On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy (Sandy) made landfall in densely populated areas of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Flooding affected 51 square miles (132 square kilometers) of New York City (NYC) and resulted in 43 deaths, many caused by drowning in the home, along with numerous storm-related injuries. Thousands of those affected were survivors of the World Trade Center (WTC) disas...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), of which benzo[a]pyrene is a representative member, are combustion-related environmental pollutants and include known carcinogens. Laboratory animal studies indicate that the dose of PAHs to the fetus is on the order of a 10th that to the mother and that there is heightened susceptibility to PAH-induced carcinogenesis during the fetal and infancy periods....

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), of which benzo[a]pyrene is a representative member, are combustion-related environmental pollutants and include known carcinogens. Laboratory animal studies indicate that the dose of PAHs to the fetus is on the order of a 10th that to the mother and that there is heightened susceptibility to PAH-induced carcinogenesis during the fetal and infancy periods....

This paper addresses the problem of recognizing a human body posture from a cloud of 3D points acquired by a Human body scanner. Motivated by finding a representation that embodies a high discrimination power between posture classes, a new type of features is suggested, namely, the wavelet transform coefficients (WTC) of the 3D data points distribution projected on the space of the spherical ha...

During December 2001 we conducted a field study of 183 clean-up and recovery workers at the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site to assess respiratory health effects potentially resulting from their work at the site. On site, we administered a respiratory health questionnaire designed to assess upper respiratory symptoms and lower respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and wheeze, as ...

The 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on New York City's World Trade Center (WTC) caused an unprecedented environmental emergency. The collapse of the towers sent a tremendous cloud of crushed building materials and other pollutants into the air of lower Manhattan. In response to the calamity, federal, state, and city environmental authorities and research institutes devoted enormous resources...

We consider the problem of private information retrieval through wiretap channel II (PIR-WTC-II). In PIR-WTC-II, a user wants to retrieve a single message (file) privately out of M messages, which are stored in N replicated and non-communicating databases. An external eavesdropper observes a fraction μn (of its choice) of the traffic exchanged between the nth database and the user. In addition ...

BACKGROUND Although airborne respiratory irritants at the World Trade Center (WTC) site have been associated with asthma among WTC Ground Zero workers, little is known about asthma associated with work at the Staten Island landfill or barges. METHODS To evaluate the risk of asthma first diagnosed among Staten Island landfill and barge workers, we conducted a survey and multivariable logistic ...

Individual differences in language learning have been under close scrutiny for several decades. However, there is still place to be filled with new research understand how and what extent these relate to/effect process. Both foreign classroom anxiety (FLCA) second willingness communicate (L2 WTC) key individual paradigm educational psychology applied linguistics. To this end, the current study ...

Motivating learners to engage in effective communication is one of the fundamental concerns language education. Accordingly, an educational context where L2 display a willingness communicate (WTC) requirement for successful learning. A further concept that should be studied regarding WTC students' self-efficacy from socio-cognitive theory. Moreover, boost quality learning, English as Foreign La...