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In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the 'tourist', the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism. Bringing together the collective wisdom of 37 renowned tourism scholars in a unique format, this is an importa

A research protocol for our prospective study of research funding. How much research funding improves research productivity is a question that has relevance for all funding agencies and governments around the world. Previous studies have used observational data that compares productivity between winners of different amounts of funding, but researchers who win lots of funding are usually very different from those who win little or no funding. This difference creates potentially serious confounding which biases any estimate of the effect of funding based on observational data that simply compares research output for those who did and did not win funding. This means we do not currently know the return on investment for our research dollars, of which billions are invested around the world every year. By using a study design that incorporates randomisation this will be the world's first unbiased study of the impact of researcher funding.

Raku has been one of the favourite firing techniques since it allows low-firing and offers a wide range of colour options on glaze. Ceramicists' researches in an effort to create different and alluring surfaces on a ceramic body have led to the enrichment of this technique with some variations. As a result of this quest, ceramic artists began experimenting with decorative effects on a ceramic body without using glaze in 1980s. Raku firing technique without using glaze, called Naked Raku in foreign sources, has twobasictypes, one-step nakedrakuandtwo-step nakedraku. Inone step nakedrakutechnique a thick slip is appliedtobisquefiredceramicpiecesand it is firedwhile it is wetandthenreduced. In two step nake drakuthin/ thick slip is applied and covered withlow- fire glazeandreduced. The aim of this study is to examine the development process of naked raku and giving examples from artist's own experiences. The study includes today's raku production process, the characteristics of clay, slip and glaze used in this process, and the firing technique.

Social scientists are well aware of the unintended consequences of public policies. The
protection of human subjects regulations, which emerged in response to a serious problem in
the medical community, provides an ideal example of such unintended consequences; to
paraphrase an old aphorism, "the road to bureaucratic hell is paved with well-intentioned
public policies." In this essay I will seek to make three points. First, the protection of
human subjects by federal regulation was long overdue. Second, this benefit to society has,
in its application, ignored another widely accepted regulatory principle, namely that the
costs of regulation should not outweigh its benefits; a combination of "bureaucratic creep"
and litigation phobia has resulted in intrusive and counterproductive regulation of social
science research, such that the cure has become worse than the disease. Third, ironically,
because of institutional review boards' definition of what is and what is not research, the
protection of human subjects is denied to subjects who actually could be at risk.