Journal Articles: Recent submissions

  • 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, ...
  • 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, ...
  • Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene 
    Gosling, William D.; Sear, David A.; Hassall, Jonathan D; ..et.al. (John Wiley Journal of Biogeography, 2020)
    To track the peopling of the South Pacific and assess their impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Location: Upolu, Samoa. Taxon: Terrestrial and aquatic plants. Methods: A sedimentary record covering the last c. ...
  • Implementing STD on a Small Island: Development and Use of Sustainable Tourism Development Indicators in Samoa 
    Twining-Ward, Louise; Butler, Richard (Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2002)
    .Small island states presen ta significant challenge interms of sustainable tourism development.On small island there are limited resources, economic and social activities tend to be concentrated on the coastal zone, and ...
  • Issues faced by SMEs in the internationalization process: results from Fiji and Samoa 
    Singh, Gurmeet; Pathak, R.D.; Naz, Rafia (International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2010-04)
    The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the issues, challenges, and impediments coming in the way of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationalization in small developing nations of South Pacific like Fiji ...
  • Co-Designing a Peer Support Platform for People with Low Vision & Blindness 
    McCosker, Anthony; Teh, Zoe; Savic, Milovan; ...et.al (Swineburne University of Technology, 2019)
    This report evaluates the design and development of a prototype Peer Support Platform that aimed to address the information, linkages and capacity (ILC) building needs of people with low vision and blindness. Consistent ...
  • A four-nation exit strategy 
    Paun, Akash; Sargeant, Jess; Nice, Alex (Institute for Government, 2020-05)
    The coronavirus crisis has required a co-ordinated response between the UK and devolved governments. The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are responsible for key public services affected by the ...
  • Terrestrial food production and land use in prehistoric Samoa: an example from Olosega Island, Manu’a, American Samoa 
    Quintus, Seth J. (Archael. Oceania, 2012)
    Samoan terrestrial production is vastly under researched archaeologically and few projects explicitly explore such a topic. this paper reports a food production system found in the interior of Olosega island, one of three ...

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