New Guinea
The Burden of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: Results of a Large Population-Based Survey.
... Resistance to anti-TB drugs is considered an emerging problem in Papua New Guinea (PNG), but a reliable estimate of the prevalence of MDR-TB in the country is not available. Studies performed by the ...
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Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago.
... The study presented here has shown for the first time that pottery was introduced to the New Guinea Highlands from the coastal region by the end of the fourth millennium BP. The pottery analysed from the ...
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Cystomastacoides van Achterberg (Braconidae, Rogadinae): first host record and descriptions of three new species from Thailand and Papua New Guinea
... Material examined. Holotype female, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Yap- siei, 5.iii.04, 4°37.695'S, 141°05.839'E, 100m, PAR, CATJ085, reared ex caterpil- lar of Asota plana (Walker) (Erebidae, ...
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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based mapping of volcanic flows: Manam Island, Papua New Guinea
... present new radar-based techniques for effi- cient identification of surface changes generated by lava and pyroclastic flows, and apply these to the 1996 eruption of Manam Volcano, Papua New ...
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Structural and chemical characterization of corals grown under present day and naturally elevated pCO2 conditions in Papua New Guinea - a window into the future
... Examining the obtained results it can be concluded, that a combination of TGA and CRM is a suitable method to determine an approximate temperature for aragonite conversion. In the course of this study only the ...
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Estimating Sustainable Live-Coral Harvest at Kamiali Wildlife Management Area, Papua New Guinea.
... Live coral is harvested throughout the Indo-West Pacific to make lime, used in the consump- tion of the world’s fourth-most consumed drug, betel nut. Coral harvesting is an environmen- tal concern; however, because ...
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Further new species of the genus Dolichoctis Schmidt-Göbel from New Guinea and surrounding islands (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae)
... any New Guinean species of the subgenus ...from New Guinea which, however, does not seem to be closely related to ...on New Ireland, still re- mains ...the New Guinean region, and ...
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Rediscovery of the Threatened River Sharks, Glyphis garricki and G. glyphis, in Papua New Guinea.
... Recent surveys of the shark and ray catches of artisanal fishers in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) resulted in the rediscovery of the threatened river sharks, Gly- phis garricki and Glyphis ...
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Multiplicity and diversity of Plasmodium vivax infections in a highly endemic region in Papua New Guinea.
... Papua New Guinea (PNG) presents a variety of different climatic and ecological zones which have differing levels of malaria transmission [2] with a high burden of ...
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A new species of Peucoglyphus Bernhauer from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
... Type material examined. Indonesia (West Papua): Holotype [with antennomeres 4–11 and labial palps missing], male, “Neth. Ind. - Amer. New Guinea Exp. 1938 Lake Habbema, 3250–3300 m, Ult. VII-ult. VIII L.J. ...
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Exocelina baliem sp. n., the only known pond species of New Guinea Exocelina Broun, 1886 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)
... diverse New Guinea Exocelina fauna, with 63 formally described species (Balke 1998, 1999, 2001; Shaverdo et ...a new species, which is morpho- logically distinct and ecologically different from all ...
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Ethnologische Feldforschung in Papua New Guinea
... doch nicht das erste Mal, daß Basler Ethnologen im Sepik-Gebiet des nördlichen Neuguinea (heute: in der «East Sepik Province» des seit 1975 souveränen Staates Papua New Guinea) tätig waren. So läßt sich, um ...
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Six new species of Philiris Röber, 1891 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Papua New Guinea
... Diagnosis. Males of Philiris petriei sp. n. are readily distinguished from other spe- cies in the genus. P. petriei sp. n. is a large species with a forewing length that surpasses that of its putative congeners, P. ...
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Population hemoglobin mean and anemia prevalence in Papua New Guinea: new metrics for defining malaria endemicity?
... Hb metrics thus appear to be promising alternative tools for measuring malaria burden, on their own or in combination with other traditional or more recent serological[59] measures of malaria endemicity, even in areas of ...
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Landslide inventory development in a data sparse region: spatial and temporal characteristics of landslides in Papua New Guinea
... quakes. All of the earthquakes which were identified as triggering landslides were of magnitude 5 or greater. These events are widely distributed across PNG, with events being observed through the Papuan Fold Belt ...
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Pests, diseases and crop protection practices in the smallholder sweetpotato production system of the highlands of Papua New Guinea
... and new gardens and was also the disease considered of highest priority by ...the new crop gardens and this reflects the fact that no farmers had accessed pathogen-tested clean planting ...
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Dated phylogenies of the sister genera Macaranga and Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae): congruence in historical biogeographic patterns?
... The dispersal direction, Asia to Africa, is contrary to the rafting theory of India [7,8], which brought taxa from Africa to Asia. The boreotropical forests hypothesis [9–11] covers the periods Paleo- cene and Eocene, ...
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Strategies for understanding and reducing the Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale hypnozoite reservoir in Papua New Guinean children: a randomised placebo-controlled trial and mathematical model.
... In malaria-endemic areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where four of the five human Plas- modium species coexist, P. vivax predominates as the cause of infection and illness in young children [18,19] and is ...
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Ecological guild evolution and the discovery of the world's smallest vertebrate.
... two new species of diminutive terrestrial frogs from the megadiverse hotspot island of New Guinea, one of which represents the smallest known vertebrate species, attaining an average body size of ...
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Invaded Invaders: Infection of Invasive Brown Treesnakes on Guam by an Exotic Larval Cestode with a Life Cycle Comprised of Non-Native Hosts.
... (Papua New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands) to the invasive population on Guam and reported fewer infected snakes and notably lower infection intensities on Guam (24% of individuals positive for helminth ...
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