Analyses daily schedules of work-time patterns of individuals in Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden and examines how work patterns are organized in the four countries.

Based on the Philippines Labour Flexibility Survey carried out in late 1990, covers 1,311 industrial establishments during the period from 1988 to 1990. Examines the forms and levels of external labour flexibility practices in the country.

Based on data from three surveys conducted in Ukraine: the Labour Force Survey-based Modular Decent Work Survey, the Enterprise Labour Flexibility and Security Survey and the People's Security Survey. Analyses the concept of decent work along with other other related concepts, socio-economic...

Sequential sampling problems arise in stochastic simulation and many other applications. Sampling is used to infer the unknown performance of several alternatives before one alternative is selected as best. This paper presents new economically motivated fully sequential sampling procedures to...

In recent decades, the mixing of complementary land uses has become an increasingly important goal in transportation and land use planning. Land uses mix has been shown to be an influential factor in travel behavior (mode choice and distance traveled), improved health outcomes, and...

In this work, we consider historical earthquakes registered in Chile (from 1900 up to 2010) with epicenters located between 19 and 40°S latitude, in order to evaluate the probabilities of the occurrence of strong earthquakes along Chile in the near future. Applying Gumbel’s technique of first...

On October 23, 2004, a series of powerful earthquakes with a maximum M <Subscript>w</Subscript> = 6.6 located near the western coast of northern Honshu struck parts of northern Japan, particularly Niigata Prefecture; these earthquakes were known as the Chuetsu event. Thousands of landslides, as a secondary...</subscript>

The April 14, 2010 Yushu, China, earthquake (Mw 6.9) triggered a great number of landslides. At least 2,036 co-seismic landslides, with a total coverage area of 1.194 km<Superscript>2</Superscript>, were delineated by visual interpretation of aerial photographs and satellite images taken following the earthquake, and...</superscript>

Rockfall susceptibility has been analysed in mountain cliffs of the Cantabrian Range, North Spain. The main aim of this analysis has been to build a predictive model of rockfall activity from a low number of environmental and geological variables. The rockfall activity has been quantified in a...

The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that cross-correlation analyses can contribute to the artificial recharge study in regional level of shallow aquifer. Correlations between hydrologic time series data were analyzed to identify the hydrogeologic location for potential artificial recharge...