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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"upscale"”.
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Consumers' choice factors of an upscale ethnic restaurant
… factors that influence a decision to dine at an upscale ethnic restaurant, their relative importance, as well as their relationships with dining occasion and consumer characteristics. Focus group discussions and the literature review helped identify a set of restaurant choice factors. A mail …
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Consumer satisfaction and dissatisfaction of upscale restaurant dining: a two dimensional approach
… of the satisfaction disconfirmation model in an upscale restaurant was conducted. The emphasis was on the impact of perceived product/service and leisure disconfirmations on CS/D with upscale restaurant dining. Initially, thirteen product/service attributes were identified through in-depth …
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How does terrain influence the upscale convective growth of orographic deep moist convection?
… with locations in the United States. A canonical upscale convective growth case was simulated with the Weather Research and Forecasting model to understand the role of topography in this transition process. This case featured an orographic supercell that transitioned into a bowing mesoscale …
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Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution.
… of not only the poor but also that of the upscale electorate. CCTs are a functional response to the demands for redistribution among the poor (the bottom one-third of the income distribution) and the demand for a low level of redistribution and improvements in the productivity of the …
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Investigating the Process of Valuing Investments in Intangibles: A Case Study in Safety and Security in the Multinational Hotel Industry
… firms. A research need is more urgent in the upscale sector of the industry, and thus, an upscale brand of multinational hotel firm was selected for this study. This case study investigated how a multinational hotel firm developed a process of valuing its investments in safety and security for …
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The effect of vertical extensions on the evaluation of the brand extension and the original brand name
… (prestige-oriented downscale, function-oriented upscale and function-oriented downscale) were examined. The findings indicate that introducing the step-down Rolex, Lexus and Toyota, and an upscale Toyota and Timex lower brand name evaluations. The downscale extensions for Rolex and Timex and …
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Constructing global Amman: petrodollars, identity, and the built environment in the early twenty-first century
… of capital. Capital flows produced several upscale mixed-use megaprojects, large-scale developments including high-end office, residential, shopping, and entertainment spaces, as modern, spectacular, upscale commodified spaces for display and consumption. Amman’s megaprojects showed …
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Estimating the impact of Airbnb on hotels in Toronto
… impact on the number of luxury, upper upscale, and economy class hotel room nights sold whereas upscale and upper midscale class hotels are positively impacted. We end our study with sensitivity analyses on the forecasts by altering one of the key assumptions at a time and estimating …
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Upscaling Lithology and Porosity Types from Microscopic to Core Domain with Thin Section Petrography, Dual Energy CT, and Rock Types: Creation of Diagenesis and Porosity Type Logs
… was to develop and validate a new approach to upscale lithology, diagenesis, and porosity from thin sections to cores using dual energy and multi-scale CT. A new rock typing approach (Genetic Rock Typing) is proposed to upscale diagenetic minerals and pore types, from thin sections to the core …
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El Niño Southern Oscillation teleconnections and their effects on the Amundsen Sea region
… the teleconnection is no longer linear. The UPSCALE dataset was used to investigate the effects of horizontal resolution on the simulation of the ASL climatological state and the ENSO--ASR teleconnection. The UPSCALE dataset consists of ensembles of HadGEM3 simulations at three different …
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Worth the Wait and Hype? Gentrification, Anxiety, and the Hipster Geographies of Boutique Ice Cream
… century, gentrification continues to upscale city fabrics, including their retail landscapes, beyond recognition. The ongoing expansion of boutique shops and aestheticized commerce displacing longtime stores and ordinary services increasingly signals new geographies of hipster …
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The impact of tropical sea surface temperature perturbations on atmospheric circulation over north Canada and Greenland
… means of two available climate datasets, UPSCALE and AMIP, indicating that this is a robust climate pattern, however, these trends appear to be stronger in the latter part of the record specifically over the UPSCALE period (1985 to 2011). The model sensitivity studies show that a negative …
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The LGBT Community and Public Space: A Mixed Methods Approach
… as dangerous; race as a separating factor; and upscale areas as uncomfortable. This research informs public space and queer theory literatures, while also developing hand mapping techniques.</p>
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Microporomechanical modeling of shale
… governed by invariant properties, and to upscale these behaviors from the nanoscale to the macroscale of engineering applications. The elementary building block for elasticity is an anisotropic solid characterizing the in situ stiffness of highly consolidated clay.
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Shopping Orientations, Retail Attributes and Retail Format Choice Among Generation Y Apparel Shoppers
… choice within eleven distinct retail formats (upscale department stores, traditional department stores, value department stores, specialty stores, specialty fast fashion stores, discounters, off-price stores, factory outlets, Internet only retailers, mail order catalogs, and television …
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Material invariant properties of shales : nanoindentation and microporoelastic analysis
… not change from one material to another, and to upscale the intrinsic material behavior from the submicroscale to the macroscale of engineering application. This thesis identifies material invariant properties of shales by investigating the elastic properties of shales at multiple scales. We …
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From nanohardness to strength properties of cohesive-frictional materials : application to shale materials
… not change from one material to another, and to upscale the intrinsic material behavior from the sub-microscale to the macroscale. While well established for elastic properties, the extraction of strength properties of cohesive-frictional materials from nanoindentation tests has not been …
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Untersuchungen zur Freisetzung und Einbindung von Alkalimetallen bei der reduzierenden Druckwirbelschichtverbrennung
… Finally, thermodynamic calculations were done to upscale the results of the laboratory experiments to conditions prevailing in 2nd Gen. PFBC systems. The investigations revealed the possibility of reducing the overall alkali concentration in the hot gas under 2nd Gen. PFBC conditions to values < …
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Role of multiscale atmospheric conditions in the evolution of convective organization during MJO-1 of DYNAMO/CINDY/AMIE
… These convective elements displayed greater upscale organization as the surrounding environment gradually became more strongly sheared with greater instability, associated with persistent lower-level dry-air advection from the westerly wind burst. These bursts of convection, especially in the …
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The Effect Of Internet Booking On The Central Florida Lodging Market O
… product service categories of budget, moderate, upscale and luxury to analyze if there were any observable trends between the categories over the past five years. The author also segmented the respondents into the lodging geographic sub-categories of airport, downtown, suburban and …
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