National University of Samoa: Recent submissions

  • Money and the Key Aspects of Financial Management. 
    Vincenţiu Ivan, Mihail; Farkas, Ferenc (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti, 2008)
    In this paper we will briefly present the tools of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis that are used by successful companies to manage ongoing money capital. Our goal is to give you an overview and enough information ...
  • Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), Competition Law and Excessive Pricing of Medicines 
    Bakhoum, Mor (Springer Nature, 2022)
    This chapter wrestles with the interface between Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), competition law and access to medicines. It emphasizes the important role that competition law may play, in addition to the internal ...
  • The Samoan category Matai ( CHIEF), A singularity in Polynesia. 
    TCHERK-ZOFF, SERGE (The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 2000-06)
    This paper has benefited from the discussions in Canberra and in Auckland in March 1999 following lectures I gave on the topic. All my thanks to Judith Huntsman, and to Margaret Jolly and Darrell Tryon, for their invitations. ...
  • Liaison Psychiatry During Challenging Times 
    Bains, Ashika (Springer Nature, 2021)
    Michigan was one of the harder hit states of the COVID-19 crisis. By early April, Detroit represented the largest caseload of viral infection outside of the East Coast. Amid worry over shortages of resources and personal ...
  • Loss in the Time of COVID-19: a New Narrative 
    Amerault, Christina (Springer Nature, 2021)
    “Is it your job to keep me alive or to give me a better life?” he asked during one of our early sessions. I was taken aback. This wasn’t the last time he would ask me a question that would challenge my identity as a doctor, ...
  • Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, and Burnout Among Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Survey-Based Cross-Sectional Study 
    Al-Humadi, Samer; Bronson, Brian; Muhlrad, Samantha ...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2021-04)
    Objectives Frontline workers have been a bulwark in the fight against COVID-19, while being subject to major unexpected stressors. These include conflicting news, evolving guidelines, perceived inadequate personal protective ...
  • Responding to a Tragedy: Evaluation of a Postvention Protocol Among Adult Psychiatry Residents 
    Agrawal, Alpna; Gitlin, Michael; Melancon, & Sir Norman T. ...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2021)
    Objective In a time of “zero suicide” initiatives and rising suicide rates, resident physicians are particularly susceptible to the psychological and professional ramifications of patient suicide. An adult psychiatry ...
  • Responsible Data Science in a Dynamic World 
    van der Aalst, Wil M. P. (Springer Nature, 2019)
    Data science is changing our world in many different ways. Data and the associated data science innovations are changing everything: the way we work, the way we move, the way we interact, the way we care, the way we learn, ...
  • University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic 
    Reimers, Fernando M; Marmolejo, Francisco J.(Eds.) (Springer Nature, 2022)
    The rapid disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in multiple sectors and areas of daily life provide a unique opportunity to study the university’s capacity to respond to changes in the external environment, to be ...
  • The New Politics of Numbers 
    Mennicken, Andrea; Salais, Robert (Springer Nature, 2022)
    Numbers do things. They highlight and obscure. They integrate and disaggregate. They mark and measure. They represent and intervene. They tame and inflame. They structure people’s interactions. They create new objects and ...
  • Sublinear Computation Paradigm 
    Katoh, Naoki; Higashikawa, Yuya; Ito, Hiro ...et.al.(Eds.) (Springer Nature, 2022)
    This book gives an overview of cutting-edge work on a new paradigm called the “sublinear computation paradigm,” which was proposed in the large multiyear academic research project “Foundations of Innovative Algorithms ...
  • Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System 
    K.Wegren, Stephen; Nilssen, Frode (Springer Nature, 2022)
    Circumstances often create opportunity. This book would not have been possible without two developments. The first development has been the remarkable improvement in agricultural production that Russia has experienced since ...
  • Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES 
    Yuan, Philip; Hua, Chai; Yan, Chao ...et.al. (Eds) (Springer Nature, 2022)
    Virtual design production demands that information be increasingly encoded and decoded with image compression technologies. Since the Renaissance, the discourses of language and drawing and their actuation by the classical ...
  • Key beliefs and attitudes for sea-level rise policy 
    Akerlof, Karen; Merrill, Jennifer; Elena, Juita- (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019)
    This article reviews key measures of public opinion on sea-level rise (SLR): beliefs, attitudes, issue prioritization, and policy support. To do so, we first assess the influence of SLR beliefs and attitudes on issue ...
  • Sea levels, shorelines and settlements on Pacific reef islands. 
    D. NUNN, PATRICK (Archaeology in Oceania, 2016)
    A reassessment is made of the model of Dickinson (2003, Journal of Coastal Research), which proposed that many Pacific island coasts were settled only after the palaeoreef flats or shore platforms that formed during the ...
  • Research report, Tatala le ta’ui le Atua: Rolling out the fine mat of scripture. 
    BLYTH, CAROLINE (Women’s Studies Journal, 2018)
    This report outlines some of the research carried out by members of the project, ‘Tatala le ta’ui le Atua: Rolling out the fine mat of scripture’, funded by the New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research. The project (which ...
  • NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2021 
    Beeres, Robert; Bertrand, Robert; Klomp, Jeroen ...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2022)
    This year’s volume of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies (NL ARMS) offers an interdisciplinary view on the domain of Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade (CIIMT), integrating defence ...
  • Gendered and cultural moral rationalities: Pacific mothers’ pursuit of child support money 
    KEIL, MOEATA (Women’s Studies Journal, 2017)
    To date, much of the analysis of child support has drawn on normative Western understandings of family structures and the organisation and enactment of gender relations within that structure. There has been an absence of ...
  • Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion 
    Windzio, Michael; Mossig, Ivo; Besche-Truthe, Fabian (Springer Nature, 2022)
    This volume presents a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and worldwide diffusion of social policies. Social policy diffusion is analyzed in varying fields—affecting all aspects of life—namely, old age and survivor ...
  • HIV testing behaviour among Pacific Islanders in Southern California, Exploring the importance of Race/Ethnicity, Knowledge, and Domestic Violence. 
    M. Takahashi, Lois; J. Kim, Anna; Sablan-Santos, Lola (The Guilford Press, 2011)
    This article presents an analysis of a 2008 community needs assessment survey of a convenience sample of 179 Pacific Islander respondents in southern California; the needs assessment focused on HIV knowledge, HIV testing ...

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