Impactos ambientales generados por la actividad deportiva, recreativa y turística en alta montaña. Análisis de la cordillera de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile (Environ... by Pablo Rebolledo Dujisin

“…The method consisted in the application of qualitative and quantitative tools: a survey to stakeholders, and an adaptation of the Leopold Matrix on trails, camps and summits in two areas for high altitude sport in the central region of Chile; on the other hand, bibliographic review allows to understand this phenomenon, and highlight the initiatives of international federations of mountain sports for better environmental management. …”
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Relationships between necrotic cactus availability and population size in a cactophilic Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) located on a sandstone table hill in Brazil by E.M. Moraes, F.M. Sene

“…In southeast Brazil it is found on summits of isolated hills, which apparently are current refugia resulting from climatic changes during the Quaternary Period. …”
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Convergent evolution of complex adaptive traits modulates angiogenesis in high-altitude Andean and Himalayan human populations by Giulia Ferraretti, Aina Rill, Paolo Abondio, Kyra Smith, Claudia Ojeda-Granados, Sara De Fanti, Marta Alberti, Massimo Izzi, Phurba T. Sherpa, Paolo Cocco, Massimiliano Tiriticco, Marco Di Marcello, Agnese Dezi, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Luca Natali, Angela Corcelli, Giorgio Marinelli, Paolo Garagnani, Davide Peluzzi, Donata Luiselli, Davide Pettener, Stefania Sarno, Marco Sazzini

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Counting what counts: assessing quality of life and its social determinants among nursing home residents with dementia by Matthias Hoben, Emily Dymchuk, Malcolm B. Doupe, Janice Keefe, Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, Kelli Stajduhar, Sube Banerjee, Hannah M. O’Rourke, Stephanie Chamberlain, Anna Beeber, Jordana Salma, Pamela Jarrett, Amit Arya, Kyle Corbett, Rashmi Devkota, Melissa Ristau, Shovana Shrestha, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…We will share and discuss study findings with knowledge users in web-based summits with embedded focus groups. This will provide much needed data on knowledge users' interpretations, usefulness and intended use of data on NH residents’ QoL and its health and social determinants. …”
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Establishing monarch butterfly overwintering sites for future climates: Abies religiosa upper altitudinal limit expansion by assisted migration by Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Verónica Osuna-Vallejo, Verónica Osuna-Vallejo, Patricia Herrejón-Calderón, Legna A. Pérez-Cruz, M. Guadalupe Joaquín-Juan, Ana Laura Cruzado-Vargas, Ana Laura Cruzado-Vargas, Gregory A. O’Neill, Ana Gabriela Zacarías-Correa, Gyorgy E. Manzanilla-Quijada, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros, Arnulfo Blanco-García, Ángel R. Endara-Agramont, Leonel Lopez-Toledo

“…Since the upper elevation limit of A. religiosa is approximately 3,500 m and the summits of mountains within the MBBR are ca. 3,550 m, we tested the feasibility of establishing A. religiosa at four locations outside its current geographic range in the MBBR, on a geographically close volcano, Nevado de Toluca at 4000 (timberline, an extreme site), 3,800, and 3,600 m (to test species range expansion upward in elevation), and at 3400 m (a reference site, slightly lower than the upper elevation limit of A. religiosa). …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICAL CULTURE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE by L. M. Andryukhina, N. Yu. Fadeeva, Gérard De Negri

“…Moreover, ecological culture is constantly highlighted in numerous studies, materials and documents of the international forums, summits and conferences of the UN and UNESCO. The aim of this publication is to present the authors’ didactic complex of development tools of ecological culture of students, and to show the potential of teaching foreign languages (on the example of French) for students’ ecological culture formation by means of development of cross-cultural communicative competence.  …”
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Archaic introgression contributed to shape the adaptive modulation of angiogenesis and cardiovascular traits in human high-altitude populations from the Himalayas by Giulia Ferraretti, Paolo Abondio, Marta Alberti, Agnese Dezi, Phurba T Sherpa, Paolo Cocco, Massimiliano Tiriticco, Marco Di Marcello, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Luca Natali, Angela Corcelli, Giorgio Marinelli, Davide Peluzzi, Stefania Sarno, Marco Sazzini

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Recollecting the infinite: refining and defending St Augustine's constructivist account of memory and imagination via contemporary cognitive neuroscience by Fatona, B

“…The thesis ends on the summits of human perceptual experience in Augustine’s and Aquinas’ respective schemata of the human mind. …”

Best Practice Program Kewirausahaan Dalam Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (Studi Multi Situs Tk Adni Islamic English School Surabaya Dan Tk Islam Bakti 4 Ypbwi Gresik) by Ahmad Matinul Haq, Anggi Ariska, Siti Afifatul Mukarromah, Dewie Tri Wijayanti, Amrozi Khamidi

“…At the Adni Islamic English School Surabaya Kindergarten, the Entrepreneurship Program is Cooking Class, Shopping at the Market, Market Day, Field Trip, Sharing Activities, Infaq Activities, and Family Day, while the YPBWI Gresik Islamic Bakti 4 Kindergarten carries out a Life Skills Center, Visits to Markets, and Summits. Topic Celebration. Factors that encourage the implementation of entrepreneurship education are student enthusiasm, teacher creativity in preparing programs, and support from related parties. …”
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COP27 CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE: URGENT ACTION NEEDED FOR AFRICA AND THE WORLD by Lukoye Atwoli, Gregory E. Erhabor, Aiah A Gbakima, Abraham Haileamlak, Jean-Marie Kayembe Ntumba, James Kigera, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Joy Muhia, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, David Ofori-Adjei, Friday Okonofua, Arash Rashidian, Maha El-Adawy, Siaka Sidibé, Abdelmadjid Snouber, James Tumwine, Mohammad Sahar Yassien, Paul Yonga, Lilia Zakhama, Chris Zielinski

“…The primary focus of climate summits remains to rapidly reduce emissions so that global temperature rises are kept to below 1.5 °C. …”
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Plant ecology of ant-hills in grassland by King, T

“…However, <em>Leontodon hispidus</em> and <em>Plantago lanceolata</em>, often present inside the margins of medium and large mounds, set abundant seed there and their seedlings sometimes become established on the bare soil on top. By this time, the summits of ant-hills tend to be occupied by <em>Helianthemum chamaecistus</em> and <em>Thymus drucei</em>, which can grow up through the heaped soil.…”

Review on Event Tourism Research: Understanding Social and Conceptual Structures, Identifying Current and Future Trends by mostafa esmaiili, Mahdiye Bod

“…Connell, Page, and Mair (2015) provide the following classification of events: Cultural events: festivals, carnivals, memorials, and religious events; Political events: summits, royal occasions, and political events; Business and trade events: conferences, exhibitions, trade shows, and markets; Educational and scientific events: conferences; Sports events: non-professional, professional, spectators, participants, and recreational; Private events: weddings, parties, gatherings, and celebrations. …”
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