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Influence of tinnitus annoyance on hearing-related quality of life in cochlear implant recipients

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Tinnitus is a common symptom in cochlear implant (CI) recipients. There is no clear evidence of the influence of tinnitus on hearing-related quality of life (QoL) in this population.
Kelly K. S. Assouly   +4 more
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Combined annoyance response from railroad and road traffic noise in an alpine valley

open access: yesNoise and Health, 2020
Context: The aim of this study was to verify the contributing effect in the cases of combined road traffic noise and railroad traffic noise on total noise annoyance.
Christoph Lechner   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occupational noise annoyance linked to depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation: a result from nationwide survey of Korea. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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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Validation of a Numerical Model for the Prediction of the Annoyance Condition at the Operator Station of Construction Machines

open access: yesApplied 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
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation of occupational noise annoyance in a wind turbine power plant

open access: yesJournal 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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Evaluation of annoyance from low frequency noise under laboratory conditions

open access: yesNoise 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
doaj   +1 more source

Noise annoyance and risk of prevalent and incident atrial fibrillation–A sex-specific analysis

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Contributors to Neighbour Noise Annoyance [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Noise from neighbours has been shown to be one of the most noise annoying sources in Germany, but research on the influencing factors for the annoyance ratings is scarce. Therefore, we investigated whether different personal and contextual (social, physical) factors contribute to neighbour noise annoyance to better understand the neighbour noise ...
Sarah L. Benz   +3 more
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Determining the direction of causality between psychological factors and aircraft noise annoyance

open access: yesNoise 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
doaj   +1 more source

A study on the conversion relationship of noise perceived annoyance and psychoacoustic annoyance—a case of substation noise

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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