From Cooperation to Capacitation: Cuban Medical Internationalism in the South Pacific
International Journal of Cuban Studies, 2013 This article analyses Cuba's medical missions in the South Pacific and specifically in Timor-Leste (East Timor), the largest outside of Latin America. Here, the adaptation of Cuba's low-technology and low-resourced preventive-focused medical model (based
Chris Walker, John M. Kirk
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EDITORIAL: Connecting the Pacific dots
Pacific Journalism Review, 2018 When University of the South Pacific climate change scientist Elisabeth Holland gave a keynote address at the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand, on February 2018, her message was simple but inspiring.
David Robie, Hermin Indah Wahyuni
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Geoid anomalies and fracture zones in the Pacific Ocean [PDF]
The high degree and order geoid field in the Pacific is a superposition of fracture zone anomalies and hot-spot swell anomalies. A two-dimensional spectral analysis of this field reveals a very strong north-south wavenumber contribution with a dominant ...
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Influence of southern hemispheric biomass burning on midtropospheric distributions of nonmethane hydrocarbons and selected halocarbons over the remote South Pacific [PDF]
, 1999 Aircraft measurements of nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) and halocarbons were made over the remote South Pacific Ocean during late August-early October 1996 for NASA's Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE) Pacific Exploratory Mission-Tropics A (PEM ...
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Improving ENSO Prediction at Longer Lead Times: Role of Off‐Equatorial South Pacific Heat Content
Geophysical Research LettersPrevious studies have demonstrated that signals originating from the South Pacific can improve the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction at various lead times.
Guang Yang +5 more
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Legal consequences of ocean change in the South Pacific – outline of the problem
Lex Portus, 2019 Global climate change scenarios are seen as future concerns, but this is not the case for the Pacific island countries and territories. The natural sciences have already built substantial knowledge about the oceanographic, geological and atmospheric ...
Siekiera Joanna
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A nui wave encountering psychology from the shores of the Pacific [PDF]
, 2008 The worldview of Pacific nations which lie within the vast ocean of the South Pacific is yet to be uncovered in the world of psychology. Since the first wave of migrants to the shores of Aotearoa,/New Zealand, many differing pathways have evolved for the
Siautu, Alefaio
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Present day Nd isotopic composition of seawater and sediment leaches from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean [PDF]
, 2011 FINAL ID: PP11B-1785 The Southern Ocean plays a key role in the climate evolution of Earth’s history, nevertheless its biggest region, the Pacific sector, has been poorly investigated in comparison to other regions in many paleoceanographic aspects ...
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Discover OceansPacific Island Countries and Territories are heavily reliant on fisheries for food security and livelihoods. However, marine pollution, including microplastic contamination, poses an increasing threat.
Siutiti Fe’ao +11 more
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Patterns of Genetic and Morphological Variation in Deer Mice (Peromyscus Maniculatus) in the Warner Mountains [PDF]
, 2011 A previously recognized north-south mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) break in populations of deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus, was investigated in Western North America. A 383-bp fragment of the mtDNA control region was analyzed from 107 tissue samples in the
Wade, Allison Linnea
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