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Aircraft Noise, Hearing Ability, and Annoyance

Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, 1995
The relationship between aircraft noise, loss of hearing, and annoyance was explored in a study in two schools located near an international airport in Taiwan. Sixth-grade students (N = 242) were recruited from two schools and were classified into high- and low-noise-exposure groups, based on environmental noise measurements.
T N, Wu, J S, Lai, C Y, Shen, T S, Yu, P Y, Chang   +4 more
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Road traffic noise annoyance in Amsterdam

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1985
3445 persons living in Amsterdam (1507 male and 1938 female), aged 41-43 years, participated in an investigation in which the relationship was studied between the (measured) road traffic noise in front of the houses in which the participants lived, and the (reported) resulting annoyance and sleep disturbance.
H, Meijer, P, Knipschild, H, Sallé
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Environmental noise-annoyance in Patras, Greece

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1988
Noise pollution in most European and mainly Greek towns, is a major environmental problem. The annoyance caused by environmental noise is great and the use of a reliable descriptor of noise is important. This paper attempts to evaluate the noise fluctuations at an observation point by introducing a probabilistic model for the system environment-noise ...
D, Skarlatos, P, Drakatos
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Assessing noise annoyance: an improvement-oriented approach

Ergonomics, 2000
A concept for practice-oriented assessment of noise annoyance at the workplace is presented. Employees evaluated the noise situation at their workplace by characterizing the loudest noise event with respect to relevant noise characteristics. The results from a first use of the questionnaire for Subjective Evaluation of Noise Characteristics in Office ...
Sailer, Uta, Hassenzahl, Marc
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Aircraft Noise Annoyance and Average versus Maximum Noise Levels

Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, 1992
A questionnaire study was performed in seven areas located around the airports of Landvetter and Save, Gothenburg, in an attempt to elucidate the extent of annoyance in populations exposed to aircraft noise. Noise exposure was estimated as the energy equivalent level (Aircraft Noise Level--FBN) or as the number of aircraft with levels that exceeded 70 ...
M, Björkman, U, Ahrlin, R, Rylander
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Noise annoyance by freight trains

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999
In The Netherlands a new freight-only railway route, the ‘‘Betuweroute,’’ is being planned to carry freight traffic from Rotterdam harbor east into Germany. Inhabitants of areas near the future route are concerned about noise and vibration, and question the relevance of current legislation for a ‘‘freight-only’’ line.
Anja H. M. Steenbekkers, Ronald G. de Jong   +1 more
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High annoyance urban noise masking

2017 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP), 2017
Urban noise pollution is a growing concern worldwide as a cost of rapid economic growth and development. It affects and harms the human activity and health which brings serious annoyance to daily life. Noise masking technology is one of the efficient solutions to reduce the noise-induced annoyance.
Haiyan Shu, Ying Song, Huan Zhou
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Sustainability and Noise Annoyance

2013
Abstract Purpose This chapter addresses the political history of aircraft noise annoyance and its relationship to sustainability. Methodology/approach Using extensive case studies and secondary sources, the chapter ...
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Activity interference and noise annoyance

Journal of Sound and Vibration, 1985
Abstract Debate continues over differences in the dose-response functions used to predict the annoyance at different sources of transportation noise. This debate reflects the lack of an accepted model of noise annoyance in residential communities.
F.L. Hall, S.M. Taylor, S.E. Birnie
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Applications (IV) – Noise Annoyance

2009
Noise is a ubiquitous feature of modern life that is frequently the cause of psychological irritation and stress. We conducted a series of experiments to probe various aspects of noise perception and annoyance. Sections 11.1 and 11.2 discuss experiments in a laboratory that were conducted for annoyance judgments of noise based on both the temporal and ...
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