EMPOWERING HISPANIC MULTIUNIT HOUSING RESIDENTS TO ADVOCATE FOR SMOKEFREE POLICIES: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF A CULTURALLY TAILORED FOTONOVELA INTERVENTION

Empowering Hispanic Multiunit Housing Residents to Advocate for Smokefree Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Culturally Tailored Fotonovela Intervention

Purpose: Hispanic residents of multiunit housing (MUH) are disproportionately exposed to secondhand (SHS) and thirdhand tobacco smoke (THS) from neighboring apartment units and common areas.Comprehensive legislation and voluntary policies are needed to protect residents from smoke.We developed a culturally tailored bilingual fotonovela to educate H

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A Statistical-Based Model for Typhoon Rain Hazard Assessment

Extreme typhoon rainfall can lead to damaging floods near the coastal region in Magnetic Pump mainland China.In the present study, we calibrate the parameters for a parametric hurricane rain model by using the precipitation radar (PR) data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) (i.e., PR-TRMM) and the TRMM microwave imager (TMI) data (

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