One day, you will discover a new adventure and knowledge by spending more money. But when? Do you think that you need to obtain those all requirements when having much money? Why don't you try to get something simple at first? That's something that will lead you to know more about the world, adventure, some places, history, entertainment, and more? It is your own time to continue reading habit....

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1. 1962 During my first employment as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, I was, after an induction period in Goroka, offered a posting to Okapa for several months. I was accompanied by my wife Theresa and our 18-month-old son. The pilot who flew us there in a Cessna seemed to feel pity for the young family he had to carry to ‘such a remote p...

John Custance. London: Christopher Johnson. Pp. 207. 18/'. It is very difficult to review this unusual book. Mr. Custance (whose earlier book, "Wisdom, Madness and Folly," will be remembered)?is a self-confessed sufferer from manic depressive psychosis, and he has written the different chapters in different phases of his illness. It would be easy therefore to discard the book as being the moons...

Behavioral addictions may have social as well as endocrine components, and may include antisocial activities such as crime and gambling, relatively neutral activities such as videogames and internet use, and positive addictions such as sport and exercise (Lichtenstein et al., 2014). Here I argue that participants in many forms of adventure recreation also experience particularly powerful behavi...

This article discusses new uses of interpretative repertoires of risk, especially those related to adventure. The author argues that the language of risk as adventure has multiple uses, as both a hedge against de-traditionalizing processes typical of late modernity and a figure of speech for new sensitivities stemming from the imperative of coping with the imponderability and volatility of mode...

The objective of the study was to describe the food intake of adventure racers during a competition simulated in the laboratory. Ten male athletes with international experience in adventure races took part in the study. The experiment lasted 67 hr (total distance covered 477.3 km), but 3 athletes did not finish the race. Food intake was recorded throughout the simulation. Athletes' total energy...

Educational games display great potential as an active form of knowledge transfer. This research field is young, but some patterns in educational game development can be recognized. In this paper, the authors present a new approach to educational game development that overcomes some downsides of more traditional systems. The paper provides the opportunity to create an educational adventure game...

It all starts with an elegant construction and surprising discovery made by Karleen Davis and Sam Johnson, students in my "Cat:Dog" ("Circles and Triangles: Diamonds of Geometry") class this semester. Karleen and Sam were just playing around, looking for interesting things to do with a triangle. One thing they tried was this. Starting with a random triangle ABC, they took H, its orthocenter, an...

This paper describes advances in the development of a know ledge-based front-end for the s ta t is t ics package GLIM 3.77, employing logic programming methods and tools, including sigmaPR0L0G and APES. The domain of application computer-based s ta t i s t i ca l analysis requires that a changing knowledge base be handled by the system, GLIMPSE*. The developing system is suitable for users with...