 22. Several taxonomic problems still exist, however. The effects of isolation are clear among Cladoniaceae. Endemism is high (c.
Smith, Clifford W., Stenroos, Soili
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The Formal, the Informal, and the Precarious: Making a Living in Urban Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 2020
For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of 'the economy' contained within development reports, government documents and the media do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living.
Cox, John, Lusby, Stephanie, Rooney, Michelle, Sharp, Timothy, Spark, Ceridwen   +4 more
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We are playing football: Seeing the game on Panapompom, PNG [PDF]

, 2011
© Royal Anthropological Institute 2011.This article is about football, played by men from Panapompom in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay province. Football is problematic not because it is culturally appropriated or modified, but rather because Panapompom ...
Anderson, Appadurai, Bashkow, Battaglia, Battaglia, Battaglia, Benjamin, Berde, Bromilow, Burridge, Butler, Butler, Butler, Butler, Butler, Butler, Butler, Clay, Connell, Dreyfus, Englund, Fife, Filer, Flusser, Foster, Foster, Foster, Foster, Foucault, Foucault, Foucault, Foucault, Geertz, Geertz, Hau‘ofa, Hirsch, Hirsch, Holston, Jolly, Kasaipwalova, Keesing, Kinch, Kulick, Lattas, Lattas, Lattas, Lawrence, Leach, Leach, Lindstrom, Lindstrom, Lipset, Lipset, LiPuma, LiPuma, MacAloon, Maguire, Mangan, Marcus, Merlan, Moore, Mosko, Mosko, Mosko, Nelson, Nelson, Nelson, O'Hanlon, Read, Robbins, Robbins, Robbins, Rollason, Rollason, Rollason, Rollason, Rollason, Rollason, Sahlins, Sahlins, Sahlins, Sahlins, Scott, Sontag, Stern, Stoller, Stoller, Stoller, Strathern, Strathern, Strathern, Strathern, Strathern, Sykes, Taussig, Taussig, Taussig, Taylor, Taylor, Wagner, Wagner, Wagner, Wagner, Wagner, Wagner, Wetherell, Wilde, Wolff, Worsley   +108 more
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Understanding Judicial Independence in Vanuatu [PDF]

, 2020
This paper is intended to fill a gap in the literature concerning the Vanuatu judiciary, as this topic is rarely addressed other than in reports by international non-government organisations, such as Transparency International and its local chapter ...
Forsyth, Miranda
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Papua New Guinea’s refugee track record and its obligations under the 2013 Regional Resettlement Arrangement with Australia [PDF]

, 2015
This paper examines Papua New Guinea\u27s track record in assessing and resettling asylum seekers, its current obligations under the 2013 Regional Resettlement Arrangement, and the sustainability of this arrangement.
Diana Glazebrook
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The extension of the taxon cycle model to island plants: insights from the Canarian vascular flora

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taxon cycle models describe eco‐evolutionary patterns of lineage colonization, diversification, and decline across archipelagos, inferring an important role for competition amongst ecologically similar taxa in driving concurrent niche changes.
José María Fernández‐Palacios, Rüdiger Otto, Robert J. Whittaker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tuberculosis in Solomon Islands: why declining case notifications may not reflect true incidence

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Interpretation of tuberculosis (TB) surveillance data in Solomon Islands between 2016 and 2022 should be informed by local conditions, including pandemic disruptions in contact tracing. The TB surveillance data recently reported by Yanagawa et al.
Dylan M Bush, Alice Siuna Waneoroa, Emire Meone Maefiti, Thomas H Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Wore, Silvia S Chiang   +5 more
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Civil society and media: The relevance in Fiji, Tonga and PNG

Pacific Journalism Review, 2001
PNG's Melanesian societies with Polyneasian societies like Tonga and Samoa, which evolved the familiar authoritarian feudal structures, which are always in tension with democratic institutions.
David Lea
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Bryophyte flora of Western Melanesia [PDF]

, 1990
A project dealing with the hepatic and moss floras of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands has proceeded more than halfway. The revision of the flora is based on the study of ca 17000 specimens collected in 1981.
Koponen, Timo
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Horizontal and vertical relations: Interrogating "in/dividualism" among Christian Bidayuhs [PDF]

, 2015
This article addresses aspects of the dividual/individualist debate by thinking through an analogous set of ideas and practices among the Bidayuh, an indigenous group of Malaysian Borneo.
Chua, L
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