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Peebles, Dave. "Pacific regional order." Canberra : Asia Pacific Press, 2005. http://epress.anu.edu.au/pro_citation.htm.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Criminology, 2005.Also presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Criminology, 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available in a print form.
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Oliveira, Ryan Wallace. "Below the Pacific." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1712.
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Cartwright, Bradley Jay. "Pacific passages: American encounters with the Pacific and its people, 1815--1855." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3219035.
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Calsing, Corina Brittleston. "All Along the Pacific." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/928.
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Skřička, Vojtěch. "Pacific Alliance as Counterpart to MERCOSUR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-194494.
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This thesis focuses on two integration blocks in Latin America -- the Pacific Alliance and MERCOSUR. The analysis should confirm the hypothesis that the integrated countries converge faster than non-integrated. With use of beta-convergence and sigma-convergence approaches, this hypothesis was rejected for the two Latin American integration groups. It is also supposed that market-led policies should diverge from the protectionist countries in terms of per capita income. However, this hypothesis was not neither confirmed, nor rejected for the observed region and time period. The income growth analysis showed that the Pacific Alliance countries are less dependent on their initial incomes than MERCOSUR members. However, the macroeconomic data exhibit multicollinearity, autocorrelation and unit root generated process. The explanatory coefficients likely lose their statistical significance, when this is controlled for. Therefore, the lower growth dependence in the Pacific Alliance integration on initial income cannot be fully confirmed.
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Thomas, Steven Barry. "A Regionally Integrated Pacific: The Challenge of the Cotonou Agreement to Pacific Regionalism." Thesis, University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/906.
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The European Union (EU) has comparative advantage in regional integration. Moreover, regionalism is a growing phenomenon, as both the growing number of regional trade agreements and literature on new regionalism indicate. In this context, the EU has incorporated regional integration into European development policy as a strategy to help integrate the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states into the global economy, with the negotiation of region-to-region reciprocal free trade agreements, called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). This thesis examines the extent to which the Pacific may constitute a region, for the purposes of the Cotonou Agreement, along cultural, political and economic dimensions of regional cooperation. This is in order to measure the potential for regional integration in the Pacific, as well as to test the applicability of the EU's regional template of development in this context. A theoretical framework is developed, based on the political economy of regional cooperation among developing states, in order to apply a series of propositions to the test the integrative potential of the Pacific region. The key finding is that regionalism in the Pacific is easily politicised. Anthropological evidence and economic analysis also confirm the informal nature of regional cooperation in the Pacific works against global imperatives for deeper regional integration, as Pacific islanders have generally not subscribed to a common identity, and the welfare benefits from regional free trade are shown to be minimal. Consequently, the Pacific accepts the EPA platform in order to maintain the development partnership with the EU, rather than because regional free trade is the most desired vehicle for development in the region. A trade agreement will therefore be concluded with the Pacific ACP states, but its form and timing remain the key issues for clarification.
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Gedalof, Ze'ev. "Links between Pacific Basin climatic variability and natural systems of the Pacific Northwest /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5489.
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Baker, Dianne Montgomery. "Effects of energy status and metabolic hormones on pubertal development in Pacific salmon /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5348.
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Pickett, Josiah D. "Pacific fleet submarine tender optimization." Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/34722.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedIn this thesis, we develop a mixed-integer, linear optimization model to guide the resourcing of submarine maintenance conducted by the U.S. Navys two submarine tenders in the Fifth and Seventh Fleets. We assume maintenance demands are known over a given planning horizon, e.g., one month. Inputs to the model include travel times and costs for fly-away teams and tenders to move to where the maintenance is needed. Each maintenance demand can be divided into tasks with characteristics such as: whether or not tender presence is required; the estimated total number of worker-days required; the maximum number of workers that can simultaneously work on each task; the types of maintenance workers that can perform the task; and task due dates. The models output determines the assignment of personnel to meet the demand at minimum cost, including delay penalties. It also guides personnel travel (as a fly-away team or by tender). In addition, the model can be used to accommodate emergent, unscheduled demands by producing an updated schedule that minimizes the impact on an existing schedule. We test our model on small and realistically sized notional examples to demonstrate the input and output of the models, as well as computational run-times.
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Drazen, Jeffrey C. "Feeding ecology of Pacific macrourids /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3035913.
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Kotchenruther, Robert A. "Ozone photochemistry in the Northeastern Pacific troposphere and the impacts of trans-pacific pollution transport /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8563.
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Hershberger, Paul. "Epizootiology of viral hemorrhagic septicemia in confined Pacific herring /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5296.
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Davis, Jonathan P. "Studies on the influence of ambient temperature and food supply on growth rate, carbohydrate content and reproductive output in diploid and triploid Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg) /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5347.
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Budzko, David C. "North Pacific tropical cyclones and teleconnections." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA432435.
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Pickering, John David. "Process value estimation at Pacific Bell." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA305649.
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Hall, Donald Lincoln. "Alternative harvest strategies for Pacific herring." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25872.
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A simulated Pacific herring population (Clupea harengus pallasi) is used to evaluate alternative management strategies of constant escapement versus constant harvest rate for a roe herring fishery. The biological parameters of the model are derived from data on the Strait of Georgia herring stock. The management strategies are evaluated using three criteria: average catch, catch variance, and risk. The constant escapement, strategy provides highest average catches, but at the expense of increased catch variance. The harvest rate strategy is favored for large reductions in catch variance but only a slight decrease in mean catch relative to the fixed escapement strategy.
The analysis is extended to include the effects of persistent recruitment patterns. Stock-recruitment analysis suggests that recruitment deviations are autocorrelated. Correlated deviations may cause bias in regression estimates of stock-recruitment parameters (overestimation of stock productivity), and increase in variation of spawning stock biomass. The latter effect favors the constant escapement strategy, which fully uses persistent positive recruitment fluctuations. Mean catch is depressed for the harvest rate strategy, since the spawning biomass is less often located in the productive region of the stock-recruitment relationship.
It is recognized that management agencies never have perfect information. Management observation error is modeled as uncertainty in spawning biomass estimates, based on data for errors in the measurements of spawn length, width and egg layers. Mean catch is reduced for both strategies. Reductions in the constant escapement strategy are more pronounced, and vary with the assumed form of the assessment error probability distribution.Science, Faculty of
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Ukita, Jinro. "Drifter observations in the Northeast Pacific." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26653.
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From the position data of 23 drifters over the four years period, 1982 to 1985, the upper layer kinematics of the Northeast Pacific were investigated. The focus of this study was upon the topographic influence, wind forcing, and Rossby waves. The notions of homogeneity and stationarity were applied to both the Eulerian and Lagrangian analysis. A new computational scheme was proposed and tested in order to explicitly take into account the Lagrangian characteristics of the drifter data. The Eulerian analysis showed that the spatial and temporal distributions of the mean current and the mean wind stress were in good agreement. Three of the four eddy kinetic energy maxima found in the region geographically corresponded to topographic features. Also the velocity field of this region appeared to be strongly inhomogeneous, non-stationary, and anisotropic. The results from the Lagrangian analysis showed that the spectral slope for the periods shorter than 5 days followed the -2 law, and suggested that the direct wind forcing was a dominant mechanism for those periods. The spectrum of the eddy component of the velocity appeared to be white for the periods longer than 10 days. The results showed that the linear Rossby waves were not dominant mechanism for upper layer dynamics of this region. The rotary spectra illustrated some evidence of the rotational preference of the cyclonic over anti-cyclonic motions at a period of 10 days. The new scheme provided meaningful information about the eddy component of the velocity.Science, Faculty of
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Wallace, Leonelle. "Tryst Tropique: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2279.
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Tryst Tropique questions some of the assumptions that have been made about the heterosexual trajectory described by European desire as it has informed literary, artistic and anthropological representation of the South Pacific. It reads a series of contact encounters and Pacific residencies for their unfolding of European sexual inscription and discovers their inevitable entanglement with problematics of homosexual definition. This thesis arcs between two readings wherein the sexual conduct of Polynesian men both requires and escapes European definition. The first, which settles on the documents of Cook's third voyage, uses British indifference to Hawaiian sodomitical desire to help measure a representational space from whence the European homosexual will emerge (Chapter Two). The next reading considers the erotics of male visibility legible across a number of Marquesan contact texts including Herman Melville's Typee (Chapter Three). Chapter Four discovers that the suspicion of sodomitical misconduct which clouded the career of William Yate, an early nineteenth-century New Zealand missionary, continues to involve twentieth-century commentators in the interpretative dynamics of sexual entrapment. Chapter Five turns to Gauguin's Tahitian writings and paintings to engage with the place of ambivalence in contemporary analyses of colonial discourse. Chapter Six extends the parameters of the thesis in terms of gender and of geography, taking up the controversy generated by Derek Freeman around the early Samoan fieldwork of Margaret Mead. It argues that in the example of Mead's career, we can observe the way in which female sexuality acts as the cipher by which culture multiplies and maintains ignorances and knowledges across the discursive field of sex in both cosmopolitan and primitive locations. The final chapter, which analyses a contemporary documentary representation of Samoan fa'afafine, finds the pertinence or applicability of European sexual description to Polynesian behaviour again at stake, though now we find that the liberal gesture of cultural relativism is co-optable to a homophobia already drilled and proficient in erecting a difference without to forestall a difference within. Reading against the grain of much postcolonial work on the South Pacific, Tryst Tropique finds that it is the male body-whether native or European-not the female, which provides the sexual vanishing point which structures many of these narratives. In each of these Pacific moments a privileged figuration occurs: the body which stands as a placemarker for erotic capacities-both indulged and forsworn-is indicatively male. These inscriptions of masculinity betray a certain amplifying anxiety; the discrepant sexual availabilities recorded in each text break with increasing urgency on the shore of heterosexual and homosexual definition. Even as these Pacific journal keepers, these writers and artists, map identity more and more ferociously onto the known grid of gender, it seems as if the horizon of sexual certainty further and further recedes.
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Coleman, John Edward. "Chemical studies of Pacific Ocean sponges." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ27122.pdf.
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Simon, Robert Thomas. "Pacific hake, recommended public consultation approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54587.pdf.
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Goodwillie, Andrew Michael. "Tectonics of the south central Pacific." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334191.
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Martinson, Jeremy James. "Genetic variation in South Pacific Islanders." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293422.
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Jewell, Rebecca. "Understanding Pacific feather artefacts through drawing." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565967.
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The thesis is focused on the illustration of feather artefacts from some of the Pacific Islands that are held in the collections of the British Museum, and it is in two parts. The first part is composed of my drawings, supported by annotations, sketches, prints, paintings and photographs. The artefacts were drawn and then, from examining study skins at the Natural History Museum, Tring, the birds that were killed to make them were identified and drawn. The images of the artefacts and of the bird skins are used to show what can be achieved through drawing and how the representations can be of use to the artist, anthropologist, curator, and museum visitor. In addition, I relate my drawings to the records of earlier artists, in particular those from Cook's voyages to the Pacific in the eighteenth century and to the drawings of Sarah Stone (c.1760-1844) who painted objects in the Leverian Museum. In the second part of the thesis, I discuss how natural history illustration has provided models for ethnographic illustration, how the use of drawings by social anthropologists and museum curators has helped in the description and analysis of artefacts, what it means to produce new images, and what informs the artist in the twenty-first century. Finally I give an overview of some of the birds in the South Pacific that are hunted for their feathers. Wild birds have always been an important part of the Pacific islanders' spiritual and material culture, and enormous value is placed on the feathers themselves and the artefacts made from them. Over-hunting, however, has caused the extinction of some species and others are seriously endangered. Many aspects of indigenous cultures depend on the survival of the native birdlife, but equally the birdlife is dependent on the indigenous culture if it is going to survive.
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Neeve, Michael Robert. "Easterly waves in the tropical Pacific." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362223.
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Desjardins, Leslie A. (Leslie Alayne). "Automotic strategic alliances in Asia Pacific." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10886.
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Rice, Curtis. "Pacific Yup'ik: Implications for Metrical Theory." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227264.
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Recent developments in metrical theory have led to the situation in which there are now at least four different approaches to stress assignment. One approach uses only a grid to represent the relative prominence of syllables in a word (cf. Prince 1983); aside from representational conventions, the grid -only approach differs from the other three in that it does not posit any metrical constituency. Second, the constituentized grid approach also represents stress with a grid, but by enhancing the representations with parentheses, metrical constituency is also indicated (cf. Halle and Vergnaud 1987). Hayes (1987) has recently developed an approach employing representations like those in the constituentized grid approach; I will refer to this as the templatic approach. This approach is different insofar as the constituents which are available in the theory are not derived from parameters, but rather it is the constituent templates themselves which are the primitives of the theory. The fourth approach is one in which relative prominence is indicated with arboreal structures, rather than with grids (cf. Hayes 1981, Hammond 1984). In this paper I will present an analysis of the stress pattern of Pacific Yup'ik which follows Rice (1988), and I will claim that this analysis has important implications for each of the approaches mentioned above. Pacific Yup'ik is a particularly interesting testing ground for metrical theories; for our purposes here, the interesting aspect is that an adequate analysis of the stress pattern has broad implications for various approaches to stress assignment.
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Spratt, R. "Assembling Pacific Regional Education Development Policy." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2024. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/45fc0820468b728a364409405bd6151355d192dc592bc6913cddf4810f3d4b37/2611260/Spratt_2024_Assembling_pacific_regional_education_development_policy.pdf.
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This thesis explores what is made possible by bringing Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage theory into conversation with policy mobilities and Pacific research for the study of education development policy. Empirically, the research focuses on a particular policy assemblage, referred to in the thesis as Pacific regional education development policy (PREDP). The research takes as an entry point the becomings of the Pacific Regional Education Framework 2018-2030 (PacREF), and explores the flows, forces and intensities that produce regional institutional and intergovernmental cooperation on education policy and service delivery across the so-called developing island nations of the Pacific Ocean. The research explores what different ways of thinking about and engaging with PREDP are possible if we ask not what PREDP is nor how effective is it, but instead why PREDP has become in the way that it has, how is it sustained through encounters with the potential to destabilise it, and what capacities does it make possible. The research data has been generated from conversations with 30 policy actors and the analysis of relevant policy documents. By attending to the mutual presupposition of molar and molecular tendencies generated through PREDP, and embracing the both/and thinking of Pacific research, the research demonstrates how PREDP functions to make competing desires consistent. The research argues that PREDP can be experienced as both regional and national, local and global, an artefact of donor imposition and of decolonial resistance. The research re-problematises what are arguably staid dialectics of power/resistance, global/local, dependence/independence and generality/context. It reconceptualises these in terms of becomings of responsibility, interdependence and responsiveness. In so doing, the research makes significant contributions to Comparative and International Education and Critical Policy Studies literature, offering different ways of thinking-doing education policy research that might open-up new lines of flight for educational futures.
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Wade, Lowell. "The mineralogy and major element geochemistry of ferromanganese crusts and nodules from the northeastern equatorial Pacific Ocean." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30427.
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A study of the mineralogy and major element geochemistry of ferromanganese crusts and nodules from the northeastern equatorial Pacific Ocean involved three inter-related projects: ft) the major element geochemistry of crusts and nodules from two study areas, (2) the development of a selective sequential extraction scheme (SSES) and a differential X-ray diffraction technique (DXRD) for the study of the mineralogy of the deposits, and (3) the application of the SSES and DXRD to a small population of crusts and nodules from the two study areas. The objectives of the first project were to relate the composition of the crust and nodule samples to the environment of formation as well as to the mineralogy which could be identified from a bulk powdered sample. The SSES was developed to determine the partitioning of Cu, Ni, and Co concentrations between the Mn and Fe oxides present in crusts and nodules. In developing a SSES, two goals had to be attained: (1) since crust and nodule samples are finite in size and numerous different analyses are to be preformed on a single sample, a SSES should be developed which uses as small amount of sample as feasible, and (2) develop a SSES which is as time efficient as possible. The development of the DXRD in conjuction with the SSES identified which Mn and Fe oxide mineral phase was responsible for hosting Cu, Ni, and Co. In developing the DXRD procedure two other goals had to be attained: (1) use of small leached samples, and (2) recovery of the sample aafter XRD analysis. The purpose of the third project was to test the two analytical procedures on a group of crust and nodule samples which have a wide range in compositions and oxide phase mineralogies.
One group of hydrothermal nodules, from Survey Region B, was found to be enriched in Mn and depleted in Fe and Si. The Mn-rich mineral phases were identified as todorokite and birnessite. The second group of hydrothermal nodules, from Survey Region B, was found to be enriched in Fe and Si and depleted in Mn. The Fe-Si rich mineral phase was identified as iron-rich nontronite. Both groups of hydrothermal nodules were depleted in Co, Cu, and Ni. Dymond et al. (1984) and Chen & Owen (1989) identified one group of hydrothermal nodules located close to the East Pacific Rise (EPR) as being enriched in Fe but depleted in Mn, Cu, Ni, and Co. This composition agrees with the Fe-Si rich hydrothermal nodules identified in Survey Region B. Both Dymond et al. (1984) and Chen & Owen (1989), however, interpreted a second group of nodules, close to the EPR, which were enriched in Mn but depleted in Cu, Ni, and Co as suboxic diagenetic deposits. This group of nodules is the Mn-rich end-member composition of hydrothermal nodules identifed in this study.
The composition of nodules from Survey Region B indicates there is a correlation between Co abundance and the proximity of the nodules to the hydrothermal discharge from the JEPR. Nodules that are Co-enriched are found farthest away from hydrothermal activity. In contrast, cobalt-depleted nodules coincide with known areas of hydrothermal activity.
The SSES and DXRD was applied to a small population of crusts and nodules from the two Survey Regions. The DXRD patterns from the second stage of leaching on the crusts and nodules showed that the iron phase mineralogy in marine crusts and nodules is either akaganeite or ferrihydrite. The DXRD patterns from the second stage of leaching on the Mn-rich hydrothermal crusts and nodules, from Survey Region B, identified the Mn-bearing mineral hausmannite.Science, Faculty of
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Weitemier, Kevin Allen. "Phylogeographic Patterns and Intervarietal Relationships within Lupinus lepidus: Morphological Differences, Genetic Similarities." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/919.
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Lupinus lepidus (Fabaceae) contains many morphologically divergent varieties and was restricted in its range during the last period of glaciation. A combination of phylogenetic (with the trnDT and LEGCYC1A loci) and population genetics approaches (with microsatellites and LEGCYC1A are used here to characterize intervarietal relationships and examine hypotheses of recolonization of areas in the Pacific Northwest affected by glaciation. Sequenced loci are not found to form a clade exclusive to L. lepidus, nor are any of the varieties found to form clades. Population genetics analyses reveal only negligible genetic structure within L. lepidus, with the majority of variation being found within populations. Isolation-by-distance analysis reveals some correlation between population genetic distances and geographic distance. Microsatellite and sequence results are consistent with a scenario whereby the Oregon and Washington regions were rapidly colonized from the south, with independent invasions along the eastern and western sides of the Cascade Mountains. A predicted disjunction between northern and southern populations is found within the microsatellite data but not the sequence data, suggesting that northern populations were recolonized via a process involving the spread of novel microsatellite mutations, perhaps through the persistence of a glacial refuge isolated from southern populations. Varieties are not shown to be genetically isolated, and are interpreted as representing ecotypes, with local selection outpacing the effects of migration.
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Aitaoto, Nia. "Pacific culture and type 2 diabetes: formative research to inform interventions to improve glycemic control among Pacific Islanders." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5404.
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The type 2 diabetes (T2DM) epidemic is a global health issue that is especially severe among Pacific Islanders in the United States (U.S.) and U.S. Associated Pacific Islands (USAPI) including Chuukese living in their homeland of Chuuk and the state of Hawaii. Although there are diabetes prevention and management programs in Hawai'i and the Pacific, success is limited due in part to the lack of tailoring for the Pacific audience. In spite of numerous recommendations to incorporate Pacific cultural constructs into health interventions, there are no studies in Chuuk or the Pacific that examine the integration of cultural constructs into diabetes prevention and management. To address this research need, the four studies in this dissertation used Grounded Theory and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) processes to explore the relationships between constructs such as culture, religion, family, and diabetes prevention and control. The aims were to obtain perspectives on diabetes prevention, screening and management (Study1) and identify socio-cultural influences that hinder or facilitate adherence to diabetes prevention and management behaviors specifically adherence to nutrition therapy (Study 2), physical activity (Study 3) and prescription medication (Study 4). Data where gathered through key informant interviews (faith leaders and health care providers) and focus group discussions (individual with diabetes and care takers).
Results from Study 1 showed that participants perceived T2DM as a major problem and the discussion followed four significant narratives: (1) the need for specific information on "how to" operationalize diabetes treatment recommendations; (2) the practice of seeking medical help only when in pain; (3) the role spirituality plays in etiology disease beliefs and its influence on help-seeking behaviors; and (4) the role emotions play in treatment compliance. Study 2 revealed barriers to nutrition therapy adherence that were similar to other minority populations in the U.S. such as cost of healthy foods, taste preference, low availability of healthy food choices, lack of ideas for healthy meals/cooking, and lack of culturally appropriate nutrition modification options. It also elucidated: (1) food consumption and preparation practices; (2) the need for culturally tailored interventions; and (3) contextually appropriate approaches to address nutrition issues, including a plan for future research and interventions. Study 3 revealed a variety of behaviors, personal factors and environmental influences related to adherence to physical activity recommendations. Although the study was focused on physical activity, participants spent the majority of their time discussing sedentary behaviors and contextually appropriate interventions. Study 4 exposed vital factors that inclined patients' to comply with prescribed medication. Factors associated with the healer (messenger), medicine/remedy, and focus of healing. Furthermore, this study revealed that many patients not only seek multiple healing types (western, traditional, local and new), they also rotate among the types. These findings were communicated through two narratives: healer characteristics and medication-specific features. Overall, the most salient topics in all the focus group and interview discussions were on diabetes as a major problem and the pervasiveness of hopelessness. Woven into these conversations were narratives on how to address these two issues with stewardships of the spirit, mind and body. This became the foundation of a framework to address the diabetes epidemic in Pacific.
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Gasparini, Gian-Luca <1984>. "The unravelling of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its implications for the main actors in the Asia-Pacific." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17137.
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This thesis, starting from the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), analyses the main economic and political developments in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on a selection of the main actors in the Asia-Pacific: China, the US, Japan, Australia and ASEAN. The US, once the main proponent of the TPP as a way to counterbalance China and then the one that effectively killed it, is dealing with the Trump presidency and seems to lack an overall strategy. China, living through an economic miracle after the lost decades in the nineteenth and twentieth century, wants to achieve its full potential and assert its power in the region. Japan is caught in the middle: suffering from economic stagnation and torn between nationalistic ambitions and American military dependency. Australia finds itself economically linked to China but diplomatically is a long-term US ally. ASEAN, on the other hand, is testing the limits of cooperation and respect of sovereignty. The interplay between all these factors and actors will determine who will be “writing the rules” in a region that shows a lot of economic and political dynamism.
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Wood, Leland K. "When the Locomotive Puffs: Corporate Public Relations of the First Transcontinental Railroad Builders." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1249568716.
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Svoboda, Jan. "ASEAN a perspektivy jeho vnější integrace." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74029.
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This paper is focused on an analysis of current regionalism in Asia-Pacific region and on evaluation of creation of relatively wide and relatively deep regional integration. Possible benefits of this integration concept can be exemplified by development of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) whose member states have substantially different interests due to historic and socioeconomic reasons. However, ASEAN was able to overcome these different interests by a specific integration model which is based on mutual trust, consensual decision-making and gradual changes. As a result, natural suspicions were eliminated to some extent and member states were able to deepen their integration. Main powers in the region noticed its success and they began to strive to develop closer relations not only with ASEAN, but also with other regional powers through ASEAN structure.
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Dawe, Jordan Tyler. "Aspects of modeling the North Pacific Ocean /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11015.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.Vita. "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-101).
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Sterling, Nile Akel Kevis. "Cenozoic changes in Pacific absolute plate motion." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7048.
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Using the polygonal finite rotation method (PFRM) in conjunction with the hotspotting technique, a model of Pacific absolute plate motion (APM) from 65 Ma to the present has been created. This model is based primarily on the Hawaiian-Emperor and Louisville hotspot trails but also incorporates the Cobb, Bowie, Kodiak, Foundation, Caroline, Marquesas and Pitcairn hotspot trails. Using this model, distinct changes in Pacific APM have been identified at 48, 27, 23, 18, 12 and 6 Ma. These changes are reflected as kinks in the linear trends of Pacific hotspot trails. The sense of motion and timing of a number of circum Pacific tectonic events appear to be correlated with these changes in Pacific APM. With the model and discussion presented here it is suggested that Pacific hotpots are fixed with respect to one another and with respect to the mantle. If they are moving as some paleomagnetic results suggest, they must be moving coherently in response to large-scale mantle flow.x, 73 leaves
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Melone, Anthony Michael. "Extreme floods in the Pacific coastal region." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27143.
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The research program developed hydrograph procedures for estimation of extreme rain-on-snow floods on ungauged watersheds in the Pacific coastal region. A multi-disciplinary investigation was undertaken encompassing the areas of hydrometeorology, snow hydrology and hydrologic modelling. Study components include assessment of flood producing mechanisms in the coastal region; analysis of regional rainfall characteristics for input to a hydrograph model; examination of the role of a snowpack during extreme events; and application of a hydrograph model.
Based on an assessment of atmospheric processes which affect climate, examination of historical flood data, and analysis of flood frequency, it is shown that the area bounded by the crests of the coastal mountains forms a hydrologic region with similar flood characteristics. Extreme floods in the coastal region are rainfall-induced, either as runoff from rainfall-only or as a combination of rain and snowmelt.
Recorded storm rainfall along the coast was examined to determine whether regional characteristics could be identified from available data even though the magnitude of rainfall varies between stations. Multi-storm intensity data available from Atmospheric Environment Service and rainfall intensities occurring within single storms that were identified as part of this study were analyzed. Results show that ratios of shorter duration intensities to the 24-hour rainfall are in a relatively narrow range in the coastal region for both multi and single storm intenstity data, and this range set limits on the hourly intensities that need to be considered as input rainfall data to a hydrograph model. With regard to basin response to extreme rain-on-snow, available literature suggests that for a ripe snowpack, development of an internal drainage network within the snowpack is the dominant routing mechanism for liquid water. Consequences of this conclusion on hydrograph procedures are that a watershed undergoes a transition from snow-controlled to more terrain-controlled water movement and basin storage characteristics approach conditions which would occur on the same basin without a snowcover.
Lag and route hydrograph techniques were investigated to assess whether this method can be applied to rain-on-snow floods. Results from analysis of two rain-on-snow floods suggest this procedure can be applied when the following methodology is adopted: 1) estimate travel time through the basin from channelized and overland flow considerations; 2) select a storage coefficient which simulates basin response; 3) take water inputs as the sum of snowmelt and rainfall; and 4) consider there are no losses to groundwater.
The combination of results from each study component provides a methodology for estimating input rainfall data and for undertaking hydrograph analysis for extreme rain-on-snow floods in the mountainous Pacific coastal region.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Benfey, Tillmann J. "The reproductive physiology of triploid Pacific salmonids." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28621.
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Triploidy was induced in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, by heat shock (10 min at 26, 28 or 30°C, applied 1 min after fertilization at 10°C) and in pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Walbaum, and coho salmon, 0. kisutch Walb., by hydrostatic pressure shock (1, 2, 3 or 4 min at 69,000 kPa, applied 15 min after fertilization at 10.5°C). Triploid individuals were identified by the flow cytometric measurement of DNA content of erythrocytes stained with propidium iodide.
Gonadosomatic index was reduced to a much greater extent in triploid females than males. Triploid ovaries remained very small, and contained virtually no oocytes. Triploid testes became quite large, but few cells developed beyond the spermatocyte stage. Triploid male rainbow trout had significantly lower spermatocrits than diploids, and their spermatozoa were aneuploid.
Growth rates were the same for diploid and triploid rainbow trout, but triploid female pink salmon were smaller than maturing diploid females and diploid and triploid males of the same age. Triploid males of both species developed typical secondary sexual characteristics and had normal endocrine profiles for plasma sex steroids and plasma and pituitary gonadotropin, but their cycle was delayed by about one month. Triploid females developed no secondary sexual characteristics and showed no endocrine signs of maturation, even at the level of the pituitary. Vitellogenin synthesis was induced in immature diploid and triploid coho salmon by the weekly injection of 17β-estradiol. Plasma vitellogenin and pituitary gonadotropin levels were significantly elevated over levels of sham-injected fish, whereas plasma gonadotropin levels were slightly depressed. There was no significant difference between diploids and triploids for any of these results, indicating that normal vitellogenesis is not impaired by triploidy per se.
It is concluded that triploids of both sexes are genetically sterile, but that only triploid females do not undergo physiological maturation. Triploid testes develop sufficiently for their steroidogenic cells to become active, which is not the case for triploid ovaries. The occasional cells that pass through the normal meiotic block develop to full maturity in triploid males but not in triploid females, probably due to the absence of the appropriate stimulus to initiate and maintain vitellogenesis. Although triploids of both sexes should make valuable tools for basic research on reproductive physiology, only the females will be useful for practical fish culture to avoid the economically detrimental effects of maturation in fish destined for human consumption.Science, Faculty of
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Steeves, Kerry Ragnar. "The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers, 1942-1945." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42024.
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For Canadians the Second World War traditionally evokes images of the invasion of Normandy,
the Falaise Gap, and the ill-fated raid on Dieppe. Over the years Canadians
who served overseas have been recognized but, at the same time, soldiers who served on
the home front have been overlooked. This is because many of Canada's home defence
soldiers were conscripted under the National Resources Mobilization Act, and were unwilling
to go overseas. Thousands of Canadians, however, were denied entry into the
regular forces because they were too old, too young, or classified as medically unfit. In
British Columbia during the Second World War, these men were given the opportunity to
enlist in a unique home guard unit called the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers (P.C.M.R.).
The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers were organized in response to public pressure,
and because existing coastal defences were inadequate. Composed of unpaid volunteers
trained in guerilla tactics, the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers were a home defence force peculiar
to British Columbia. The Rangers were not a typical military organization. Rather,
they were a distinctively North American fighting force in the tradition of previous Ranger
formations. A sense of historical tradition was evident in the designation of "Rangers"
for British Columbia's Second World War guerilla home defence volunteers. In North
America, since the 1700s, men born in and acquainted with the hinterland-frontiersmen,
hunters, cowboys, and trappers proficient in the use of firearms-have been formed into
irregular Ranger units in times of emergency. There is a long list of these North American
Ranger organizations: Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian War; Butler's Loyalist
Rangers, the East Florida Rangers, and the Queen's Rangers in the American Revolution;
the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers in the revolution against Mexican
authority; Mosby's Rangers in the U.S. Civil War; and the Rocky Mountain Rangers in
the Northwest Rebellion. The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers were the twentieth century
revival of this Ranger tradition. Throughout history, all Ranger units have used the
same tactics: they employed guerilla warfare with an emphasis on surprise attacks, they
operated in small units which were highly mobile, and they focussed on rifle training. A
lack of formal military discipline has also been characteristic of all Ranger formations.
The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers, then, were not an innovation in the Canadian military
experience. They were part of a distinct military tradition of irregular troops adapted
to suit North American frontier conditions.
The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers reflected the character, fears, and internal conflicts
of British Columbia's society. British Columbia was a predominantly white community
and the P.C.M.R. mirrored the widespread white ethnic prejudices in the province. Ethnic
groups were largely excluded from the Rangers and Native Indians, who were accepted
as valuable recruits, were treated in a paternalistic manner.
Militant trade unionism has been an important facet of B.C. history, and trade unionists
were prominent in the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. Trade unions fully supported
the P.C.M.R. and Ranger membership was dominated by the working class. The labour
movement's influence in the P.C.M.R. can be seen in the anxiety over the possible employment
of Ranger units to break strikes.
The role of war veterans in the P.C.M.R. also reflected the composition of the larger
society. First World War veterans were a well-defined group in B.C. society, and their
values and outlook were revealed through their Ranger participation. The veterans' zeal
and rivalry with younger Rangers indicates that their patriotism was, at times, misguided,
but it was rooted in a personal need to play a visible role in the war effort.
The P.C.M.R. operated in a democratic manner: if the commander of a Ranger company was disliked by his men, he could be voted out of his position. Similarly, if Rangers
disagreed with directives from P.C.M.E. headquarters they were quick to express their
displeasure and threatened resignation. This would have been impossible in the regular
army, but in the P.C.M.R.-composed of citizen-soldiers-it was a commonplace pattern.
The social equality between ranks, and the egalitarian way in which the P.C.M.R. operated
expressed the New World frontier values of British Columbia in the 1940s.
The wartime fears and phobias of British Columbians showed in the actions of the
Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. Life in British Columbia during the early years of the
Second World War was, for the most part, as secure as life in other regions of Canada.
This was changed, however, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The
aggressiveness of Japan and the stunning success of her war machine, caused panic in
the Pacific Coast province about the vulnerability of B.C. to an attack. In addition,
the war sharpened the already existing white racial animosity against the Japanese, and _
provided a socially acceptable outlet for its expression. White British Columbia has had
a history of fear of Asians and, subsequently, anti-Orientalism has been a current in the
province's culture. In much the same way that anti-Japanese sentiment forced the federal
government to intern and evacuate British Columbia's Japanese population, so too did
public outcry prompt the formation of local home guard units. These two problems-the
defence of British Columbia and anti-Japanese sentiment-became manifest in the history
of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers.
From the Dominion government's viewpoint, the P.C.M.R. was a valuable organization.
The Rangers provided military protection at a low cost, but they also comforted a
frightened population which demanded protection from a Japanese invasion. It will be
argued here that while the main purpose of the P.C.M.R. was home defence, the organization
became much more than that to both the government and the people of British
Columbia. Quite apart from its defence role, the P.C.M.R. provided reassurance, sustained
the morale of a population at war, and acted as a means to indoctrinate civilians
with military propaganda.Arts, Faculty of
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Anderson, Erika Dee. "Reproductive biology of Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58555.pdf.
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Benestad, Rasmus E. "Intraseasonal Kelvin waves in the tropical Pacific." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244597.
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Boxall, Sheryl Maree. "Pacific Islands Forum: Facilitating Regional Security Cooperation." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science and Communication, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/952.
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Oceania is an example of a region where traditional security theory based on historical enmity and competition does not fit. A history of amity and cooperation has evolved through regionalism and the region's pre-eminent organisation, the Pacific Islands Forum (the Forum). In 2004, the Forum was tasked to develop the 'Pacific Plan' (the Plan) to facilitate closer cooperation and deeper integration. Security is one of the four pillars of the Plan. The objective of this thesis is to analyse the institutions of the Forum as facilitators of regional security cooperation. The Forum is reviewed and the idea of a logic of action is introduced. To help explain security in an environment with a history of cooperation, traditional security theory is re-defined. A security environment equation is created as a framework to help analyse the Forum's structures and security mechanisms. The Forum Regional Security Committee is examined closely resulting in suggestions to strengthen the region's security environment.
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Söderberg, Freja. "Eastern Tropical Pacific ITCZ and Lightning Activity." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-227427.
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This study has been performed as a pilot study for a project regarding the meridional migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its relationship with lightning activity in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP). Objectives of this study were to analyze and improve lightning data to be used for such a study and to decide on a method and proper time scale of data analysis and ITCZ index development for this study. Exploratory data analysis has been practiced with World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) data and ITCZ index data. Results suggest that the most beneficial time-scale to be used for the above study is 15 days and that ITCZ estimations can be obtained via the use of precipitation index and cloud top temperature. Lightning data originated from atmospheric systems not associated with the ITCZ has been analyzed. This report proposes that Uppsala University should become part of the World Wide Lightning Location Network, enabling further work regarding this and similar projects.
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Cruzcruz, Angel D. "The strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43899.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedIn 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the United States was going to pivot toward the Asia-Pacific. There is widespread scholarly discussion as to whether this shift to the Asia-Pacific was motivated primarily by regional security anxieties or by larger economic and diplomatic interests. Through the analysis of China’s military growth and threatening behavior within the Asia-Pacific region, and the examination of various economic reasons to strategically shift to the Pacific, this thesis attempts to answer the question: Why did the United States decide in 2011 to adopt this rebalancing strategy and increase its military and economic resources to the Asia-Pacific region?
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Wilson, Paul Alastair. "The evolution of Cretaceous Pacific Ocean guyots." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363102.
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Liang, Kelly (Kelly JieRu). "Optimized transfer-pricing model for Asia Pacific." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68894.
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Thesis (M. Eng. in Logistics)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 35).
Transfer price is an important field of study for profit maximization. As more multinational enterprises (MNEs) are involved in global trading in the recent decades, the objective to set an optimized transfer price is more crucial than ever since the difference in tax rates and tariffs have sophisticated impacts on the overall profit for the corporation. In this thesis, which focuses primarily on Asia Pacific, I will review historical transfer pricing methods, explore the factors that affect transfer price determination, and construct a mathematical model to determine the optimal transfer price by comparing and contrasting the different transfer pricing methods with data from a hypothetical company. Particularly, I will illustrate the effects of taxes and tariffs on the determination of transfer price. Consequently, I will perform sensitivity analysis with respects to tariffs, taxes, and shipping costs. The thesis will conclude with recommendations on the optimized transfer pricing methods and insights on the implications for the method.
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Hunter, Johnny. "Flexure and rheology of Pacific oceanic lithosphere." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fee30488-1a30-48ae-b47e-b6dbc4e3d4d6.
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The idea of a rigid lithosphere that supports loads through flexural isostasy was first postulated in the late 19th century. Since then, there has been much effort to investigate the spatial and temporal variation of the lithosphere's flexural rigidity, and to understand how these variations are linked to its rheology. In this thesis, flexural modelling is used to first re-assess the variation in the rigidity of oceanic lithosphere with its age at the time of loading, and then to constrain mantle rheology by testing the predictions of laboratory-derived flow laws. A broken elastic plate model was used to model trench-normal, ensemble-averaged profiles of satellite-derived gravity at the trench-outer rise system of circum-Pacific subduction zones, where an inverse procedure was used to find the best-fit Te and loading conditions. The results show a first-order increase in Te with plate age, which is best fit by the depth to the 400 ± 35 °C plate-cooling isotherm. Fits to the observed gravity are significantly improved by an elastic plate that weakens landward of the outer rise, which suggests that bending-induced plate weakening is a ubiquitous feature of circum-Pacific subduction zones. Two methods were used to constrain mantle rheology. In the first, the Te derived by modelling flexural observations was compared to the Te predicted by laboratory-derived yield strength envelopes. In the second, flexural observations were modelled using elastic-plastic plates with laboratory-derived, depth-dependent yield strength. The results show that flow laws for low-temperature plasticity of dry olivine provide a good fit to the observations at circum-Pacific subduction zones, but are much too strong to fit observations of flexure in the Hawaiian Islands region. We suggest that this discrepancy can be explained by differences in the timescale of loading combined with moderate thermal rejuvenation of the Hawaiian lithosphere.
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Scott, Nicholas A. "A Gathering Of Forces | The Pacific Northwest |." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276955143.
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Lam, Ka-ming. "Overreaction in Asia-Pacific index futures markets." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1070.
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Davis-Barron, Sherri (Sherri Lee) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Canada's role in pacific third-party intervention." Ottawa, 1991.
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黃君慧. "North Pacific." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03271399253898253844.
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