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Does a problem-based learning MBBS curriculum prepare resident medical officers for paediatric practice in Papua New Guinea?

open access: yes, 2020
Background. How well the problem based curriculum at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) prepares graduates for the workforce has not been evaluated. Methods.
F. Pulsan, J. Vince
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Rali affair: A case study for a free press

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 1999
In early 1996, a PNG news media cover-up was alleged over the so-called Topul Rali affair. An exposé by the student newspaper Uni Tavur led to a clash with the University of PNG administration and the journalism programme was closed down three years ...
David Robie
doaj   +1 more source

The Establishment and Development of Neurosurgery Services in Papua New Guinea

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 251-257, February 2016., 2016
Abstract Background Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a developing Pacific Nation of 7.3 million people. Although neurosurgery training was introduced to PNG in the year 2000, it was in 2003 that a neurosurgery service was established. Prior to this time, neurosurgery in PNG was performed by general surgeons, with some assistance from visiting Australian ...
W. Matui Kaptigau   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Stochastic Generalized Ginzburg-Landau Equation Driven by Jump Noise

open access: yes, 2017
This paper is concerned with the stochastic generalized Ginzburg-Landau equation driven by a multiplicative noise of jump type. By a prior estimate, weak convergence and monotonicity technique, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution of an ...
Gao, Hongjun, Lin, Lin
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Associated petroleum gas utilization in Tomsk Oblast:energy efficiency and tax advantages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article deals with oil production companies activities in increasing the utilization volume of associated petroleum gas (APG) in Tomsk Oblast. Cost-effectiveness analysis of associated petroleum gas utilization was carried out using the example of ...
Ahmadeev, K.   +3 more
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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 146-166, March 2026.
Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
wiley   +1 more source

Faith and Feathers: How Seventh‐Day Adventism Shapes Traditional Knowledge of the Vanate (Raggiana Bird of Paradise) along the Kokoda Track

open access: yesEcological Management &Restoration, Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and cultural spiritual associations, including religions, have recently gained acceptance as making important contributions to conservation practice, decision‐making and science. The decline of TEK in the Pacific and Papua New Guinea (PNG) has highlighted the need to examine how modern
Challis Pulotu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building culturally meaningful chronologies: negotiating Indigenous and Western temporalities in Oceania

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 465-478, October 2024.
ABSTRACT This paper examines some of the ways in which Indigenous and Western archaeological chronologies are being negotiated and entwined in Oceania. Indigenous pasts are often known through oral traditions, genealogies and ancestral landscapes; these are vital pasts populated by the ancestors.
Chris Urwin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on tree frogs, Nyctimystes species (Anura: Hylidae) of New Guinea; the Nyctimystes papua species group [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Published: 20 December 2014The definition of the Nyctimystes papua Species Group, as created by Zweifel (1983), is further elaborated and the differences between N. papua and N. disruptus, including morphology and geography, are discussed.
Menzies, J.
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Borders Across Rivers: Problems with the Creation of Anglo-German Borders Across Gira, Eia, Wuwu, and Waria Rivers, 1884-1909

open access: yes, 2006
An international boundary across navigable rivers can naturally create a great potential for international conflict. In New Guinea, the officials of Anglo-German colonial authorities seemed to have overlooked this problem when they first decided to lay ...
Kanasa, Biama
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