My grandmother, she delivered me, she delivered all of us. That’s my mom’s mom. She was on crutches all the time; she was born a cripple, but that didn’t stop her. She’d get in the canoe and go out camping by herself. She’d pick up Indian medicine for us. A midwife for the whole reserve. They call her, lots of people call her, in Heron Bay and then Longlac, and White River. She was called all o...

whom are third-generation Israelis, have participated in school delegations that traveled to Poland to visit Holocaust sites. These school journeys visit Jewish sites and death camps, as part of a broad-scale project that was initiated in 1988. Over the years, the number of participants has grown steadily and by the end of 2008, 300,000 youngsters visited Poland under the aegis of this project ...

The location choices made by visitors have important implications for wilderness management. The cumulative effect of visitors’ choices produces recreational use distributions, and many studies show that these are typically very uneven. A small proportion of access points accounts for most use, and use of trails or water routes is very uneven. Some campsites are heavily used while others are ra...

In recent years, scholars have become increasingly interested in studying routine or regularized discourse and its connections to the many institutions within which people act. This interest has emerged for a number of reasons, including the rapid evolution of digitally mediated communication and the upheaval of organizational structures in such realms of activity as business, government, and e...

Introduction: Camping and hiking are popular worldwide recreational activities. All age groups, elderly or young, immunocompetent or immunosupressive people may engage in these activities. During these activities, individuals may get injured or be exposed to pathogens. There is also a strong possibility of experiencing mosquito, lice, or tick bites, bee stings, or being bitten ...

The objective of the study is to construct a model of the number of car borne visitors to the natural environment – forests, beaches, and the remainder untilled landscape. The model, which is implemented in and heavily dependent on GIS, is based on an constrained accessibility model, constrained by the amount of available resources, to cope with intervening opportunities. The ingoing variables ...

BACKGROUND In spite of the prevalence of aluminum in nature, no organism has been found to date which requires this element for its biological functions. The possible health risks to human beings resulting from uptake of aluminum include detrimental effects to the hemopoietic system, the nervous system and bones. Aluminum is used in many fields and occurs in numerous foodstuffs. Food contact ma...

Medical standby is the provision of emergency medical care and first aid for participants and/or spectators in a pre-planned event. This article describes the framework and the demographics of a medical standby at the 4(th) National Youth Camping and Motivation Program in Pasir Puteh, Kelantan from 30(th) July until the 3(rd) August 2004. The framework of the medical team is described based on ...

We evaluated the occurrence of intestinal parasites and commensals among children and adults from a landless camping in the rural area of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from October to November 2001. Stool samples from 78 individuals were examined by both the Baermann-Moraes and Lutz methods. Fifty-one (65.4%; CI 54.8 - 76.0) individuals were found to be infected, 23 (45.1%) childre...