There is ongoing pressure to develop the largely unaltered Daly River catchment in northern Australia for agriculture. However, a choice experiment among people in the region and in Australia's largest city, Sydney, shows that people are prepared to pay substantial amounts to maintain the quality of its ecosystem services. The total stated willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a Daly River conservation ...

8 Background. Estimates of fishing and natural mortality are important for understanding, and ultimately managing, commercial and recreational fisheries. High reward tags with fixed station acoustic telemetry provides a promising approach to monitoring mortality rates in large lake recreational fisheries. Kootenay Lake is a large lake which supports an important recreational fishery for large B...

In this study we estimate selected visitors' demand and value for recreational trips to settings such as developed vs. undeveloped sites in U.S. national forests in the Southern United States using the travel cost method. The setting-based approach allows for valuation of multi-activity trips to particular settings. The results from an adjusted Poisson lognormal estimator corrected for truncati...

The purpose of the study was to effect motor imagery on handgrip strength in badminton players. Total 25 recreational Badminton Players between age group 18-25 years both male and female were included study. conducted over 2 weeks. Grip by hand dynamometer Vividness movement questionnaire-2 used as outcome measure. data analysed using Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank test which two tailed P v...

Task Force Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends behavioral interventions to reduce recreational sedentary screen time among children aged 13 years and younger. This finding is based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing recreational sedentary screen time, increasing physical activity, improving diet, and improving or maintaining weightrelated outcomes. Evide...

Mounting evidence indicates that erectile dysfunction medications (EDMs) have become increasingly used as a sexual enhancement aid among men without a medical indication. Recreational EDM use has been associated with increased sexual risk behaviors, an increased risk for STIs, including incident HIV infection, and high rates of concomitant illicit drug use. The aim of the present study was to i...

Recreational activities are beneficial for the elderly. However, little is known regarding specifically which types of recreational activity benefit older adults and in what ways. The purpose of this study was to assess the particular benefits of different types of recreational activities. The intervention experiments in this study focused on three recreational activities, based on the differen...