"If we have real-time noise monitoring and a resident sees that a windfarm appears to be exceeding its noise levels, the company will have time to do calculations and show whether the noise came from the turbines or other factors," Macfarlane said.
The frequency of small airways disease described in epidemiologic studies of WTC responders and the slow and relatively mild progression and long survival of the patients, which now appear to be exceeding survival of some with idiopathic interstitial lung disease, suggest that exposures at the WTC site might have caused these findings.
And it appears to be far exceeding expectations: In the past three weeks alone, the Hornsdale Power Reserve has smoothed out at least two major energy outages, responding even more quickly than the coal-fired backups that were supposed to provide emergency power.
In other words, the probability that there really is a door given that there appears to be one cannot exceed the initial probability that appearances are not misleading in this case.
There were fewer than 100,000 stops in 2002, but the police department carried out nearly 700,000 in 2011 and appears to be on track to exceed that number this year.
Iowa's early vote appears to be easily on pace to exceed 2010, and in raw terms will likely set a record for a midterm election.
Despite their relative poverty, deprivation, and constrained access to resources, the impact of the socio-economic gradient on women appears to be dampened, with life expectancy exceeding men's at each level of SES and a narrower span between the health of poorest and richest (4).
The preferential adsorption by some compounds appears to be further exacerbated if the capacity of the fiber is exceeded.
But when the wind shifts back to the west -- especially if its speed exceeds what appears to be a trigger point of 27 knots -- the surge of pent-up water creates a kind of vacuum that drains water from other sources, including Newark Bay and the Passaic River.
