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Tourism and HospitalityWellness tourism, mainly connected to meditation, thermal springs and spa resorts, is an emerging tourism sector. At the same time, contact with natural environments through physical exercise, hiking or walking in forests proves significantly positive in
Stella Giannakopoulou +1 more
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HISTORICAL SPECIAL INTEREST TOURISM: THE EVOLUTION OF MOUNTAINEERING IN SOUTH AFRICA [PDF]
Revista Română de Geografie PoliticăScholarship on special interest tourism has burgeoned since the 1980s. Although this expanding research interest is relatively new, the phenomenon of special interest tourism is not of recent origin as many of its forms, such as mountaineering ...
Christian M. ROGERSON, Jayne M. ROGERSON
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Low‐Pressure Plasma‐Based Wrinkling of PDMS and Machine Learning‐Driven Property Engineering
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Wrinkled surfaces are well‐suited for controlled surface deformations in the µm range. The key challenge is the relation between the resulting wrinkle features and the necessary process conditions. Machine learning techniques have solved the prediction and inverse design problems for various preparation conditions, opening a precisely controlled ...
Fabian Kopsch +7 more
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Wertykalna izolacja. Górska proza Tadeusza Piotrowskiego
Napis, 2021 The article is concerned with the writings of the Polish mountaineer, Tadeusz Piotrowski. The author considers the relationship between the experiences of vertical space, plot and subjectivity.
Przemysław Kaliszuk
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Buz Tırmanışı Yapan Dağcıların Yaşam Kalitesinin İncelenmesi
Spor Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019 Buz tırmanışı risklerin olduğu, kazaların ve ölümlerinyaşandığı riskli bir spordur. Bu yüzden bu sporu yapanların yaşam tarzları,kişilik özellikleri, karar verme becerileri gibi özellikleri merak edilmektedir.Bu araştırmanın amacı, buz tırmanışı yapan ...
Burak Gürer
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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu +5 more
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Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2017 Glacial shrinkage and the gravitational processes associated with it, which are characteristic of global warming effects in high mountain environments, are affecting mountaineering routes more and more, including access routes to high altitude refuges ...
Jacques Mourey, Ludovic Ravanel
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Iron‐Mediated Release of Aged Dissolved Organic Carbon From Waterlogged Peatland Under Warming
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study conducts a five‐year in situ warming experiment in high‐altitude peatlands to examine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release. The study shows that warming promotes the release of plant‐derived modern DOC in drained peatlands, but amplifies aquatic export of century‐old DOC from waterlogged peatlands via Fe‐mediated DOC mobilization—a ...
Guohua Dai +18 more
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Impacts of Climate Change on Mountaineering Routes in the Écrins Massif (Western Alps, France)
Revue de Géographie AlpineMountaineering is one of the most affected sports activities due to the current climate crisis and the resulting changes in the physical environment of the high mountain areas. Some routes have disappeared while others are no longer accessible in summer (
Mathis Arnaud +4 more
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Mountain Service in the Czech Lands from Its Foundation until the Second World War
Sport i Turystyka, 2020 The aim of this thesis is to look back at the history of the Mountain Service and to introduce the readers of the article to the history of Mountain Service in the Czech Republic, which dates back to the period of the First Republic, that is around 1930.
Aleš Fejfar
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