ABSTRACT This article discusses how dependency's antonym, ‘self‐reliance’ expresses and shapes aspirations for development, ideas about citizenship in Vanuatu. ‘keyword’ was popularized the process of decolonization nation‐building Vanuatu, influenced by Dependency Theory, Pan‐Africanism, Black Internationalism, trans‐Pacific visions development. But vernacular also articulate different develop...

Recent research with Western populations has demonstrated that children use imitation flexibly to engage in both instrumental and conventional learning. Evidence for children's imitative flexibility in non-Western populations is limited, however, and has only assessed imitation of instrumental tasks. This study (N = 142, 6- to 8-year-olds) demonstrates both cultural continuity and cultural vari...

Elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICT) has been defined as <0.1% circulating filarial antigen (CFA) prevalence in children born after the implementation of successful mass drug administrations (MDAs). This research assessed the feasibility of CFA and antibody testing in three countries; Tonga, Vanuatu, and Samoa. Transmission is interrupt...

Seven new species of the genus Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 from Solomon Islands are described: barana sp. nov., P. mbaole popomanaseu nov. (all Guadalcanal), lunga (Guadalcanal and Savo), malaita (Malaita), makira (Makira) owaraha (Makira Owaraha). insularis J. Balfour-Browne, 1939, described Vanuatu Solomons, currently considered a junior subjective synonym semperi 1899, is reinstituted as val...

Abstract. The Vanuatu subduction zone (VSZ) is known to be seismically very active, due the high convergence rate between Australian and Pacific tectonic plates for majority of margin. However, this not case on its southernmost part south latitude 22.5∘ S east longitude 170∘ E, which neither highly tectonically active nor has it produced large tsunamis over past 150 years. It also been widely s...

After holidaying in Vanuatu, a 24-year-old man presented with pleuritic chest pain and chest wall tenderness thought to be musculoskeletal in origin. He developed fatal acute renal failure, jaundice, respiratory failure, myocarditis and rhabdomyolysis. Subsequent serological results showed a rise in serum titre of antibodies to Leptospira grippotyphosa, from 1 : 50 to 1 : 800, consistent with a...

This thesis is an exploration of the ways in which past and present Churches of Christ worshippers from northern Vanuatu reflect on politik (Bislama: politics, political action but also much more). To comprehend what this term means to local people in Vanuatu, we must be aware of the contexts in which it is used, the events and relationships that are its exemplars and the local political econom...

BACKGROUND The population of the Pacific Melanesian country of Vanuatu was 234,000 at the 2009 census. Apart from subsistence activities, economic activity includes tourism and agriculture. Current completeness of vital registration is considered too low to be usable for national statistics; mortality and life expectancy (LE) are derived from indirect demographic estimates from censuses/surveys...

The South Pacific countries of Vanuatu, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea have ascended rapidly up the development spectrum in recent years, refining an independent and post-colonial economic and political identity that enhances their recognition on the world stage. All three countries have overcome economic, political and public health challenges in order to stake their claim to sovereignty. In this...