Awareness surrounding plastic pollution has increased significantly in the past decade, leading to concerns on potential adverse effects biota, including consumption of microplastic by fish. Globally, been found many species fish, but little research undertaken southern hemisphere. We assessed abundance and type fish captured sold for human Australia Fiji. Fish (goatfish, sea mullet, paddletail...

SETTINGS Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear microscopy and Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture are the first-line diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB). The contamination of TB cultures significantly reduces the reliability of TB diagnosis. OBJECTIVE To investigate factors associated with TB culture contamination in Fiji, and the relative diagnostic performance of culture compared to microscopy. ...

In Fiji and other Pacific Island countries, obesity has rapidly increased in the past decade. Therefore, several obesity prevention policies have been developed. Studies show that their development has been hampered by factors within Fiji's policy landscape such as pressure from industry. Since policymakers in the Fijian national government are primarily responsible for the development of obesi...

Over the years, Fiji has managed to contain most infectious diseases through its very successful immunisation program, improved hygiene and living conditions, and safe water supply. Non-communicable diseases have emerged with their resultant chronic and disabling effects. The gradual ageing of the population has also contributed to an emergence of chronic and disabling conditions related to the...

In Fiji, imports as a share of GDP has been rising strongly, particularly over the past three decades. Over these years imports have fluctuated considerably, generally in line with fluctuations in aggregate demand. Fiji is a small island state, heavily dependent on external trade for many of our essential goods. It is vital, therefore to always ensure that we have adequate foreign reserves to p...

This study examines six antecedent constructs affecting potential Australian tourists’ destination image of Fiji. Data were collected from 416 respondents and analysed using covariance-based structural equation modelling. Results revealed that five – impressions Fiji, trust in the Fijian government, crisis management, solidarity, COVID-19 mitigation practices positively associated with responde...

Distribution patterns of stress-tolerant coral symbionts suggest that maximum habitat temperatures can drive local scale adaptation of symbiont populations, but at regional scales other processes can dominate. We assayed clade membership for symbionts of 2 closely related corals from American Samoa, Fiji, the Philippines and Palmyra Atoll. Temperature stress-tolerant Clade D symbionts occur mor...

We present Skan (Skeleton analysis), a Python library for the analysis of the skeleton structures of objects. It was inspired by the "analyse skeletons" plugin for the Fiji image analysis software, but its extensive Application Programming Interface (API) allows users to examine and manipulate any intermediate data structures produced during the analysis. Further, its use of common Python data ...

The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...

Mohammed, North, and Ashton find that decentralization in Fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. Decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. They surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....