National University of Samoa: Recent submissions

  • Family planning in Pacific Island Countries and Territories 
    Baritama HarringtonI, Relmah; Harvey, Nichole; Larkins, Sarah (Public Library of Science, 2021-08-05)
    The use of contraceptives for family planning improves women’s lives and may prevent maternal deaths. However, many women in low and middle-income countries, including the Pacific region, still die from pregnancy-related ...
  • Rising Sea Levels, Helping Decision-Makers Confront the Inevitable 
    A. Halla, John; P. Weaver, Christopher; Obeysekera, Jayantha (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019)
    Sea-level rise (SLR) is not just a future trend; it is occurring now in most coastal regions across the globe. It thus impacts not only longrange planning in coastal environments, but also emergency preparedness. Its ...
  • Multimodel Ensemble Sea Level Forecasts for Tropical Pacific Islands. 
    J. WIDLANSKY, MATTHEW; J. MARRA, JOHN; CHOWDHURY, MD.RASHED (WIDLANSKY ET AL, 2017-04)
    Sea level anomaly extremes impact tropical Pacific Ocean islands, often with too little warning to mitigate risks. With El Niño, such as the strong 2015/16 event, comes weaker trade winds and mean sea level drops exceeding ...
  • The Evolution of Theory of Mind in the Human Evolution 
    Chung, Dingyu (Scientific Research Publishing, 2021)
    Despite almost half a century of research for theory of mind, its evolutionary origin is largely unknown. This paper proposes that the evolutionary origin of theory of mind starts from the beginning of the human evolution ...
  • Nursing, Psychological Intervention and Self-Management after Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease 
    Wu, Lizhen; Ke, Yajuan; Chen, Yunwan ...et.al. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2020)
    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease mainly caused by motor disorders, mostly occurring in middle-aged and elderly people. The incidence of PD has been increasing year by year, and up to now, PD is still ...
  • Impact of Cannabis Use on Brain Structure and Function in Suppressed HIV Infection 
    Kallianpur, Kalpana J.; Birn, Rasmus; Ndhlovu, Lishomwa C. ...et.al. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2020)
    Background: Brain atrophy and cognitive deficits persist among individuals with suppressed HIV disease. The impact of cannabis use is unknown. Methods: HIV+ and HIV− participants underwent cross-sectional magnetic resonance ...
  • Deeper inside the Experience of Pediatric Headache: A Narrative Study 
    Grazzi, Licia; Covelli, Venusia; Memini, Francesca ...et.al. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2020-10)
    Objective: To explore meanings, perspectives and points of view of the subjective experience of paediatric patients with headache (PPwH) and create a first-person narrative for clinical practice. Methods: We conducted a ...
  • Covid-19 Diagnosis by Artificial Intelligence Based on Vibraimage Measurement of Behavioral Parameters 
    Minkin, Viktor; Bobrov, Alexander; Akimov, Valery ...et.al (Scientific Research Publishing, 2020)
    The hypothesis of behavioral parameters dependence measured from person’s head movements in quasi-stationary state on COVID-19 disease is discussed. Method for determining the dependence of vestibular-emotional reflex ...
  • Alzheimer’s Disease: The Relative Importance Diagnostic 
    Maryam Habad, Maryam; Tsokos, Christos P. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2020)
    As the population ages, Alzheimer’s disease is rapidly increasing, and the diagnosis of the disease is still poorly understood. In comparison to cancer, 90% of patients become aware of their diagnosis, but only 45% of the ...
  • Absence of Ketamine Effects on Learning & Memory Following Exposure during Early Adolescence: A Preliminary Report 
    O’Brien, Shannon; Compton, David; M. Davis, Julianna ...et.al. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2021)
    Traditionally, ketamine was considered useful as a dissociative anesthetic. More recently, ketamine has been examined for its effects as a fast-acting antidepressant, for treatment-resistant depression, and as a non-opiate ...
  • Power, the Pacific Islands, and the Prestige Press: A Case Study of How Climate Reporting is Influenced by UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Summits 
    Shea, Meghan M.; Painter, James; Osaka, Shannon (SAGE Publications, 2021)
    While studies have investigated UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings as drivers of climate change reporting as well as the geopolitical role of Pacific Islands in these international forums, little ...
  • Emotions in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reflexive emotionalisation in a colonised context 
    Holmes, Mary (SAGE Publications, 2021)
    Reflexive emotionalisation means increased thinking about and acting on emotional experiences in response to major changes to social life, such as those accompanying colonisation. This article explains and develops this ...
  • Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers 
    Lövei, Gábor L. (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    Publications take many different forms, but types of scientific publication fall into fewer categories. I do not attempt an overall, definitive taxonomy of scientific communication types, and only restrict this to a few ...
  • Shaping the Digital Dissertation 
    Unknown author (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    While digital dissertations have been around for many years, the processes by which they are defined, created and defended remain something of a mystery. Is an interactive PDF significantly different from its paper-based ...
  • Right Research 
    Miya, Chelsea; Rossier, Oliver; Rockwell, Geoffrey (eds) (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    Why should we try to reduce our destructive impacts on the environment, when it can seem that the effects of our individual acts are too small to make an ethically important difference? As Walter Sinnott-Armstrong puts the ...
  • Open Education 
    Blessinger, Patrick; Bliss, T.J. (Open Book Publishers, 2016)
    The phrase “open education” implies that there must also be closed education or education where there are restrictions or a lack of freedoms to exercise this fundamental human right. Legal restrictions are intentional ...
  • NEGOTIATING CLIMATE CHANGE IN CRISIS 
    STEFFEN BÖHMBÖHM, STEFFEN BÖHM; SULLIVAN, SIAN (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    For three decades now, there has been talk and action on climate change at the highest possible levels—in politics, business, finance and civil society. For three decades, climate change has shaped the consciousness of ...
  • LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS 
    Comrie, Andrew C. (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
    Universities are fascinating institutions. For almost 1,000 years, these corporations of teachers and scholars have been searching for knowledge and transmitting it. In carrying out this mission, universities are “things ...
  • Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World 
    Azam, Monirul (Open Book Publishers, 2016)
    This book contains some repetitions across different chapters. I intentionally maintained these repetitions so that chapters could be read both as part of a book and alone, online or as study material. As a guest speaker ...
  • An effective Federal Climate Change Act needs leading indicators. 
    Fietze, Daniela; Kröger, Mats; Müller, Thorsten (DIW Berlin, 2021)
    To reach the climate targets, the course towards a climate- neutral society must be set now. However, the current monitoring instruments in the Climate Change Act do not provide sufficient information to policymakers and ...

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