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Incidence of depression in relation to transportation noise exposure and noise annoyance in the SAPALDIA study

Environment International, 2020
Prospective evidence on the risk of depression in relation to transportation noise exposure and noise annoyance is limited and mixed. We aimed to investigate the associations of long-term exposure to source-specific transportation noise and noise ...
Ikenna C. Eze, Maria Foraster, Emmanuel Schaffner, Danielle Vienneau, Reto Pieren, Medea Imboden, Jean-Marc Wunderli, Christian Cajochen, Mark Brink, Martin Röösli, Nicole Probst-Hensch   +10 more
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Assessment of Noise Annoyance and its Effects on Healthcare Staff Based on Sound Pressure Level and Annoyance Scale

International Journal of Occupational Hygiene, 2015
Noise is a common and widespread problem in workplaces. Noise can lead to hearing loss, hypertension, nervous and mental disorders, annoyance and stress, sleep disturbance, negative impact on productivity and working capacity.
PARVIN NASSIRI, HAMID REZA HEIDARI, MONIREH KHADEM, HODA RAHIMIFARD, ELHAM ROSTAMI   +4 more
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A survey on exposure-response relationships for road, rail, and aircraft noise annoyance: Differences between continuous and intermittent noise

Environment International, 2019
The aim of the present study is to establish exposure-response relationships reflecting the percentage highly annoyed (%HA) as functions of road traffic, railway, and aircraft noise exposure, measured as day-evening-night level (Lden), as well as to ...
Mark Brink, Beat Schäffer, Danielle Vienneau, Maria Foraster, Reto Pieren, Ikenna C. Eze, Christian Cajochen, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Martin Röösli, Jean-Marc Wunderli   +9 more
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Effect of personality traits on sensitivity, annoyance and loudness perception of low- and high-frequency noise

Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, 2021
This paper presents investigations into a comparative assessment of the effects of low- and high-frequency noise in relation to personality traits. The high- and low-frequency noises used are produced in the research laboratory using CoolEdit software ...
Milad Abbasi, Mohammad Osman Tokhi, Mohsen Falahati, Saeid Yazdanirad, Maryam Ghaljahi, Siavash Etemadinezhad, Roghayeh Jaffari Talaar Poshti   +6 more
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Environmental noise and annoyance in adults: Research in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe and newly independent states

Noise and Health, 2013
Research work on the adverse effects of noise on annoyance in adults is well documented in Western Europe, but there is a knowledge gap concerning this type of research in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), South-East Europe (SEE), and Newly Independent ...
Jurgita Lekaviciute, Lubica Argalasova-Sobotova   +1 more
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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE EXPOSURE AND ANNOYANCE

Journal of Air Pollution and Health, 2018
Introduction: Exposure to road - traffic noise commonly engenders annoyance, the extent of which is determined by factors not fully understood. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence and determinants of road - traffic noise annoyance in taxi drivers in ...
Zeynab Jamalizadeh, Ali Safari Variani, Ehsan Asivandzadeh, Saeed Ahmadi   +3 more
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Effect of attitudinal, situational and demographic factors on annoyance due to environmental vibration and noise from construction of a light rapid transit system [PDF]

, 2016
The aim of this paper is to determine what non-exposure factors influence the relationship between vibration and noise exposure from the construction of a Light Rapid Transit (LRT) system and the annoyance of nearby residents.
Andy Moorhouse, Daniel Wong-McSweeney, David Waddington, Eulalia Peris, Field, Guski, Guski, James Woodcock, Klæboe, Klæboe, Klæboe, María Redel-Macías, Nelson, Woodcock, Woodroof, Woods, Zapfe, Zbigniew Koziel   +17 more
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A study on the conversion relationship of noise perceived annoyance and psychoacoustic annoyance—a case of substation noise

Journal 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, Chen Cong, Yao Yao, Dong Li, Wu Jian   +4 more
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Nocturnal air, road, and rail traffic noise and daytime cognitive performance and annoyance [PDF]

, 2014
Various studies indicate that at the same noise level and during the daytime, annoyance increases in the order of rail, road, and aircraft noise. The present study investigates if the same ranking can be found for annoyance to nocturnal exposure and ...
Basner, M., Elmenhorst, E.-M., Müller, U., Quehl, J.   +3 more
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XML Investigation of the effects of wind turbine noise annoyance on the sleep disturbance among workers of Manjil wind farm

بهداشت و ایمنی کار, 2015
Introduction: Installation of wind turbines in residential areas due to their unique sound characteristics may cause noise annoyance. Noise annoyance can increase the risk of health problems and sleep disturbance. Thus, this study was conducted to assess
M. Abbasi, M. R. Monazzam Esmaielpour, A. Akbarzadeh, S. A. Zakerian, M. H. Ebrahimi   +4 more
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