Journal Articles: Recent submissions

  • On Skin and Bone, Samoan Coconut Oil in Indigenous Practice. 
    ALEFOSIO, TOAGA; K. HENDERSON, APRIL (The Journal of Pacific History., 2018)
    International promotional material on coconut oil commonly references its centuries of use as a beauty and health aid by Pacific Islanders. However, this gesture towards Indigenous Pacific use of coconut oil is rarely ...
  • The I and the We: Individuality, Collectivity, and Samoan Artistic Responses to Cultural Change 
    K Henderson, April (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016)
    That the Samoan sense of self is relational, based on socio-spatial relationships within larger collectives, is something of a truism—a statement of such obvious apparent truth that it is taken as a given. Tui Atua Tupua ...
  • Adjustable Autonomy for UAV Supervision Applications Through Mental Workload Assessment Techniques 
    Bazzano, Federica; Angelo, Grimaldi; Lamberti, Fabrizio...et.al. (Springer Nature, 2017)
    In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles have received a significant attention in the research community, due to their adaptability in different applications, such as surveillance, disaster response, traffic monitoring, ...
  • Using Psycholinguistic Features for the Classification of Comprehenders from Summary Speech Transcripts 
    Barnwal, Santosh Kumar; Tiwary, Uma Shanker (Springer Nature, 2017)
    In education, some students lack language comprehension, language production and language acquisition skills. In this paper we extracted several psycholinguistics features broadly grouped into lexical and morphological ...
  • A storm in Sāmoa: an environmental microhistory. 
    Rosenthal, Gregory (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2017)
    Environmental historians generally consider longue durée processes, such as geological, biological, and evolutionary changes, as useful bases for undergirding narratives of the human past. Yet singular, momentary events ...
  • Growth and maturation of three commercially important coral reef species from American Samoa. 
     Pardee, Cassandra; M. Taylor, Brett ; Felise3, Sean  (Springer Science & Business Media B.V., 2020-10-04)
    This study presents age-based life history information on three small-bodied species targeted in the American Samoan fishery: Chlorurus japanensis palecheek parrotfish/fuga-alosama, Lethrinus rubrioperculatus spotcheek ...
  • Wake Up: COVID-19 Is Just a Modern-Era Prequel of What Could Come Next 
    Balon, Richard (Springer Nature, 2021)
    We were all surprised and shocked when COVID-19 hit us last year, not only by the experience of the first real pandemic of our times, but also by the complete lack of preparedness of society and governments for a catastrophic ...
  • Malietoa, Williams and Samoa’s Embrace of Christianity. 
    E. ROBSON, ANDREW (The Journal of Pacific History, 2009-06)
    IN 1830, JOHN WILLIAMS OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LMS) ARRIVED IN Samoa IN his schooner, the missionary vessel Messenger of Peace, also known as the Olive Branch, the building of which he had undertaken and supervised ...
  • Diacritical Marks and the Samoan Language. 
    Magaui Tualaulelei, Eseta; Lasei John Mayer, Fepuleai; Hunkin, Galumalemana A (University of Hawaii Press, 2015)
    T h e Samoan-language community is now widespread in a diaspora that includes New Zealand, Australia, Hawai‘i, and parts of the continental United States, with a large number of new speakers learning their heritage language ...
  • Sustainability and the Governance of the Financial System: What role for full reserve banking 
    Røpke, Inge (Environmental Policy and Governance, 2017)
    The financial crisis demonstrated the importance of money and finance for the key concerns of ecological economics: inequality, wellbeing and the conditions for sustainability transitions. To cope with the combined challenge ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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