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The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2018
This article seeks to analyse, through the example of R. L. Stevenson’s late novella entitled The Beach of Falesá, how the insular space allows for multiple forms of confluences, and to determine how subversive these confluences are, as well as how this ...
Julie Gay
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Comfort zone: Model or metaphor? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The comfort zone model is widespread within adventure education literature. It is based on the belief that when placed in a stressful situation people will respond by overcoming their fear and therefore grow as individuals. This model is often presented
Brown, Mike
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Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d’éléphants ou le voyage de l’architecte

open access: yesMultilinguales, 2017
The travel of Michelangelo to Constantinople is at the heart of this novel which is similar to a tale. The latter should be both entertaining and instructive. Here the reader will be interested in adventure, disorientation, and love story which ends with
Edith Perry
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Long-Term Student Experiences in a Hybrid, Open-Ended and Problem Based Adventure Learning Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper we investigate the experiences of elementary school children over a two-year period during which they engaged with a hybrid Adventure Learning program.
Doering, Aaron, Veletsianos, George
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To Analyze Thrill, Define Extreme Sports

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Emotions are a signaling system, evolved by providing selective advantage through enhanced survival and reproduction. The selective advantage conferred by thrill or exhilaration, however, remains unknown.
Ralf C. Buckley
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L’Apiculteur entre représentation sociale et fonction symbolique dans deux romans contemporains : Henri Vincenot, Le Maître des abeilles (1989) et Maxence Fermine, L’Apiculteur (2002)

open access: yesSociopoétiques, 2023
Two contemporary novels dealing with the beekeeper’s social type, Le Maître des abeilles by Henri Vincenot and Maxence Fermine’s L’Apiculteur, reshape the social representations which are linked with this character in an original way.
Pascale AURAIX-JONCHIERE
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Integration of professional judgement and decision-making in high-level adventure sports coaching practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This study examined the integration of professional judgement and decision-making processes in adventure sports coaching. The study utilised a thematic analysis approach to investigate the decision-making practices of a sample of high-level adventure ...
Aronson J.   +27 more
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"Ecotourism” and “Sustainability”: A Bibliometrics Analysis using Biblioshiny and VOS viewer

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Management and Tourism
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of research on sustainability in ecotourism, highlighting global trends, key themes, and emerging areas. Using databases like Scopus 1993–2024 till the date 10th December. Publications were analyzed to identify
Amrik SINGH   +4 more
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Active engagement with nature: outdoor adventure tourism, sustainability and wellbeing

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Tourism, 2019
This article draws on the conflicting arguments surrounding outdoor adventure tourism activities to determine if such activities might usefully be considered beneficial for humans and nature, and how they might offer avenues for sustainable tourism ...
P. Hanna   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Investigating the Relationship Between Excitement and Crime in Children and Adolescents in Yasuj in 2020

open access: yesArmaghane Danesh Bimonthly Journal, 2021
Background & aim: Crime and criminal behavior can occur under the influence of various environmental and personality factors. One of the personality traits that is especially important in adolescents is the level of arousal and reaching the optimal level
V zadehBagheri   +4 more
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