Appendix E. The Path I Have Followed

Appendix E

The data, based on 26,686 subjects who responded to follow-up interviews, were collected in an epidemiological research program of the US EPA from beaches in three areas: (1) New York City, New York, in 1972, 1973 and 1974, 15,882 respondents; (2) Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1977 and 1978, 6,751 respondents; and (3) Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in 1978, 4,053 respondents. Wa...

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Appendix E : Alternative Approaches

I chose these four approaches because of their ability to capture complex structure succinctly and abstractly. They are all well known, and each has an active and enthusiastic community of users and researchers. Other modeling and analysis approaches can be used effectively for software design in specialized domains: there are many model checkers, for example, that can check protocols and concu...

Appendix - I INFORMATION SHEET

Ability to perceive fast-paced events (a rangeof short intervals) is one of the important cognitive skills inhumans. The underlying mechanism of this ability stillremains elusive. We designed a study to investigate thesubjective perception of short-intervals (10, 20, 60 and120 s) in a cohort of healthy young male and female uni-versity students. The subjects estimated th...