Journal Articles: Recent submissions

  • Renewal in Samoa, Insights from life skills training. 
    Cooke, David; Brown, T. Pascal (Pacific-Asian Education, 2014)
    Faced with certain pressing social problems in rural Samoa, a local NGO, Matuaileoo Environment Trust Inc (METI) is mounting programmed in life skills training (LST). An evaluation of several recent courses suggests an ...
  • Moving Forwards, Sideways or Backwards, Inclusive Education in Samoa 
    McDonald, Lex; Tufue-Dolgoy, Rasela (International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2013)
    The introduction of inclusive education (IE) has been promoted to meet the needs of all students. Initially this was a western-driven ideology but has been adopted by numerous developing countries such as Samoa. In this ...
  • Patient Care Approach Using Nursing Theories. 
    GLIGOR, LAURA; DOMNARIU, CARMEN DANIELA (Acta Medica Transilvanica, 2020-05-28)
    Nursing theories have been developed to provide guidance in clinical practice, so their knowledge by nurses is mandatory in order to provide advanced nursing care. This paper presents the relationships between the concepts ...
  • Violence Against Women 
    Clements, Paul Thomas; P. Giardino, Angelo; Pierce, Jennifer (Leading Publisher of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Educational Resources, 2015)
    To become the world leader in publishing and information services on child abuse, maltreatment, diseases, and domestic violence. We seek to heighten awareness of these issues, and provide relevant information professionals ...
  • Samoa's pre-contact connections in West Polynesia and beyond 
    Barnes, Shawn S; Hunt, Terry L (University of Auckland, 2005)
    The pre-contact connectivity between the West Polynesian archipelagos of Sämoa, Tonga and Fiji has been well documented through genealogical (Gunson 1997, Krämer 1994, Schoeffel 1987), linguistic (Geraghty 1995, Marck 2000, ...
  • Perceived social and media influences on tobacco use among Samoan youth. 
    McCool, Judith; Freeman, Becky; Tanielu, Helen (BMC , BioMed Central, 2014)
    Background: Tobacco use among young Pacific populations continues to undermine efforts to reduce the escalating rates of non-communicable disease in the region. Reducing tobacco use to less than 5 percent by 2025 is now ...
  • Lack of suitable coastal plains likely influenced Lapita (~2800 cal. BP) settlement of Samoa: evidence from south-eastern Upolu 
    Cochrane, Ethan E; Kane, Haunani H.; Fletcher III, Charles; Horrocks, Mark; Mills, Joseph; Barbee, Matthew; Morrison, Alexander E; Tautunu, Matiu Matavai (Sage Publications, 2015)
    Between 3050 and 2700 years ago, humans first colonized the islands of south-west Remote Oceania, a region stretching from Vanuatu to Sāmoa. These colonists created a dense archaeological record of Lapita pottery and other ...
  • Pre-service teachers’ conceptions on use of social media in social studies education. 
    Gürel Kahveci, Nihat (International Journal of Progressive Education, 2015)
    The use of social media is tremendously increasing trend for personal use. At the same time, social media are penetrating to the educational settings as well. Thus purpose of this study is to investigate pre-service social ...
  • Pre-Contact Samoan cultivation practices in regional and theoretical perspective 
    Quintus, Seth; Cochrane, Ethan E (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2017)
    Most pre-European Polynesian societies were supported by intensive and elaborate cultivation systems. These systems were at the core of human adaptation and political maneuvering, being intimately tied to both the physical ...
  • Radiologists’ Usage of Social Media, Results of the Ransom Survey 
    R. Ranschaert, Erik; M. A. Van Ooijen, Peter; B. McGinty, Geraldine (Springer, 2016-02-03)
    The growing use of social media is transforming the way health care professionals (HCPs) are communicating. In this changing environment, it could be useful to outline the usage of social media by radiologists in all its ...
  • Assessing the role of climate change and human prédation on marine resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi site, I\ituila Island, American Samoa: an agent based model 
    Morrison, Alex E.; Addison, David J (AEM: Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa,, 2008)
    In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, ...
  • Child pneumonia – focus on the Western Pacific Region 
    Nguyen, T.K.P.; Tran, T.H; Roberts, C.L.; ...et.al (Elsevier, 2017)
    Worldwide, pneumonia is the leading cause of death in infants and young children (aged <5 years). We provide an overview of the global pneumonia disease burden, as well as the aetiology and management practices in different ...
  • Report of the Experience of Living with High Blood Pressure in Light of the Theory of Caring. 
    Álvarez Najar, Juan Pablo; Valderrama Sanabria, Mery Luz; Peña Pita, Amalia Priscila (Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Enfermeria, 2020-06-12)
    Objective. To analyze the report of the experience of the person with high blood pressure, in light of the theory proposed by Kristen Swanson Methods. This was a qualitative research with autobiographical type narrative ...
  • Pacific Islands Families Study: Factors associated with living in extended families one year on from the birth of a child 
    Poland, Michelle; Paterson, Jams; Carter, Sarnia (Taylor & Francis, 2010-04)
    Using data from the “Pacific Islands Families: the first two years of life (PIF) study”, this paper explores the factors associated with the living arrangements of mothers with a one-year-old Pacific child. Three living ...
  • Sex and Violence Is exposure to media content harmful to children. 
    Kotrla, Bowie (Research and Development., 2007)
    The concept that people can be harmed by exposure to various kinds of content is traceable to Plato.1 The specific category of person, the type of content, and the nature of the harm it may induce vary over intervening ...
  • Sexual Violence in the Media. 
    Unknown author (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2020-11-27)
    Sexual violence is prevalent and, for many victims, begins early in life (1). In the United States, one in five women and one in 38 men report completed or attempted rape victimization during their lifetime, with 43.2% of ...
  • Assessing the vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change on the Islands of Samoa 
    Fakhruddin, S. H. M.; Babel, M. S; Kawasaki, A. (Copernicus Publications, 2015)
    Pacific Islanders have been exposed to risks associated with climate change. Samoa, as one of the Pacific Islands, is prone to climatic hazards that will likely increase in the coming decades, affecting coastal communities ...
  • Social Media and Health Care. 
    NORTON, ANNETTE; J. STRAUSS, LORI (Aspen Publishers Inc, 2013-02)
    Social Media Can Play a Positive Role in Health Care While Also Posing Some Risks. Today so much information is available to so many individuals at any time or on any day thanks to the Internet. The world is Friending, ...
  • Policy arena: reducing the climate change vulnerability of coastal communities in Samoa 
    Daly, Michele; Poutasi, Namouta; Nelson, Filomena; Kolhase, Jude (Wiley InterScience, 2010)
    This paper describes a project undertaken in Samoa to address climate change and other hazards, the method from which could provide a useful model for other small island developing states (SIDS). To reduce Samoa’s coastal ...
  • Multiple branching rupture of the 2009 Tonga-Samoa earthquake 
    Fan, Wenyuan; Shearer, Peter M.; Chen, Ji; ..et.al (Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2016-08)
    Several source models have been proposed to explain the enigmatic 2009 Tonga-Samoa earthquake. The long-period data require a composite source model and can be fit with a normal-faulting subevent followed by one or more ...

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