ilderness management researchers and practitioners have long recognized that wilderness experiences are influenced by the social conditions experienced (e.g., the number of other groups encountered), the resource conditions experienced (e.g., the amount of human impact at camping sites), and the management conditions imposed (e.g., the number of backcountry permits issued; Hendee et al. 1990). ...

Traditionally, researches in financial markets were broadly divided into two camps: fundamental and technical analysis. Fundamental analysts assume that assets, such as shares, have intrinsic values, which they attempt to assess. The value of a company’s shares is determined by all the factors that could affect the company’s future profitability. These include the company’s operation as well as...

I spent a year carrying out two job roles at York St John University. Half of my time was spent as Academic Support Librarian for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, based in the library and responsible for promoting its information literacy strategy in the faculty to which I was linked. The other half of my time was spent in the faculty itself as Assistant Health Information Specialist, w...

Pick up any American newspaper these days, and all of the stories coming out of Haiti are negative: earthquake relief work is going slow, displaced people are still living in tented camps, men and women are still struggling to find work. And while these facts can’t be disputed, there are many other stories that are being left untold. Working in Haiti [6] earlier this month, I encountered six wo...

Statisticians in medicine can disagree on appropriate methodology applicable to the design and analysis of clinical trials. So called Bayesians and frequentists both claim ethical superiority. This paper, by defining and then linking together various dichotomies, argues there is a place for both statistical camps. The choice between them depends on the phase of clinical trial, disease prevalenc...

Witchcraft beliefs are a part of every day life in Ghana and a part of aging in Ghana as well. This is typically not a problem for older adults, in a country where the connotation of the English word “old” is more positive; a colloquial term for translating, “I am old” means “I have grown” (van der Geest 2005). In addition, older adults who are known to have the wisdom that comes with knowing w...

Reduced exposure to daytime sunlight and increased exposure to electrical lighting at night leads to late circadian and sleep timing [1-3]. We have previously shown that exposure to a natural summer 14 hr 40 min:9 hr 20 min light-dark cycle entrains the human circadian clock to solar time, such that the internal biological night begins near sunset and ends near sunrise [1]. Here we show that th...

An experimental design was utilized to examine the effects of elaborative talk during and/or after an event on children's event memory reports. Sixty preschoolers were assigned randomly to one of four conditions that varied according to a researcher's use of high or low elaborative during- and/or post-event talk about a camping event. In a memory conversation 1 day after the event, children who...

Culturally transmitted behavior can be structured in its performance both geographically and temporally, in terms of where and when implements are made and used on the landscape (what Ingold calls "the taskscape"). Yet cultural transmission theory has not yet explored the consequences of behaviors transmitted differently due to their enactment at different taskscape locations, what Tostevin cal...

Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22-11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest Asia. The latest Epipalaeolithic phase (Natufian) is well-known for the appearance of stone-built houses, complex site organization, a sedentary lifestyle and social complexity--precursors for a Neolithic way of life. I...