Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2014

The Emergent Middle Classes in Timor-Leste and Melanesia: Conceptual Issues and Developmental Significance

The emergence of a middle class has been identified as an important factor driving economic and political transitions in Asia and Africa. Class has been ‘happening’ in the broader Pacific region1 for some time, as Gewertz and Errington (1999:2) observed of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Nevertheless, to date, little systematic policy attention has been given to questions of class. We believe that the ...

Indigenous Governance in Melanesia

Along with recent widely publicized problems of Melanesian states comes renewed interest in “customary modes of governance.” Although talk of custom now fl ows easily in discussions of political reform in the region, few of these discussions make any serious use of the extensive anthropological literature on the politics of “tradition.” The fact that custom now crosses lines of academic and pol...

AIDS in Melanesia

review of radiographic methods in dental implantology

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Comments on Statistical Issues in March 2014

The analysis results of KNHANES data are usually presented as weighted mean±standard error of mean (SEM) or weighted proportion (SE). The reason for providing standard error instead of standard deviation is attributed to the fact that standard deviation only describes variation of sample data. On the other hand, standard error provides the precision of estimate (weighted mean/weight proportion)...