This study investigates the short-run impact of COVID-19 pandemic on number domestic overnight stays at regional level in summer season 2020. Official data for 65 regions four countries are used analysis (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland). Dynamic panel models employed to estimate a tourism demand equation (real GDP price fluctuations) augmented by average temperatures. Estimati...

Abstract Motivated by international business research on institutional arbitrage and headquarters–subsidiary relationships, we examine the effect of regulatory distance multinational banks’ (MNBs) reporting transparency abroad. Using an sample foreign subsidiary banks in 46 host countries from 47 home countries, find that bank declines when have tighter activity restrictions than countries. We ...

This essay considers naturalist and neonaturalist deployments of smell as a means of mapping uneven and potentially toxic atmospheres in the contexts of Progressive Era urbanization and twentieth-century environmental “slow violence.” After showing how the description of noxious “smellscapes” structures Norris’s Vandover and the Brute (1914), I move on to consider the use of smell in key scenes...

We address the potential for continuous “continuum” robot elements to transform the nature of robotic traversal of uneven terrain. Continuum robots are “dual” to traditional robot structures, with their inherent capabilities featuring strengths in areas that are key weaknesses for conventional robots. These capabilities match well to current challenges in robot mobility, particularly in unstruc...

Introduction A number of developmental disorders have been observed to display uneven cognitive profiles in their developmental endstates, with areas of relative strength and relative weakness. For example, relative weakness has been observed in various aspects of language in Specific Language Impairment and in developmental dyslexia, compared with relative strength in non-verbal abilities. Dis...