... in terms of prevention preparedness and recovery or rehabilitation from natural disasters in the Pacific Islands that local traditional agricultural diversity and traditional knowledge have considerable value in helping island societies solve the problems presented by natural disasters. At present, however, there is an increasing reliancy by individual island societies (eg. Villages, outer ...

Digital divide can be considered a macro economical index representing the social differences and the separation between the North and the South of the world. Since the first definition of digital divide, it has been shown that it is also a great and unrecognized problem in the developed countries, especially in the field of education. “Digital disconnection” is a key problem for School and Uni...

THEA C. JOHANOS, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1601 Kapiolani Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, U.S.A.; ALBERT L. HARTING, Harting Biological Consulting, 8898 Sandy Creek Lane, Bozeman, Montana 59715, U.S.A.; TRACY A. WURTH, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 1000 Pope Road, Honolu...

Haynes, Richard W. 2008. Emergent lessons from a century of experience with Pacific Northwest timber markets. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-747. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 45 p. Timber markets in the United States are areas where timber prices tend to be uniform because of the continuous interactions of buyers and sellers. These m...

Foreign banks play a large role in the loan sales market. We examine this role using individual bank data on foreign-owned banks in the United States. We find that the motives for loan sales and purchases differ between U.S. and foreign-owned banks and between foreign banks of different regions. The evidence is consistent with foreign banks' using the market for diversification. clevelandfed.or...

In the Pacific island region, the progress towards achieving the global Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target 7D, improving the lives of a hundred million slum dwellers, is fraught with many challenges. Out of all the MDG targets, minimal support has been provided to improving the quality of life of residents living in squatter and informal settlements in Pacific towns and cities. In this co...

Until the 1950s, information about the levels of fertility and mortality in the Pacific islands (see map on page 6) was fragmentary and much of it was anecdotal, but there was quite a lot of it. In that era, vital registration systems and periodic population censuses were the major sources of information on fertility and mortality, and the extent of these depended on the priority that each colo...

A range extension for Hahn’s short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia subrufa, is reported which extends the distribution of the species from the Pacific Dry Forest into the Pacific Moist Forest ecoregion. This raises the possibility that the species may be more widely distributed in Costa Rica than currently supposed, adding almost 30,000 km of potential range.

Disease reporting for Asians/Pacific Islanders often conflicts and is, many cases, inaccurate because of the aggregation of Asians and Pacific Islanders. An analysis of 2005 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System data was performed to examine health status of Asians compared to Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders. Findings show a significant difference between Asians and Native Hawaiia...

BACKGROUND Studies suggest Pacific Islander women have disparate rates of preterm birth, primary cesarean delivery, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and low birthweight infants. However, data is limited. In order to improve the health of Pacific Islanders, it is essential to better understand differences in obstetric outcomes in this diverse population METHODS This study compared perinatal...