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Urban accommodation for backpackers at Johor Bahru City Centre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru planned to transform Johor Bahru City Centre into a ‘Vibrant, Cultural and Sustainable City of International Standing’ to attract more tourist to Johor Bahru.
Mohd. Yusoff, Nurul Hafilah
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Risking Response‐Ability

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract “Risking response‐ability” names the risky pedagogical work of being addressed by humans and more‐than‐human others alike, and of finding ourselves called to respond. In this article, I bring Gert Biesta's account of “pedagogical risk” into conversation with Donna Haraway's notion of “response‐ability,” arguing that education's force lies in ...
Jessica Lussier
wiley   +1 more source

Fungicide Non‐Target Effects Cause Reduced Sawfly Herbivory in Treated and Neighbouring Strawberry Plants

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Application of the fungicide Switch 62.5 WG in garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), targeting Botrytis cinerea, reduced sawfly (Cladius spp.) herbivory by up to 94% and improved fruit quality. This non‐target effect also spilled over to neighbouring untreated plants, lowering damage by 46%.
Esther Kuper   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Wild” Generosity: The Role of Trail Angels in Shaping Community on America’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails

open access: yesAd Limina
Similar to forms of hospitality given to pilgrims on Spain’s Camino de Santiago or Japan’s Shikoku pilgrimage, trail magic is a phenomenon spoken of fondly by long-distance hikers on America’s National Scenic Trails.
Kristi McLeod
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the Mediating Role of Social Interactions on the Relationship Between Age and Plumage Traits on Reproductive Success

open access: yesEthology, EarlyView.
This conceptual figure uses Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) to represent the hypothesized biological mechanism in which age and/or plumage traits affect reproductive success, and social interactions mediate these relationships. It highlights the predicted decomposition of (a) the total effect into the direct and indirect effects under scenarios of (b ...
Zachary M. Laubach   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Social Pairing for Backpackers

open access: yes, 2006
. There is a new world emerging around mobile social networks and the technologies used to facilitate and mediate them. It is technically feasible for mobile social software such as pairing or ‘matchmaking ’ systems to introduce people to others and ...
Jeff Axup, Stephen Viller
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Backpackers� travel decision across generations and countries of origin: An empirical study in Indonesia

open access: yes, 2021
In the past few decades, backpacking tourism has become more popular not only among young travelers but also among adults and elderly. Taking the trend into account, this study aims to investigate the variance of consideration of international ...
Semuel, Hatane, Wijaya, Serli
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Biogeography of Atlantic Salmon in the Cape Breton Highlands, Canada

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) populations have experienced significant declines in recent decades. In Canada, conservation efforts are divided into 16 designatable units (DUs) to address unique regional challenges among genetically distinct populations.
Oscar D. P. Notman‐Grobler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motivation of first-time, repeat, and serial backpackers: a Malaysian perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The objectives of this study are to identify the main travel motivations of Malaysian backpackers and to investigate the differences in travel motivations between different groups of backpackers namely; first-time, repeat, and serial backpackers.
Ismail, Nuraini   +1 more
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