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Drone photogrammetry reveals contrasting body conditions of dugongs across the Indo‐Pacific

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
The monitoring of body condition has gained traction as a way to provide early warning signals of population decline, prompting conservation actions. However, the environmental and anthropogenic drivers of body condition variations are rarely investigated.
Camille Goudalier   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying unintended effects of an agroecological research project on farmers' practices and social network in Papua New Guinea

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2022
Agroecological researchers and advocates often make assumptions about the social impact and dissemination of their work: researchers may assume that their work has impact through postresearch dissemination, while advocates may assume that new ...
Mirjam Hazenbosch   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatio-temporal epidemiology of the cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea, 2009–2011

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2014
BackgroundCholera continues to be a devastating disease in many developing countries where inadequate safe water supply and poor sanitation facilitate spread.
P. Horwood   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Managing the Gulf of Papua Prawn Fishery: Sustainability, Maximum Returns and Cooperation between Commercial Fishing and Indigenous Fishing Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core  

Sustainable Development Investment Decision: Do Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Behavioral Biases Factors Matter?

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the critical factors involved and evaluates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG), along with behavioral biases, impacts sustainable investment decision making. The researchers employed purposive sampling with random sampling methods to gather data from retail investors; the data is then analyzed in two stages.
Anshita Bihari   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polynomial interpolation methods in development of local geoid model

open access: yesEgyptian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Aspects of conflict in the contemporary Papua New Guinea Highlands

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Climate Change and Women's Barriers to Credit: Global Firm‐Level Analysis of Gender Bias and Climate Risk Policy Thresholds

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this present study is to assess how climate risk mitigates the positive incidence of the female CEOs on credit access. Using the Climate Physical Risk Index (CPRI), we perform an empirical analysis on firm‐level data from over 38,500 firms in 130 countries observed over the period 2006–2020. We find that female entrepreneurs are
Simplice A. Asongu, Cherif Abdramane
wiley   +1 more source

Differential impact of malaria control interventions on P. falciparum and P. vivax infections in young Papua New Guinean children

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Thermal Conductivity of Papua New Guinea Balsa Wood Measured using the Needle Probe Procedure

open access: yes, 2014
A study was undertaken with the aim to determine thermal properties of balsa wood grown in plantations in Papua New Guinea. Thermal conductivity values were measured using the needle probe procedure according to ASTM D5334 (2008).
N. Kotlarewski   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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