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The threat of chikungunya in Oceania

open access: yesWestern Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2013
[Extract] The Oceania region, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean, has historically been free from chikungunya. However, the 2011 outbreak in New Caledonia and the ongoing outbreak in Papua New Guinea have highlighted the risk to other communities in Oceania where there are competent ...
Paul Horwood   +5 more
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An Imperialist’s Garden of Eden: Images of Oceania in R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island [PDF]

open access: yesPacific Geographies, 2021
This paper discusses how Oceania is depicted in an example of Victorian children’s literature, in Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. The island is described as a garden of Eden, in which the protagonists of the novel can build a model colonial civilisation ...
Rebekka Wörner
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The Sectoral Dimension of Trade Expansion in the Western Macrozone of the Asia-Pacific Region: The Role of Global Formats [PDF]

open access: yesПространственная экономика, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of countries participation in global trade formats on the turnover of commodity and industrial products in the Western macrozone of the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) in 1993–2021.
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Izotov
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Wireless technology is an environmental stressor requiring new understanding and approaches in health care

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Electromagnetic signals from everyday wireless technologies are an ever-present environmental stressor, affecting biological systems. In this article, we substantiate this statement based on the weight of evidence from papers collated within the ORSAA ...
Julie E. McCredden   +4 more
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Oceania [PDF]

open access: yesEcoHealth, 2016
Oceania is ecologically, culturally, geographically, socially and politically diverse (Woinarski 2010; Jupiter et al. 2014). Oceans connect this complex region together across the islands of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia with water being a core feature (McMichael et al. 2003; Burns 2002).
Arabena, Kerry, Kingsley, Jonathan
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Oceania in the Foreign Policy of China

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2023
To study the economic and political activity of PRC in Oceania (among the developing states of the Pacific region) seems to be a very urgent task in connection with the growing global rivalry between the US and China and, in particular, in the Indo ...
I. S. Vinogradov
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Océanitude and Pacific regionalism in the wake of climate change [PDF]

open access: yesPacific Geographies, 2021
The ocean is a shared space for all Pacific Island States and the common element that renders Pacific identities unique. Today, low-lying atolls are potentially exposed to rising sea levels threatening their very existence.
Claudia Ledderucci
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An odyssey to Oceania [PDF]

open access: yesNature Reviews Genetics, 2020
A study in Nature analysing genome-wide variation in individuals from islands across Polynesia reports evidence of admixture with Native Americans related to Indigenous inhabitants of northern South America.
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Migration and Foreign Aid as Factors Restraining Regional Cooperation in the South Pacific [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Political Science Yearbook, 2022
Cooperation in the South Pacific region is unique due to the characteristics of its participants. Following the period of decolonization (1962-1980), countries in Oceania have radically changed.
Joanna Siekiera
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Enduring the Storm: Dealing with Mental Disabilities in Oceania

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2022
No abstract available.
Juliann Anesi
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