Do tax waivers reduce prices and increase imports of healthy foods? Interrupted time-series analyses from Tonga [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthIntroduction It is unclear whether tax waivers are a useful public health intervention for lowering food prices and improving nutrition, or whether fiscal gains go largely to importers, wholesalers and retailers.
Andrea Teng +5 more
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Artificially Intelligent Simulated Patients in Undergraduate Surgical Teaching: A Single Blinded Randomized Controlled Study. [PDF]
Clin TeachABSTRACT Introduction Self‐directed learning (SDL) and reflection are critically important for clinicians. There is limited evidence describing the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) to support medical SDL. AI simulated patients (AISP) may allow for high‐fidelity, reflective educational interactions.
Baraza W +7 more
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Zambian Indigenous Cattle. [PDF]
Vet Med SciThis study aimed at genetically profile Zambian indigenous cattle Tonga, Angoni and Barotse using DNA markers. The markers reviewed that cattle were geographical sub‐structured and no evidence of panmixia. but higher genetic diversity among and within populations.
Musimuko E +4 more
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Developing Community‐Informed Communication Resources to Improve Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake in Tonga [PDF]
Health ExpectationsIntroduction Despite high coverage of routine childhood vaccines, uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the Pacific Island nation of Tonga has been slow.
Yasmin Mohamed +20 more
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IMF Staff Country ReportsThe 2024 Article IV Consultation discusses that Tonga’s economic activity has strengthened, bolstered by consistent remittance flows, continued tourism recovery, and robust construction activities. Inflationary pressures have substantially eased. After peaking at 14.1 percent in September 2022, headline inflation has since been normalizing.
International Monetary Fund
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Size and Ecology of a Giant Pavona clavus Coral Colony in the Kingdom of Tonga [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSamantha Crisp +7 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 117-131., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Benjamin Black +4 more
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Energetic output of the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcanic eruption from pressure measurements [PDF]
, 2022 The violent eruption of the volcano at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai island on January 15, 2022, generated an intense pressure wave registered by instruments all over the world.
S. E. Rigby +3 more
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‘Traditional’ Healers, Speaking and Motivation in Vava’u, Tonga: Explaining Syncretism and Addressing Health Policy [PDF]
, 2010 Bilateral health system development in Tonga is implicated in a misrepresentation of ‘traditional’ healing that has serious implications for the provision of health care.
Poltorak, Mike, Mike Poltorak (16050701)
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The Kariba Dam, Discursive Displacements and the Politics of Appropriating a Waterscape in Zimbabwe, 1950s-2017 [PDF]
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2020 The construction of mega dams does not just cause large scale technical and environmental transformations, it triggers new and competing ways of appropriating the emerging waterscapes. When the Kariba Dam emerged in the late 1950s along the Zambezi River,
Terence M. Mashingaidze
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