Tourism Demand: Emerging Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Demand Analysis

Polarization and Conflict: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Authors ́ note: This paper is part of the Polarization and Conflict Project CIT-2-CT-2004506084 funded by the European Commission-DG Research Sixth Framework Programme. Most of the articles that are included here have been presented at a meeting of the PAC research group at the University of Konstanz in June 2005. We would like to thank Nils Petter Gleditsch, Frank Wayman and the contributors to...

Sleep debt : Theoretical and empirical issues *

The term ‘sleep debt’ is widely used to describe the effects of sleep loss. The construct of sleep debt, however, is poorly defined in the scientific literature. Cumulative build-up of sleep pressure appears to be a key feature of sleep debt. The concepts of ‘core sleep’ and ‘basal sleep need’ have been proposed to provide a theoretical framework, albeit without strong empirical basis. It has b...

Forecasting International Tourism Demand- an Empirical Case in Taiwan

Tourism, one of the biggest industries in many countries, has been considered a complexly integrated and self-contained economic activity.As key determinants of thetourism demand are not fully identified to some extent different forecasting models vary in thelevel of accuracy. By comparing the performance of diverse forecasting models,including the linear regression, autoregressive integrated m...

[Attachment theory and eating disorders--theoretical and empirical issues].

The paper presents the attachment theory in relation to eating disorders. In the first part, the classic concepts of anorexia and bulimia nervosa are discussed taking into account assumptions of Bowlby's and his followers' model. In the second part, empirical data on anorexia and bulimia nervosa and attachment patterns are presented. The importance of methodological issues is stressed regarding...