A Comprehensive Review of Quality of Life (QOL) Research in Hong Kong by Daniel T. L. Shek, Britta M. Lee

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A Descriptive Study of Nosocomial Infections in an Adult Intensive Care Unit in Fiji: 2011-12 by Keshni Naidu, Ilisapeci Nabose, Sharan Ram, Kerri Viney, Stephen M. Graham, Karen Bissell

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Demographic and migration processes in the Far East of Russia (on the example of Primorsky Krai) by K. N. Serdyukov

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Beyond the Expected: Evaluating Preoperative Predictors of a Difficult Cholecystectomy Aboard the USNS Comfort by Joseph Aryankalayil, MD, Rex Atwood, MD, Mark Johnson, MD, Jamie Fitch, MD, Aldo Ayvar, MD, Eileen Natuzzi, MD, MPH, Juan Elvin Muñoz, MD, Rooney Jagilly, MBBS, MMED, Scott Siota, MBBS, MMED, Tamara J. Worlton, MD

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Metastatic Thymic Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma: The Diagnostic Challenges and Role of CRTC1/MAML2 Translocation in Accurate Diagnosis and Treatment by Toshiaki Takahashi, Daniel Graham, Evan Wu

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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…The Taytnapam are a poorly known Indigenous community of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. They lived in the upper Cowlitz River watershed relatively undisturbed by Euro-American colonization until late in the 1800s, avoiding the more radical depopulation and dislocation suffered by neighboring Native communities due to introduced diseases and colonial settlement. …”
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Analysis and Design of an Energy Efficient Differential Coherent Chaos Based System in Additive White Gaussian Noise Environment by Nizar Al Bassam, Oday D. Jerew

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Habiter la mémoire à la frontière de l’oubli : la maison comme seuil by Joana Duarte Bernardes

“…The object of this text is to elucidate the role of the house as a guardian of our memories in front of which the threshold signifies an ambiguity that is not always pacific, be it from the perspective of the inhabitant, or from the perspective of the one who knocks on the door: guest, enemy or intruder.…”
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Process Evaluation of the Implementation of the Secondary 2 Program of Project P.A.T.H.S. in the Experimental Implementation Phase by Daniel T. L. Shek, Tak Yan Lee, Rachel C. F. Sun

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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM by S. S. Matveevskii

“…The entire system of economic indicators is divided into 4 levels, which makes it possible to separately assess both the development in the Asian Pacific Region, the contribution of Asian Development Bank to this development, and the quality of management in the Asian Development Bank itself; for each level of assessment the author used its own set of indicators (indicators). …”
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Geographical patterns of intraspecific genetic diversity reflect the adaptive potential of the coral Pocillopora damicornis species complex. by M Carr, C Kratochwill, T Daly-Engel, T Crombie, R van Woesik

“…Here, we assessed geographical patterns of intraspecific genetic diversity in the ubiquitous coral Pocillopora damicornis species complex using 428 sequences of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) region across 44 sites in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. We focused on detecting genetic diversity hotspots, wherein some individuals are likely to possess gene variants that tolerate marine heatwaves. …”
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Barriers and enablers of access to diabetes eye care in Auckland, New Zealand: a qualitative study by David Squirrell, Matire Harwood, Jacqueline Ramke, Corina Grey, Rinki Murphy, Pushkar Raj Silwal, Maryam Pirouzi

“…We performed a thematic analysis and described the main barriers and enablers to accessing services using the Theoretical Domains Framework.Setting The study took place in two of the three public funding and planning agencies that provide primary and secondary health services in Auckland, the largest city in Aotearoa New Zealand.Participants Thirty people with diabetes in Auckland who had experienced interrupted diabetes eye care, having missed at least one appointment or being discharged back to their general practitioner after missing several appointments.Results We identified barriers and enablers experienced by our predominantly Pacific and Māori participants that aligned with 7 (of the 14) domains in the Theoretical Domains Framework. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Sinularia sp. Against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review by Deka Prismawan, Monika Arvia Chiara, Shannen Ivanka Gunardi, Karmill Trinanda, Robby Sutedjo, Michael Michael

“…The Ocean covers more than 70% of Indonesian archipelago, providing various bioactive compounds with great potential, however, it is relatively underexplored Sinularia sp, a genus of soft corals, exists at the coral reefs of Indo-Pacific ocean. Several recent studies have shown that Sinularia sp. contains various types of secondary metabolites with antiviral, antibacterial, anticancer, and antimalarial properties. …”
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Study on the Variation of Terrestrial Water Storage and the Identification of Its Relationship with Hydrological Cycle Factors in the Tarim River Basin, China by Peng Yang, Jun Xia, Chesheng Zhan, Yongyong Zhang, Jie Chen

“…The closest relationship was found between TWSA and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), with correlations of -0.56 and 0.58 during January 2010–December 2015 and during January 2006–December 2009, respectively. …”
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Northern Sea Route: Past, Present, and Future. Results of the International Scientific Megaproject by Vladislav I. Goldin

“…The au-thor examines how this book reveals the most significant milestones of the historical past of this maritime communication, starting with the development of navigation in the European part of the Arctic and the emergence of the idea of the possibility of passage between Europe and Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean along the Eurasian northern coast of Russia, which was called the Northeast Passage. …”
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Genebanks at Risk: Hazard Assessment and Risk Management of National and International Genebanks by Theresa Herbold, Johannes M. M. Engels

“…Results showed that genebanks in the Asia-Pacific region are most exposed to natural hazards, while institutions in African and some Asian countries are rather vulnerable to political risks. …”
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Interactions between Typhoon Choi-wan (2009) and the Kuroshio Extension System by Akiyoshi Wada, Norihisa Usui, Masaru Kunii

“…We investigated interactions between Typhoon Choi-wan (2009) and the Kuroshio Extension system with a coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model in 14 numerical simulations performed with initial conditions obtained from daily oceanic reanalysis data for the northwestern Pacific Ocean from September 12 to September 25, 2009. …”
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Farmers’ adaptation practices in climate-stressed coastal Bangladesh: a systematic review by Md Ashik Ur Rahman, Sadhon Chandra Swarnokar, S M Nayem Ahasan, M Mohibbullah, Sadia Islam Mou, Animesh K Gain

“…The findings are relevant for regions where coastal agriculture is vital but impacted by climate change, including countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and South America.…”
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Climatology and Teleconnections of Mesoscale Convective Systems in an Andean Basin in Southern Ecuador: The Case of the Paute Basin by Lenin Campozano, Katja Trachte, Rolando Célleri, Esteban Samaniego, Joerg Bendix, Cristóbal Albuja, John F. Mejia

“…On the east of the PB, the variability of MCSs is positively correlated to the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies south of the equator, due to the variability of the Atlantic subtropical anticyclone, showing main departures from this relation when anomalous conditions occur in the tropical Pacific due to ENSO.…”
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An ENSO-Forecast Independent Statistical Model for the Prediction of Annual Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Frequency in April by Kenny Xie, Bin Liu

“…In this study, it is found that the latent heat flux (LHF) over Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP, defined as the region 0°–5°N, 115°–125°W) in spring is negatively correlated with the annual Atlantic TC and hurricane counts. …”
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