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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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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

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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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

Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, Volume 93, Issue 8, Page 1097-1107, August 2024.
Many small‐bodied reef fish are strongly associated with structurally complex corals. However, under acidified conditions, massive corals often outcompete branching corals, leading to reef ‘flattening’. As ocean acidification increases globally, we show that resultant simplification of coral structural complexity may act as an important mediator of ...
Jamie Priest   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A 140-year-old specimen from the southern Trans-Fly region of Papua New Guinea proves that the Eastern Brownsnake, Pseudonaja textilis, was not a wartime or post-war introduction (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
: The medically important Australian elapid Pseudonaja textilis was first documented for the island of New Guinea in the 1950s, when specimens from the northern coast of the Papuan Peninsula were collected and identified.
Doria, Giuliano   +3 more
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Erroneous environs or aberrant activities? Reconciling unexpected collection localities for three New Guinea Worm-eating Snakes (Toxicocalamus, Serpentes, Elapidae) using historical account [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Permission granted from editor to include publisher's pdf file.In contrast to birds and large mammals, which can usually be observed and recognized using binoculars and field guides, many reptile and amphibian species are secretive, rarely seen, and ...
Kaiser, Hinrich, O'Shea, Mark
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East New Britain Province: Text summaries, maps, code lists and village identification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The major purpose of the Papua New Guinea Agricultural Systems Project is to produce information on small holder (subsistence) agriculture at provincial and national levels (Allen et al 1995).
Allen, B J   +10 more
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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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Contract law – The South Pacific: customary and introduced law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The author examines the practical effect of the combined influence of customary and introduced common laws on the law of contract operating in the South Pacific – particularly the twelve island countries within the region with membership of the ...
Care, Jennifer Corrin
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