Journal Articles: Recent submissions

  • IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN PRESENT SCENARIO 
    Kuma, Rajesh; Agrawa, Priyanka (INMANTEC Institutions., 2017)
    This paper discusses the impact of social media on its extensive use for the company and their effective connectivity with the customers in present scenario. This paper also elaborates on understanding what social media ...
  • Workplace wellness program empowers self-leadership. 
    M. Kulik, Carole (Sigma Theta Tau International, 2019-12-02)
    We’ve made changes to our Privacy Policy to update how we work with international data and how we disclose your personal and non-personal data. Your continued use of this site represents your consent to these changes and ...
  • Impaired knowledge in individuals with heart failure 
    Gabrielle da SilvaI, Cláudia; Santana de AraújoI, Suelayne; Coelho Ramalho Vasconcelos MoraisI, Sheila (Rev Bras Enferm, 2020-09-14)
    Objective: To develop a middle range nursing theory of impaired knowledge in individuals with heart failure. Methods: Descriptive study of the cross type developed through the theoretical-causal validity method, which used ...
  • Family and Culture, and the Samoan Youth 
    F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi, Halaevalu; T. Godinet, Meripa (Journal of Family Social Work, 2008)
    This qualitative study examines the Samoan family and culture as possible sources of risk and/or protection for delinquency among Samoan youth. Study participants included Samoan American youth and parents living in one ...
  • Tobacco smoking initiation among students in Samoa and health concerns 
    Singh, Baljeet; Shivneel Chand, Shamal; Chen, Hong (PLOS ONE, 2021-10-29)
    Background High prevalence of tobacco smoking among young students remains a serious health concern given the positive association between smoking and NCDs. More recently, some studies also noted young smokers were more ...
  • Media Violence: Advice for Parents 
    Muscari, Mary (Pediatric Nursing, 2003)
    By the time they reach age 18, American children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence (American Psychiatric Association, 1998). media violence can be hazardous to children's health, and ...
  • MEDIA VIOLENCE AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR OF NIGERIAN YOUTHS 
    Ukoha, K; Eziaku, Dr (Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, 2012)
    This paper reviews the result of researches on the effects of media violence on youths and tries to relate these to the increased exhibition violence among Nigerian youths. These research results reveal unequivocal evidence ...
  • Nursing Care for Elderly Patients with a Risk of Unstable Blood Sugar from Systems Theory 
    Hernández, Amín; Luz, Adriana (Annals of R.S.C., 2021-05-05)
    Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is included in the group of chronic non-communicable diseases, its therapeutic management is prolonged and requires special care to avoid complications, an aspect studied in the patient with ...
  • PATIENT CARE APPROACH USING NURSING THEORIES - COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF OREM’S SELF-CARE DEFICIT THEORY AND HENDERSON’S MODEL 
    Gligor, Laura; DOMNARI, CARMEN DANIELA (ACTA MEDICA TRANSILVANICA, 2020)
    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 ...
  • Information Literacy 
    Withers, Carol M (San Diego City College Library, 2019)
  • Role of Remittances in Economic Growth in Pacific Island Countries: A Study of Samoa 
    Jayarama, T. K.; Choon, Chee-Keong; Kumarc, Ronald (Brill Academic Publishers, 2009)
    Remittances have been a great support to Pacific island countries (PICs). Aside from providing additions to domestic savings and, hence, real resources, they have been one of the major sources of foreign exchange earnings. ...
  • Comparing perceived effects of climate-related environmental change and adaptation strategies for the Pacific small island states of Tuvalu, Samoa, and Tonga 
    Beyerl, Katharina; A. Mieg, Harald; Weber, Eberhard (Island Studies Journal, 2018)
    Inhabitants of Pacific small island states are facing multiple socio-ecological pressures, with climate change being one of the most prominent. Nevertheless, the agency of local stakeholders in decisions on how to adapt ...
  • Climate change and community resilience in Samoa 
    Latai-Niusulu, Anita; Binns, Tony; Nel, Etienne (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2019-06-21)
    Being resilient in the face of climate change seems especially important for island societies, which face the effects of rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, changing wind patterns and sea level rise. To date, most ...
  • Climate change perceptions and preparation in the United States territories in the Pacific. 
    B. Schwebel, Michael (Island Studies Journal, 2018)
    The association between and among climate change, preparation, and perceptions on islands is becoming more commonplace―but what about on extraterritorial land governed from thousands of miles away? This article consists ...
  • Forty-Five Years of Pacific Island Studies: some reflections 
    Meleisea, Malama; Schoeffel, Penelope (Oceania, 2017)
    Looking back on our own times, we have seen a rise and fall of interest in Pacific Island studies. Our careers, which have led us currently to the Centre for Samoa Studies at the National University of Samoa, retrospectively ...
  • Oceanic migration behavior of Pacific eels from Samoa 
    Schabetsberger, Robert; Scheck, Alexander; Kaiser,  Roland (WILEY- Fisheries Management and Ecology, 2018-05-20)
    The reproductive success and the early survival rates of catadromous eels are determined in their marine spawning areas, so finding them is crucial for understanding eel life history patterns.
  • Urban landlessness and the church in Samoa 
    Thornton, Alec; Binns, Tony; Talaitupu Kerslake, Maria (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2013)
    This paper presents findings from a study about the relationships between social change and settlement change in Samoa, where a form of landlessness is emerging in low income areas of the main town, Apia. It examines changing ...
  • Consumption of antibiotics in a small Pacific island nation: Samoa 
    NORRIS, Pauline; NGUYEN., Hong Anh (Pharmacy Practice, 2007)
    High levels of antibiotic use contribute to development of antibiotic resistance. There is little known about levels of antibiotic use in Samoa, although anecdotally, there are high levels of use, and a strain of ...
  • Identifying opportunities to strengthen school food environments in the Pacific 
    Reeve, Erica; Thow, Anne-Marie; Bell, Colin (BMC Public Health, 2021)
    Background: Despite global recommendations to priorities policies that create healthy food environments within education institutions, the implementation of effective healthy school food policies has proved challenging for ...
  • Addressing barriers to physical activity in Samoa 
    Heard, Emma Marie; Auvaa, Leveti; A. Conway, Brooke (Oxford, 2016-01-29)
    There is an urgent need to address the epidemic rates of non-communicable diseases globally, and the Pacific Island region is of particular concern. Increasing physical activity participation plays an important role in ...

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