Clinical Vignette Case 1 A 65-year-old man from northern Wisconsin, presented to the clinic with complaints of fever, chills, myalgias and severe fatigue. He lived on a farm and frequently visited the woods for hiking. On examination he was found to be febrile without hepatosplenomegaly or lymphadenopathy. His hemoglobin was 8 g/dL, white count was 2.8 with 1100 neutrophils, and the platelet co...

We have found a novel transposon in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans. Tc7 is a 921 bp element, made up of two 345 bp inverted repeats separated by a unique, internal sequence. Tc7 does not contain an open reading frame. The outer 38 bp of the inverted repeat show 36 matches with the outer 38 bp of Tc1. This region of Tc1 contains the Tc1-transposase binding site. Furthermore, Tc7 is flanked...

This paper proposes an approach for the reconstruction of itineraries extracted from narrative texts. This approach is divided into two main tasks. The first extracts geographical information with natural language processing. Its outputs are annotations of so called expanded entities and expressions of displacement or perception from hiking descriptions. In order to reconstruct a plausible foot...

This paper describes a mobile location based music player for outdoor sports like running, cycling or hiking. Athletes can boost their performance while listening to the right songs. The TIYU system augments trails with appropriate music for the athletes, either automatically using an intelligent selection mechanism or manually via a web based authoring tool. These so created trails can be shar...

Outdoor recreationist are prone to selecting sites that have eye catching sceneries with nice weather and spectacular landscapes. However, visitation in the natural parks can cause substantial resource change national affect parks’ functionality. The aim of study is assess impact recreation activities Central Kenya region on vegetation, soil, water wild game. descriptive survey research design ...

In the Swiss organization "Youth and Sports" all acute injuries that are attended to by a physician are registered by the Military Insurance, and data on the number of participants in 32 sports together with the time of exposure are collected by the organization. Per year there are close to 350,000 participants (age 14-20 years) during 13.2 million hours causing more than 5,000 injuries. In a d...

BACKGROUND Rubbing moist skin results in higher frictional forces than rubbing very dry skin. As friction increases, the probability of activity-related blisters also increases. Therefore reducing moisture may reduce blister incidence during physical activity. OBJECTIVE We examined whether an antiperspirant can reduce foot blisters during hiking. METHODS In a double-blind study, cadets atte...