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UNINA9910133792903321 |
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Autore |
Ratuva Steven |
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The people have spoken : the 2014 elections in Fiji / / edited by Steven Ratuva and Stephanie Lawson |
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ANU Press, 2016 |
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Acton, ACT : , : ANU Press, , [2016] |
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1 online resource (282 pages) : colour illustrations, charts ; digital file(s) |
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Elections - Fiji |
Election law - Fiji |
Fiji Ethnic relations Political aspects |
Fiji Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. 'The People Have Spoken ... ' -- 2. Shifting democracy: Electoral changes in Fiji -- 3. Chiefly leadership in Fiji after the 2014 elections -- 4. Fiji Indians and the Fiji general elections of 2014: Between a rock and a hard place and a few other spots in between -- 5. 'Unfree and unfair'?: Media intimidation in Fiji's 2014 election -- 6. From the land to the sea: Christianity, community and state in Fiji-and the 2014 elections -- 7. Native land policy in the 2014 election -- 8. Fiji elections and the youth vote-token or active citizenship? -- 9. The Fiji Military and the 2014 election --10. The genesis of the Social Democratic Liberal Party: A struggle against the odds -- 11. 'Not with a bang but a whimper': SODELPA and the 2014 election -- 12. Fiji's evolving foreign policy and Pacific multilateral order: Pre- and post-election -- 13. A pragmatic approach to a successful election: A personal reflection -- 14. Observing the 2014 Fiji general election -- 15. Concluding note: The election to end all coups?. |
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The September 2014 elections in Fiji was one of the most anticipated in the history of the country, coming after eight years of military rule and |
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under a radically new constitution that introduced a system of proportional representative (PR) and without any reserved communal seats. The election was won overwhelmingly by FijiFirst, a party formed by 2006 coup leader Frank Bainimarama. He subsequently embarked on a process of shifting the political configuration of Fijian politics from inter-ethnic to trans-ethnic mobilisation. The shift has not been easy in terms of changing people's perceptions and may face some challenges in the longer term, despite Bainimarama's clear victory in the polls. Ethnic consciousness has the capacity to become re-articulated in different forms and to seek new opportunities for expression. This book explores these and other issues surrounding the 2014 Fiji elections in a collection of articles written from varied political, intellectual and ideological positions. |
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UNINA9910966753603321 |
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Small clinical trials : issues and challenges / / Charles H. Evans, Jr. and Suzanne T. Ildstad, editors ; Committee on Strategies for Small-Number-Participant Clinical Research Trials, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2001 |
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9780309171144 |
0309171148 |
9780309513456 |
0309513456 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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EvansCharles H <1940-> (Charles Hawes) |
IldstadSuzanne T |
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Clinical trials |
Clinical trials - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-200). |
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""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive |
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Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Design of Small Clinical Trials""; ""3 Statistical Approaches to Analysis of Small Clinical Trials""; ""4 General Guidelines""; ""References""; ""Appendix A Study Methods""; ""Appendix B Glossary of Statistical and Clinical Trials Terms""; ""Appendix C Selected Bibliography on Small Clinical Trials""; ""Appendix D Committee and Staff Biographies"" |
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Clinical trials are used to elucidate the most appropriate preventive, diagnostic, or treatment options for individuals with a given medical condition. Perhaps the most essential feature of a clinical trial is that it aims to use results based on a limited sample of research participants to see if the intervention is safe and effective or if it is comparable to a comparison treatment. Sample size is a crucial component of any clinical trial. A trial with a small number of research participants is more prone to variability and carries a considerable risk of failing to demonstrate the effectiveness of a given intervention when one really is present. This may occur in phase I (safety and pharmacologic profiles), II (pilot efficacy evaluation), and III (extensive assessment of safety and efficacy) trials. Although phase I and II studies may have smaller sample sizes, they usually have adequate statistical power, which is the committee's definition of a "large" trial. Sometimes a trial with eight participants may have adequate statistical power, statistical power being the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when the hypothesis is false. Small Clinical Trials assesses the current methodologies and the appropriate situations for the conduct of clinical trials with small sample sizes. This report assesses the published literature on various strategies such as (1) meta-analysis to combine disparate information from several studies including Bayesian techniques as in the confidence profile method and (2) other alternatives such as assessing therapeutic results in a single treated population (e.g., astronauts) by sequentially measuring whether the intervention is falling above or below a preestablished probability outcome range and meeting predesigned specifications as opposed to incremental improvement. |
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