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Motivation and Habits of a Wild Boar-Hunting Community

open access: yesAnimals
The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is a widespread ungulate, the populations of which have recently increased throughout most of its range. This increase has caused negative impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity, and society.
Vasileios J. Kontsiotis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Factors Affecting Where People Geocache

open access: yesFuture Internet, 2016
Outdoor leisure activities are important for public health as well as family cohesiveness, yet environmental factors may easily affect someone’s ability to participate in such activities.
Jennifer Golbeck, Carman Neustaedter
doaj   +1 more source

Hypovitaminosis D in university workers in Southern Ecuador: interactions between gender and lifestyle

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundHypovitaminosis D may be common in tropical countries and is linked to disorders of phospho-calcium metabolism, rickets, muscle pain, immune system deficiencies, and increased susceptibility to microbial infections.ObjectiveTo assess the ...
Patricia Díaz   +6 more
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Impact of various types of near work and time spent outdoors at different times of day on visual acuity and refractive error among Chinese school-going children

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Background Various types of near work have been suggested to promote the incidence and progression of myopia, while outdoor activity appears to prevent or retard myopia.
H. Guan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vision-Based Real-Time Traversable Region Detection for Mobile Robot in the Outdoors

open access: yesSensors, 2017
Environment perception is essential for autonomous mobile robots in human-robot coexisting outdoor environments. One of the important tasks for such intelligent robots is to autonomously detect the traversable region in an unstructured 3D real world. The
Fucheng Deng, Xiaorui Zhu, Chao He
doaj   +1 more source

Interventions to increase time spent outdoors for preventing incidence and progression of myopia in children.

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020
BACKGROUND Myopia or nearsightedness is a type of refractive error. It causes people to see near objects clearly but distant objects as blurred. Good vision can be obtained if the refractive error is corrected properly but, where this is not possible ...
A. Kido, M. Miyake, Norio Watanabe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A publicidade e os símbolos raciais

open access: yesComunicação & Educação, 1995
Sobre a campanha publicitária da Benetton, o artigo procura identificar no slogan United Colors of Benetton, colado sobre modelos das raças branca e negra, uma união das raças através das cores, mas considera que no Brasil nem todos os anúncios podem ser
Solange M. Couceiro de Lima
doaj  

Myopic shift and outdoor activity among primary school children: one-year follow-up study in Beijing. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
PURPOSE: To assess whether a change in myopia related oculometric parameters of primary school children in Beijing was associated with indoors and outdoors activity.
Yin Guo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tourism in the outdoors : but whose outdoors?

open access: yes, 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Characteristics of the Outdoor Environment Affording Physical Activity, Motor Competence, and Social Interactions in Children Aged 3–7 Years: A Systematic Review

open access: yesChildren
Early childhood education (ECE) settings play a crucial role in promoting physical and social development among children aged 3–7 years. This systematic review sought to examine the associations between characteristics of ECE outdoor environments, social
Nicola Taylor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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