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Use of Facebook by Secondary School Students at Nuku'alofa as an Indicator of E-Readiness for E-Learning in the Kingdom of Tonga

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The Kingdom of Tonga is an isolated least developing country located on the northeast of New Zealand with a population of 103,252 (2011 census) and with a gross domestic product per capita of USD $2,545.20.
Hans Tobias Sopu, Yoshifumi Chisaki, Tsuyoshi Usagawa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Remote Sensing of Coconut Trees in Tonga Using Very High Spatial Resolution WorldView-3 Data

Remote Sensing, 2020
This paper presents a simple and efficient image processing method for estimating the number of coconut trees in the Tonga region using very high spatial resolution data (30 cm) in the blue, green, red and near infrared spectral bands acquired by the ...
Eric F. Vermote, Sergii Skakun, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Keiko Saito   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Heritable IFNAR1 Deficiency in Oceania

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autosomal recessive interferon alpha and beta receptor subunit 1 (IFNAR1) deficiency is a rare and heritable inborn error of immunity (IEI) predisposing individuals to severe and life‐threatening viral infections. It is more common in people of Western Polynesian ancestry, with estimates of around one in six thousand live births affected, due ...
Cecilia Verryt, Paul Gray, Peter McNaughton, Jane Peake, Melanie Wong, George Aho, Emma Best, Maia Brewerton, Flora Lutui, Litara Esera Tulifau, Rebecca Qin, Satupa‘itea Viali, Petine White, Andrew Wood, See‐Tarn Woon, Theresa Cole, Alberto Pinzon Charry, Kuang‐Chih Hsiao   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

RECENT BRACHIOPODS FROM THE TONGA ISLANDS, SW PACIFIC: TAXONOMY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2019
Twenty species of Recent brachiopods belonging to the genera Neoancistrocrania, Basiliola, Basiliolella, Dyscolia, Abyssothyris, Xenobrochus, Terebratulina, Fallax, Septicollarina, Frenulina, Amphithyris, Annuloplatidia, Leptothyrella, Dallina, Campages,
MARIA ALEKSANDRA BITNER
doaj   +1 more source

Are integrative systematic tools efficient toward unraveling species diversity with the genus Jania (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta)?

Journal of Phycology, EarlyView.
Abstract The articulated genus Jania currently comprises 54 accepted species, making it the fourth most speciose genus among corallines, following Lithophyllum, Amphiroa, and Lithothamnion. Unlike these other genera, Jania is relatively easy to identify at a generic rank. However, morpho‐anatomical characters are insufficiently discriminant for species
Clio Maridakis, Viviana Peña Freire, Gilberto Marani, Maria Tarin Sancho, Line Le Gall, Florence Rousseau   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Impact of Periodontitis: Global, Regional and National Estimates of Periodontal Expenditure, With Forecasts to 2050

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
This study provides the first global, regional and national estimates of periodontal expenditure, with projections to 2050. Costs related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, maintenance and rehabilitation are quantified across all countries worldwide.
Dian Yi Chow, Robin D. Blythe, John Rong Hao Tay, Gustavo G. Nascimento, Mario Romandini   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds: Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
wiley   +1 more source

The international climate change regime and general principles of law

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Climate Change Advisory Opinion (AO) by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demonstrates the growing prominence of general principles of law in international law. The Climate Change AO was handed down at the end of the International Law Commission's project on general principles of law with the adoption of its Draft Conclusions.
Renatus Otto Franz Derler, Mads Andenas
wiley   +1 more source

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous practices of environmental sustainability in the Tonga community of southern Zambia

Jàmbá, 2016
Culture plays a significant role in conserving the environment. The purpose of this study was to explore the measures that have been employed by the Tonga people of southern Zambia to sustain their local biophysical environment.
Kennedy M. Kanene
doaj   +1 more source