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Reconstructing Early Human Subsistence in Near Oceania: New Insights From Matenkupkum and Matenbek
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 599-614, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT The colonization of New Ireland ~44–40,000 years ago represents the earliest evidence of human occupation in Near Oceania. Yet, the precise impacts of climatic changes on subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene, Last Glacial Maximum, and Holocene remain poorly understood.
Joëlle den Toom +3 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 136-141, May 2026.Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Globalisation, community development, and Melanesia: the north New Georgia sustainable social forestry and rural development project [PDF]
, 2002 This paper is about globalisation, the state, and community development in Melanesia. The paper draws on the concept of “weak state–strong society” and explores the influence of the Christian churches, non-government organisations, and kastom in shaping ...
Makim, Abigail, Makim, A. G.
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Revue Internationale d’Éducation de SèvresThis case study sketches leadership negotiation in Solomon Islands, an archipelago in Melanesia. In Melanesia, kastom, church, and institutional domains compete for influence. School leaders work in the institutional domain but must negotiate with kastom
Kabini Sanga, Martyn Reynolds
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How Global Biodiversity Targets Risk Becoming Counterproductive: The Case of Papua New Guinea
Conservation & Society, 2012 Despite the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defining 20 targets across 5 strategic goals, Target 11, which relates to protected areas, has received the most emphasis from donors, non-government organisations, and governments, as a performance ...
David R Melick, Jeff P Kinch, Hugh Govan
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Beyond Universities: Structural Stratification in Canadian Tertiary Education
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Empirical analyses and theorizing of structural stratification in tertiary education have focused almost exclusively on universities. In doing so, such work ignores large swaths of the organizational field, including counterparts in the understudied community college, private career college, and theological sectors.
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2014 This article considers prospects for effective development partnership in Solomon Islands following the transition of development assistance from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to bilateral donors in 2013.
Julien Barbara
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Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Molecular Variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Four of 391 Ni-Vanuatu women were infected with variants of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Melanesian subtype C. These strains had env nucleotide sequences ≈99% similar to each other and diverging from the main molecular subtypes of HTLV-1 ...
Olivier Cassar +4 more
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Scott Waide, Maseratis and EMTV … how a public outcry restored media freedom
Pacific Journalism Review, 2020 Commentary: ‘It’s like we are operating in a bubble,’ says EMTV deputy news editor Scott Waide from Papua New Guinea at the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum (MMFF). ‘But when you start reaching out, talking to others in the region, you find that you are not
Fred Wesley
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Clinical &Experimental Ophthalmology, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 460-481, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Background Current evidence on incidence and progression rate of diabetic retinopathy reveals disparities across Australasia, and no pooled estimates are available to guide region‐wide planning. This review and meta‐analysis assesses the overall incidence, determinants and progression of diabetic retinopathy in Australasia.
Getasew Alemu Mersha +6 more
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