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• Fakakoloa as embodied mana moana and agency: Postcolonial sociology within Oceania 

  Fa'avae, David Taufui Mkiato; Fehoko, Edmond S.; Vaka, Sione (2022)

  The coupling of mana moana is grounded in inspiration from and through Indigeneity and Moana sense-making (intimate understanding through our sensibilities within Oceania). Tongan meaning-making is centred on talanoa-vā, ...

  

• Rapid holistic assessment and rating of post-earthquake hospital functionality 

  Boston, Megan (2019)

  Hospitals play a critical role in ensuring community safety. It is imperative that they remain operational during and after an earthquake, to provide immediate and ongoing medical care. However, experience shows frequent ...

  

• Functional group‐dependent responses of forest bird communities to invasive predator control and habitat fragmentation 

  Morgan, Shaun; Binks, Nigel A.; Didham, Raphael K.; Barnes, Andrew D. (Wiley, 2022)

  Aim Mounting global pressure on bird populations from invasive predators and habitat loss has driven a rapid growth in restoration and conservation action around the world, yet the efficacy of such actions is still not ...

  

• Ethical, legal, and social issues in the Earth BioGenome Project. 

  Sherkow, Jacob S.; Barker, Katharine B.; Braverman, Irus; Cook-Deegan, Robert; Durbin, Richard; Easter, Carla L.; Goldstein, Melissa M.; Hudson, Maui; Kress, W. John; Lewin, Harris A.; Mathews, Debra J. H.; McCarthy, Catherine; McCartney, Ann M.; da Silva, Manuela; Torrance, Andrew W.; Greely, Henry T. (2022)

  The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is an audacious endeavor to obtain whole-genome sequences of representatives from all eukaryotic species on Earth. In addition to the project's technical and organizational challenges, it ...

  

• The right place at the right time: Seasonal variation of bacterial communities in arid Avicennia ‎marina soils in the Red Sea is specific to its position in the intertidal 

  Thomson, Timothy; Ellis, Joanne I.; Fusi, Marco; Prinz, Natalie; Bennett-Smith, Morgan F.; Aylagas, Eva; Carvalho, Susana; Jones, Burton H. (2022)

  Mangrove forests play an important role in facilitating biogeochemical pathways and cycling acting as blue carbon sinks. These services are primarily regulated by the activity of the soil microbiome. However, there is still ...

  

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