Relocating Persia/Iran in the contemporary British tourist imaginary

Introducing Books/ Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecological Criticism and Flora Imaginary: Fatemeh Mahmoudi

An Econometric Study of British Tourist Expenditure in Ireland

THE amount of research devoted to tourism is: not commensurate with its economic importance. The reasons for this scarcity of research are numerous and mostly concern the inherent difficulties of the subject [ i ] . The purpose of this paper is to rectify in part this lack by means of an econometric analysis of the deter­ minants of expenditure by British tourists and recreational tourists In I...

Modelling The Predictable Uncertainty In British And German Tourist Arrivals To The Balearic Islands

International tourism is an important source of service exports to Spain and its regions, particularly the Balearic Islands. Tourism is the major industry in the Balearic Islands, accounting for about 85% of GDP (see Riera, 2003). This paper examines the time series properties of international tourism demand to the Balearic Islands. The data set comprises monthly figures from two leading touris...

Pubertal Pathways in Girls Enrolled in a Contemporary British Cohort

Data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children were used to describe initiation of secondary sexual characteristic development of girls. Tanner stages of breast and pubic hair and menarche status were self-reported via mailed questionnaires, administered from ages 8-14. Initiation pathway was categorized as breast [thelarche] or pubic hair [pubarche] development alone, or synchro...

Sibling configuration and childhood growth in contemporary British families.

BACKGROUND Life history theory and resource dilution models of the family suggest that siblings may present a threat to healthy development because they compete for resources that parents have available to invest in individual offspring. Using data from a large cohort study of contemporary British families (ALSPAC), we test this hypothesis using childhood growth trajectories as a biomarker for ...