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Lunch breaks as a buffer: mitigating the negative effects of road traffic noise on urban employee workplace behavior [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThe impact of road traffic noise annoyance on individual health is well-documented in environmental and health studies. However, less attention has been given to its negative effects on employees’ work behaviors and effective mitigation ...
Jianglin Ke, Zhaoyue Wang, Yufei Zhang, Lidan Liu, Qiongwei Wang   +4 more
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Residential green is associated with reduced annoyance to road traffic and railway noise but increased annoyance to aircraft noise exposure

Environment International, 2020
Background: In recent years, residential green and availability of neighbourhood green spaces came into focus as a potential means to reduce transportation noise annoyance.
Mark Brink, Beat Schäffer, Jean Marc Wunderli   +2 more
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Occupational noise annoyance and sensitivity as potential contributors to oxidative stress in metal industry workers [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Noise is recognized as a psychological stressor that led to noise annoyance, and individual noise sensitivity could play a moderating role. This study aimed to investigate the association between noise annoyance, noise sensitivity, and oxidative stress ...
Iraj Alimohammadi, Athena Rafieepour, Azadeh Ashtarinezhad, Agha Fatemeh Hosseini, Seyed Hosein Tabatabaei, Hossein Jafari, Raziyeh Asadi   +6 more
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Dose–Response Relationship Between Aircraft Noise Exposure and Community Annoyance: A Case Study of Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport [PDF]

Noise and Health
Objective:With increasing air traffic, aircraft noise pollution near Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport has intensified, raising concerns about community annoyance.
Jiakang Lv, Yinuo Chen, Mengze Yang, Qihan Zeng, Qianqian Zhou, Jiabin Chen, Yong Liu   +6 more
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Standard sample evaluation method for noise annoyance suppression from audio injection

Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2021
Noise control technology based on sound energy reduction uses sound pressure level as an evaluation index, and the addition control technology proposed in recent years uses annoyance as an evaluation index.
Chen Ke'an, Li Hao, Deng Yunyun, Zhang Jun, Liu Jianben, Zhou Bing   +5 more
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The relative effects of self-reported noise and odour annoyance on psychological distress: Different effects across sociodemographic groups?

PLoS ONE, 2021
In earlier research, both higher levels of noise and odour annoyance have been associated with decreased mental health. Presumably, these perceptions can trigger feelings of threat and stress reactions and in turn evoke psychological distress.
Eline Berkers, Ioana Pop, Mariëlle Cloïn, Antje Eugster, Hans van Oers   +4 more
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Understanding the relationship between air traffic noise exposure and annoyance in populations living near airports in France

Environment International, 2020
Since the 2000s, increased aircraft noise annoyance has been observed in the populations living near airports. The DEBATS-study compared the exposure–response relationship estimated among airports’ residents in France with old and new EU standard curves.
Marie Lefèvre, Agnès Chaumond, Patricia Champelovier, Lise Giorgis Allemand, Jacques Lambert, Bernard Laumon, Anne-Sophie Evrard   +6 more
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Combined annoyance response from railroad and road traffic noise in an alpine valley

Noise 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, Christian Kirisits, Stephan Bose-O′Reill   +2 more
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Influence of tinnitus annoyance on hearing-related quality of life in cochlear implant recipients

Scientific 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, Remo A. G. J. Arts, Petra L. Graham, Bas van Dijk, Chris J. James   +4 more
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Noise Annoyance Is Associated with Depression and Anxiety in the General Population- The Contribution of Aircraft Noise.

PLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundWhile noise annoyance has become recognized as an important environmental stressor, its association to mental health has hardly been studied. We therefore determined the association of noise annoyance to anxiety and depression and explored the ...
Manfred E Beutel, Claus Jünger, Eva M Klein, Philipp Wild, Karl Lackner, Maria Blettner, Harald Binder, Matthias Michal, Jörg Wiltink, Elmar Brähler, Thomas Münzel   +10 more
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