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New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens : 7., Calenia flava (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae) [PDF]
, 2000 Calenia flava spec. nova from Papua New Guinea is described and illustrated. The new species is closely related to C. phyllogena but differs in the larger apothecia with yellow disc and the abundance of sterile thallus ...
Lücking, Robert +2 more
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Land registration in Papua New Guinea: Competing Perspectives
, 2003 Like other post-colonial states, Papua New Guinea continues to grapple with issues pertaining to land. In addition to being an important source of group identity, in resource rich Papua New Guinea, land is an important source of economic prosperity ...
Curtin, Tim +2 more
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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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Annals of Tropical Research, 2015 Field experiments were conducted in 2012 and 2013 to study the effects of inoculum densities of Meloidogyne incognita applied at 10, 100, 1000, 5000, and 10000 juveniles/eggs per 500 cm3 along with un- inoculated control treatments, on a susceptible ...
Macquin K. Maino, Shamsul Akanda
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Managing the Gulf of Papua Prawn Fishery: Sustainability, Maximum Returns and Cooperation between Commercial Fishing and Indigenous Fishing Communities [PDF]
, 2015 In many fisheries around the world, harvesting capacity is excessive and fish stocks are under threat. The Gulf of Papua prawn fishery (GPPF) presents a different set of management challenges.
Kompas, Thomas, Kuk, Ron
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Aspects of conflict in the contemporary Papua New Guinea Highlands
, 2002 To the foreign observer, Papua New Guinea is readily associated with violent gang crime, tribal fighting and electoral violence. In the Highlands region, high-powered weapons render tribal fighting increasingly problematic, particularly in provinces ...
McLeod, Abby +2 more
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BMC Medicine, 2019 Introduction As malaria transmission declines, understanding the differential impact of intensified control on Plasmodium falciparum relative to Plasmodium vivax and identifying key drivers of ongoing transmission is essential to guide future ...
Maria Ome-Kaius +20 more
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Polynomial interpolation methods in development of local geoid model
Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2018 In geodesy three surfaces, the physical surface of the earth, the geoid and the reference ellipsoid are encountered giving rise to orthometric height (h), the ellipsoidal height (H) and the geoidal separation (N).
Rabindra Kumar Das +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
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