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River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, there has been an increase in the development and use of hydropower to produce energy. Hydropeaking is an operating regime that is used to meet real‐time energy demands; however, daily fluctuations in flows may result in fish becoming stranded.
Raegan Davis +2 more
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Effects of backpacking holidays in Australia on alcohol, tobacco and drug use of UK residents
BMC Public Health, 2007 Background Whilst alcohol and drug use among young people is known to escalate during short holidays and working breaks in international nightlife resorts, little empirical data are available on the impact of longer backpacking holidays on substance use.
Copeland Jan +4 more
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Person to Person in New Zealand [PDF]
, 2013 While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries
Nomi, Kylie
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The Transformative Power of the International Sojourn: an Ethnographic Study of the International Student Experience [PDF]
, 2009 The findings from an ethnographic study of international postgraduate students’ adjustment journey through life in England illustrates the transformative potential of the international student sojourn.
Brown, Lorraine
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Small Science, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advances in nanomedicine that enhance chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy against solid tumors. It discusses key barriers to CAR T cell efficacy and outlines nanotechnology‐based strategies to improve tumor targeting, remodel the immunosuppressive microenvironment, and integrate nanomaterials into CAR T cell ...
Stephen O’Rourke +3 more
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Aplikasi Pencarian Tempat Wisata Berbasiskan GPS dengan Metode Radius dan Rating
ComTech, 2015 Tourist place navigation application becomes more important for travelers, especially backpackers. Previous research had produced applications which can only show the route from the position of traveler to tourist place with map shown.
Budi Yulianto, Rita Layona
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Field test of assumptions for using line transect distance sampling on rock ptarmigan
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Reliable population estimates are essential for the management of harvested species. Line transect distance sampling using pointing dogs is an established survey method for willow ptarmigan and has also been proposed for the monitoring of rock ptarmigan.
Marius Kjønsberg +3 more
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MAIN DESTINATIONS AND TOURIST FLOWS ON THE YOUTH TRAVEL MARKET [PDF]
Global tourism has seen an explosion since the ‘60s due to the post-war global economic growth and over the past two decades it recorded a significant increase, youth travel being the main component of this growth.
Moisa Claudia
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Using association rule mining to enrich semantic concepts for video retrieval [PDF]
, 2009 In order to achieve true content-based information retrieval on video we should analyse and index video with high-level semantic concepts in addition to using user-generated tags and structured metadata like title, date, etc.
Fatemi, Nastaran +3 more
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Trait distributions provide insight into how niches overlap within a broader trait space. By integrating individual‐level trait observations from different communities, we can explore how facets of trait dimensionality vary across environmental conditions.
Alicia McGrew +6 more
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