Evaluation of Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong: Triangulation of Findings Based on Different Evaluation Strategies by Daniel T. L. Shek

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Taro Planthopper Tarophagus colocasiae (Matsumura) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae) by Alexander Tasi, Adam Dale

“…Schott) Originally native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and islands in the Pacific Ocean, Tarophagus colocasiae was first discovered in the continental United States at a garden center in Winter Haven, FL in 2015. …”
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New tambos, old routes: the archaeology of mobility in the highlands of Tacna (AD 1830-1930) by Noa Corcoran-Tadd

“…Tacna and Arica played important roles through the colonial and post-colonial periods as points of connection between the Bolivian altiplano and a wider globalizing Pacific. Yet the rural landscapes of mobility and mining that shaped the strategic importance of the region remain poorly documented in the archival record. …”
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Taro Planthopper Tarophagus colocasiae (Matsumura) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae) by Alexander Tasi, Adam Dale

“…Schott) Originally native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and islands in the Pacific Ocean, Tarophagus colocasiae was first discovered in the continental United States at a garden center in Winter Haven, FL in 2015. …”
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Travestis brasileiras e exotismo sexual by Jorge Leite Jr

“…This has apparently given a new global dimension to Brazil’s traditional image of being a generous and pacific country in which social conflicts are preferably settled within the scope of artistic creativity and sexual freedom. …”
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Implementation of a Positive Youth Development Program in Hong Kong using Seven Cases as Evidence by Daniel T. L. Shek, Hing Keung Ma

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Determining whether ethnic minorities with severe obesity face a disproportionate risk of serious disease and death from COVID-19: outcomes from a Southern California-based retrosp... by Qiaowu Li, Hemesh Mahesh Patel, Shefali Khandwala, Poonam Somani, Stephanie Tovar, Alejandra Montano

“…The risk of death was greater in Asian (RR 3.96, 95% CI 1.88 to 8.33; p<0.001), Hispanic (RR 3.03, 95% CI 2.53 to 3.61; p<0.001) and Pacific Islander (RR 4.60, 95% CI 1.42 to 14.92; p=0.011) patients compared with White (RR 1.47, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.91; p=0.005) and Black (RR 2.83, 95% CI 1.99 to 4.02; p<0.001) patients with a BMI over 45 kg/m².Conclusions Ethnic minorities with severe obesity, particularly Asian, Hispanic and Pacific Islander patients, had a statistically significant higher risk of hospitalisation, invasive ventilator use and death due to COVID-19. …”
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Smog Nitrogen and the Rapid Acidification of Forest Soil, San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California by Yvonne A. Wood, Mark Fenn, Thomas Meixner, Peter J. Shouse, Joan Breiner, Edith Allen, Laosheng Wu

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Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach by Allison N. Myers‐Pigg, Diana Moanga, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Nicholas D. Ward, J. Patrick Megonigal, Elliott White Jr, Vanessa L. Bailey, Matthew L. Kirwan

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What Place Takes Place in Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps ? by Claire Omhovère

“…Because Abel’s primary material comprises texts and images that have been widely circulated as first-hand knowledge about the Pacific Northwest, his compositions expose the discursive layers that inform Euro-Canadian representations of aboriginal places, particularly the enduring fascination for the totem pole’s interlacing of lineage, spirituality and territory in the place it indicates.…”
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Parcours d’une œuvre culturelle lobi du Burkina Faso : le bitebo d’Henri Labouret by Saga Ouiya

“…It was against a backdrop of instability, characterised by revolts, resistance and so-called pacification campaigns, that Labouret acquired the bitebo and later gave it to the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro. …”
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Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Poly‑l‑lysine via Esterification with Alcohol in One-Pot by Kayo Terada, Kousuke Tsuchiya, Alexandros Lamprou, Keiji Numata

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OIE and FAO join forces to counter ASF by N. V. Lebedev, A. S. Igolkin, K. N. Gruzdev

“…African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease of domestic and wild pigs, which went beyond its natural range (African continent) in the XXI century and since 2007 (emergence in Georgia) has spread to many European and Asia-Pacific countries. According to the immediate notifications and follow-up reports, by early 2021 Europe accounted for about 68% of globally reported outbreaks. …”
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Anomalous Circulation Patterns in Association with Summertime Regional Daily Precipitation Extremes over Northeast China by Chuanlei Chen, Zhaoyong Guan, Min Jiao, Pengyu Hu

“…Corresponding to extreme daily precipitation, SST anomaly in the Pacific Ocean is roughly characterized by the feature of “positive-north and negative- south” with the equator as the boundary.…”
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Automatic detection, identification and counting of deep-water snappers on underwater baited video using deep learning by Florian Baletaud, Florian Baletaud, Florian Baletaud, Sébastien Villon, Antoine Gilbert, Jean-Marie Côme, Sylvie Fiat, Corina Iovan, Laurent Vigliola

“…Deep-sea demersal fisheries in the Pacific have strong commercial, cultural, and recreational value, especially snappers (Lutjanidae) which make the bulk of catches. …”
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Hear me out: an audit of paediatric ventilation tube surgery wait times in patients with recurrent acute otitis media and/or otitis media with effusion at Christchurch Hospital by Analise Yunzhen Wang

“…Patients were waiting a median time of 9.8 weeks after general practice referral to be seen in clinic and were spending 26.3 weeks on the waitlist for ventilation tube surgery. Pacific patients had the shortest wait times of all ethnicities.…”
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A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function by Robert Ehrlich

“…Moreover, the rise in recent decades in the numbers of hurricanes in the Atlantic, but not the Pacific basin, is shown to have a simple explanation in terms of the specific form of H(z), which yields larger percentage increases when a fixed increase in sea surface temperature occurs at higher latitudes and lower temperatures.…”
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Student and Faculty Satisfaction with Their Dental Curriculum in a Dental College in Saudi Arabia by Maha Abdelsalam, Tobias E. Rodriguez, Lynn Brallier

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Psychometric Indicators of the “Proactive Attitudes” Scale in Adolescence: Testing the Factor Structure and Internal Consistency by A.A. Bekhter, E.N. Tkach

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Strain-Dependence of the Structure and Ferroic Properties of Epitaxial NiTiO3 Thin Films Grown on Different Substrates by Tamas Varga, Timothy C. Droubay, Mark E. Bowden, Libor Kovarik, Dehong Hu, Scott A. Chambers

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