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Tourism in the outdoors : but whose outdoors? [PDF]
, 2015 Using the outdoors for tourism, general recreation, and education is perceived to be environmentally friendly, but as numbers increase concerns of over-commercialisation, overcrowding, environmental degradation, and longterm sustainability issues of global warming and social inequity, are being raised. These problems are exacerbated because individuals
Straker, Jo
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Babies and toddlers outdoors: a narrative review of the literature on provision for under twos in ECEC settings [PDF]
, 2021 This paper reports the findings of a narrative review of international research literature about babies’ and toddlers’ engagement with the outdoor environment whilst attending ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) settings.
Josephidu, J., Kemp, N.
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Impact of mitigation measures to improve home indoor air quality in Kathmandu, Nepal
Environmental Research: Health, 2023 Air purifiers (APs) and home sealing are interventions used to help protect U.S. diplomats against particle pollution in the home when working in polluted cities.
Leslie Edwards +4 more
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Social mechanisms to get people outdoors: bimodal distribution of interest in nature?
Frontiers in Public Health, 2016 We report results from a post-program survey (n=930) of participants in a non-profit outdoor health program targeted principally at women with families in Australia’s metropolitan cities.
Ralf Christopher Buckley +2 more
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XDMOM: A Real-Time Moving Object Detection System Based on a Dual-Spectrum Camera
Sensors, 2022 A low-cost and power-efficient video surveillance system, named XDMOM, is developed for real-time moving object detection outdoors or in the wild. The novel system comprises four parts: imaging subsystem, video processing unit, power supply, and alarm ...
Baoquan Shi, Weichen Gu, Xudong Sun
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Social Inclusion, 2020 People with dementia often report experiencing a ‘shrinking world’ connected with reduced opportunities to access physical and social spaces. This article applies the framework of social health (Dröes et al., 2017; Huber et al., 2011) as a theoretical ...
Jane M. Robertson +5 more
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Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2023 This article explores the current situation of outdoor play for children in Sámi Early Childhood Education and Care institutions (ECECs) in Norway. The main objective is to discover how Sámi ECEC practices contribute to outdoor play and learning in early
Monica Bjerklund, Ingvild Åmot
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Insects, 2023 Tapachula, Mexico, a tropical city, is an endemic area for dengue, in addition to several outbreaks in the last decade with chikungunya and zika. As part of the migratory corridor from Central to North America and the risks of scattered infectious ...
Alma D. Lopez-Solis +7 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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Children, 2022 Purpose: To study the association of parents’ reports about their children’s near work and outdoor habits with myopia in their children. Methods: Data from a questionnaire study conducted in 1983 among Finnish schoolchildren were reanalyzed.
Olavi Pärssinen +2 more
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