Paper:
Surveys and Analyses on Human Behavior in the New York World Trade Center Disasters in 1993 and 2001
Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Design Management Department, Takenaka Corporation, Shinsuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0056, Japan
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