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Showing 1 to 20 of 280 for “"Adventure"”.
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Testing the Adventure Model for outdoor adventure recreation participation
… this study was to test a revised version of the Adventure Model (Ewert & Hollenhorst, 1989). This research attempted to explain the preferences and behaviors of adventure recreation participants. Due to the methodological shortcomings with the testing of their model, several modifications and …
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Perceived risk in adventure tourism
… try to minimise in their lives, the concept of adventure tourism presents an interesting set of circumstances in that tourists actually seek, or at the very least accept, the risk of sustaining physical injury during the adventure tourism experience. This makes adventure tourism unique when …
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Ta Da! - The Text Adventure Design Assistant a Visual Tool for the Development of Adventure Games
… survey past and present tools available to text adventure game authors, and then describe a new product: the Text Adventure Design Assistant (TA DA!), a visual programming system for creating text adventure games. My system consists of two parts: an abstract framework which defines an …
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After the wall : a Berlin adventure
This creative writing thesis is a mystery novella set in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a "genre work," it relies heavily on setting and attempts to capture the Zeitgeist . The heroine, Rachel Hoffman, is a journalist who branches out into freelance detective work. In the grand …
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Hospitality in Adventure Tourism:: Being, dwelling, guiding
… together two broad areas of academic inquiry – adventure tourism and hospitality studies. Building on existentialist propositions of dwelling as a way of being in the world, more-than-human sociology and a poststructuralist philosophy of fluidity and flux, it aims to advance outdoor adventure …
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Turnover of outdoor adventure education field staff
<p>Outdoor adventure education (OAE) organizations continually struggle with field staff turnover. Little research exists of this unique worker population and their unconventional living and working conditions warrant further exploration of the variables that best drive this phenomenon. The purpose …
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Carboxylate metallogels - an adventure in supramolecular chemistry
The field of supramolecular gels has attracted a great deal of attention as these versatile materials have been shown to be highly tunable and responsive to stimuli making them attractive for a multitude of potential applications such as drug delivery, energy and gas storage, and waste water …
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An exploration of adventure tourism participation and consumption
Growing demand for and supply of adventure tourism activities, particularly packaged adventure holidays, means there is a need to understand adventure tourists. At the start of my research journey, the embryonic nature of adventure tourism research and the limited extant literature about adventure …
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Boys' masculinities in three adventure physical education classes
… the cause (Wechsler et al., 2004). Understanding adventure physical education might help to create physical education programs that captivate students so much so that they look forward to participating rather than enacting task avoidance strategies. In fact, physical education might empower …
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Analysis of an adventure-based marriage enrichment program
The effectiveness of an adventure-based marriage enrichment program in increasing marital intimacy was studied. Thirty seven married couples from a relatively conservative Protestant religion composed the sample. The sample was composed of volunteer participants ranging in age from 21-47. The …
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Indigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazonia
… early twentieth century trend of ethnographic adventure filmmaking. A subgenre of the ethnographic film, these works blended ethnographic observations with scripted and staged adventure stories, advancing popular tropes of indigenous first contact and the superiority of Western civilization. …
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Backcountry adventure as spiritual experience: a means-end study
… is meant when someone describes a backcountry adventure as spiritual. The second purpose of this study was to better understand the relationships between the attributes, consequences, and values (ACV) of the spiritual aspects of a backcountry adventure. Interviews were conducted with 63 …
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The utilization of adventure-based programs in Christian education
Participants in a Christian adventure program (Liberty Expeditions) were tested to investigate the effectiveness of this type of program in causing spiritual change. Specific areas of spirituality measured in this study were identified in six study hypotheses. These areas were: sense of self-worth …
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The consumer's perception of the accreditation of adventure tour operators
… consumers' perception of the accreditation of adventure tour operators. The key findings of this study highlight the importance of accreditation to consumers particularly in relation to staff competence, safety practices and environmental protection. Consumers of adventure tourism products, who …
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A quality of life framework for an adventure-based sport
… that throughout human history, the spirit of adventure and the need for survival, to explore the unknown and to push the limits of our being have propelled us forward constantly. If it were not for those adventure seekers who came before us, we would not have achieved the marvels of today. …
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Engaging Community and Developing Leadership Through Adventure and Experiential Learning
… a teaching approach based on the elements of adventure and the experiential cycle of learning to help seventh grade students develop leadership skills. Team building activities and a community adventure brought the seventh and fifth graders together. The leadership role of the seventh graders …
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Engaging Community and Developing Leadership Through Adventure and Experiential Learning
… a teaching approach based on the elements of adventure and the experiential cycle of learning to help seventh grade students develop leadership skills. Team building activities and a community adventure brought the seventh and fifth graders together. The leadership role of the seventh graders …
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Choosing your own adventure : hyperlinks and their effects on memory
For this experiment, 39 students from a large Midwestern university were exposed to a total of ten articles, two main articles about 150 words in length, called parent page articles, and eight linked articles. Each of the articles contained four embedded links each. Two of the linked articles …
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