Chilkoot: An Adventure in Ecotourism

An Adventure in Curative Education

S'Ve PictS Neuter tells her story in simple yet arresting language, giving a very comprehensive des UI~k man ̂ euter> who was her teacher, her colleague, and finally her husband. Po\ver Qp ? .^'m as an extraordinarily dynamic person, with an unshakable belief in the Hany 0r sP'r'1 over matter. His enthusiasm attracted large numbers of people to him, ^ey?te th ? ^ were prepared to withstand the t...

Federating Traders: An ODP Adventure

In this paper we propose a model of decentralized federation of traders. Each component trader manages its own set of federated traders. A federation contract is used to document the agreement between two federating traders. The importer's portion of the federation contract forms an import contract that states the service types available in the remote trader. The exporter's portion of the feder...

Experimental gallstones: an adventure in biological geology.

.... The Framingham Study was the first attempt to discover just how commonly gall bladder disease occurs . . . in the United States. That such a survey should not have been made before 1966 is sad evidence of an apathetic attitude toward the cause of gallstones.... At the age of fifty-five to sixtyfour, 10 per cent of men and 20 per cent of women have gallstones, or, in absolute terms, 2.5 to ...

Composing Contracts: An Adventure in Financial Engineering

Ecotourism and economic incentives — an empirical approach

Within the new array of ‘green’ products and services, ecotourism claims to combine environmental responsibility with the generation of local economic benefits that will have both a development impact and serve as conservation incentives. Economic incentives are imperative for nature conservation, particularly in remote and ill-monitored regions where a weak presence of the state hinders the us...