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Destroying the Ethnosphere? How Tourism Has Impacted the Sherpas of Nepal
, 2014 Tourism is perhaps the most salient and impactful process of globalization today. As we are increasingly more mobile, traveling with endless comfort and ease, we explore the far reaches of the planet as ambassadors of our own culture and as agents of ...
Ginder, Joshua H.
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Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Physical reservoir computing (PRC) based on spin wave interference has demonstrated high computational performance, yet room for improvement remains. In this study, we fabricated this concept PRC with eight detectors and evaluated the impact of the number of detectors using a chaotic time series prediction task.
Sota Hikasa +6 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationThis study aimed to design a virtual reality (VR)–based mountaineering education system and examined its effects on junior high school students’ learning outcomes, motivation, and cognitive load in compass operation and map reading. The system integrated
Cheng-Pin Yu, Wernhuar Tarng
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The present study uses an agroeconomic supply model to assess the impacts of 2023–2027 CAP on Italian specialized dairy cattle farms. The model considers the voluntary choice of Eco‐Scheme 1, specifically addressed to livestock farms, through the implementation of binary variables.
Davide Dell'Unto, Raffaele Cortignani
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On the occurrence of bryophytes and macrolichens in different lowland rain forest types at Mabura Hill, Guyana [PDF]
, 1990 A floristic and ecological study of bryophytes and macrolichens in different lowland rain forest types around Mabura Hill, Guyana, South America, yielded 170 species: 52 mosses, 82 liverworts and 36 macrolichens. Lejeuneaceae account for about 30% of the
Cornelissen, J. Hans C. +1 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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Les rapports entre les genres dans l’alpinisme français et anglais
Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2013 From its emergence in the middle of the 19th century, mountaineering has always been a very masculine activity, which is practised by men and which conveys manly representations.
Delphine Moraldo
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Cotton spinning to climbing gear: practical aspects of design evolution in Lancashire and the North West of England [PDF]
, 2006 This article looks at the role of path dependency in the design of outdoor clothing and equipment, from the perspective of changing and overlapping industrial clusters in Lancashire and Sheffield, from the 1960s.
Love, T, Parsons, M C, Rose, M B
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingStaying and climbing in high mountains (>2,500 m) involves changes in diet due to poor access to fresh food, lack of appetite, food poisoning, environmental conditions and physiological changes.
Ewa Karpęcka-Gałka, Barbara Frączek
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