Seismic databases and processing tools currently available are mainly limited to classic three-component seismic recordings and cannot handle collocated multi-component, multidisciplinary datasets easily. Further, these seismological databases depend on event-related data and are not able to manage state of the art continuous waveform data input as well. None of them allows for automated reques...

a r t i c l e i n f o Couples' marital satisfaction can depend on whether they commute to work in the same or different directions. Two surveys, conducted in the United States and Hong Kong, showed that partners' satisfaction with their relationship was greater when they traveled to work in the same direction than when they traveled in different directions. This was true regardless of whether t...

The paper considers the development of high speed rail in Europe in terms of its wider impacts on economic development. It shows how the focus has changed from the more limited objectives of enhancing rail capacity to a recognition of the potential for use as an instrument for enhancing competitiveness and cohesion within the context of the development of the trans-European networks. This howev...