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Aircraft Noise: Annoyance, House Prices and Valuation [PDF]
“Nobody wants to buy your house. It’s the aircraft noise. You’ll have to reduce the price a lot.” Aircraft noise around airports causes annoyance, and tends to reduce the price of affected properties.
Brooker, Peter
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Introduction: textile industry due to noise pollution may cause noise annoyance. Noise annoyance can increase the risk of health problems and sleep disturbance.
keivan saedpanah +3 more
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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 +4 more
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Investigation of the relationship between aircraft noise and community annoyance in China
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 +4 more
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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 +1 more
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Evaluation of annoyance from the wind turbine noise: A pilot study [PDF]
Objectives: The overall aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of and annoyance due to the noise from wind turbines in populated areas of Poland. Material and Methods: The study group comprised 156 subjects. All subjects were asked to fill in a
Dudarewicz, Adam +9 more
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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE EXPOSURE AND ANNOYANCE
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 +3 more
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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 +6 more
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Variation of annoyance to aircraft noise [PDF]
A two-part investigation was conducted as part of a continuing program at Langley Research Center to account for the variability in response of people to aircraft noise. Earlier studies within this program indicated a systematic and substantial increase in the annoyance of people to aircraft noise during a day of testing. Logically, this increase could
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Development of an annoyance index for heavy-duty diesel engine noise using multivariate analysis
Annoyance response to vehicle noise is commonly reported by many people in society. A need to improve the sound quality of vehicles is therefore apparent. The engine is one of the most predominant sources of vehicle noise causing annoyance.
Johansson, Örjan, +2 more
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