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, 1987 Tuxedo Junction, "Give My Regards To Broadway," a smashing success -- Search for UAS Dean of Liberal Arts put on hold until spring -- UAA Student elections invalidated -- Beeton makes cut at UWF -- Drop the "Lady" in the Lady Whales -- Where's the ski ...
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“Men who can last”: Mountaineering Endurance, the Lake District Fell Records and the Campaign for Everest, 1919-1924 [PDF]
, 2013 This paper examines the post-First World War reconstruction of masculinity around notions of endurance in the British outdoor movement. From the 1860s onwards, long-distance walking trials in the Lake District became part of the regional mountaineering ...
Westaway, Jonathan
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Refugia or at risk? Alpine snowbank communities in the face of climate change
Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2026.We used a literature review of the alpine snowbank communities of the Presidential Range of New Hampshire, USA as an model system for applying the climate change refugia conservation cycle framework to similar imperiled systems globally. We highlight threats posed to these systems, their ability to serve as future refugia, potential management ...
Kyler B. B. Phillips +5 more
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OPTIMIZATION OF PREPARATION ON ALPINE SKIERS LAND BY IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS BASED ON GYM MEANS [PDF]
Annals of the “Ştefan cel Mare” University: Physical Education and Sport Section - The Science and Art of Movement, 2019 Optimize training and recovery by developing appropriate programs, consisting primarily of Gimn means, determine possible development of a training complex and rationalized to meet performance targets proposed for Alpine skiing at the age of 7-10 ...
PAŢA Oana Cristina
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Breeding habitat preferences and niche partitioning of insectivorous songbirds in Alpine grasslands
Ibis, Volume 168, Issue 1, Page 329-344, January 2026.Alpine grasslands are increasingly facing pressures of climate and land‐use changes. Higher temperatures and pastoral abandonment lead to treeline shift and to bush encroachment, while agricultural intensification causes soil eutrophication and landscape homogenization. Alpine grasslands in Europe host important populations of mountain specialists that
Yann Rime +4 more
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IS SPECIFIC MOTOR TEST ENOUGH TO EVALUATE NEW ALPINE SKI KNOWLEDGE IN SKI BEGINNERS?
Annales Kinesiologiae, 2017 The present research aims at determining whether the results of specific motor tests (continuous lateral jumps in dictated tempo − SKILJ) are a sufficient measure to evaluate the level of acquired alpine ski knowledge of ski beginners.
Vjekoslav Cigrovski
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A Spatial Agent-Based Model to Explore Scenarios of Adaptation to Climate Change in an Alpine Tourism Destination [PDF]
A vast body of literature suggests that the European Alpine region may be one of the most sensitive to climate change impacts. Adaptation to climate change of Alpine socio-ecosystems is increasingly becoming an issue of interest for the scientific ...
Carlo Giupponi +2 more
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Skylark conservation in alpine habitats should focus on areas where conspecifics are already present
Ibis, Volume 168, Issue 1, Page 293-307, January 2026.Farmland bird diversity has declined precipitously for decades because of the incessant intensification of agricultural practices in semi‐natural landscapes in Europe. Consequently, formerly common and widespread ground‐nesting species, such as the Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis, have shown severe declines on intensive grasslands and arable areas in ...
Louis Hunninck +3 more
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Dartmouth and the Debate Over Ski Jumping in NCAA Competition [PDF]
, 2009 This essay details the issues that were raised in discussions about the wisdom of eliminating ski jumping from the order of events in NCAA championship competition, a discussion that culminated in 1980 when the NCAA Skiing Rules Committee voted ...
Gildea, Dennis
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Effects of alpine ski course program on attitudes towards alpine skiing
Kinesiology : international journal of fundamental and applied kinesiology, 2014 The purpose of the study was to examine potential differences between male and female alpine ski naive young people in attitudes towards alpine skiing before and after the completion of structured alpine ski school program. We included 136 ski beginners (41 women and 95 men) who anonymously filled out a previously validated 26-item Lickert scale-type ...
Cigrovski, Vjekoslav +3 more
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