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Investigation of the relationship between aircraft noise and community annoyance in China

Noise and Health, 2012
A survey of community annoyance induced by aircraft noise exposure was carried out around Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. To investigate the relationship curves between aircraft noise and the percentage of "highly annoyed" persons in China and ...
Di Guoqing, Liu Xiaoyi, Shi Xiang, Li Zhengguang, Lin Qili   +4 more
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Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 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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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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Harnessing Phase Separation for the Development of High‐Performance Hydrogels

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hydrogels are indispensable for the development of next‐generation bioelectronics, soft robotics, and biomedical devices, where their mechanical properties determine performance and reliability. Among strategies to enhance hydrogel mechanics, phase separation enables controlled heterogeneity resulting in gel networks that are reinforced by ...
Yue Shao, Yiming Ma, Baihao Shao, Molly M. Stevens   +3 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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Multidimensional and Multifunctional Laser‐Induced Graphene (LIG) for Point‐of‐Care and Wearable Biosensing, Theranostics, and Bioactive Interfaces Toward Personalized Healthcare and Regenerative Medicine

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Multidimensional laser‐induced graphene (LIG) spanning from 0D to 3D architectures is comprehensively reviewed for multifunctional biomedical platforms, including biosensing, theranostics, and bioactive interface applications, which highlights its potentials for point‐of‐care diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, smart drug delivery, and tissue ...
Li Zhang, Yurou Yuan, Xiaohong Ding, Wing Cheung Mak   +3 more
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Facile Fabrication of Low‐Impedance, Highly Conformal Epidermal Electrodes Based on Laser‐Induced Graphene–Silver Nanocomposites

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A facile laser‐induced graphene–silver nanocomposite strategy enables ultrathin epidermal electrodes with low impedance, high conductivity, and excellent mechanical robustness. The porous LIG–Ag conductive network mechanically interlocked with SEBS provides stable, motion‐resistant biopotential monitoring, enabling high‐fidelity ECG, EMG, and EEG ...
Jiuqiang Li, Senhao Zhang, Kai Guo, Donghai Qiu, Juzhong Zhang, Hongbo Yang, Huanyu Cheng   +6 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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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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