BACKGROUND There is little current information about the unmet mental health care need (UMHCN) and reasons for it among those exposed to the World Trade Center (WTC) terrorist attacks. The purpose of this study was to assess the level of UMHCN among symptomatic individuals enrolled in the WTC Health Registry (WTCHR) in 2011-2012, and to analyze the relationship between UMHCN due to attitudinal,...

Hayo Reinders, Unitec Institute of Technology Sorada Wattana, Dhurakij Pundit University This paper reports on a study into the effects of digital game play on learners’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC), or individuals’ “readiness to enter into discourse at a particular time with a specific person or persons, using a L2” (MacIntyre, Dörnyei, Clément, & Noels, 1998, p. 547). Thirty Thai learners...

BACKGROUND Post-traumatic symptomatology is one of the signature effects of the pernicious exposures endured by responders to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster of 11 September 2001 (9/11), but the long-term extent of diagnosed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its impact on quality of life are unknown. This ...

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have changed the world as we knew it. Although there is clearly an immediate need for reconstruction of Lower Manhattan, it is too early to predict what all of the implications on the construction industry nationwide will be. Yet, the very real terrorist threats we have to learn to live with will have repercussions on the types of...

INTRODUCTION The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries. Research on previous bombings and explosions has shown that head injuries, including traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), are among the most common injuries. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify diagnosed and undiagnosed (undetected) TBIs among person...

The purposes of this research were two-fold: first, to see whether or not lecturers’ immediacy behaviors linearly related their students’ Willingness Communicate (WTC); second, determine which behavior (Verbal Nonverbal) predominantly impacted on WTC. To achieve the purposes, two types questionnaires utilized, 1) WTC and 2) immediacy. Later, participants asked choose 1–5 scales question item. T...

Recently, Willingness to Communicate (WTC) has been explored and proposed be one of the key concepts for identifying when decides initiate communication in target language. The attention, nonetheless, concentrated on how WTC interacts with other learners’ variables. This study, hand, intends offer empirical evidence direct roles affective variables (self-confidence, anxiety, motivation, grit) (...

Wind Turbine Clutter (WTC) mitigation is a challenging issue that worldwide weather services are facing at the moment. The use of wind farms to generate electricity is growing increasingly due to the importance of being a renewable energy source. Wind farm installations relatively near to weather radars may block the normal propagation of the radar signals and cause reflectivity clutter returns...

Originally designed for applications over the ocean, satellite altimetry has been proven to be a useful tool for hydrologic studies. Altimeter products, mainly conceived for oceanographic studies, often fail to provide atmospheric corrections suitable for inland water studies. The focus of this paper is the analysis of the main issues related with the atmospheric corrections that need to be app...