QUANTIFYING INEQUITIES IN US FEDERAL RESPONSE TO HURRICANE DISASTER IN TEXAS AND FLORIDA COMPARED WITH PUERTO RICO

Quantifying inequities in US federal response to hurricane disaster in Texas and Florida compared with Puerto Rico

pothys slogan in english If disaster responses vary in their effectiveness across communities, health equity is affected.This paper aims to evaluate and describe variation in the federal disaster responses to 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, compared with the need and severity of storm damage through a retrospective analysis.Our analysis spa

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EVOLUTION OF THE NOTION OF COSTS

Costs represent a notion of maximum generalization, which designates both elements involving prediction and elements materialized in official accounting documents.In the present paper, we are trying to bring arguments for the public acceptance of the phrases: cost accounting and accounting of accounting costs.By accepting the duality of the two typ

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Correcting fake news headlines after repeated exposure: memory and belief accuracy in younger and older adults

Abstract The efficacy of fake news corrections in improving memory and belief accuracy may depend on how often adults see false information before it is corrected.Two experiments tested the competing predictions that repeating fake news before corrections will either impair or improve memory and belief accuracy.These experiments also examined wheth

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Interpreting Mobile and Handheld Air Sensor Readings in Relation to Air Quality Standards and Health Effect Reference Values: Tackling the Challenges

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies face a number of challenges in interpreting and reconciling short-duration (seconds to minutes) readings from mobile and handheld air sensors with the longer duration averages (hours to days) associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the criteria po

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