We describe a new gekkonid species, Lepiclodactylus vanuatuensis, from Vanuatu, Melanesia. This species most closely resembles L. guppyi and L. gardineri, and belongs to Brown and Parker's (1977) Group II based on having entire terminal scansors on all digits and two or three divided or deeply notched subterminal scansors on digits II-V. However, it differs from these species in having the foll...

A 23-year-old woman from Vanuatu presented to an Australian hospital with a 3-week history of a non-healing ulcer on the lower leg. A swab was submitted for a multiplex polymerase chain reaction designed to investigate genital ulcerative conditions. Haemophilus ducreyi was detected and the gene product was subsequently sequenced, confirming the diagnosis of cutaneous chancroid. The lesion respo...

A rediscovered population of Emoia caeruleocauda from the Fiji Islands is compared with populations from Papua New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, and Vanuatu. Morphometrically, females from all populations are somewhat smaller than males, although males are significantly larger only in head length and width, and hindlimb length. Females and males do not appear dimorphic in scalation. Interpopula...

Work versus Non-work Predictors of Job Satisfaction among Japanese White-collar Workers: Akihito HAGIHARA, et al. Department of Health Services Management and Policy, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medicine—In the present study, we conducted a cross-sectional study of male white-collar workers in Japan, and evaluated the relative importance of work and non-work factors in deciding the lev...

ii Executive Summary The first albacore tagging cruise for the EU-funded SCIFISH project was completed in early 2009. The main objective of the cruise was to tag albacore with conventional tags in an effort to obtain information on exploitation rates and movement. The cruise also provided the opportunity to conduct an experiment to validate the age of albacore derived from hard parts such as ot...