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Time‐variations of wave energy and forecasting power availability at a site in Fiji using time‐series, regression and ANN techniques

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
ABSTRACT Recently, there has been a shift in the global energy landscape to move to reliable, clean, and eco‐friendly renewable energy sources to address global issues such as climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. One such energy source is wave energy; researchers attempt to develop models that can accurately forecast the ...
Avikesh Kumar, Gabiriele Bulivou, Mohammed Rafiuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Golam M. Khan   +3 more
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Titanium Suboxides Responsible for Electronic Anomaly Near Room Temperature in the Ti3C2Tx MXene

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Our multi‐technique study reveals that the near‐room‐temperature anomaly in Ti3C2Tx MXene is linked to titanium suboxide nanodomains, including Ti3O5, embedded within the MXene host. Their temperature‐driven transformation provides an alternative explanation to solvent‐ and swelling‐based models and offers new insight into the thermally activated ...
Bence G. Márkus, Bradlee J. McIntosh, Lili Vajtai, Anna Nyáry, Sándor H. Sipos, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Ferenc Simon, László Forró, Dávid Beke   +8 more
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Tough and Skin‐Free Porous Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogels via Salt‐Induced Aqueous Phase Separation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Controlling counterion exchange rate during aqueous phase separation enables the formation of skin‐free, homogeneously porous polyelectrolyte complex hydrogels by suppressing kinetically trapped skin layers and macrovoids. The resulting hydrogel networks exhibit exceptional toughness (∼15 MJ·m−3) and enable 3D (bio)printing and post‐functionalization ...
Adrivit Mukherjee, Vishakha Vishakha, Julien Es Sayed, Hugo Brummer, Peter Dijkstra, Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli, Ranjita K. Bose, Marleen Kamperman   +7 more
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"Fear of the unknown": Health, disability, and stakeholder perspectives on the behavioral and social drivers of vaccination in children with disability in Fiji.

PLOS Global Public Health
Vaccinating children with disability in low- and middle-income countries, such as Fiji, is a key priority for equity. This study aimed to understand the social and behavioral drivers of vaccine uptake among children with disability in Fiji, from the ...
Rosalie Power, Unise Vakaloloma, Israt Jahan, Sureni Perera, Ilisapeci Tuibeqa, Rachel Devi, Litiana Volavola, William May, Donald Wilson, Lanieta Tuimabu, Gulam Khandaker, Meru Sheel, Australian Immunisation and Disability Investigators   +12 more
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Investigating Students Leisure-Time Reading Preferences in Upper Primary Classrooms in Fiji

lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
This quantitative study investigated upper primary school students' leisure time reading preferences in Fiji. A structured questionnaire was administered to 92 students in Years 7 and 8 of a select school in western Fiji. The findings revealed that the majority of students engaged in leisure reading, with storybooks being the most preferred reading ...
Khemendra Kamal Kumar, Satish Prakash Chand, Runaaz Ali, Subashni Lata Kumar   +3 more
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On meteorological droughts in tropical Pacific Islands: time‐series analysis of observed rainfall using Fiji as a case study [PDF]

Meteorological Applications, 2011
AbstractAnalysis of historical droughts was undertaken by converting observed monthly rainfall over the period 1949–2008 to the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The modified Mann–Kendall test applied on monthly rainfall showed statistically significant downward trends at significance level α = 0.01.
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Meniscus‐Guided Soft‐Lithographic Assembly of Grid‐Type Molecular Martensite Films for Single‐Crystal‐Like Actuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A meniscus‐guided microtransfer molding strategy enables scalable fabrication of grid‐type molecular martensite films with b‐axis‐correlated preferential texture. Sequential growth across microchannel intersections creates structurally continuous grids and robust thermoelastic actuation (∼11% strain, > 50 cycles, maximum force density: 7.1 × 109 N m−3).
Sooyeon Ra, Sourabh R. Jagdale, Jin Hyeok Jang, Minwoo Jang, Kyoungtae Hwang, Taewoo Lee, Eun Hui Jeong, Soon Ho Yoon, Byung Joon Moon, Jangyup Son, Dong‐Su Lee, Sukang Bae, Jun Dong Park, Tae‐Wook Kim, Sangmin An, Sang Kyu Park   +15 more
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Sugar, power and policy: The political economy of a health and economic ‘win–win’ in Fiji’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax

Globalization and Health
Background In 2006, the Fiji Government introduced a 0.05FJ$ (0.03USD) per litre excise tax on domestically produced sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Since then, the tax has been abandoned, reintroduced, or adjusted at least ten times, while tariffs on ...
Lana M. Elliott, Gade D. Waqa, Amerita L. A. Ravuvu, Sarah L. Dalglish, Stephanie M. Topp   +4 more
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Interaction‐Driven Assembly Pathways in Heterogeneous Active Microrobotic Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Peanut‐ and cube‐shaped light‐powered microrobots exhibit distinct magnetic and photocatalytic responses that determine their heterogeneous self‐assembly. In the dark, magnetic dipole interactions drive colloidal copolymerization with cubes acting as nucleation centers, whereas under light irradiation, phoretic interactions compete with magnetic ...
Domenico Calabrò, Roshan Velluvakandy, Martin Pumera, Francesco Priolo, Salvo Mirabella, Mario Urso   +5 more
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Identités nationales, identités « raciales » en Océanie

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2012
Discourses and politics in the Pacific, as in other regions of the world, have at times equated ‘race’ and nation as a basis for statements on national identity.
Adrien Rodd
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