Around the World. Australia and New Zealand. William Irwin , Dorothy IrwinAround the World. Great Britain and Canada. Mary RussellIslands of the Western Pacific. Winnifred Lewis

1951 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 410-412
Author(s):  
Curtis S. Edgett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Western Pacific

The Western Pacific Working Group of the INQUA Loess Commission: expansion from Central Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Smalley ◽  
Ken O’Hara-Dhand
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Central European ◽  
The World ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThe INQUA Loess Commission expanded from its Central European base after the 1977 INQUA Congress. The first, furthest, and probably most successful expansion was the Western Pacific Working Group(WPWG). Co-operative loess research between China, Australia and New Zealand demonstrated the ideal working of a dedicated research group within the INQUA protocols. The WPWG functioned from 1978 to about 1988, a critical ten years during which China re-appeared on the world loess scene. The WPWG meeting in China in 1985 was a useful precursor to the INQUA Congress in Beijing in 1991. The main function of the WPWG turned out to be facilitating the return of China to the world of loess scholarship.

scholarly journals A project for analyzing the ecology and phylogeny of western Pacific echinoids

Zoosymposia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
K. KANAZAWA ◽  
M. SAITOH ◽  
N. WAKAYAMA ◽  
M. OBUCHI ◽  
S. NAKACHI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Northern Japan

In 2017 we started a project to analyze the ecology and phylogeny of western Pacific echinoids. As the first step, we are establishing methods to infer their phylogenetic relationships using molecular data; we developed effective methods to obtain complete mitochondrial DNA sequences, and determined their effectiveness in phylogenetic analysis. We have also been gathering data concerning the ecology and systematics of Japanese extant echinoids, which arguably has among the highest genus-level diversities in the West Pacific or perhaps even in the world. We have collected 58 species from middle and southern Japan representing 48 genera. In the next year, we will collect sea urchins from northern Japan, and within 2 years we will finish collecting data on ecology and systematics of Japanese echinoids, and provide a set of standardized data that will be useful for many researchers studying western Pacific echinoids. At that time, we will start comparative analyses of echinoid faunas distributed in the western Pacific.

Galaxias maculatus: An explanation of its biogeography

1996 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 845 ◽  
Author(s):  
TM Berra ◽  
LELM Crowley ◽  
W Ivantsoff ◽  
PA Fuerst
Keyword(s):  
Gene Flow ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oceanic Islands ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
South American ◽  
Salt Tolerant ◽  
Galaxias Maculatus ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The Western Pacific

Galaxias maculatus is a small diadromous fish found in Australia, New Zealand, South America and on some oceanic islands. Two hypotheses have been advanced to explain this widespread, disjunct distribution. McDowall promoted dispersal through the sea of salt-tolerant juveniles but Rosen and others claimed that the distribution reflected the break-up of Gondwana and subsequent drift of the southern continents. Allozyrne electrophoresis of muscle extracts of specimens of Galaxias maculatus from eastern and western Australia, New Zealand and Chile was used to test the hypothesis that populations of G. maculatus from the western Pacific and the eastern Pacific do not differ genetically. FST based on allele frequencies and genotypes was 0.14, suggesting only minor differentiation between eastern and western Pacific populations. Minor differentiation in allele frequency existed at some loci, but no fixation of alternative alleles has occurred. The populations examined appear to be part of the same gene pool, indicating that gene flow via dispersal through the sea occurs today. It is unlikely that South American and Australasian populations would be conspecific if they have exchanged no migrants since the break-up of Gondwana at the end of the Mesozoic.

Progress towards advanced practice roles in Australia, New Zealand and the Western Pacific

Radiography ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. e20-e23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Smith ◽  
Jill Yielder ◽  
Olusegun Ajibulu ◽  
Edward Caruana
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
The Western Pacific

scholarly journals Towards American Dependence: New Zealand's Developing Politico-Military Relations with the United States of America, 1919-1942

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Maximilian Luppi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Command Area ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Western Pacific

<p>The purpose of this study is to describe and explain a crucial transition in New Zealand's defence policy the outcome of which was that, instead of relying on the United Kingdom (and in particular the Royal Navy) for her Pacific security, New Zealand began to rely on the military and naval power of the United States in the Western Pacific. The study therefore focuses on New Zealand's developing politico-military relations with the United States in the context of the informal and then formal Anglo-American alliance between 1919 and 1942. There are three parts. The first investigates the events which led up to New Zealand's abrupt reorientation in 1940 from relying on Britain for her Pacific security to relying on the United States. In the course of this, British and American defence planning and co-operation for a possible war in the Pacific between 1919 and 1939 are examined in some detail. The second part deals with New Zealand's efforts to secure an American naval shield in the course of British and American negotiations to develop a combined British-Dutch-American defence against Japan between 1940 and 1942. The final part goes into the reasons for the change of defence policy and concludes that: 1. The fundamental cause was the British failure in 1919 and the immediately following years to challenge Japan for naval supremacy in the Western Pacific by establishing a Far Eastern Fleet. It was a consequence of this that in June 1940 Britain tried to get the United States to assume a major strategic responsibility in the Western Pacific by undertaking to dispatch an American fleet to Singapore if Japan joined in the war whch had already broken out with Germany and Italy. 2. Australia and New Zealand, accepting the British grand strategy, prepared their local defences between October 1940 and March 1941 on the assumption that America would keep in step and send a fleet to Singapore. 3. Despite the failure of Britain's grand strategy between June 1940 and March 1941, America did assume strategic responsibility, particularly for the naval defence of New Zealand, in March 1941. In turn New Zealand, unlike Britain and Australia, consistently tried to meet the American point of view regarding a combined British-Dutch-American Pacific defence plan. This was part of her continuing effort to secure an American naval shield in the event of war with Japan. 4. Britain and America were unable to agree on a combined British-Dutch-American defence plan before Japan entered the war in December 1941. This delayed the final realization of New Zealand's goal, pursued since October 1940, of gaining an American naval shield. The establishment of the ANZAC unified Pacific command area in February 1942 saw this goal at long last attained.</p>

Australian Sympycninae II: Syntormon Loew and Nothorhaphium, gen. nov., with a treatment of the Western Pacific fauna, and notes on the subfamily Rhaphiinae and Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera : Dolichopodidae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Bickel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Late Tertiary ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Western Pacific

The Australian species of two genera, Nothorhaphium, gen. nov. andSyntormon Loew (Diptera : Dolichopodidae), are described, illustrated and keyed, and discussed in context of the Western Pacific fauna. The two genera are phylogenetically close. The Australian Nothorhaphium comprises four species: N. aemulans Becker, comb. nov. (= Xiphandrium pudicum Parent, syn. nov.), N. nudicorne, sp. nov., N. callosum, sp. nov., and N. curalo, sp. nov. The montane New Guinean N. oro, sp. nov. is also described, and its close relationship with the predominantly southern temperate Australian fauna is discussed, suggesting it was part of a common Australian fauna which became isolated with the uplift of New Guinea in the mid–late Tertiary. The Australian Syntormon comprises six species: S. xiphandroides Parent, S. flexibile Becker, S. singularis, sp. nov., S. tasmanense, sp. nov., S. janelithae, sp. nov., and S. lucare, sp. nov. As well, S. aotearoa is described from New Zealand. Genera once thought to be close to Syntormon are discussed. The subfamily Rhaphiinae is briefly discussed, noting the problem of subfamily definition. The New Zealand Syntormon formosus Parent is placed in new combination [= Dactylonotus formosus (Parent)] in a genus previously known only from southern Africa.

scholarly journals Anti-corruption as one of the key vectors of state policy: world and Russian experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Main Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
The Government

The purpose of the article is to study the anti-corruption policy in Russia and abroad, identify and characterize the main anti-corruption strategies. Comparative studies were chosen as the main method of scientific research, and case studies were used to analyze the anti-corruption strategies of a number of countries: the United States, great Britain, Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, China, Japan and Singapore; in comparison with Russia. The causes of corruption are analyzed, and measures aimed at preventing it are identified. It is hypothesized that only by using various anti-corruption strategies in combination, it is possible to effectively resist corruption. Three main strategies are identified: systematic elimination of the causes of corruption, aimed at reducing the risks and losses from corruption; a strategy of war, based on the use of punitive measures against corrupt officials; a strategy of conscious passivity, when the government does not actually take measures to eliminate corruption. In Russia during the 90's and up to 2008. the strategy of conscious passivity was applied, then we switched to a strategy of systematic elimination of the causes that generate corruption. The theoretical significance of the research results presented in the article is a review of the world and Russian experience in countering corruption and the measures used, and an assessment of their effectiveness in fighting it.

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