scholarly journals SITING AND DESIGN CRITERIA OF DOCK STRUCTURES IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
R.M. Noble ◽  
K.C. Leslie ◽  
D. O'Day
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Government ◽  
The U.S

In the summer of 1978, a siting/design investigation for dock structures (Marshall Islands Dock Project) was conducted at 15 atolls within the Marshall Islands group (see Figure 1). The Marshall Islands are within the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI), located in the North Pacific. The Marshall Islands Dock Project is part of the Capital Improvements Program currently underway in the Marshalls. The program, aimed towards making the Marshall Islands more selfsufficient in preparation for their independence in 1981, includes the construction of low cost dock structures for use by the design vessels described in this paper to load/unload agricultural products, supplies, and passengers. This study did not include the feasibility of this approach versus other alternative loading/unloading approaches. This investigation included site selection, development of design criteria, and the design and alignment schemes for 12 new dock structures. In addition, design criteria and plans were developed for the upgrading of three existing dock structures. The site selection was performed using a multidisciplinary approach which considered environmental, sociological, and archaeological impacts, in addition to the usual technical site selection. This paper only discusses the technical considerations to site selection. Overall responsibility for the project was assumed by the Pacific Ocean Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of the Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Our work was performed for Alfred A. Yee & Associates, Inc., the structural engineer and prime contractor for the project, and in collaboration with R. M. Towill Corporation.

scholarly journals Options and Choices in Relation to Adopting Healthy Lifestyles in the Pacific Islands Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
Roy Smith
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Health Transition ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Significant Burden ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Lifestyle Related Diseases ◽  
Made In

The low-lying atoll states of the Pacific region, including Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, face numerous challenges as a result of climate change and the related rise in sea level. A health transition from communicable to noncommunicable lifestyle-related diseases among these communities is placing a significant burden on medical services and broader welfare provision. This article considers the broad range of both internal and external factors that influence the options available and choices made in relation to being able to maintain a healthy lifestyle in these communities.

scholarly journals The epidemiology of measles in the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

1971 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 1602-1614 ◽  
Author(s):  
K L Gould ◽  
K L Herrman ◽  
J J Witte
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-115
Author(s):  
Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries

Abstract This article deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the 17th to the 20th century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.

The Negotiations for the Future Political Status of Micronesia (1980-1984)

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 484-497
Author(s):  
Arthur John Armstrong ◽  
Howard Loomis Hills
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Free Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New States

Fourteen years of Micronesian political status negotiations culminated in 1983 with the final signature of the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Governments of Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Upon being approved in accordance with its terms and the constitutional processes of the signatory Governments, the Compact will establish bilateral relationships between the United States and the new states emerging from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Approval of these future political status arrangements will also provide the basis for termination of the Trusteeship Agreement between the United States and the United Nations Security Council. The Compact defines an international political partnership between the United States and the freely associated states that is without precise precedent in international law or U.S. domestic practice. Under the Compact, each freely associated state will enjoy control over its internal affairs and its foreign relations, including competence to enter into international agreements. Mutual security arrangements, set forth in the Compact and its separate agreements, provide for a U.S. defense umbrella during the life of free association and long-term exclusion of third-country military forces, should any or all of the freely associated states opt for independence at some future date.

AIDS in the Pacific

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
JT Villagomez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States Public Health ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

This article summarises current AIDS and HIV infection epidemiology, population risk behaviour factors, local public health and governmental responses to AIDS and cooperative strategic plans for a Pacific “War on AIDS” among the United States Public Health Service and the Pacific jurisdiction public health agencies. The Pacific Island Health Officers Association is comprised of the Republic of Palau, the Government of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, American Samoa and the State of Hawaii.

scholarly journals Review: Why the Pacific status quo is no longer an option

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Francis X Hezel
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Journal Editor ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Family Land

Hezel, Father Francis X. (2015). Why the Pacific status quo is no longer an option. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 195-196. Review of Idyllic No More: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, by Giff Johnson. Majuro, Marshall Islands: CreateSpace. 2015. 153 pp. ISBN 978-1-512235-58-6Giff Johnson’s latest work, Idyllic No More: Pacific Islands Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, is a call to serious planning and more. The Marshall Islands Journal editor summons leaders to recognise that life has changed in the country and the status quo is the road to disaster. There was a time when this might not have been true—when people who wanted to kick back and live a simple island life could quietly opt out of school and retire to the family land to provide for themselves as their ancestors had done for generations in an island society that offered the resources, physical and social, to support its population.

Who Closed the Sea?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Dvorak
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Mediating Factor

There is a profound lack of awareness among younger generations about Japan’s prewar engagement with the Pacific Islands, let alone other colonial sites, yet arguably, this amnesia is not a spontaneous phenomenon. Forgetting about Micronesia and erasing it from the Japanese mass consciousness was a project in which both Japanese and American postwar forces were complicit. Focusing on stories of Japanese amnesia and selective memory in the Marshall Islands, this chapter explores the Marshallese notion of “closing the sea,” how U.S. power has long been a mediating factor in why Japanese forget their Pacific past, and also why Marshall Islanders remember it.

Protectionism, usmca and its Possible Effects on Mexico’s Automotive Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Elisa Dávalos
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Rules Of Origin ◽  
The North ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
The World ◽  
Automotive Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
The U.S

Mexico’s integration into the North American regional automotive industry is an outcome of nafta. This brought about Mexico´s insertion into regional value chains in the global automotive industry. The country now ranks as the seventh largest producer in the world owing to its attractiveness for foreign direct investment, cheap labour and proximity to the U.S. market. The nafta renegotiation and the emergence of the usmca resulted in a series of modified and stricter rules of origin. Among them, is a clause aimed at Mexico requiring that a percentage of labour content be paid more than $16 an hour. This article sustains that this clause will not really be a constraint for transnational auto companies’ desire to continue their investments and production of cars in Mexico. Rather, what could exclude Mexico from the international automotive production circuits is the upcoming technological change. In view of that, it is crucial that the government take steps to support the automotive innovation developments and the industry´s higher value-added phases.

Bank of Hawaii v. Balos

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-586
Author(s):  
Mark A. Chinen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
District Court ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Republic

Plaintiff bank, incorporated under the laws of the state of Hawaii, brought an action in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii against defendants, residents and citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). One of the defendants, Imata Kabua, moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the ground that diversity of citizenship did not exist because defendants were not citizens of a “foreign state” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §1332(a)(2). The district court (per King, J.) denied the motion and held that diversity jurisdiction exists because the RMI, although technically retaining membership in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI), has de facto become a foreign state.

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