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Weather Variability and the Tourism Industry: A Panel Data Analysis
Increasing weather variability around the world has led to many researchers examining the impacts of weather variability on vulnerable industries. For example, the tourism industry can make up a large portion of an economy’s growth, with some of the most dependent countries relying on tourism for over 40% of GDP (World Travel & Tourism Council 2014). In an attempt to better understand the relationship between weather variability and the tourism industry at the country level, this study employs a series of fixed effects panel regression models to analyze the impact of rainfall and temperature on tourism levels and growth rates among 194 countries. Variations of the model allow for the exploration of the differential impacts sustained by island and non-island countries to help determine whether island countries are more vulnerable to weather variations due to the large contribution of tourism to their economies (Uyarra et al. 2005). Results suggest that using a yearly average measure of the temperature and rainfall data does not yield useful results, while using seasonal temperature and seasonal rainfall averages appears to explain the different impacts across island and non-island countries with more consistency
Production of vector mesons and measurement of the hadronic component of photon light-cone wave function at HERA
A detailed study of vector meson production ( and ) in collisions at HERA with the ZEUS and H1 detector has been performed. The
cross sections are measured as a function of , and . In this
contribution, the results are summarised, compared to theoretical calculations
and the dynamical picture emerging in perturbative QCD is highlighted. The
measurement of the hadronic component of the photon light-cone wave function in
the exclusive production of di-pions, is also reported.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to be published in the Proceedings of
to 32nd International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 04), Beijing,
China, 16-22 Aug 200
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