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2003
New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian ...
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New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian ...
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A New Transferrin in New Guinea
Nature, 1963IN 1957 Smithies1, using the technique of starch-gel electrophoresis, described inherited variants of human β-globulins. Smithies and Hiller2 established the identity of these β-globulins with the iron-binding protein, trans-ferrin, and this was afterwards confirmed with iron-59 and autoradiography3.
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Nutrition Studies in New Guinea
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1964The results of nutritional studies are reported which were carried out in Papuan subjects living in the Central Highlands of New Guinea where 90 to 95 per cent of the staple food consists of sweet potatoes. The daily protein intake is 15 to 35 gm. The protein is poor in the amino acids methionine, cystine and to a lesser degree in lysine.Nitrogen ...
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2014
New Guinea, inhabited for approximately 50,000 years, has been the focus of far less archaeological research compared to Australia and Polynesia, to the south and east, respectively. However, the archaeology of this island is significant to perennial archaeological topics including the development of agriculture and social complexity, the explanation ...
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New Guinea, inhabited for approximately 50,000 years, has been the focus of far less archaeological research compared to Australia and Polynesia, to the south and east, respectively. However, the archaeology of this island is significant to perennial archaeological topics including the development of agriculture and social complexity, the explanation ...
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Tectonics of the New Guinea Area
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1991New Guinea is a very large island (2500 km long by 600 km wide) whose southern half geologically forms the northern part of the Australian con tinent. The long fold-and-thrust mountain range, rising to heights above 4000 m, that extends along the spine of central New Guinea is the result of collisions of this northern margin of Australia with island ...
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