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Weep for the Coming of Men: Epidemic and Disease in Anglo-Western Colonial Writing of the South Pacific

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic.
Chrystopher J. Spicer
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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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ACO-Kinematic: a hybrid first off the starting block [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Computer Science, 2022
The use of robots in carrying out various tasks is popular in many industries. In order to carry out a task, a robot has to move from one location to another using shorter, safer and smoother route.
Kaylash Chaudhary   +3 more
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An Evaluation of Online Proctoring Tools

open access: yesOpen Praxis, 2020
COVID’19 is hastening the adoption of online learning and teaching worldwide, and across all levels of education. While many of the typical learning and teaching transactions such as lecturing and communicating are easily handled by contemporary online ...
Mohammed Juned Hussein   +4 more
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Rare‐Earth Elements in Deep‐Sea Sediments in the South Pacific Gyre: Source Materials and Resource Potentials

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023
Deep‐sea sediments enriched in rare‐earth elements and yttrium (REY) plus scandium (Sc), termed “REY‐rich mud,” have attracted attention as a possible resource for these critical industrial elements.
Erika Tanaka   +5 more
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South Pacific Chlorophyceæ [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1950
A REVISION of the marine Myxophyceae of New Zealand has resulted in the addition of many species, none new, to the flora. A similar revision of the Chlorophyceae has revealed the fact that even in this well-known group the flora of the South Pacific is probably the most profitable field for phycologists.
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“Io, Keimami Leqataka Vakalevu Na Vei Gauna Mai Muri” (“We are Worried About the Future Generation”): Experiences of Eco-Grief in Rural Indigenous Fijians

open access: yesGlobal Environmental Psychology, 2023
The impacts of climate change are particularly strong in Pacific Small Island Developing States. However, empirical data on mental health and well-being in the context of climate change and climate anxiety in the region remains limited.
Amy D. Lykins   +4 more
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Pacific Islands Development Forum – Emergence of the New Participant in the Pacific Regionalism

open access: yesStudia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2019
Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) was formally established through signing of an agreement in 2015. The two previous gatherings were informal and did not bring any legally binding documents.
Joanna Siekiera
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Mapping of sovereign risks in small island economies: An application of contingent claim approach to fiji

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2020
While a decline in the market value of sovereign assets (below a benchmark level of liabilities) can trigger sovereign distress/default risk, volatility in sovereign assets can increase the risk premium on domestic debt and credit spread on external debt.
Devendra Kumar Jain   +2 more
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Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia

open access: yesParasite, 2018
The nematode genus Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) was found to be a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916 (Apicomplexa) and, therefore, a new name, Rasheedia n. nom., is proposed to substitute it.
Moravec František, Justine Jean-Lou
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