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Suss, Rachel, Madison Mahoney, Kendall J. Arslanian, Kate Nyhan, and Nicola L. Hawley. "Pregnancy health and perinatal outcomes among Pacific Islander women in the United States and US Affiliated Pacific Islands: Protocol for a scoping review." PLOS ONE 17, no. 1 (January 18, 2022): e0262010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262010.

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This scoping review examines the literature on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes among Pacific Islander women in the United States (U.S.) and U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands. Our aim was to identify research that disaggregated Pacific Islanders from other population groups. We conducted a systematic search of MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), and PsycINFO (Ovid) databases and a hand-search of grey literature. Forty-eight articles published between January 2010 and June 2020 were included. The majority of studies were conducted in Hawaii and utilized clinical record data. Infant outcomes were more commonly reported than maternal outcomes. We highlighted several limitations of the existing literature that included aggregation of Pacific Islanders with Asian American and other ethnic groups; limited comparison between Pacific Islander sub-groups; inadequate definitions of the nationality and ethnic composition of Pacific Islander groups; a lack of hypothesis-driven primary data collection and clinical trials; and underrepresentation of Pacific Islanders in population-based studies. Researchers should address these limitations to improve pregnancy and perinatal outcomes among Pacific Islanders, who comprise the second fastest growing ethnic minority in the U.S.

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Kaspar, Annette, Aleki Fuimaono, Shaun Mauiliu, Sione Pifeleti, and Junior Posini. "Preventing Advanced Stages of Disease in Samoa: A Literature Review." Disease Prevention and Public Health Journal 16, no. 1 (December 6, 2021): 32–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/dpphj.v16i1.4761.

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Background: Surgeons are scarce in the Pacific Islands, and improvements to public and primary health care services should reduce the burden of avoidable surgical interventions. Three communicable and non-communicable diseases of public health concern in Samoa are filariasis, childhood overweight/obesity, and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)-induced gastric cancer. Strengthening existing public and primary health care strategies for these issues should, in turn, reduce the avoidable surgical burden of Hydrocelectomy for filarial hydrocele, in-situ pinning for Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis (SUFE), and endoscopic Esophago-Gastro-Duodenoscopy (EGD) for the differential diagnosis of H. pylori-induced gastric pathologies. This study aimed to perform a literature review of these conditions requiring surgical intervention in the Pacific Islands to contribute recommendations to the current public and primary health care activities in Samoa. Method: A literature review was conducted using the PubMed and ScienceDirect databases. The primary search strategy utilized the terms and keywords “Pacific Islands”; “Filarial Hydrocele”; “SUFE”; “H. pylori-induced gastric pathology”; and their relevant synonyms. Inclusion criteria: the study population were Pacific Islanders residing in the Pacific Islands, and the study investigated presentation, etiology, epidemiology, treatment, and/or management for the three diseases of interest. Articles published before 2000 were excluded. Results: There was only one journal article that met the inclusion criteria. There is virtually no research literature on the current state of these preventable surgical conditions among the population residing in the Pacific Islands. Conclusion: Data are needed to inform evidence-based policy formulation and implementation. The surgical voice should positively contribute to public health efforts.

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Nishino, Ryota. "From Memory Making to Money Making?" Pacific Historical Review 86, no. 3 (August 1, 2017): 443–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2017.86.3.443.

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Of the numerous commercially published Japanese travelogues about the southwestern Pacific Islands, five stand out for their detailed accounts of interactions between the travel writers and the Pacific Islanders. This article explores the common narrative threads in these works. Drawing on the literature on travel writing and dark tourism, it analyzes how the relationship between travelers and the Islanders has evolved over time. The early writers report disturbing encounters with Islanders for whom memories of World War II’s Pacific battles were still vivid. The later writers exhibit greater expectations as patrons of battlefield tourism. Their writing displays less interest in a meaningful cultural exchange with the Islanders. This trend may parallel the asymmetry of political and economic power between Japan and the Pacific Islands.

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Halter, Nicholas. "Ambivalent Mobilities in the Pacific." Transfers 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 34–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2017.070104.

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Australian travel writing of the interwar period expanded with the growth of tourism in the Pacific Islands and the development of publishing and literacy at home. This article focuses on how the Australian middlebrow imagination was shaped by the diverse travel accounts of Australian tourists, adventurers, executives, scientists, officials, and missionaries writing at this time. Many of their texts borrowed and blended multiple discourses, simultaneously promoting the islands as educational and exotic, and appealing to an Australian middlebrow readership. In this article I argue that not only was travel writing middlebrow in its content and style, but the islands themselves were a particularly middlebrow setting. This is evident in representations of the islander “savage” in the region of Melanesia, a prevalent theme in Australian travelogues. I argue that this middlebrow literature was characterized by ambivalent and often contradictory ideas about the civilized “self” and the savage “other.”

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Robinson, Alistair. "Beachcombers: Vagrancy, Empire, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide." Review of English Studies 70, no. 297 (March 19, 2019): 930–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz021.

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Abstract Runaways, castaways and renegades, the beachcombers lived in the Pacific Islands, and were the vagrants of the South Seas. Historically, they were most prominent in the early nineteenth century, and belonged to the medial phase between the Pacific Islanders’ first contact with Europeans, and the formal colonization that followed. Roaming from one island to another, trading skills and goods with their inhabitants, the beachcombers were driven further and further afield as Western powers began to annex the Pacific Islands. By the 1880s and 1890s they had been thoroughly displaced by the missionaries and merchants who settled there; however, in spite of this, or rather because of it, the beachcomber became an increasingly prominent figure in British culture during this period. This article examines the importance of the beachcomber in the imperial imagination. It explores how the beachcomber was ambiguously presented as both an imperial pathfinder and a degraded buccaneer in popular novels and the periodical press, and how these portrayals were key to the public’s understanding of the Pacific Islands. This cultural and historical discussion then provides the context for a close reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide (1894). Here the beachcomber, a vagrant figure who captivated Stevenson’s imagination, is shown to be essential to his construction and critique of empire in the Pacific.

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Park, Mijung. "A Brief Review of Mental Health Issues among Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in the U.S." Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal 5, no. 4 (March 24, 2021): 248–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31372/20200504.1124.

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief summary of mental health issues among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities in the U.S. APIs include individuals from Far East Asia (e.g., Korea, China), Central Asia (e.g., Afghanistan, Uzbekistan), South Asia (e.g., India, Pakistan), South East Asia (e.g., Thailand, Philippines), Western Asia (e.g., Iran, Saudi Arabia), and Pacific islands (e.g., Hawaii, Samoa, Mariana island, Fiji, Palau, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Tokelau islands, Niue, and Cook Islands). Collectively they speak more than one hundred languages and dialects. Such a diversity across the API community presents unique challenges and opportunities for research, education, and practice. The existing body of literature on mental health issues in API communities is marred by the lack of high-quality data and insufficient degrees of disaggregation. Such a knowledge gap hindered our ability to develop culturally and linguistically tailored interventions, and in turn, API communities have experienced mental health disparities and mental health services’ disparities. To move the field forward, future research effort with APIs should focus on articulating variations across different API subgroups, identifying what explains such variations, and examining the implications of such variations to research, practice, education, and policy.

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Santos, Joseph Alvin, Briar McKenzie, Kathy Trieu, Sara Farnbach, Claire Johnson, Jimaima Schultz, Anne Marie Thow, Wendy Snowdon, Colin Bell, and Jacqui Webster. "Contribution of fat, sugar and salt to diets in the Pacific Islands: a systematic review." Public Health Nutrition 22, no. 10 (January 7, 2019): 1858–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980018003609.

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AbstractObjectivePacific Island countries are experiencing a high burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases; and consumption of fat, sugar and salt are important modifiable risk factors contributing to this. The present study systematically reviewed and summarized available literature on dietary intakes of fat, sugar and salt in the Pacific Islands.DesignElectronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect and GlobalHealth) were searched from 2005 to January 2018. Grey literature was also searched and key stakeholders were consulted for additional information. Study eligibility was assessed by two authors and quality was evaluated using a modified tool for assessing dietary intake studies.ResultsThirty-one studies were included, twenty-two contained information on fat, seventeen on sugar and fourteen on salt. Dietary assessment methods varied widely and six different outcome measures for fat, sugar and salt intake – absolute intake, household expenditure, percentage contribution to energy intake, sources, availability and dietary behaviours – were used. Absolute intake of fat ranged from 25·4 g/d in Solomon Islands to 98·9 g/d in Guam, while salt intake ranged from 5·6 g/d in Kiribati to 10·3 g/d in Fiji. Only Guam reported on absolute sugar intake (47·3 g/d). Peer-reviewed research studies used higher-quality dietary assessment methods, while reports from national surveys had better participation rates but mostly utilized indirect methods to quantify intake.ConclusionsDespite the established and growing crisis of diet-related diseases in the Pacific, there is inadequate evidence about what Pacific Islanders are eating. Pacific Island countries need nutrition monitoring systems to fully understand the changing diets of Pacific Islanders and inform effective policy interventions.

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Spencer, Hamish G., Jonathan M. Waters, and Thomas E. Eichhorst. "Taxonomy and nomenclature of black nerites (Gastropoda:Neritimorpha:Nerita) from the South Pacific." Invertebrate Systematics 21, no. 3 (2007): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is06038.

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Members of the genus Nerita are abundant components of the intertidal fauna in many parts of the world and yet Nerita taxonomy remains unsettled. Here, the relationships among black-shelled Nerita populations from Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, the Kermadec Islands and Easter Island are discussed. Four species are recognised: N. atramentosa Reeve, 1855 from the southern half of Australia; N. melanotragus E.A. Smith, 1884 from eastern Australia, northern New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands; N. morio (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) from Easter Island and the Austral Islands; and N. lirellata Rehder, 1980 from Easter Island alone. These species are of great importance in studies of intertidal community structure and yet two of them have been consistently confused in the ecological and taxonomic literature. Moreover, the relationships among the species are not at all as implied by recent subgeneric classifications; it is argued that all four species should be placed in the subgenus Lisanerita Krijnen, 2002. The superficially similar N. picea Récluz, 1841 is not closely related. An accurate taxonomy of the genus will almost certainly require considerable genetic analysis. The nomenclature for each species is herein established by complete synonymies, and lectotypes for both N. atramentosa and N. melanotragus are selected.

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Sanga, Kabini. "Fānanaua." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcis.v8i1.130.

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A key reason for many leadership development programmes in Pacific Islands countries is to teach ethics to Pacific Islands leaders. However, as interventions, these programmes are exclusively reliant on Western ideas about ethics and ethics education. To counter such impositions, this paper discusses the nature of indigenous clan ethics and how ethics education is undertaken in an indigenous Solomon Islands clan. Based on an insider-research project of the Gula'alā people of the Solomon Islands, the paper reports on the differences of indigenous ethics education to how ethics is taught, as reported in the global literature and seen in leadership development programmes in Pacific Islands countries.

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Sanders, Michael, Natasha Houghton, Ofa Dewes, Judith McCool, and Peter Thorne. "Estimated prevalence of hearing loss and provision of hearing services in Pacific Island nations." Journal of Primary Health Care 7, no. 1 (2015): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hc15005.

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INTRODUCTION: Hearing impairment (HI) affects an estimated 538 million people worldwide, with 80% of these living in developing countries. Untreated HI in childhood may lead to developmental delay and in adults results in social isolation, inability to find or maintain employment, and dependency. Early intervention and support programmes can significantly reduce the negative effects of HI. AIM: To estimate HI prevalence and identify available hearing services in some Pacific countries — Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga. METHODS: Data were collected through literature review and correspondence with service providers. Prevalence estimates were based on census data and previously published regional estimates. RESULTS: Estimates indicate 20–23% of the population may have at least a mild HI, with up to 11% having a moderate impairment or worse. Estimated incidence of chronic otitis media in Pacific Island nations is 3–5 times greater than other Australasian countries in children under 10 years old. Permanent HI from otitis media is substantially more likely in children and adults in Pacific Island nations. Several organisations and individuals provide some limited hearing services in a few Pacific Island nations, but the majority of people with HI are largely underserved. DISCUSSION: Although accurate information on HI prevalence is lacking, prevalence estimates of HI and ear disease suggest they are significant health conditions in Pacific Island nations. There is relatively little support for people with HI or ear disease in the Pacific region. An investment in initiatives to both identify and support people with hearing loss in the Pacific is necessary. KEYWORDS: Health services; hearing loss; otitis media; Pacific Islands

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Thomson, J. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 35, no. 3 (December 1, 2000): 73–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989004231056.

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Thomson, J. "New Zealand (with the South pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 36, no. 3 (December 1, 2001): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989014231389.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 37, no. 3 (December 1, 2002): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198902762558178.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 35, no. 3 (September 2000): 73–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198940003500304.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 36, no. 3 (September 2001): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198940103600304.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 37, no. 3 (September 2002): 101–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198940203700305.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38, no. 4 (December 2003): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989403384004.

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Hamilton, Stephen. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39, no. 4 (December 2004): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989404050279.

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Sandbrook, Patrick. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 20, no. 2 (June 1985): 107–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948502000208.

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Sandbrook, Patrick. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 21, no. 2 (June 1986): 108–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948602100208.

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Dowling, David. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 23, no. 2 (June 1988): 100–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948802300206.

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Williams, Mark. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 24, no. 2 (June 1989): 94–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948902400205.

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Williams, Mark. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 25, no. 2 (June 1990): 123–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949002500207.

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Williams, Mark, and Stuart Murray. "New Zealand (With the South Pacific Islands." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 26, no. 2 (June 1991): 112–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949102600206.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 27, no. 2 (June 1992): 72–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949202700204.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 28, no. 3 (September 1993): 69–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949302800303.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 29, no. 3 (September 1994): 87–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949402900304.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 30, no. 3 (September 1995): 109–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949503000305.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31, no. 3 (September 1996): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949603100304.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 32, no. 3 (September 1997): 73–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949703200304.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34, no. 3 (September 1999): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949903400304.

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Thomson, John. "New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33, no. 3 (September 1998): 75–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002200949803300304.

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Rohoia, Angeline B., and Parmendra Sharma. "Do Inflation Expectations Matter for Small, Open Economies? Empirical Evidence from the Solomon Islands." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, no. 9 (September 17, 2021): 448. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14090448.

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This paper examines the role of inflation expectations in Solomon Islands, a Pacific Island Country, using the Hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve model. The study applies the Generalized Method of Moments to estimate the Hybrid New Keynesian Philips Curve model using quarterly time series data for the period 2003–2017. The study confirms the existence of a Hybrid New Keynesian Philips Curve for Solomon Islands and finds that both backward-looking and forward-looking processes matter for inflation. Fuel prices and output gap are important indicators of current inflation. The study highlights key areas to further investigate including the weak monetary transmission mechanism and to examine the exchange rate pass through effect onto domestic prices. Studies on the role of inflation expectations in small, open, economies of the Pacific, such as Solomon Islands, is limited. This paper fills this void in literature by using quarterly time-series data to build a Hybrid New Keynesian Philips Curve model for Solomon Islands.

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Walker, Therez B. "A Review of Sustainability, Tourism, and the Marketing Opportunity for Adopting the Cittàslow Model in Pacific Small Islands." Tourism Review International 23, no. 3 (February 19, 2020): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/154427219x15741004672657.

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This article explores an important niche of destination marketing and branding for Pacific small islands and suggests the utilization of the concept of Slow Tourism, modeled on the Cittàslow (Slow City) movement. The article begins with an analytical examination of the different elements, processes, and relationships involved in evaluating the slow philosophy as a worthwhile approach towards destination marketing and the sustainable tourism agenda in Pacific small islands. The academic discourse on the Cittàslow movement unquestionably offers an open discussion, but it has yet to address the application of this concept in small islands in the Pacific. Much of the current literature on the Cittàslow approach has focused on a European context, while some researchers have paid attention to the growing number of Cittàslow destinations in the Asia Pacific region. Following a review, this article seeks to fill the gap in the literature by not only emphasizing the importance of the movement, but it also examines the view that, the growing number of communities around the world adopting the slow philosophy, gives credibility to the adaptability of the movement in a variety of geographical areas. In doing so, this article contributes to the body of tourism management, marketing, and branding scholarship. This article also incorporates the varied and varying understandings about slow living, Slow Tourism, as well as sustainable tourism that are useful to develop models for marketing/branding places with specific potentialities and attributes such as small island destinations.

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Spicer, Chrystopher J. "Weep for the Coming of Men: Epidemic and Disease in Anglo-Western Colonial Writing of the South Pacific." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 20, no. 1 (April 19, 2021): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.1.2021.3783.

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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic. During that period, a succession of significant Anglo-Western writers visited the South Pacific region: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, and Fredrick O’Brien. In a remarkable literary conjunction, they each successively visited the Marquesas Islands, which became for them a microcosm of the epidemiological disaster they were witnessing across the Pacific. Instead of the tropical Eden they expected, these writers experienced and wrote about a tainted paradise corrupted and fatally ravaged by contact with Western societies. Even though these writers were looking through the prism of Social Darwinism and extinction discourse, they were all nevertheless appalled at the situation, and their writing is witness to their anguish. Unlike the typical Victorian-era traveller described by Mary Louise Pratt as the “seeing-man”, who remained distanced in their writing from the environment around them, this group wrote with the authority of personal felt experience, bearing witness to the horrific impact of Western society on the physical and mental health of Pacific Island populations. The literary voice of this collection of writers continues to be not only a clear and powerful witness of the past, but also a warning to the present about the impact of ‘civilisation’ on Pacific Island peoples and cultures.

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Kaspar, Annette, Sione Pifeleti, and Carlie Driscoll. "The role of health promotion in the development of ear and hearing health services in the Pacific Islands : A literature review." SAGE Open Medicine 9 (January 2021): 205031212199328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312121993287.

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The Pacific Islands have among the highest rates of ear disease and hearing loss in the world. Ear and hearing health services are limited in this region; however, a significant proportion of avoidable hearing loss and disability may be addressed through public health promotion activities. In order to develop appropriate hearing health education campaigns and promotion initiatives, knowledge and attitude studies among target population groups are vital. This review aimed to summarize the research literature on knowledge and attitude to ear disease and hearing loss in the Pacific Islands in order to develop appropriate health promotion campaigns for our context in Samoa. PubMed and ScienceDirect databases were searched for relevant journal articles. Key search terms were ‘Pacific Islands’, ‘ear disease’, ‘hearing loss’, ‘knowledge’, ‘attitudes’, and their relevant synonyms. There was no limit on the date of publication. Only one journal article met the review criteria. Parental knowledge and attitude to childhood hearing loss and hearing services in the Solomon Islands was overwhelmingly positive (96%–99.3%). There was high parental awareness of ear disease as a cause of hearing loss among children (94%) and high parental awareness of public health initiatives aimed at reducing ear disease and hearing loss such as routine childhood immunizations (84%) and breastfeeding (76%). Knowledge and attitude studies among key stakeholders are needed to develop appropriate health promotion activities to reduce the preventable causes of hearing loss in the Pacific Islands. Health promotion activities should prioritize major public health issues of ear disease and noise-induced hearing loss.

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Granja-Fernández, Rebeca, Brenda Maya-Alvarado, Amílcar-L. Cupul-Magaña, A. Paola Rodríguez-Troncoso, Francisco-A. Solís-Marín, and Rosa-C. Sotelo-Casas. "Echinoderms (Echinodermata) from the Central Mexican Pacific." Revista de Biología Tropical 69, Suppl.1 (March 23, 2021): 219–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v69isuppl.1.46356.

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Introduction: The echinoderms from the Central Mexican Pacific are of high scientific interest and, prior to this present work, there was a lack of basic information that included incomplete checklists with inconsistencies in systematics and spatial distribution. Objective: To provide a historical review, and an updated checklist with a more complete richness of echinoderms for each state and island of the region. Methods: A checklist was elaborated based on an exhaustive literature search of the Echinodermata, and was complemented with taxonomical revisions of Ophiuroidea scientific collections. All the geographical coordinates of the records were validated. Results: The region harbors 187 species of Echinodermata: three Crinoidea, 35 Asteroidea, 67 Ophiuroidea, 32 Echinoidea, and 50 Holothuroidea. We detected 52 records in the literature that must be considered as invalid and five as doubtful. We provide 16 new records of Ophiuroidea from different states and islands; of them, four are new records for the region. Jalisco presented the highest number of species (84), followed by the coast of Nayarit (74), Michoacán (63), and Colima (55); among the islands, Revillagigedo showed the major number of species (85) followed by Marías (81), Marietas (48), and Isabel (44). Conclusions: The numbers of species known in the region are mostly related to both sampling effort and environmental characteristics that promote high biodiversity. The Central Mexican Pacific is an oceanographic region with mixed conditions from the North and South of the Mexican Pacific, and therefore, with a biogeographical importance reflected in its species richness.

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Matthew, Richard A., and Ted Gaulin. "Conflict or Cooperation? The Social and Political Impacts of Resource Scarcity on Small Island States." Global Environmental Politics 1, no. 2 (May 1, 2001): 48–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152638001750336596.

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This paper examines the social and political consequences of natural resource scarcity on three Pacific island territories: Easter Island, Nauru and Solomon Islands. In contrast to prominent theories in the environmental security literature, the case studies in this paper indicate that resource scarcity does not perforce lead to violent conflict. The authors explain differential outcomes on the basis of four variables: extent of scarcity; level of democracy; degree of economic openness; and involvement in regional regimes.

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Sharma, Parmendra, Neelesh Gounder, and Dong Xiang. "Level and Determinants of Foreign Bank Efficiency in a Pacific Island Country." Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies 18, no. 01 (March 2015): 1550005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219091515500058.

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This study fills a huge gap in literature by providing some evidence on the level and determinants of bank efficiency in a Pacific island context. DEA results show that overall efficiency levels may be lower than in Australia, the home country of major banks. Dynamic GMM and panel data results show that personnel expenses and bank credit matter for efficiency, but not other bank-specific and macroeconomic factors. These insights substantially improve policy-making capacities for Fiji and other Pacific economies, including Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu where banking and regulatory systems and structures are highly comparable.

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Potočnik, Nataša. "Robert Dean Frisbie - an American writer in the South Pacific." Acta Neophilologica 33, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2000): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.33.1-2.93-105.

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The vision of Pacific literature in this article is based on my research on the Cook Islands and the U.S.A. about the American writer Robert Dean Frisbie who lived and wrote in the South Pacific in the first half of the 20th century.

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Maggio, Rodolfo. "Japanese ethnographies of the Pacific: Language, politics and perspective." Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 7, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00003_1.

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Abstract An increasing number of Japanese ethnographers have conducted fieldwork research in Pacific Islands in the last few decades, which has resulted in a growing corpus of ethnographic literature. This is partly related to the historical role that Japan has played in the Pacific and partly to its geographical proximity to the area. While this geo-historical advantage combines with the availability of ethnographic works produced by non-Japanese scholars, the latter remain largely unable to access anthropological literature only available in Japanese. This not only limits the international circulation of ethnographies produced by Japanese anthropologists of the Pacific, but also the possibility of engaging with a larger body of anthropological traditions and, thus, with the overall project of 'World Anthropologies'. This article discusses the reasons why Japanese ethnographies of the Pacific provide not only a technical advantage for non-Japanese scholars of Pacific Islands but also a qualitative difference in terms of anthropological perspectives. In particular, it examines the differential impact of different colonial and postcolonial debates on Japanese and anglophone anthropology in relation to ethnographies of urban Melanesia.

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Chang, Yi-Ting. "Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes." positions: asia critique 30, no. 4 (November 1, 2022): 839–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9967383.

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Abstract In transpacific and Asian/American studies, islands often gain decolonial meaning via their explicit ties to US and Japanese military imperialisms. This article inquires how islands express the decolonial beyond US-centric anti-imperial critique, and how they complicate the fields’ geopolitical imagination largely defined by the category of independent nation-states. To that end, the author turns to Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes and develops “archipelagic optics” as a transpacific interpretive framework—one that includes the decontinental in its decolonial thesis. Archipelagic optics takes liminal islands such as Taiwan and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as its epistemic grounds; it advances a multicentered epistemology in order to articulate inter- and intra-island contradictions; and it foregrounds “interdependence” rather than “independence” as an ontopolitical premise of archipelagic lives. Archipelagic optics indexes a form of decolonial sensing by refuting the impersonal, monocular eye of military cameras used by multiple empires to surveil Pacific islands. As this article will demonstrate, the decolonial goes beyond the deconstruction of military intercolonialism. It also means tracing noninnocent multiplicity, decontinental seeing, and immanent dependencies emerging from formerly “obscure” sites.

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Teaiwa, Teresia. "What Remains to Be Seen: Reclaiming the Visual Roots of Pacific Literature." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 125, no. 3 (May 2010): 730–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2010.125.3.730.

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Once Were People Without Writing. This is the Dominant Narrative of Pacific Literature. Such a View Rarely Takes the Lack of a recognizable alphabet or script in most of the inhabited islands of the Pacific at the time of contact with Europeans as a neutral difference. Lack is deficiency. Curiously, both detractors from and celebrants of Pacific literature agree that Pacific societies and cultures were introduced to writing by Europeans. The detractors see this originary lack as a permanent impediment to the development of worthy literature. (Few ever say, They lacked a written script, and they haven't produced any literature of note—it must be because they have a superior civilization.) The celebrants see the lack as a difference to be treasured along with the eventual acquisition of writing. So how can we better understand Pacific literature: where it came from and where it could take its readers?

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Mutaqin, Bachtiar W., Warsini Handayani, Fredi Satya Candra Rosaji, Desy Wahyuningtyas, and Muh Aris Marfai. "GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SMALL VOLCANIC ISLANDS IN NORTH MALUKU, INDONESIA." JURNAL GEOGRAFI 13, no. 2 (July 21, 2021): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/jg.v13i2.21526.

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Indonesia, which is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, has at least 100 active volcanoes that are spread among more than 17,000 islands. Several active volcanoes are located on small islands, so they require a greater effort in relation to disaster management, especially those related to volcano activities. However, research on the identification of small volcanic islands has not been widely carried out in Indonesia. This study tries to fill the gap using a geomorphological aspect approach, which consists of morphology, morphogenesis, morphochronology, and morphoaransement, to identify small volcanic islands in North Maluku Province. Literature review and spatial data collection were carried out to determine the parameters used in the identification of small volcanic islands. Based on the literature review, this study uses 5 (five) parameters, namely the island area, the type of material, the location / morphoaransement, the pattern of river flow, and the features of the landforms which include the presence of volcanic landform (morphochronology), slope, and morphology. Based on the spatial analysis using these 5 parameters, information is obtained that there are at least 6 of the 17 islands that meet the criteria to be called small volcanic islands in North Maluku. Data on small volcanic islands and their characteristics are important information to educate the public and improve preparedness.Keywords: morphology, morphogenesis, morphochronology, morphoaransement, small volcanic islands

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L. McElroy, Jerome. "The Political Economy of China’s Incursion into the Caribbean and Pacific." Island Studies Journal 3, no. 2 (2008): 225–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.224.

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This paper examines the recent incursion by China (meaning both Beijing and Taipei) into the Caribbean and Pacific. The general contours of Chinese trade and investment are discussed to provide a background context for a more specific exploration of Chinese aid, especially to small islands across the two regions. A review of recent literature primarily from Western sources reveals that the main strategic use of aid by Beijing (People’s Republic of China – PRC) has been to support the demands of its growing economy but secondarily to isolate Taiwan (Republic of China – ROC) diplomatically. This conclusion, illustrated with several case vignettes, is based on the focus of Chinese aid on those islands retaining diplomatic links with Taipei as well as on the political manoeuvreing this Cross-Strait rivalry has spawned. The paper further suggests that the types of projects Beijing and Taipei have funded, like those of their Western counterparts before them (Australia, Japan, United States), yield limited long-term island development gains.

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Wilson, John F. "Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, Kerryn Baker (2019)." Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 9, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 113–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00056_5.

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Mathieu, Sharna, Diego de Leo, Yu Wen Koo, Stuart Leske, Benjamin Goodfellow, and Kairi Kõlves. "Suicide and suicide attempts in the Pacific Islands: A Systematic Literature Review." Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 17 (December 2021): 100283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100283.

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CIANFANELLI, S., E. TALENTI, and M. BODON. "Mieniplotia scabra (Müller, 1774), another gastropod invasive species in Europe and the status of freshwater allochthonous molluscs in Greece and Europe." Mediterranean Marine Science 17, no. 1 (March 28, 2016): 253. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.1331.

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Mieniplotia scabra (Müller, 1774), a freshwater gastropod originating from the Indo-Pacific area, has proved to be a successful invader spreading to other parts of East Asia, Middle East, the Pacific Islands, North America and West Indies. This paper reports the first record of M. scabra from Europe, where it has become naturalized in Kos Island in Greece. This new trans-continental introduction brings to nine the number of alien freshwater molluscs species in Greece and to 30 in Europe. It is therefore given an updated snapshot on the presence of the numerous non-native fresh water species in Europe, divided by nation, an account that is currently lacking in literature and in the specific databases.

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Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Martin Irestedt, Les Christidis, Sonya M. Clegg, Ben G. Holt, and Jon Fjeldså. "Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation (Aves: Pachycephala )." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1777 (February 22, 2014): 20131727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1727.

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Many insular taxa possess extraordinary abilities to disperse but may differ in their abilities to diversify and compete. While some taxa are widespread across archipelagos, others have disjunct (relictual) populations. These types of taxa, exemplified in the literature by selections of unrelated taxa, have been interpreted as representing a continuum of expansions and contractions (i.e. taxon cycles). Here, we use molecular data of 35 out of 40 species of the avian genus Pachycephala (including 54 out of 66 taxa in Pachycephala pectoralis ( sensu lato ), to assess the spatio-temporal evolution of the group. We also include data on species distributions, morphology, habitat and elevational ranges to test a number of predictions associated with the taxon-cycle hypothesis. We demonstrate that relictual species persist on the largest and highest islands across the Indo-Pacific, whereas recent archipelago expansions resulted in colonization of all islands in a region. For co-occurring island taxa, the earliest colonists generally inhabit the interior and highest parts of an island, with little spatial overlap with later colonists. Collectively, our data support the idea that taxa continuously pass through phases of expansions and contractions (i.e. taxon cycles).

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Immordino, Francesco, Mattia Barsanti, Elena Candigliota, Silvia Cocito, Ivana Delbono, and Andrea Peirano. "Application of Sentinel-2 Multispectral Data for Habitat Mapping of Pacific Islands: Palau Republic (Micronesia, Pacific Ocean)." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 7, no. 9 (September 12, 2019): 316. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse7090316.

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Sustainable and ecosystem-based marine spatial planning is a priority of Pacific Island countries basing their economy on marine resources. The urgency of management coral reef systems and associated coastal environments, threatened by the effects of climate change, require a detailed habitat mapping of the present status and a future monitoring of changes over time. Here, we present a remote sensing study using free available Sentinel-2 imagery for mapping at large scale the most sensible and high value habitats (corals, seagrasses, mangroves) of Palau Republic (Micronesia, Pacific Ocean), carried out without any sea truth validation. Remote sensing ‘supervised’ and ‘unsupervised’ classification methods applied to 2017 Sentinel-2 imagery with 10 m resolution together with comparisons with free ancillary data on web platform and available scientific literature were used to map mangrove, coral, and seagrass communities in the Palau Archipelago. This paper addresses the challenge of multispectral benthic mapping estimation using commercial software for preprocessing steps (ERDAS ATCOR) and for benthic classification (ENVI) on the base of satellite image analysis. The accuracy of the methods was tested comparing results with reference NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA) habitat maps achieved through Ikonos and Quickbird imagery interpretation and sea-truth validations. Results showed how the proposed approach allowed an overall good classification of marine habitats, namely a good concordance of mangroves cover around Palau Archipelago with previous literature and a good identification of coastal habitats in two sites (barrier reef and coastal reef) with an accuracy of 39.8–56.8%, suitable for survey and monitoring of most sensible habitats in tropical remote islands.

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