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Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History

Pacific Affairs, 2002
"Over the past 50 years Pacific history has become a vast and complex field of multidisciplinary analysis . The conference of the Pacific History Association held in 2000 provided the opportunity to re-think some of these matters"--P. [4] of cover. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Pacific History Association. Conference (2000 : Australian National University), Hempenstall, Peter J., Lal, Brij V.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Feasibility of Nitrogen as a Carrier Gas for Inconel Cold Spray in Hydropower Application

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
N2, despite being nearly two orders of magnitude cheaper than He, is a feasible carrier gas for cold spray Inconel coatings in hydropower repair applications when higher gas temperature and pressure are used. Reducing powder size significantly improved cavitation resistance, while the addition of fine chromium carbide particles further enhanced erosion
Tianhao Wang, Mayur Pole, Tingkun Liu, Kenneth A. Ross, Christopher B. Smith   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural hazards map of the Circum-Pacific Region [cartographic material] : Pacific Basin sheet /

, 1992
Map modified 1992.; Depths shown by isolines.; "This map is a contribution to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)."; Accompanied by: Explanatory notes for the Natural hazards map of the Circum-Pacific region Pacific Basin ...
Circum-Pacific Map Project.
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REVIEW: Pacific journalists and frontline freedom

, 2013
Twelve countries feature in the new Fragile Freedom, Inaugural Pacific press freedom report, a publication concerned with strengthening press freedom and the rights of media workers in the Pacific.
Craddock, Patrick, Patrick Craddock
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Anti-vaccination conspiracy theories: Pacific Islands communities and the media

, 2023
This article is intended to provide an overview of the role of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories in Pacific Islands communities in New Zealand, setting it within the broader context of the Pacific and among Pasifika communities in Australia during the
Philip Cass, Cass, Philip
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Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific

, 2015
Strongly positive temperature anomalies developed in the NE Pacific Ocean during the boreal winter of 2013–2014. Based on a mixed layer temperature budget, these anomalies were caused by lower than normal rates of the loss of heat from the ocean to the ...
N. Bond, M. Cronin, H. Freeland, N. Mantua   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus

, 2014
The slowdown in global average surface warming has recently been linked to sea surface cooling in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This work shows that strengthening trade winds caused a reduction in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1–0.2 ...
M. England, S. McGregor, P. Spence, G. Meehl, A. Timmermann, W. Cai, Alexander Sen Gupta, M. Mcphaden, A. Purich, A. Santoso   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Las poetas afrocolombianas del Pacífico y la reconstrucción del territorio: una mirada desde la filosofía africana, la teoría ecocrítica africana y el ecowomanism

Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica
Con su poesía, las poetas afrocolombianas revelan la relación entre el ser humano y su entorno, demuestran la interconexión e interdependencia entre los seres vivos y no vivos, y exponen cómo la protección y el cuidado del medioambiente ...
Alexa Hurtado Montaño
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Contraction from COVID-19 in the Pacific: Implications for Health Financing

Health Systems & Reform, 2020
Pacific Island countries (PIC) have emerged as among the most at-risk globally from the collateral economic damage resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, despite being largely spared its direct health effects so far.
Ajay Tandon, Susan Ivatts, Peter Cowley, Tomas Roubal, Rebecca Dodd, Jane Pepperall, Inez Mikkelsen-Lopez, Wayne Jeremy Irava, Toomas Palu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source