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Acoustic comfort at Kyiv metro stations

INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, 2023
Kyiv Metro was opened in 1960 and became the first metro system in Ukraine. From then until the beginning of the 21st century it was developing without considering the acoustic comfort of its passengers and employees. Increased levels of noise and vibration in public transport are mostly ignored, although they are certainly recognized as the reasons ...
I MELNYK, E FRIDLIB, A MAKSYMENKO, H KLIUSHNICHENKO   +3 more
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Achieving acoustic comfort in the library: a sound masking initiative

Library Hi Tech News, 2023
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the sources of noise generation in a library and suggest the implementation of a sound masking system to provide acoustic comfort, maintain speech privacy and create an environment more engaging for the ...
Debabrata Manna, Tanmay De Sarkar
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Oceanaut’s personal acoustic comfort prediction model and sound environment improvement method in the cabin of a Deep-Sea manned submersible

Ergonomics, 2022
In this study, a personal acoustic comfort prediction model (PACPM) for exploring the acoustic comfort of oceanauts in a deep-sea manned submersible cabin was proposed, and an oceanauts’ task performance model (OTPM) was constructed in this study.
Mengya Zhu, Dengkai Chen, Jingluan Wang, Xian Zhang, Ning Xie   +4 more
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Digitization of fabric comfort: a multidimensional evaluation strategy to human perceptions of sensorial, thermal and acoustic comfort in clothing

International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, 2022
PurposeCurrent measurement methods for fabric comfort attributes generally suffer from either complicated testing processes and intricate measuring equipment or partial evaluation objectives and thus are difficult for effectively evaluating ...
Xiaorui Hu, Zihan Chen, Fengxin Sun
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Acoustic comfort in living environment

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015
As population of aging people growing fast, the need of long-term care facility is also increased. In the living environment of elder people, acoustic comfort has the same importance as thermal comfort and visual comfort. This research is to study the preference of acoustic comfort through the listening evaluation with normal hearing people.
Made Samantha Wiratha, Lucky Tsaih
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Acoustic comfort evaluation for hypermarket workers

Building and Environment, 2013
Abstract The paper presents the results of an on-site measurement procedure to assess acoustic comfort for hypermarket workers. The assessment is based on the collection of both objective measurements of environmental parameters as well as subjective ratings of acoustic comfort. The study was carried out in a hypermarket located in Southern Italy, in
Della Crociata S, Simone A, MARTELLOTTA, Francesco   +2 more
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Acoustic Comfort in Timber Frame Dwellings

Building Acoustics, 2007
Timber framework has become the most common construction technique in the world for private dwellings. In Belgium, although masonry construction still constitutes the most important market share, the number of new houses with timber framework increases each year.
M Van Damme, M Blasco, C Crispin, P Huart, B Ingelaere, D Wuyts   +5 more
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ACOUSTIC COMFORT IN YACHTS: MEASUREMENTS WITH ACOUSTIC CAMERA

2022
Shipowners have become more sensitive to noise issues, leading to consider acoustic comfort as an important parameter in the design of private boats. In the last years, manufacturers have been requested more attention to the living environments of leisure ships.
Licitra G., Fredianelli L., Kanka S., Artuso F., Fidecaro F.   +4 more
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Adaptive thermal comfort factors in classroom acoustics

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021
Climate change is affecting the built environment with a growing need to balance adaptive comfort models by relating ambient room temperature and outdoor climatic factors, on the one hand, with adequate classroom acoustics, on the other hand. The adaptive approach allows occupants of a space to adjust their clothing, activity and posture in a space to ...
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Acoustic, thermal and luminous comfort in classrooms

Building and Environment, 2004
Abstract Environmental comfort embodies four different research areas: thermal, luminic, acoustic and ergonomic comfort. However, regarding the built environment, architects and civil engineers should primarily concentrate their efforts on the first three, considering that ergonomic comfort is more related to designers.
Eduardo L. Krüger, Paulo H.T. Zannin
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