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Assessing Gull Abundance and Food Availability in Urban Parking Lots

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Feeding birds is a common activity throughout the world; yet, little is known about the extent of feeding gulls in urban areas. We monitored 8 parking lots in central Massachusetts, USA, during the fall and winter of 2011 to 2013 in 4 monitoring sessions
Dan Clark   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 confines recreational gatherings in Seoul to familiar, less crowded, and neighboring urban areas [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Recreational gatherings are sources of the spread of infectious diseases. Understanding the dynamics of recreational gatherings is essential to building effective public health policies but challenging as the interaction between people and recreational places is complex.
arxiv  

Development of a Metaverse Platform for Tourism Promotion in Apulia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Metaverse is an engaging way to recreate in a digital environment the real world. It allows people to connect not by just browsing a website, but by using headsets and virtual reality techniques. The metaverse is actually in a rapid development phase, thanks to the advances in different topics.
arxiv   +1 more source

Acute lower respiratory infections among children under five in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of prevalence and risk factors

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2023
Background Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTIs) among children under five are still the leading cause of mortality among this group of children in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA ...
Jacob Owusu Sarfo   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The health benefits of exercise therapy for patients with Down syndrome: A systematic review

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Disability, 2019
Background: Many patients with Down syndrome (PWDS) have poor cardiometabolic risk profiles, aerobic capacities and weak hypotonic muscles, primarily because of physical inactivity and poor diet. Objectives: This study discusses the benefits of exercise
Yvonne Paul   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-cultural factors influencing adolescent pregnancy in Ghana: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Adolescent pregnancy is a public health challenge that has well-defined causes, associated health risks, and social and economic consequences for adolescent, their families, communities, and society.
Mustapha Amoadu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Accommodation Companies Recreation Activities in İstanbul [PDF]

open access: yesOnline Academic Journal of Information Technology, 2012
Recreation activities represent quality of company, image and attractiveness for both staying guests and day use guests. At the same time recreation can be important income source for accommodation companies.
Aslı ALBAYRAK
doaj   +1 more source

Polytechnics and Recreation [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1891
IN Mr. Oliver Dawson's article on Polytechnics in your issue of the 8th inst. (vol. xliv., p. 547) he says: “although those institutes which make much of athleticism and such matters attract the largest proportion of students, the attendance pro ratâ in the class-rooms would not favourably compare with an institute carrying out a purely educational ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Social, Economic, and Ecological Drivers of Planning and Management of Urban River Parks

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
Urban rivers deliver a broad range of contributions of nature to human development. The exploitation of the riverine ecosystem services evolves with uncertainty.
Aude Zingraff-Hamed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of lactate threshold with machine learning techniques in recreational runners [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Soft Computing, 63, 181-196 (2018), 2018
Lactate threshold is considered an essential parameter when assessing performance of elite and recreational runners and prescribing training intensities in endurance sports. However, the measurement of blood lactate concentration requires expensive equipment and the extraction of blood samples, which are inconvenient for frequent monitoring ...
arxiv   +1 more source

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