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Occupational noise annoyance linked to depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation: a result from nationwide survey of Korea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: Noise, or undesirable sound, is one of the most common environmental stressors, and it can cause various health effects. Beyond the auditory consequences of occupational noise exposure, extra-auditory effects such as psychological problems ...
Jin-Ha Yoon +4 more
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Annoyance of Audible Infrasound [PDF]
Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, 1987 Contours of equal annoyance were determined for pure tones in the frequency range 4 – 31.5 Hz. The curves show a narrowing of the dynamic range of the ear at low frequencies. The same pattern is seen for equal loudness curves, and the results support the theory that the annoyance of infrasound is closely related to the loudness sensation.
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Applied Sciences, 2016 It is well-known that the reduction of noise levels is not strictly linked to the reduction of noise annoyance. Even earthmoving machine manufacturers are facing the problem of customer complaints concerning the noise quality of their machines with ...
Eleonora Carletti, Francesca Pedrielli
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Noise and Health, 2005 The present paper provides the results from two nation-wide telephone surveys conducted in Canada on a representative sample of 5,232 individuals, 15 years of age and older. The goals of this study were to gauge Canadians' annoyance towards environmental noise, identify the source of noise that is viewed as most annoying and quantify annoyance toward ...
D S, Michaud, S E, Keith, D, McMurchy
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Investigation of occupational noise annoyance in a wind turbine power plant
Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, 2019 Noise, emitted by wind turbines, is one of the main health risk factors which has been recently considered in many researches. Noise annoyance is among the most important human responses to noise.
Mohammad R Monazzam +7 more
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Determining the direction of causality between psychological factors and aircraft noise annoyance
Noise and Health, 2010 In this paper, an attempt is made to establish the direction of causality between a range of psychological factors and aircraft noise annoyance. For this purpose, a panel model was estimated within a structural equation modeling approach.
Maarten Kroesen +2 more
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Evaluation of annoyance from low frequency noise under laboratory conditions
Noise and Health, 2010 The aim of the study was to investigate the annoyance of low frequency noise (LFN) at levels normally prevailing at workplaces in control rooms and office-like areas. Two different laboratory experiments were carried out. The first experiment included 55
Malgorzata Pawlaczyk-Luszczynska +3 more
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Noise annoyance and risk of prevalent and incident atrial fibrillation–A sex-specific analysis
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundWhile chronic exposure to high levels of noise was demonstrated to increase the risk of various cardiovascular diseases, the association between noise annoyance and risk of cardiovascular disease remains still inconsistent.
Omar Hahad +23 more
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Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, 2022 The level of annoyance is an important basis to determine the acceptable degree of noise and develop noise standards. Psychoacoustic annoyance ( PA ) calculated by Zwicker’s model and perceived annoyance (such as mean annoyance, MA and the percentage of ...
Di Guoqing +4 more
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The link between noise perception and quality of life in South Australia
Noise and Health, 2014 Environmental noise is a significant risk factor for a range of short- and long-term adverse health outcomes such as annoyance, cognitive development impairment, sleep disturbance, cardiovascular effects, and psychiatric problems.
Monika Nitschke +4 more
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