National University of Samoa: Recent submissions

  • Contesting a Third World development category: Female-headed households in Samoa 
    Stewart-Withers, Rochelle (Women's Studies International Forum, 2011)
    Current global orthodoxy surrounding female headed households (FHHs) in the Third World country context suggests that they are poor, isolated, marginalized, disempowered and lacking in agency. It has also been argued that ...
  • As Good As Niu, Food Sovereignty in Samoa 
    Gove, Emily (Department of Anthropology University of Richmond, 2017-04-14)
    Samoa’s history as an island nation, with its cultural heritage of migratory peoples, followed by settler colonialism and missionaries, has resulted in its uniquely amalgamated food system. Cuisine varies from traditional ...
  • The Historical Development of Christianity in Oceania. 
    Ernst, Manfred; Anisi, Anna (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016)
    Oceania, the majestic “liquid continent,” covers about one‐third of the earth’s surface, yet it is inhabited by roughly only 10.6 million people – of which approximately 7 million alone inhabit Papua New Guinea (SPC 2013). ...
  • Comparative Study on Normalisation in Emotion Recognition from Speech 
    Böck, Ronald; Egorow, Olga; Siegert, Ingo ...et.al. (Springer Cham, 2017)
    The recognition performance of a classifier is affected by various aspects. A huge influence is given by the input data pre-processing.In the current paper we analysed the relation between different normalisation methods ...
  • Geological subsidence and sinking islands: the case of Manono (Samoa) 
    Unknown author (Archaeology in Oceania,, 2016)
    W.R. Dickinson, as part of his wide study of the geological history of the Pacific islands, has linked the unique case of the deeply submerged Lapita site of Mulifanua in western Upolu (Samoa) to the slow subsidence of Upolu ...
  • Mobility, Tradition and Adaptation, Samoa’s Comparative Advantage in the Global Market Place 
    C GOUGH , Deborah  (Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2006)
    IN AN ECONOMIC environment dominated by neo‐ liberal policies Samoa  strives to carve out a niche.  In order to do so it needs to exploit areas of  comparative advantage. This paper argues that Samoa already utilizes such a  ...
  • When Culture Is Not A System, Why Samoan Cultural Brokers Can Not Do Their Job. 
    Gershon, Ilana (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2006)
    In independent and American Samoa, Samoan representatives have historically been successful at furthering their communities’ interests when dealing with various colonial regimes. Yet during my fieldwork in California, I ...
  • ’Aia Tatau and Afioga Tutasi: ’Aiga versus Tama a ’Aiga 
    TUIMALEALI’IFANO, MORGAN (Carfax Publishing Company, 2001)
    The Samoan general elections held on 2 March 2001 returned the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) to of ce and Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to his second term as prime minister. The HRPP, which has governed Samoa since ...
  • Tangata O Te Moana Nui 
    Macpherson, Cluny; Spoonley, Paul; Anae, Melani (Dunmore Press Ltd, 2001)
  • Evaluation of Using Mobile Devices for 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Artifacts 
    Boboc, Răzvan Gabriel; Gîrbaci, Florin; Postelnicu, Cristian Cezar ...et.al. (Springer Cham, 2019)
    This work aims to examine the reliability of smartphones that incorporate 3D depth sensors for 3D reconstruction of cultural heritage objects.The main focus is to compare the models generated with two image-based methods: ...
  • THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT OF SAMOA: REACHING THE UTTERMOST' 
    Pagaialii, Tavita (Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies, 2004)
    Nearly a century ago there was an outbreak of the Spirit known as the Azusa Street revival. This outpouring occurred between 1906 and 1913.^ It is also referred to as the "third force of Christendom."^ The year 1914 was ...
  • Characterising the Quality of Behaviour Driven Development Specifications 
    Binamungu, Leonard Peter; Embury, Suzanne M.; Konstantinou, Nikolaos (Springer Cham, 2020-05)
    Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an agile testing technique that enables software requirements to be specified as example interactions with the system, using structured natural language. While (in theory) being readable ...
  • Pediatric Primary Care Provider Comfort with Mental Health Practices: A Needs Assessment of Regions with Shortages of Treatment Access 
    Bettencourt, Amie F.; Ferro, Rebecca A.; Williams, Jami-Lin L. ...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2021)
    Objectives Nearly 50%of children with a mental health concern do not receive treatment. Child Psychiatry Access Programs like Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care (BHIPP) address regional shortages of ...
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program Website Content and Accessibility 
    . Bernstein, Simone A; Gu, Alex; Bernstein, Sophie L. ...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2021)
    Objective When child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship applicants are applying to programs, many will use fellowship websites to gather information. This study assesses the accessibility and content available on child ...
  • Zones of ambiguity and identity politics in Samoa 
    Mageo, Jeannette (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008)
    Here I illustrate a deconstructive practice through which indigenes actively resist colonial identity politics. By creating ‘zones of ambiguity’ in the performing arts, indigenes think through colonial images of gender and ...
  • Geometrical Shapes Rendering on a Dot-Matrix Display 
    Bellik, Yacine; Clavel, Celine (Springer Cham, 2017)
    Using a dot-matrix display, it is possible to present geometrical shapes with different rendering methods: solid shapes, empty shapes, vibrating shapes, etc. An open question is then: which rendering method allows the ...
  • REFLECTIONS ON HUMOR AND HIERARCHY IN SAMOA 
    SIIKALA, IIARRl (Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 2014)
    In this paper I offer a brief glimpse into the comedic sensibility of Samoans. The study of humor is not central to my interests, but it is among topics one unavoidably—and often pleasantly—encounters during field research, ...
  • 2030 Strategy 
    GPP, NUS; Le Iunivesite Aoao o Samoa (National University of Samoa, Apia., 2021)
    Our Strategy is being developed in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already had far reaching impact across the world, including on institutions of higher education. For many people this has been the most ...
  • Using Soil Tests to Evaluate Plant Availability of Potassium in Soils 
    Bell, Michael J.; Thompson, Michael L.; Moody, Philip W. (Springer Nature, 2020)
    The purpose of this chapter is to describe how bioavailable soil K is assessed or predicted by soil tests. Soil testing commonly refers to the collection of a sample of soil representative of a field or agronomic management ...
  • ‘Running Away with Itself’: Missionaries, Islanders and the Reimagining of Cricket in Samoa, 1830–1939 
    SACKS, BENJAMIN (The Journal of Pacific History, 2017)
    MissionarieswereamongthefirstandmostinfluentialbearersofEuropeansocialpractices in Oceania. While they sought to reshape the lives of Indigenous peoples, missionaries frequently found that Islanders reconfigured introduced ...

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