National University of Samoa: Recent submissions

  • Spare the rod and spoil the child: Samoan perspectives on responsible parenting 
    Pereira, J (The Royal Society of New Zealand, 2010)
    Cultural groups hold different beliefs, values and understandings that shape the way people parent. From a Samoan perspective, raising children as good citizens involves ensuring that children know how to behave appropriately. ...
  • Trade and health in Samoa: views from the insiders 
    Fa'alii-Fidow, Jacinta; McCoo, Judith; PercivaL, Teuila (BioMed Central Public Health, 2014)
    Background: The purpose of this paper is to portray the views of key stakeholders on the potential impacts of Samoa’s free trade negotiations and agreements, on health and wellbeing in Samoa. Methods: A series of key ...
  • A systematic review of common landmarks in navigated endoscopic sinus surgery (NESS). 
    Baudoin, Tomislav; Greguric, Tomislav; Bacan, Filip; Jelavic, Boris; Geber, Goran; Kosec, Andro (Informa UK Limited, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    Background: Navigation brought about a tremendous improvement in functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). When upgraded accordingly, FESS becomes navigated endoscopic sinus surgery (NESS). Indications for intraoperative ...
  • Leptospirosis in American Samoa - estimating and mapping risk using environmental data 
    Lau, Colleen L; Clements, Archie C.A; Skelly, Chris; Dodson, Annette J; Smythe, Lee D; Weinstein, Philip (School of Population Health, University of Queensland, 2012)
    The recent emergence of leptospirosis has been linked to many environmental drivers of disease transmission. Accurate epidemiological data are lacking because of under-diagnosis, poor laboratory capacity, and inadequate ...
  • Cut-off levels for hyperandrogenemia among Samoan women. 
    Maredia, Hasina; Lambert-Messerlian, Geralyn M; Palomaki, Glenn; Viali, Satupa'itea (Dr.); Hawley, Nicola L. (Elsevier, 2016-02-16)
    To define biochemical hyperandrogenemia (HA) among a population-based sample of reproductive-aged Samoan women, taking into consideration their high BMI levels. Design and methods: A secondary analysis was performed among ...
  • De-coding the archaeological landscape of Samoa: Austronesian origins and Polynesian culture 
    Carson, Mike T (National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan, 2014)
    The archaeology of Samoa relates to two key points in Asia-Pacific culture history that may or may not be inter-connected. First, the Samoan islands are situated near the eastern limit of the Austronesian Lapita-associated ...
  • A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans. 
    Minster, Ryan L; Hawley, Nicola L; Ting Su, Chi; Sefuiva Reupena, Muagututi'a; Viali, Dr. Satupa'itea; et.al. (Nature American Inc., 2016-07-25)
    Samoans are a unique founder population with a high prevalence of obesity1–3, making them well suited for identifying new genetic contributors to obesity4. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 3,072 ...
  • Open Source Library Management and Digital library software. 
    Kamble, V T.; Raj, Hans; Sangeeta (DESIDOC, 2012-09)
    In this era of transition from information age to knowledge society, the libraries have much greater challenges to face. The whole perception of library has now changed from collection of books to a single window knowledge ...
  • Salt intake and iodine status of women in Samoa 
    Land, Mary-Anne; Webster, Jacqui L; Ma, Gary; Li, Mu; Faletoese Su'a, Sarah A; Ieremia, Merina; Viali, Satu; Faeamani, Gavin; Bell, A. Colin; Quested, Christine; Neal, Bruce C; Eastman, Creswell J (George Institute for Global Health, 2015)
    The objective of this study was to determine iodine nutrition status and whether iodine status differs across salt intake levels among a sample of women aged 18-45 years living in Samoa. A cross-sectional survey was completed ...
  • A real time image-guided reposition system for the loosed bone graft in orthognathic surgery. 
    Chen, Xiaojun; Li, Yang; Xu, Lu; Sun, Yi; Politis, Constantinus; Jiang, Xiaoyi (Informa UK Limited, Taylor & Francis., 2021)
    In traditional orthognathic surgery, the dental splint technique is typically used to assist surgeons to reposition the maxilla or mandible. However, the design and manufacturing of dental splints is time-consuming and ...
  • Social media use for deaf and hard of hearing students in educational settings. 
    Toofaninejad, Ehsan; Zaraii Zavaraki, Esmaeil; Dawson, Shane (Routledge, 2017)
    The pedagogical benefits of the social media may be most pronounced when they impact groups of learners who are at a disadvantage in conventional face-to-face contexts. Among such disadvantaged groups are the deaf or hard ...
  • Landscape evolution and human settlement patterns on Ofu Island, Manu'a group, American Samoa 
    Quintus, Seth; Clark, Jeffrey T; Day, Stephanie S; Schwert, Donald P (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016)
    This study summarizes the impacts of geomorphological processes on human settlement strategies on the island of Ofu in the Samoan Archipelago from island colonization to permanent settlement in the interior uplands (c. ...
  • Refining the chronology for west Polynesian colonization: new data from the Samoan archipelago 
    Clark, Jeffrey T; Quintus, Seth; Weisler, Marshall; Pierre, Emma St; Nothdurft, Luke; Feng, Yuexing (Elsevier Ltd, 2016)
    The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to western Polynesia in the Central Pacific have long been of interest to archaeologists. The eastern-most extent of that great ...
  • Samoan artefact provenance reveals limited artefact transfer within and beyond the archipelago 
    Cochrane, Ethan E; Rieth, Timothy M (Oceania Publications, 2016)
    We summarise previous provenance research of Samoan lithic and ceramic artefacts, noting the timing and relative frequency of artefact transfers. Our summary suggests few intra and extra-archipelago artefact transfers for ...
  • Tobacco smoking trends in Samoa over four decades: can continued globalization rectify that which it has wrought? 
    Linhart, Christine; Naseri, Take; Lin, Sophia (2017)
    The island country of Samoa (population 188,000 in 2011) forms part of Polynesia in the South Pacific. Over the past several decades Samoa has experienced exceptional modernization and globalization of many sectors of ...
  • SAMOA: Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis 
    De Francisci Morales, Gianmarco (Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2015)
    Samoa (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a platform for mining big data streams. It provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as ...
  • Tafatolu (three-sides): A Samoan research methodological framework 
    Fosi Palaamo, Alesana (Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2018)
    A Samoan research methodological framework called Tafatolu (threesides) involves the synthesis of three key parts considered as valuable to any research – a contemporary academic approach to research, a cultural approach, ...
  • The University Revolution 
    Lybeck, Eric (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    Few institutions in modern society are as significant as universities, yet our historical and sociological understanding of the role of higher education has not been substantially updated for decades. By revisiting the ...
  • A View from the West: Samoa in the Culture History of `Uvea (Wallis) and Futuna (Western Polynesia) 
    Sand, Christophe (Journal of Samoan Studies, 2006)
    The traditional connections between Samoa in Western Polynesia and the neighbouring archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga and the Cook islands have long been recognized, through a series of in-depth studies. But surprisingly little ...
  • Diabetes in developing countries 
    Misra, Anoop; Gopalan, Hema; Jayawardena, Ranil; ...et.al (Wiley Journal of Diabetes, 2019)
    There has been a rapid escalation of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in developing countries, with varied prevalence according to rural vs urban habitat and degree of urbanization. Some ethnic groups (eg, South Asians, other Asians, ...

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