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Fatalities Among Iranian High-altitude Outdoor Enthusiasts: Causes and Mechanisms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Purpose: This study was performed to determine the possible causes and mechanisms of fatalities among Iranian mountaineers during climbing. Methods: By contacting several sources, deceased mountaineers were identified. Data about the causes and mechanism
Ameli, Sanaz   +5 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The changing form of mountaineering in Slovenia [PDF]

open access: yes
Mountaineering is one of the most popular mass recreational and tourist activities in Slovenia. It takes place in both individual and organized forms. Hikers and mountaineers are organized in more than 250 mountaineering clubs which are linked together ...

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Program study of mountaineering as outdoor education - The example of safety management that uses physiological index - [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The purpose of this study was to practice the effects of outdoor education in college students who participated in a 4-days nature recreational trekking course.
Miura Toshihiro   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retracted: Can the chemical industry solve the climate change?On the role of human energy production, renewable energies, and the potential of chemistry as a solution provider

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView., 2023
Let us consider an alternative perspective on climate change: The sum of solar radiation and heat generated by human activity result in a net energy input of 1.96 times that of the Sun on the Earth's surface. The expanding global population is expected to exacerbate this issue. Potential solutions are proposed, including replacement and heat recycling.
Martin Bertau, Gerald Steiner
wiley   +1 more source

But What do I Wear? A Study of Women's Climbing Attire [PDF]

open access: yes
Mrs Henry Warwick-Coleman advises the lady climber on her attire in her 1859 publication, A Lady’s Tour Round Monte Rosa. She suggests ‘A lady’s dress is inconvenient for mountaineering’, continuing ‘even under the most careful management, and therefore ...
Evans, C. K.
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Cost Utility Analysis of Fluticasone Exhalation Delivery System Versus Budesonide Nasal Irrigation for Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is managed after sinus surgery with topical corticosteroids. Given limited distribution of nasal steroid sprays, patients have the option of either steroid nasal irrigation (SNI) or exhalation delivery system with fluticasone (EDS‐FLU).
Daniel Xiao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating UGC Areas of Official Destination Websites: Is there a Recipe for Success? An Insight through Netnographic Research [PDF]

open access: yes
An analysis of the existing literature has demonstrated the importance of word of mouth as a source of information for potential tourists and service consumers.
Osti, Linda
core   +1 more source

Lysyl Oxidase Reduces Neutrophil Extravasation in Response to P. aeruginosa in an Infection‐on‐a‐Chip Model

open access: yesAdvanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Lysyl oxidase crosslinking of type I collagen decreases neutrophil extravasation through an endothelium during the initial response to P. aeruginosa. This decrease in extravasation is likely due to the increase in VE‐cadherin expression between endothelial cells seeded on LOX‐crosslinked collagen hydrogels.
Christopher J. Calo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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