Search Results - Western New Guinea

Exploring leadership issues in Papua New Guinea / Murray Prideaux by Prideaux, Murray

“…The practice of leadership in less developed countries, and Papua New Guinea (PNG) in particular, has not attracted the attention of leadership researchers with the same level of enthusiasm as leadership issues in developed countries. …”
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Investigation of the reasons for copper and gold loss in the cleaner tail, at Ok Tedi, Papua New Guinea by Erepan, Peter

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Sik Bilong Ples: an Exploration of Meanings of Illness and Well-Being Amongst the Wosera Abelam of Papua New Guinea by Koczberski, Gina, Curry, George

“…This paper examines indigenous concepts of health and well-being amongst the Wosera Abelam, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Indigenous conceptual frameworks for understanding human well-being are remarkably resilient despite the use of western medical services and nutritional advice from health clinics. …”
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Making the links between women’s health and women’s lives in Papua New Guinea: Implications for policy and health care delivery by Hinton, Rachael

“…The overall goal of this study was to investigate women’s health within the socio-historical context of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to firstly, understand the self-identified heath concerns of women, secondly to examine the critical points in the lifespan for effecting positive change in the health status of women and finally, to ascertain if the divergence between the perceptions of service providers and the real needs of women can be reduced.The study was set in Patigo (Wosera sub-district), in the East Sepik Province, a rural area and one of the least developed areas of Papua New Guinea. …”
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The relationship between cultural beliefs and treatment-seeking behaviour in Papua New Guinea: implications for the incorporation of traditional medicine into the health system by Macfarlane, Joan

“…Health indicators in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are poor by virtually any standards and have declined over the last 2 decades. …”
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Social development and social policy in Guinea: health and education 1958-1984 by Corrie, Elizabeth M.

“…Guinea, a former French colony, experienced an abrupt severing of relationships with the colonial power when President Sékou Touré rejected De Gaulle’s offer of becoming part of a French commonwealth of nations and opted for total independence instead. …”
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Status, biodiversity, and ecosystem services of seagrass habitats within the Coral Triangle in the western Pacific ocean by Al-Asif, Abdulla-, Kamal, Abu Hena Mustafa, Hamli, Hadi, Idris, Mohd Hanafi, Gerusu, Geoffery James, Ismail, Johan, Bhuiyan, Md Khurshid Alam, Abualreesh, Muyassar H., Musa, Najiah, Wahid, Mohd Effendy Abd, Mishra, Manoranjan

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Rainfall and sentinel chicken seroconversions predict human cases of Murray Valley encephalitis in the north of Western Australia by Selvey, Linda, Johansen, C., Broom, A., Antao, Catarina, Lindsay, M., Mackenzie, John, Smith, D.

“…Background Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) is a flavivirus that occurs in Australia and New Guinea. While clinical cases are uncommon, MVEV can cause severe encephalitis with high mortality. …”
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Strong genetic subdivision generates high genetic variability among eastern and western Australian populations of Lutjanus carponotatus (Richardson) by Veilleux, H., van Herwerden, L., Evans, R., Travers, M., Newman, Stephen

“…Lutjanus carponotatus ranges from the Indian Ocean to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea and is an important species for both commercial and recreational fisheries. …”
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Contrasting styles of (U)HP rock exhumation along the Cenozoic Adria-Europe plate boundary (Western Alps, Calabria, Corsica) by Malusà, M., Faccenna, C., Baldwin, S., Fitzgerald, P., Rossetti, F., Balestrieri, M., Danisik, Martin, Ellero, A., Ottria, G., Piromallo, C.

“…The tectonic scenario depicted for the Western Alps trench during Eocene exhumation of (U)HP rocks correlates well with present-day eastern Papua New Guinea, which is presented as a modern analog of the Paleogene Adria-Europe plate boundary.…”
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Analysis of arbovirus isolates from Australia identifies novel bunyaviruses including a mapputta group virus from Western Australia that links gan gan and maprik viruses by Briese, T., Williams, D., Kapoor, V., Diviney, S., Certoma, A., Wang, J., Johansen, C., Chowdhary, R., Mackenzie, John, Lipkin, W.

“…The Mapputta group comprises antigenically related viruses indigenous to Australia and Papua New Guinea that are included in the family Bunyaviridae but not currently assigned to a specific genus. …”
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Are the spiny lobster fisheries in Australia sustainable? by Phillips, Bruce, Melville-Smith, Roy, Linnane, A., Gardner, C., Walker, T., Liggins, G.

“…It is managed under treaty arrangements with Papua New Guinea (PNG). The western rock lobster fishery for Panulirus cygnus is Australia’s largest commercial rock lobster fishery. …”
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Indigenous reporting of a national housing corporation by Brown, Alistair

“…Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of reporting compliance achieved by the National Housing Corporation (NHC) of Papua New Guinea in terms of local indigenous reporting expectations. …”
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Accounting and Accountability of Eastern Highlands Indigenous Cooperative Reporting by Brown, Alistair, Wong, Cheow

“…Using historical, geographical and financial material, coupled with observation, narrative and textual analyses, this case-based paper considers the reporting milieu of three forms of Indigenous Eastern Highlands cooperative in Papua New Guinea: a business development cooperative, a financial cooperative and a women's cooperative. …”
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Exclusivity: Research in Practice – Interview with Professor Gilbert Herdt by Abidin, Crystal

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Relational economies, social embeddedness and valuing labour in Agrarian change: An example from the developing world. by Curry, George, Koczberski, Gina

“…A relatively neglected area of research on agrarian and economic change is the role of indigenous concepts of labour value in the transition from subsistence to market production. In West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, the presence of a migrant population on an oil palm land settlement scheme (LSS) in close proximity to village-based oil palm growers, provided an opportunity to examine changing notions of labour value through the lens of smallholder productivity. …”
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Widespread transmission of distinct genetic lineages of Murray Valley encephalitis virus in Australia, 2008-2009 by Williams, David, Diviney, Sinead, Niazi, A., Herring, B., Johansen, C., MacKenzie, John

“…Four genotypes (G1-G4) of MVEV are recognised: G1 and G2 contain strains from the Australian mainland (and recent strains from Papua New Guinea), while single PNG isolates comprise G3 and G4. …”
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DNA barcoding in Nautilus pompilius (Mollusca:Cephalopoda): Evolutionary divergence of an ancient species in modern times by Williams, R., Newman, Stephen, Sinclair, W.

“…Maximum likelihood revealed three distinct clades for N. pompilius: (1) populations sourced from west Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines; (2) populations collected from east Australia and Papua New Guinea; (3) western Pacific accessions from Vanuatu, American Samoa and Fiji, supporting previous findings on the evolutionary divergence of N. pompilius. …”
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John Curtin's War (vol. I): The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia by Edwards, John

“…As Japan sank much of the Allied navy, advanced on the great British naval base at Singapore, and seized Australian territories in New Guinea, Curtin remade Australia. Using much new material John Edwards' vivid, landmark biography places Curtin as a man of his times, puzzling through the immense changes in Australia and its region released by the mighty shock of the Pacific War. …”
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Phylogeography of the reef fish Cephalopholis argus (Epinephelidae) indicates Pleistocene isolation across the indo-pacific barrier with contemporary overlap in the coral triangle by Gaither, M., Bowen, B., Bordenave, T., Rocha, L., Newman, Stephen, Gomez, J., Van Herwerden, L., Craig, M.

“…Background: The Coral Triangle (CT), bounded by the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, and New Guinea, is the epicenter of marine biodiversity. …”
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