The purpose of the report is to present prospects for development winter tourism in combination with other types sustainable state's economy. Bulgarian resorts are gaining international popularity their favorable conditions sports, modern facilities which equipped and mountainous nature that creates holding competitions on tracks. Bulgaria has numerous mineral springs a popular spa wellness des...

Vitamin D does not only influence the musculoskeletal health and mineral homeostasis but it also affects cardiovascular, endocrine, nervous, immune and mental functions, thus it is of considerable importance for both physically active people and elite athletes. However, vitamin D deficiency is common worldwide and results from inadequate endogenous skin synthesis (insufficient ultraviolet B exp...

Aim: To determine the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who presented to our emergency department with orthopedic injuries due winter sports.
 Material Method: This study was retrospectively conducted in seasons between 2018 2020. The patients’ age, gender, injury localization, treatment applied for injury, patterns were examined. findings obtained statistically analyzed...

Winter tourism is often associated with rural areas and snow-based sporting activities. However, urban destinations can also offer outdoor winter sports an integrated set of product bundles not only sports-related. Previous research has strongly focused on highly developed but barely explored the case offering as activity in their bundles. This paper, therefore, investigates potential for marke...

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This study examined conflict behaviors (self, other) among 127 Turkish college students. Differences in five conflict behaviors (forcing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating) were then explored in relation to popularity and unpopularity. Results indicated that the students engaged in more avoiding and compromising behaviors, while perceiving more forcing behavior in others....

OBJECTIVES To compare the safety policies and practices reported to be adopted during training and competition by community sports clubs in northern Sydney, Australia. METHODS This cross sectional study involved face to face interviews, using an 81 item extensively validated questionnaire, with representatives of 163 community netball, rugby league, rugby union, and soccer clubs (response rat...

This paper presents a platform for requests for proposals and describes how ontologies drive the different components: the creation of a proposal, the annotation of vendor data, the transformation of vendor data into other formats and the semantic matching of a proposal against annotated vendor data. The ontology construction started from DOGMA, a methodology with its grounding in the linguisti...

Symptoms of acute mountain sickness (AMS) may be due to abnormal regulation of the volume of brain and spinal fluid. No relevant research exists on individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injury (SCI). We studied symptoms of 64 subjects with TBI, SCI, multiple sclerosis, or no impairments at the 2007 National Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass, Colorado. We found a h...