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Are the noise levels acceptable in a built environment like Hong Kong?
Noise and Health, 2015 Governments all over the world have enacted environmental noise directives and noise control ordinances/acts to protect tranquility in residential areas.
Wai Ming To +2 more
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Proceedings, 2020 Noise annoyance due to aircraft operations extends well beyond the 55 Lden noise contours as calculated according to the Environmental Noise Directive (END).
Luc Dekoninck
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Focused study on the quiet side effect in dwellings highly exposed to road traffic noise [PDF]
, 2012 This study provides additional evidence for the positive effect of the presence of a quiet facade at a dwelling and aims at unraveling potential mechanisms.
Botteldooren, Dick +1 more
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Road noise in Europe: The case for transparent and standardised data presentation
Acta AcusticaIt has been nearly three decades since the European Commission adopted the Green Paper on Future Noise Policy in 1996, marking a pivotal step towards developing an EU – wide noise policy, ultimately leading in 2002 to the formal adoption of Directive ...
Redondo Martinez Patricia, King Eoin A.
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Noise Mapping, 2018 Environmental noise is increasing year after year, especially in urban and suburban areas. Besides annoyance, environmental noise also causes harmful health effects on people.
Alías Francesc +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Environmental noise has become one of the principal health risks for urban dwellers and road traffic noise (RTN) is considered to be the main source of these adverse effects.
Joan Claudi Socoró +2 more
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Noise Mapping, 2016 Noise pollution is one of the major environmental problems affecting European citizens in urban areas. Although the Environmental Noise Directive is in force since 2002, there is still a gap between defined objectives and outcomes.
Alves Sonia +2 more
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Evaluation of municipal waste incineration impact on environmental noise [PDF]
, 2008 The EU Directive 2002/49/EC or Environmental Noise Directive (END) aims to define a common approach intended to avoid, prevent or reduce the harmful effects, including annoyance, due to exposure to environmental noise. Under this Directive, member states
A. Raimondo +4 more
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Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
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Noise and Air Pollution Related to Health in Urban Environments
Proceedings, 2018 Environmental noise is a pollutant considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a threat to public health due to its harmful effects on human health. In this regard, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) indicates that road traffic is the sound
David Montes-González +5 more
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