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When and why do landlords retain property investments?

This paper examines factors influencing Australian landlords’ decisions to retain their rental investments. It is found that middle-aged investors are more attached to rental investments than younger ones. However, once retired, there is a sharp
2013

High rates of erosion and rapid weathering in a Plio-Pleistocene mudstone badland, Taiwan

The badlands of southwest Taiwan are characterized by sharp ridges, and are located in a tropical monsoon area that experiences contrasting rainy and dry seasons. Surface erosion predominates and subsurface erosion by piping is rather limited
2013

Geochemistry of Quaternary sediments in terraces of the Tinto River (SW Spain) : paleoenvironmental implications

to sediments of the current flood plain. There aren't geochemical tendencies in deposits from middle Pleistocene to Holocene. The current sediments show a sharp increase in the levels of As, Cu, Pb and Zn. The amounts of toxic elements released by natural
2013

Morphometric evidences of neotectonic block movement in Yamuna Tear Zone of Outer Himalaya, India

, indicates that the tectonic blocks covering the area have moved, tilted and skewed sinistrally forcing the SE flowing Giri, Bata and Sukh Rao streams to take sharp southward trend along the segments of Yamuna Tear. The NE-SW trending syngenetic transverse
2013

Flow separation at the inner (convex) and outer (concave) banks of constant-width and widening open-channel bends

gravel bed and mobile sand bed with dominant bedload sediment transport. In conclusion, the experiments elucidated three distinct processes of flow separation common in sharp bends : flow separation at the inner bank, an outer-bank cell of secondary flow
2013