Camping is an outdoor accommodation and type of recreation that susceptible to weather climate change. Camping—in addition the relationships camping shares with weather— remains understudied despite subsectors’ salient economic impact high participation rate. The observable effects non-meteorological/climatological (e.g., pandemic) also a topic has received limited attention. Accordingly, we in...

This paper is the second in a sequence of two papers that report on descriptive and prescriptive research undertaken at Isle Royale National Park to support development of a new wilderness management plan at the Park. The first paper reports on the initial phase of study aimed at developing descriptive information on backcountry camping at Isle Royale using computer simulation modeling. The pre...

We report the case of a patient with a left ventricular thrombus infected by Salmonella. The diagnosis was suspected from a gallium scan demonstrating an intense activity in the lower left parasternal area. A transesophageal echocardiogram con®rmed a calci®ed left ventricular aneurysm with a mural thrombus containing pus and heterogeneous material. The patient underwent a successful left ventri...

Silver crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) is a unique triploid bisexual species that can reproduce by gynogenesis. As all other gynogenetic animals, it keeps its chromosome integrity by inhibiting the ®rst meiosis division (no extrusion of the ®rst pole body). To understand the molecular events governing this reproduction mode, suppression subtractive hybridization was used to identify th...

in spain, camping accommodation accounted for 6.32% of total tourism accommodation and 8.2% of overnight stays in 2007. there were 1,152 registered campsites which provided lodging for almost 6.4 million users. although these figures are higher than those of rural accommodation, few studies have analyzed the main attributes of this sector and their contribution to the development of spanish tou...

The microbiological quality of forest surface waters in the Greenwater River watershed was examined to investigate the influence of heavy motorized camping in an area with no sanitary facilities. Indicator densities increased during weekend human-use periods when compared to weekdays. Increases in indicator densities were also noted downstream from heavily used camping areas when compared to up...