The future of the timeshare industry : will the brands dominate? : A summary of the vacation ownership industry and an analysis of the advantages that the brands have over smaller... by Bornstein, Ethan S., 1973-

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A study on the declining average length of stay in Singapore. by Sunita d/o Tetbaahadur, Teo Yan Ping Esther, Koh Cecelia

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China & the Middle East: Tilting Towards Iran? by James, Michael Dorsey

“…President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Middle East, the first by a Chinese leader in seven years, saw the signing of billiions of dollars worth of agreements with Saudi Arabia and Egypt and a ten-fold expansion of trade with Iran over the next ten years. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In the last five years, Latin America has re-emerged on the world stage of global upstream opportunities. …”

new urban giants : the ultimate skyscrapers / by Spirito, Gianpaola, author 496164, Terranova, Antonino, 1942-, author editor 656235

“…Dubai is the current record holder, but is likely to lose the title in the near future. In teh meantime, the world's metropolises accumulate impressive arrays of tall buildings, while the old western cities are dotted with new smaller but bizarre towers. …”

Fluid-fluid displacement in porous-media microfluidics by Qiu, Yu

“…This fluid-solid interaction—exacerbated by the roughness inherent to all natural and engineered surfaces—introduces a large energy dissipation near the solid boundary that challenges our ability to interpret laboratory experiments and develop mathematical models. …”
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Load‑bearing behaviors of sandwich plates with non‑uniformly distributed grid cores : Static compression and bending by Hao, Ning, Wang, Youlong, Song, Yiheng, Ruan, Sihan, Quanjin, Ma, Wang, Ziying

“…Under bending loading, most NUGPs experience local failure at the loading head, while the specific category surpassing GPs undergoes shear buckling in longer grid walls. (3) Deformation modes of the core layer, mechanical analysis, thin plate buckling theory, and equivalent bending stiffness calculations elucidate the load-bearing mechanisms of NUGPs. …”
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An innovative stiffened I-shaped damper to improve the behavior of the concentrically braced frames by Hasan Nayel, Israa, Khaleel Nayel, Waleed, Ghamari, Ali, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah

“…Accordingly, an I-shaped shear damper (stiffened diagonally by stiffeners) directly attached to the diagonal member of the CBF is proposed and studied parametrically and numerically. …”
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Performance of asphalt mixtures modified with nano-eggshell powder by Zghair Chfat, Alattafi Hadi, Haryati, Yaacob, Nurul Hidayah, Mohd Kamaruddin, Al-Saffar, Zaid Hazim, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah

“…To achieve this, asphalt mixtures containing 0% (control), 5%, and 9% NESP were developed, and their mechanical properties were investigated through various tests such as moisture damage, Marshall immersion stability, resilient modulus, dynamic creep, double-punch shear, water immersion, and wheel tracking. The results showed that NESP reduced the moisture susceptibility of the mixtures by increasing their tensile strength ratio. …”
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The rheology of saltwater taffy by Chan, San To, Haward, Simon J., Fried, Eliot, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…We use a small amplitude oscillatory shear test to probe the linear viscoelastic properties of commercial taffy. …”
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Polymeric composites for powder-based additive manufacturing : materials and applications by Yuan, Shangqin, Shen, Fei, Chua, Chee Kai, Zhou, Kun

“…Discussion is then made on the processes for manufacturing such polymeric composites into powder form, which include shear pulverization, solution-based methods and melt compounding methods, with a focus on their advantages, limitations and challenges in terms of their productivity and processibility as well as powder printability. …”
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Mechanical properties of the superficial biofilm layer determine the architecture of biofilms by Kundukad, Binu, Seviour, Thomas, Liang, Yang, Rice, Scott A., Kjelleberg, Staffan, Doyle, Patrick S.

“…The Young's modulus of the periphery of the biofilm colony was however independent of the hydrodynamic shear. The morphology of the microcolonies also influenced interfacial or peripheral stiffness. …”
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Mechanical disorder of sticky-sphere glasses. II. Thermomechanical inannealability by González-López, Karina, Shivam, Mahajan, Zheng, Yuanjian, Ciamarra, Massimo Pica, Lerner, Edan

“…We find that in stickier glasses the stiffening of the shear modulus with thermal annealing is strongly suppressed, while the thermal-annealing-induced softening of the bulk modulus is enhanced. …”
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Plastic Instability in Co-Cr-Ni-Mo alloy wires drawn with different drawing practices by GVK, Sai Srikanth, Tan, Ming Jen, Liu, Zhenyun

“…Plastic strain localization because of shear band formation was noticed in the FDD 95% CW wires, which contributed to lowered ductility and increased instability in the wire due to reduced γ and m. …”
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Dumbbell-shaped block copolymers for the fabrication of anisotropic soft actuators by Pan, Houwen Matthew, Chan, Jonathan Kai Bin, Sarkar, Jit, Goto, Atsushi

“…Anisotropic swelling was programmed in single-layer actuators through shear-induced alignment (x-y axis) and phase separation (z-axis) of dumbbell-shaped BCPs without any additional patterning steps. …”
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Debonding of bonded composite joints with TEP modified epoxy adhesives by Caglar, Hasan, Sridhar, Idapalapati, Sharma, Mohit, Chian, Kerm Sin

“…This work highlights the impact of thermally expanded particles (TEPs) on bulk adhesive properties and the lap shear strength of adhesively bonded GFRP joints. …”
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Numerical simulation of titanium fibre metallic laminates under various impact loading by Selvadurai Shanmugasundram

“…In low impact velocity impact, the front and back panels failed in a petaling shape mode but when the impact velocity is increased to the ballistic level of 400m/s shear plugging was observed. The experimental setup is replicated in the FE model and analyzed for the same velocity and energy levels for both low and high velocity impacts models. …”
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Nanoscale vibration characterization of multi-layered graphene sheets embedded in an elastic medium by Lin, R. M.

“…Effects of Winkler modulus KW, the shear layer modulus Gb, different boundary conditions, aspect ratio β and the number L of graphene layers on nanoscale vibration properties have been examined in detail. …”
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Binder and micro-filler characterization and properties of palm oil fuel ash polymer concrete by Abd. Khalid, Nur Hafizah

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Unravelling giant molecular clouds by Liang, F

“…I discuss the dynamical state of the gas structures and identify galactic shear and magnetic fields as potential physical drivers of their morphologies.…”