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New Zealand outdoor recreation benefits
, 2007 Millions of people participate in outdoor recreation activities in New Zealand every year. Economic recreation studies in the country concentrate mostly on market values. Market values only present part of the outdoor recreation benefit; while non-market
Kaval, Pamela, Yao, Richard
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An investigation of the perceived level of stress in various hotel supervisors and their preferred leisure activities [PDF]
, 2000 Plan BThe purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived level of stress of hospitality supervisors and their choice of leisure activities. In doing so, there will be a greater understanding of leisure and the role it plays in decreasing the ...
Amin, Ayman M.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Recreation, leisure and social policy
, 1990 This joint Lincoln University and Victoria University occasional paper was prepared as a submission to the Royal Commission on Social Policy and has been published in the Report of the Royal Commission on Social Policy, Volume IV, pp. 505-33, 1988. The
Cushman Grant, Laidler Allan
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva +2 more
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, 2009 [[abstract]]Due to leisure activity is indispensable to work, but leisure activity is under the influence of work characteristics for female staffs at hotels who are the leisure activities providers .
Kai-Tinag chan
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Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
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The Leisure Style of Canadian Rural Recreation Participants
Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2010 The purpose of this study was to investigate the leisure styles of rural recreationists in Canada. The study involved a secondary analysis of data from a previous study, with a sample of 248 Canadians, which gathered data on four dimensions of leisure ...
Paul Heintzman, Don Dawson
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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, 2012 [[abstract]]There is very important status for Hakka kins in the area of Luidui of the exploratory history in the southern Taiwan. At the same time, the Luidui Hakka cultural park had been established (set) to preserve its culture for purpose. The object
Tien, Yu Feng
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