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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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Home appliance noise: annoyance and speech interference

Applied Ergonomics, 1975
How annoying is appliance noise? How much does appliance noise interfere with speech? While listening to the noise from 10 different home appliances, eight subjects wrote the words being read to them. Then they voted their annoyance with each noise on a 5‐point scale.
Sherilyn Epp, Stephan Konz
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Aircraft en route noise annoyance

13th Aeroacoustics Conference, 1990
Results are reported from a laboratory experiment conducted in order to quantify the annoyance experienced by people on the ground in response to en route noise (ERN) generated by aircraft at cruise conditions. Objectives included the comparison of annoyance responses to ERN with the annoyance responses to takeoff and landing noise; the comparison of ...
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