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Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Molecular Variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia
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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BURIED ORNAMENTS: EXPLORING FUNERARY BEHAVIOURS IN THE CHALCOLITHIC FROM THE LOWER DANUBE
Summary This article focuses on personal adornments found in Chalcolithic funerary contexts from the Lower Danube. Generally, these artefacts are made from exotic raw materials originating from the Mediterranean sea, particularly Spondylus shells, along with Glycymeris or Antalis shells, and less frequently from local materials.
Monica Mărgărit
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Melanesia, home to some 7 million people, covers a vast geographic region of the Southwest Pacific, comprising more than ten thousand islands, ranging from New Guinea, the world s second largest at some 785,753 km2, to a myriad of high volcanic islands through to small low atolls, stretching for thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean (Map 1 ...
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AUKUS: A Bloc of Anglo‐Saxon Powers
ABSTRACT This article analyses AUKUS through the theoretical lens of neo‐offensive realism, with its distinctive emphasis on the articulation between system‐level and unit‐level variables for understanding alliance formation and dynamics. In so doing, it examines both system‐level, geostrategic developments that pre‐dispose the AUKUS partners to ...
Lloyd Cox
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Scott Waide, Maseratis and EMTV … how a public outcry restored media freedom
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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Avanata: a possible Late Lapita site on Fergusson Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen [PDF]
Anne Ford +2 more
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This scoping review mapped the available evidence on macro‐ and micronutrient intakes across 16 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) in the Western Pacific (shown on the map). Of the 2021 sources captured and screened, 51 met inclusion criteria.
Eliza Kitchener +4 more
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ABSTRACT Freshwater habitats in the Indo‐Pacific Islands are colonised by amphidromous fish, which undergo a marine larval phase while the rest of the life cycle takes place in the riverine habitat. These fish are mainly represented by Gobiiformes. Among these, Stenogobius genivittatus (Valenciennes, 1837) is widely distributed in the Indo‐Pacific ...
Romain Causse +8 more
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Labour mobility and diaspora: An overview of Solomon Islands’ historical regulatory experience, 1850s-2013 [PDF]
With less than 4,500 of its population of around 600,000 living overseas in 2013, the Solomon Islands ranks 138th in the world for diaspora formation.
Bedford, Richard +5 more
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Counterparts: Clothing, value and the sites of otherness in Panapompom ethnographic encounters [PDF]
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Anthropological Forum, 18(1), 17-35, 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00664670701858927.Panapompom people living in the western
Abu‐Lughod L. +43 more
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