Cognitive Correlates of Improvised Behaviour in Disaster Response: the Cases of the Murrah Building and the World Trade Center
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*Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA. E-mail: [email protected] **Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, 204N Chilton Hall, 410 Avenue C, Denton, TX 76201, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ***Department of Sociology, University of California – Irvine, SSPA 2145, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ****Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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