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Kelly, Evadne. "The Political and Religious Tensions of Fijian Dance in Canada: Renegotiating Identity Through Affect." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2014 (2014): 106–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2014.14.

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Recent performances ofmeke, a “traditional” Fijian song-dance genre, in Canada indicate a renegotiation of identity among Fijians in diasporic communities. However, due to religious and political anxieties involving Fiji's colonial history, not all Fijians in Canada will participate inmeke. To explore this, I draw from archival research and fieldwork conducted in Western Canada and Viti Levu, Fiji (2011–2012). Additionally, I take inspiration from the anthropological theory of affect, whereby the body has the ability to be affected (to feel/sense) and to affect others (causing others to feel/sense). I argue that experiences and expressions of powerful feeling states in and surroundingmekeperformance are important in terms of renegotiating Fiji's past colonial and present post-independence realities while negotiating new connections and relations in multicultural Canada.
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Duncan, Lynda. "Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2002): 10–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v8i1.727.

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Both the Fiji Times and the Daily Post reinforced the colonial myth that Fijian chiefs are the rightful rulers of Fiji, emphasising that Fiji, and this presumably means Fijians, was not ready for a multiracial constitution.
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Siegel, Jeff. "How to get a laugh in Fijian: Code-switching and humor." Language in Society 24, no. 1 (March 1995): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740450001842x.

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ABSTRACTCode-switching from the Fijian language into a variety of Hindi is commonly used for joking among indigenous Fijians. Examples of this codeswitching are described here, and its role in Fijian joking relationships is outlined. A survey of code-switching used for humor in other societies shows that code-switching may be a signal for joking, that the switching itself may be considered humorous, and that the variety to which one switches may be used for humorous mockery or parody. Three different psychological approaches to the study of humor throw some light on why code-switching into Hindi is funny to Fijians. A final discussion examines code-switching in relation to both unintegrated borrowing and style-shifting. (Code-switching, borrowing, humor, joking, Fijian, Hindi)
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Ramesh, Sanjay. "Ethnocracy and Post-Ethnocracy in Fiji." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8, no. 3 (November 30, 2016): 115–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v8i3.5185.

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Fiji’s history is interspersed with ethnic conflict, military coups, new constitutions and democratic elections. Ethnic tensions started to increase in the 1960s and reached its peak with violent indigenous Fijian ethnic assertion in the form of military coups in 1987. Following the coup, the constitution adopted at independence was abrogated and a constitution that provided indigenous political hegemony was promulgated in 1990. However, by 1993, there were serious and irreparable divisions within the indigenous Fijian community, forcing coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka to spearhead a constitution review. The result of the review was the multiracial 1997 Constitution which failed to resolve deep seated ethnic tensions, resulting in another nationalist coup in 2000 and a mutiny at the military barracks in December of that year. Following the failed mutiny, the Commander of the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces, Voreqe Bainimarama, publicly criticised nationalist policies of the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, culminating in another military coup in 2006. The new military government started plans to de-ethnise the Fijian state and promulgated a constitution that promoted ethnic equality.Post independence Fiji is characterised by these conflicts over ethnocracy. The ethnic hegemony of indigenous Fijian chiefs is set against inter-ethnic counter hegemony. While democratic politics encourages inter-ethic alliance-building, the ethnic hegemony of the chiefs has been asserted by force. Latterly, the fragmentation of the ethnic hegemony has reconfigured inter-ethnic alliances, and the military has emerged as a vehicle for de-ethnicisation. The article analyses this cyclical pattern of ethnic hegemony and multiethnic counter hegemony as a struggle over (and against) Fijian ethnocracy.
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Varani-Norton, Eta. "Vakatoka Yaca (Naming) method: critiquing the Tukutuku Raraba, colonial histories of Fijian tribes." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 17, no. 2 (June 2021): 145–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11771801211018225.

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This article uses a new research method to assess the veracity of the official historical record of a Fijian vanua (Fijian tribe and its land), an example of narratives recorded during colonial times to identify land ownership and chiefly titles among the Indigenous Fijians. The colonial narratives of history continue to be the major resource for official resolution of local disputes about land and titles despite widespread Fijian distrust of their reliability. New historical research employing the Vakatoka Yaca (Naming) method reveals major inconsistencies in the official history of the author’s vanua that demonstrate the need for revisions of this official narrative, and perhaps reviews of the histories of other vanua.
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Dearie, Catherine, Shamieka Dubois, David Simmons, Freya MacMillan, and Kate A. McBride. "A Qualitative Exploration of Fijian Perceptions of Diabetes: Identifying Opportunities for Prevention and Management." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 7 (March 27, 2019): 1100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071100.

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Rates of diabetes are high in many communities of Pacific Island peoples, including people from Fiji. This qualitative study explores knowledge and attitudes towards diabetes among i-Taukei Fijians to facilitate the cultural tailoring of diabetes prevention and management programs for this community. Fijians aged 26 to 71 years (n = 15), residing in Australia, participated in semi-structured interviews; 53% (n = 8) were male. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, then thematically analyzed. Diabetes is recognized as an important and increasing health problem requiring action in the i-Taukei Fijian community. Widespread support for culturally appropriate lifestyle interventions utilizing existing societal structures, like family networks and church groups, was apparent. These structures were also seen as a crucial motivator for health action. Intervention content suggestions included diabetes risk awareness and education, as well as skills development to improve lifestyle behaviors. Leveraging existing social structures and both faith and family experiences of diabetes within the Fijian community may help convert increased awareness and understanding into lifestyle change. Ongoing in-community support to prevent and manage diabetes was also regarded as important. We recommend building upon experience from prior community-based interventions in other high-risk populations, alongside our findings, to assist in developing tailored diabetes programs for Fijians.
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Rutz, Henry J. "Capitalizing on Culture: Moral Ironies in Urban Fiji." Comparative Studies in Society and History 29, no. 3 (July 1987): 533–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500014717.

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To an historian or anthropologist familiar with land problems in Fiji, nothing would have been less predictable than the urban discontents over land rights since independence, for these disturbances, in an ethnically plural society whose colonial history is marked by hostility between Indians and Fijians, were among the Fijians themselves. During the whole of the colonial period, from cession of the islands to Britain in 1874 to independence in 1970, the coexistence of Europeans, Indians (first imported as indentured labor), and Fijians had been forged out of land law. Successive colonial administrations labored for four decades around the turn of the century to secure for Fijians a precapitalist system of property rights that would become a bulwark against encroachment by a white planter and settler community. The system “by law established” subsequently became the basis for hostility between several generations of rural Fijian landowners and a growing number of landless Indian peasants. By the time self-government arrived in the mid-1960s, Indian access to land and Fijian resistance thereto was the most important issue threatening the stability of the new state, and government-commissioned reports and legislative acts pointed to this conflict of interest as the most significant problem for an independent Fiji. But the authoritative history written from commission reports and based on administrative policy often conceals another history, that formed by the experience of everyday life, where opposed groups confront each other over interests not always visible to legislators and judges, and often less so to scholarly observers.
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Hendriks, Anna-Marie, Mere Y. Delai, Anne-Marie Thow, Jessica S. Gubbels, Nanne K. De Vries, Stef P. J. Kremers, and Maria W. J. Jansen. "Perspectives of Fijian Policymakers on the Obesity Prevention Policy Landscape." BioMed Research International 2015 (2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/926159.

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In Fiji and other Pacific Island countries, obesity has rapidly increased in the past decade. Therefore, several obesity prevention policies have been developed. Studies show that their development has been hampered by factors within Fiji’s policy landscape such as pressure from industry. Since policymakers in the Fijian national government are primarily responsible for the development of obesity policies, it is important to understand their perspectives; we therefore interviewed 15 policymakers from nine Fijian ministries. By applying the “attractor landscape” metaphor from dynamic systems theory, we captured perceived barriers and facilitators in the policy landscape. A poor economic situation, low food self-sufficiency, power inequalities, inappropriate framing of obesity, limited policy evidence, and limited resource sharing hamper obesity policy developments in Fiji. Facilitators include policy entrepreneurs and policy brokers who were active when a window of opportunity opened and who strengthened intersectoral collaboration. Fiji’s policy landscape can become more conducive to obesity policies if power inequalities are reduced. In Fiji and other Pacific Island countries, this may be achievable through increased food self-sufficiency, strengthened intersectoral collaboration, and the establishment of an explicit functional focal unit within government to monitor and forecast the health impact of policy changes in non-health sectors.
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Maclellan, Nic. "From Fiji to Fallujah: The war on Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 12, no. 2 (September 1, 2006): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v12i2.862.

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Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, private security companies from the United Kingdom and United States have been seeking personnel for their operations in the Middle East, and many hundreds of Fijians have signed up. The privatisation of security, a growing trend in the Middle East and Africa, has reached the shores of the South Pacific and governments have little control over former army personnel employed by private military contractors. This article documents the recruitment of Fijian military personnel for service in Iraq and Kuwait, and the casualties that they have faced. The engagement of former military personnel as private military contractors has spilt over into the Pacific as well—from the 1997 Sandline crisis to current events in Bougainville. Since November 2005, the governments of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have tried to resolve a crisis caused by the presence of former Fijian soldiers in Bougainville.
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Matsen Neal, Jerusha. "Exodus or Exile: Hermeneutic Shifts in a Shifting Fijian Methodist Church." International Journal of Homiletics 2, no. 1 (July 19, 2017): 16–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ijh.2017.39432.

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Over the past 30 years, the effects of globalization, climate change and multiple military coups have reshaped the Fijian landscape. The “lines in the sand” around issues of land ownership, rising tides and Fijian identity have complicated the relationship between the Fijian Methodist Church and the land which grounds its culture. The historical fissures between the majority Methodist indigenous church and Fiji’s large Hindu population continue to place the rights of first peoples in tension with rights of ethnic and religious minorities, even as the country’s secular government stresses the possibility of harmony. In recent years, the church’s primary responses to these demographic, political and environmental changes have been homiletic and hermeneutic. In spite of declining membership and reduced political influence, the church’s present experience has been re-read as a “New Exodus” journey toward a promised land. This theme of “New Exodus” has become a dominant trope in sermons, church education events and Fijian Methodist self-understanding. A more complicated hermeneutic, however, mines the biblical theme of exile to describe the current situation. In iTaukei (indigenous Fijian) understanding, the ‘vanua,’ or land, connotes the traditional culture of those who live on that land. As change impacts the culture of indigenous village life, the land itself is understood to change. Though 80% of Fijian land is tribally held, many Fijian Methodists experience the land on which they have lived for generations as suddenly unfamiliar. My paper will explore these disparate biblical readings of the Fijian Methodist experience through a homiletic analysis of four Fijian sermons, pointing to the importance of pulpit rhetoric in creating new conceptions of place and direction in a world where familiar markers are washing away.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fijian"

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Rawaikela, Dakuidreketi Mesake. "Contexts of science teaching and learning in Fiji primary schools : a comparative study of ethnic Fijian and Indo-Fijian communities." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1846.

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As an experienced science educator in Fiji, it is my observation that Ethnic Fijian students evince, on average, significant under-achievement in science subjects as compared to their Indo-Fijian counterparts at all school levels. In my doctoral study, I seek to identify the reasons for this differential achievement of the two ethnic groups. My study explores both macro level and micro level contexts of science teaching and learning in Fiji Primary schools. For instance, at macro level, my focus is on the relevance of political/colonial history and the socio-cultural and geographical background of the two ethnic groups in Fiji. At micro level, my study has involved observing classroom interactions and investigating the beliefs and practices of the various participants in children's early education. Over a six month duration from May to November 2001, I spent extended periods of time in four villages/communities, two from each ethnic group, in order to gather data for my study. I have employed multiple observations, semi-structured interviews with teachers, students and parents or community members, and analyses of prescribed syllabi and selected policy documents. In addition, I have used my own experiences of being a student, a parent, and a teacher in the Fijian Education system to reflect on the analysed data. My data evidences very little difference between the teaching approaches of teachers from the two ethnic groups. The most significant exception to my generalisation that the teaching practices are similar is that there are some marginal differences in practices relating to examination preparation. By far, the most remarkable differences seem to lie outside the classroom - be it in the community life, the cultural differences, or the demographics or the ambient thoughtforms of the two groups. My study presents a multi-layered analysis of these complex contexts based on ecological considerations and the socio-cultural theory of development and learning.
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Sharma, P. P. "The development of Fijian agriculture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382698.

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Gill, Kuldip. "Health strategies of Indo-Fijian women in the context of Fiji." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28790.

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The approach of this enquiry is to describe and analyze the processes and interactions which occur when Indo-Fijian women seek health care from their medical system made up of traditional beliefs and practices, combined with alternative sources of healing such as the Biomedical system, and some Fijian practices. Throughout, I have been concerned with discovering the strategic choices and decisions which Indo-Fijians employ in their transactions with a number of traditional types of healers such as pandits, pujaris, maulvis, orjahs and dais, as well as doctors and nurses in the biomedical sector. I have used the concept of process as basic to this enquiry and I have paid attention to those processes which display social behaviour in empirical events or situations, and thus on emergent medical systems. Thus, the approach chosen for this study is particularly suitable in the case of Indo-Fijians who arrived in Fiji as indentured labourers, and have had to adapt, to regularize their lives through situational adjustment. The methods used for data collection were participant-observation in two Indo-Fijian settlements and in a Western Biomedical hospital, in health centres and district nursing stations; as well as the use of archival and library materials. The enquiry, the first of its kind on health strategies of Indo-Fijian women, concludes with a chapter which discusses the interactions and processes between all medical care domains used by Indo-Fijians. Indo-Fijians do not distinguish between medical systems; their medical system Is Indian in its ideology but lacks the practice of the therapies of professionalized Indian medical systems; it has retained religious healing, reconstructed and synthesized folk healing traditions from many parts of India, as well as adding elements from Fijian healing. While it is also Western in its use of professional therapies, it lacks the ideological foundations of biomedicine.
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Larsson, Emma, and Amina Olsson. "Fijian chocolate –what would it look like?A study of the Fijian food culture, to find the specific attributes that might form the future Fijian chocolate culture." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Behavioural Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4318.

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The cocoa produced in Fiji is exported to industrialized countries for processing of the raw material. The Swedish organization Cocoa Bello is involved in a project to provide the Fijian cocoa farmers with knowledge as well as resources to enable local processing and to attain added value of the cocoa crop. The purpose of this study is to discover a field of application for the Fijian cocoa among the rural population, using an ethnographic design. We spent one week in Namau Settlement, Fiji, where we applied in-depth interviews and participant obser-vations in six families. We found a number of aspects affecting food choices, such as social, economical and cultural beliefs. The participants were to a great extent self-sufficient in food and because of the farm work they valued food rich in energy, especially the starchy plants grown on the farm. The crops grown on the farm are considered to be the real food. Hence it is important that the Fijian chocolate get the identity of the farm. The cocoa is among other things likely to be used in a beverage. Since the technology is limited, the Fijian cocoa should be underlined as being different from the commercial varieties of cocoa and chocolate, bring-ing out the properties unique to the local chocolate, such as the high content of nutrients and energy.

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Seniloli, Kesaia. "The value of children : perceptions of Fijian form six students in Fiji's Central Division." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110382.

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The survey conducted in February, 1987 obtained data on the perceptions of the value of children amongst 351 Form Six students of six moderately sized and predominantly indigenous Fijian secondary schools in the Central Division of Fiji. underlying The study attempts to explain the motivations underlying the existing high fertility level amongst the indigeneous Fijians in Fiji. It was found that although most females wanted a smaller family size than their male counterparts, all respondents indicated the importance of economic benefits of children particularly old age old age support and the traditional benefits from children which are the props for the perpetuation of high fertility. Most respondents also recognised the financial cost as a major disvalue in having children. It was also found that there was widespread knowledge of the existence of the different methods of contraception and positive attitudes towards the concept of family planning particularly amongst females and rural students. Although knowledge of contraception was not of great depth, most students favoured the use of contraception to prevent having more children. On the basis of the findings of this study it was concluded that until there were changes in the motivations, particularly the reliance on children for old age support, the high fertility level will persist in Fiji. Furthermore there is a need to address the misconceptions, misinformation and ignorance of the young people in Fiji regarding the effectiveness of the different contraceptive methods and also the mechanics of conception.
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Yabaki, Tamarisi, and n/a. "WOMEN�S LIFE IN A FIJIAN VILLAGE." University of Canberra. School of Education and Community Studies, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070525.122849.

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The impact of the market economy is a significant challenge facing Fijian rural communities. It is especially challenging for indigenous rural women who are managing the shift from a subsistence way of living to engagement in money generating activities. The challenge is more acute amongst disadvantaged populations such as women in rural communities who lack the resources and the political power to manage these challenges. The thesis provides a critical ethnographic, action-research study of the daily socioeconomic experiences of a group of Fijian village women, at this time of significant change. It provides and in-depth case study of a rural Fijian village located in the upper reaches of the Sigatoka Valley. The case study focuses on the women�s perspectives about their daily lived experiences and actions that followed from reflection on these, drawing out from these implications for indigenous Fijian women�s social progress and development. Herself, a member of the community, the researcher gathered data by a combination of participant observation, survey, diaries, focus groups and interviews. The researcher�s observations and understandings were fed back to the participants in the form of a workshop with the intention of confirmation and to provide and opportunity for action based on this reflection. It is argued that the success of managing the influence of the market economy on the villagers is to create social and political spaces and opportunities to hear and understand local epistemologies and daily lived experiences, reflexively. As an indigenous scholar, the researcher interrogates and deconstructs her own academic epistemologies and positions as a knowledge broker in order to co-construct new practices with her people. The research promises to make public Fijian village women�s knowledge, values, practices and experiences so that they can be understood by local scholars and local government development officers. Privileging the village women�s knowledge and bringing it to the core is a significant political act that might form the basis of proceeding political encounters that women will face in the development process.
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Shilliday, David Vernon. "Aspects of Fijian syntax : a GPSG analysis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27380.

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This thesis presents a basic Generative Grammar for the Fijian language. To be more precise it presents a grammar for the dialect spoken by Rev. Samuela Tamata, a native of the island of Kadavu. The data gathered from my informant supplemented (and typically confirmed) two non-Generative Grammars of Fijian which were at my disposal. These were Milner (1956) and Schuetz (1985). The former is a paedogogical work aimed at acquainting the beginner with the rudiments of Fijian. The latter provides a comprehensive description of the Fijian language based on extensive recent survey work. Unfortunately only a fraction of this work is devoted to sentence structure, the subject of this thesis. After setting the linguistic and non-linguistic background in Chapter 1, I proceed to outline the Generative Grammar which I assume for the majority of the thesis, namely Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar as presented by Gazdar et al. (1985). Chapter 3 then presents several revisions of the standard model. These were principally motivated by aspects of Fijian syntax e.g. the revision of the Subcategorization mechanism in the light of Object agreement on Verbs and the rejection of Slash Termination Metarules so that Unbounded Dependencies could terminate in Subject position. Chapter 4 provides a detailed analysis of the four subclasses of Noun i.e. Names, Pronouns, Common Nouns and Numerals. This is followed by an examination of Person and Number in conjoined Noun Phrases, a topic of particular interest to GPSG. Chapter 5 proceeds to an examination of various NP modifiers such as Adjective Phrases, Prepositional Phrases and Relative Clauses. The internal structure of Relative Clauses is however taken up in Chapter 8. Chapter 6 outlines the structure of the Fijian clause and comes to the perhaps surprising conclusion for a GPSG analysis that the Sentence is a projection from the Inflection rather than the Verb. (This IP analysis is however advocated in the Government and Binding theory of Chomsky (1986)). Chapter 7 attempts to deal with the variations in phrase ordering in Fijian. This involves firstly the introduction of a second [SLASHj-like feature to account for double extractions and secondly the positing of twin heads in flat VSO structures. In Chapter 8 we turn to Fijian Unbounded Dependencies, principally Topicalization and Relativization. We here present the evidence which led to our rejection of Slash Termination Metarules in Chapter 3 and argue against the need for the [WH] feature in Fijian Relative Clauses or Constituent Questions. Chapter 9 outlines the two raising constructions in Fijian; Subject-to-Subject Raising with impersonal verbs such as RAWA "possible" and Subject-to-Object Raising with verbs such as NUITAKA "expect". The latter construction is of particular interest since the rival Government and Binding theory claims that it is universally unacceptable! In Chapter 10 I change theoretical frameworks and present Government and Binding analyses of two topics of particular interest to that theory; namely multiple adjunction structures and Head-to-Head movement. Finally the Appendix includes a suggestion for an alternative Head Feature Convention for GPSG which operates on a more constrained notion of "Free Head Feature".
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Harvey, Jacqueline Helen. "Tax performance in a small developing country : a comparative analysis of the Fiji tax system, 1974-1986." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323540.

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Tabudravu, Jioji N. "Investigations of secondary metabolites from Fijian marine sponges." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU602042.

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The following thesis presents results from investigations of marine natural products. It is divided into 7 chapters consisting of an introduction, five chapters examining the metabolites from Fijian marine sponges and one chapter examining the secondary metabolites from the medicinal plant, kava {Piper methysticum). Two new psammaplins (psammaplin K and L), a new isomalabaricane triterpene monosaccharide, two new bromotyrosine alkaloids (purealidin S and purpureamine J) and two new cyclic peptides (axinellin C and wainunuamide), a new conformer of phakellistatin 2 together with other known secondary metabolites were isolated from marine sponges. The new conformer of phakellistatin 2 was observed to adopt another conformation in CDCI3. Psammaplin A was found to inhibit chitinase from a Bacillus sp. and Serratia marcescens. The mode of activity was investigated by enzyme reaction kinetics and supported by X-ray crystallography. A new isomer of flavokavain A, woflavokavain A was isolated from kava, together with 7 known compounds. Solution conformations of axinellin C, jasplakinolide, phakellistatin 2 and its two conformers were generated using nOe restrained molecular modelling techniques.
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Fonseca, Carolyn E. "The value of Fijian coral reefs by nonusers." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29691.

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Thesis (Ph.D)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.
Committee Chair: Noonan, Douglas S.; Committee Co-Chair: Norton, Bryan; Committee Member: Bowman, Kirk; Committee Member: Fox, Mary F. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Books on the topic "Fijian"

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Geraghty, Paul A. Fijian. 2nd ed. Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet, 2008.

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Geraghty, Paul A. Fijian phrasebook. Hawthorn, Vic., Australia: Lonely Planet, 1994.

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Solange, Petit-Skinner, ed. Fijian protocol. San Francisco: MacDuff Press, 1985.

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Milner, G. B. Fijian grammer. Suva, Fiji: Government Press, 1990.

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1950-, Ash J., ed. Fijian medicinal plants. [East Melbourne, Vic., Australia]: CSIRO Australia, 1994.

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Clunie, Fergus. Fijian weapons & warfare. [Suva]: Fiji Museum, 2003.

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The Fijian language. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.

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Ravuvu, Asesela. The Fijian ethos. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1987.

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Gatty, Ronald. Fijian-English dictionary: With notes on Fijian culture and natural history. Suva, Fiji: R. Gatty, 2009.

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Fijian-English dictionary: With notes on Fijian culture and natural history. Suva, Fiji: R. Gatty, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Fijian"

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Peregrine, Peter N. "Fijian." In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, 64–65. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1189-2_11.

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Mohanty, Manoranjan. "Fijian-Indian Diaspora." In Shifting Transnational Bonding in Indian Diaspora, 179–96. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020.: Routledge India, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003053804-13.

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Zipp, Lena. "Indo-Fijian English." In Varieties of English Around the World, 187–213. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g50.09zip.

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Geraghty, Paul. "28. The Fijian dictionary experience." In Language Description, History and Development, 383–94. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cll.30.36ger.

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Meo-Sewabu, Litea. "Research Ethics: An Indigenous Fijian Perspective." In Rethinking Anti-Discriminatory and Anti-Oppressive Theories for Social Work Practice, 108–22. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-02398-8_8.

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Griffiths, Patrick D. "Fijian Children’s Possessive Categories and Constructions." In Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics, 67. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.178.06gri.

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Mückler, Hermann. "Rückbesinnung und Suche: „Neue Politik“ und „Fijian Way“." In Fidschi Zwischen Tradition und Transformation, 365–420. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52054-9_6.

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Turner, Diane Michalski. "What Happened When My Daughter Became a Fijian." In Children and Anthropological Research, 97–114. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1843-9_5.

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Misir, Prem. "The Indo-Fijian Woman’s Story: Violence Against Women." In The Subaltern Indian Woman, 259–86. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5166-1_12.

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Griffin, Christopher. "Unity, Identity, Nation Building: Challenges to Fijian Leadership." In The GeoJournal Library, 247–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3826-7_15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Fijian"

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Samperiz, Ana, Sindia Sosdian, Erica Hendy, Kenneth G. Johnson, Eleanor H. John, and Stacy D. Jupiter. "DO FIJIAN CORAL SKELETONS RECORD WATERSHED CHANGES?" In GSA 2020 Connects Online. Geological Society of America, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020am-360094.

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Chand, Sushini. "Indo-Fijian American Women in Higher Education Leadership." In 2021 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1692244.

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Raju, Rupantri, Julian Heyes, Richard Archer, and Qun Chen. "Drying behaviour of fermented Fijian Theobroma cacao using dehumidified air." In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOSCIENCE, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND BIOMETRICS 2019. AIP Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5141279.

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Goundar, Sanmugam, M. G. M. Khan, and Karuna Garan Reddy. "Finding the drivers for ERP systems uptake in SMEs – an exploratory multiple-case study of selected Fijian companies." In 2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csde53843.2021.9718437.

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MIYAJI, MARI, AYAKO FUJIEDA, SAINIMERE VEITATA WAQALEVU, and HIROHIDE KOBAYASHI. "CHALLENGES FOR SELF-RECOVERY FROM CYCLONE DISASTERS IN A TRADITIONAL FIJIAN VILLAGE: THE CASE OF NAVALA VILLAGE AFTER TROPICAL CYCLONE WINSTON." In DISASTER MANAGEMENT 2017. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/dman170161.

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Goundar, Jai N., Sumesh Narayan, and Mohammed Rafiuddin Ahmed. "Design of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine for Fiji." In ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2012-88572.

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The demand and cost of electricity has increased for Pacific Island Countries (PICs). The electricity from main grid does not reach rural areas and outer islands of Fiji. They burn fuel for electricity and daily lighting. Therefore, there is a need to look for alternative energy sources. Wind turbine technology has developed over the past years and is suitable for generating electricity by tapping wind energy. However, turbines designed to operate at higher wind speed do not perform well in Fiji, because Fiji’s average wind velocity is around 5–6 m/s. A 10 m, 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine is designed to operate at low wind speed, cut in speed of 3 m/s, cut off speed of 10 m/s and rated wind speed of 6 m/s. The blade sections were designed for different locations along the blade. The airfoil at the tip (AF0914) a has maximum thickness of 14% and maximum camber of 9%; the thickness varies linearly to the root, at the root the airfoil (AF0920) has a maximum thickness of 20% and maximum camber of 9%. The aerodynamic characteristics of airfoil AF0914 were obtained using Xfoil and were validated by experimentation, at turbulence intensities (Tu) of 1% and 3%, and a Reynolds number (Re) of 200,000. The aerodynamic characteristics of other airfoils were also obtained at operating Re at the turbulence intensities of 1% and 3%. These airfoils have good characteristics at low wind speed, and were used to design the 10 m diameter 3-bladed HAWT for Fiji. The turbine has a linear chord distribution for easy manufacturing purpose. Twist distribution was optimized using Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory, and theoretical power and turbine performance were obtained using BEM theory. At the rated wind speed of 6 m/s and a TSR of 6.5, the theoretical efficiency of the rotor is around 46% and maximum power is 4.4 kW. The turbine has good performance at lower wind speeds and is suitable for Fiji’s conditions.
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León Mendoza, Raúl. "El suelo que pisamos." In V Congreso Internacional de Investigacion en Artes Visuales ANIAV 2022. RE/DES Conectar. València: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/aniav2022.2022.15514.

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El suelo es el plano horizontal donde se realiza una acción (escénica, performativa, cotidiana), sus condiciones de aparente neutralidad se expresan normalmente a través de ciertas convenciones sobre su grado de estabilidad, horizontalidad y consistencia que lo fijan como un elemento puramente funcional y subalterno del mundo. Aquello que denominamos como “el suelo”, determina y delimita una zona con las suficientes dimensiones (largo y ancho) como para podamos entender que no se interrumpe en su continuidad espacial: un plano. Es una superficie que no presenta interrupciones significativas (desniveles) en una extensión suficiente de terreno. Este plano es también continuo en el tiempo puesto que no suele variar de posición (girar o desplazarse) durante el transcurso de determinado lapso de tiempo. Es decir, presenta una estabilidad que se prolonga en el tiempo. El suelo no se mueve. La posición del suelo es fija desde las capacidades perceptivas antropocéntricas. Es, por tanto, una superficie producida, que no nos encontramos por defecto fuera de un contexto de manufactura humana y que requiere de diferentes esfuerzos capaces de transformar una superficie desigual o de construir un plano superpuesto al terreno topográfico de una localización, con unas características concretas y no con otras.Artista, docente e investigador del Departamento de Escultura de la UPV.Sin embargo, desestabilizar esta convención ha sido el objetivo de una serie de arquitectos, directores de escénicos y artistas que han encontrado, en diferentes tentativas de intervención sobre el suelo, un campo de investigación y práctica que les permitía partir de otros presupuestos y forzar nuevas relaciones entre cuerpo y espacio. El presente trabajo, pretende analizar cómo estas tentativas han desplazado las convenciones de posiciones, dinámicas, dimensiones, materialidades y regímenes administrativos del suelo, con una intencionalidad artística y cuál es el sentido del trabajo con un elemento desapercibido y subalternizado y que, sin embargo, nos sustenta.
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Qiokata, Viliame, and M. G. M. Khan. "Modeling emigration of Fiji's population using Artificial Neural Network." In 2015 2nd Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/apwccse.2015.7476240.

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Burri, Olivier. "EasyXT-Fiji: Simplifying back and forth communication between Imaris and Fiji." In European Light Microscopy Initiative 2021. Royal Microscopical Society, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22443/rms.elmi2021.33.

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Guo, M., Argaw Gurmu, and L. Tivendale. "DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR FLOOD MITIGATION IN FIJI." In The 9th World Construction Symposium 2021. The Ceylon Institute of Builders - Sri Lanka, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2021.21.

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A large portion of infrastructure was flooded by water running off pavements or overflowing from the drainage systems in Fiji. The main objectives of this study are to identify the most suitable drainage management solution to reduce the overflow of the drainage system in Fiji, and to develop a framework of drainage management systems. The literature review was conducted to identify various drainage systems used to mitigate flooding around the world. After the review, the characteristics of Fiji such as climate pattern, location and soil type were analysed in the case study section. Secondary data which was obtained from Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.S., Korea, and China were used in the research. The characteristics of Fiji were then mapped to other countries and a scoring system was created to analyse the suitability of different flood mitigation techniques in Fiji. Finally, multiple flood management strategies were proposed, and a drainage management framework for flood mitigation was developed.
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Reports on the topic "Fijian"

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Mangubhai, S., Y. Nand, and R. Audh. Valuing the contributions of Indo-Fijian fishers and sellers to small-scale fisheries. Wildlife Conservation Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19121/2020.report.38151.

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Aguilar, G., H. Waqa-Sakiti, and L. Winder. Using Predicted Locations and an Ensemble Approach to Address Sparse Data Sets for Species Distribution Modelling: Long-horned Beetles (Cerambycidae) of the Fiji Islands. Unitec ePress, December 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/book.008.

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In response to unique species in Fiji which are threatened or endangered, and in critical need of effective conservation measures to ensure their survival, author Glenn Aguilar has produced an eMedia publication and learning research tool, called GIS For Conservation.The eMedia website hosts tutorial material, videos and modelling results for conservation management and planning purposes. Users will learn spatial analytical skills, species distribution modelling and other relevant GIS tools, as well as enhance ArcMap skills and the species distribution modelling tool Maxent. Accompanying the GIS For Conservation website is a peer-reviewed research report. The report details the case study and research methods that have informed the eMedia publication, focusing on the development of maps predicting the suitability of the Fiji Islands for longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae) that include endemic and endangered species such as the Giant Fijian Beetle Xixuthrus heros.
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Jessica McCutchan, Jessica McCutchan. Do zoonotic pathogens exist in Fijian bats and if so what are the risks of exposure to humans? Experiment, July 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/11701.

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Erin Eastwood, Erin Eastwood. Using DNA to Protect Fiji's Fisheries. Experiment, January 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/1836.

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Allport, Jason, and Sangeeta Mangubhai. Mai Kana: Fiji’s First Sustainable Seafood Cookbook. Wildlife Conservation Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.19121/2019.report.34589.

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Noy, Ilan, Elodie Blanc, Madhavi Pundit, and Tomas Uher. Nowcasting from Space: Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Fiji’s Agriculture. Asian Development Bank, January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps230007-2.

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This study investigates the feasibility of using remote sensing data for post-disaster damage assessment. Satellite imagery can be a source of easily available, fast, affordable, and accurate data for assessing disaster impacts. This study focuses on Fiji, its agriculture sector, and the tropical cyclones that have battered the country in recent years. It finds that remote sensing data, when combined with pre-event socioeconomic and demographic information, can improve both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments of tropical cyclones on agriculture.
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Mendez Espinosa, Juan Felipe, and Marco Andres Guevara Luna. Uso del modelo de dispersión de contaminantes Screen View. Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22490/notas.4626.

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La modelación de la dispersión de contaminantes es una herramienta indicativa que aporta en la gestión y planificación del territorio, en la realización de estudios de impacto ambiental y en los planes de manejo ambiental. Información relevante: para simular y/o entender la dispersión de las emisiones de contaminantes atmosféricos provenientes de fuentes fijas se han establecido diferentes modelos atmosféricos: caja, modelo gaussiano, euleriano, lagrangiano, tipo “puff”, receptor y hasta estadísticos. En el caso de los modelos gaussianos se busca describir la dispersión en la horizontal y en la vertical con una distribución normal o de gauss que depende de los coeficientes de dispersión (variantes respecto a la estabilidad atmosférica). El modelo gaussiano se divide en tipo screening (simple) y complejo/refinado dependiendo de la cantidad y complejidad de variables y enfoque. Propósito de la nota de campus: el presente documento se constituye como una guía rápida para el entendimiento conceptual, uso y análisis de resultados de un modelo gaussiano simple de fuente única. Metodología: el documento aborda las temáticas asociadas al modelo Screen View como generalidades de los modelos gaussianos simples, influencia de la meteorología y del terreno en la dispersión de contaminantes, tipos de fuentes de emisión, coeficientes de dispersión, receptores, distancia automática & distancia discreta, efecto “downwash” por edificaciones, y la opción fumigación. Así mismo, brinda un video explicativo y consejos para el análisis de datos. Cursos de formación: 358056 - Transporte y dispersión de contaminantes; 358055 - Red de Monitoreo y Calidad del Aire. Conclusiones: el modelo gaussiano simple Screen View es una herramienta rápida y útil para el estudio preliminar de la dispersión de emisiones de contaminantes primarios asociados a una fuente fija.
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Noy, Ilan, Madhavi Pundit, Homer Pagkalinawan, and Priscille Villanueva. Appraising New Damage Assessment Techniques in Disaster-Prone Fiji. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, February 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/brf230028-2.

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McKune, Elizabeth. Restoration of US Aid to Fiji: The Advantages of Obscurity. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada440742.

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Yates, Steve, and Andrick Lal. EDM Height Traversing Levelling Survey Report: Lautoka, Fiji Islands, February 2013. Geoscience Australia, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/record.2014.016.

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