2 December 2020
Occupational noise exposure accounts for approximately 16% of all disabling hearing losses, but the true value and societal costs may be grossly underestimated because current regulations only identify hearing impairments in the workplace if exposure...
The airport apron is a demanding occupational environment for ground handling personnel, who are exposed to multiple and variable noise sources; yet how this exposure varies by task and location has not been adequately characterised. This study addre...
12 August 2016
Quantitative prediction of construction noise is crucial to evaluate construction plans to help make decisions to address noise levels. Considering limitations of existing methods for measuring or predicting the construction noise and particularly th...
In urban areas, noise levels can largely vary in space and time due to the great complexity of these environments. The time required for the fluctuations of the running equivalent level LAeq to be limited within a preset variability range is a key is...
The study aims to diagnose the sound pressure levels inside incubators in a controlled environment under free-field conditions. The tests were carried out in a semi-anechoic room under the standard UNE-EN ISO 3745:2012/A1:2018 in three different oper...
As new energy vehicle drive motors develop toward higher rotational speeds and power levels, a more comprehensive characterization of the geometric condition of high-speed ball bearings is increasingly required, while conventional single-section meas...
Aerodynamic noise increases with the sixth power of the running speed. As the speed increases, aerodynamic noise becomes predominant and begins to be the main noise source at a certain high speed. As a result, aerodynamic noise has to be focused on w...
This paper investigates the complexity of real functions through proof techniques inspired by formal language theory. Productiveness, which is a stronger form of non-recursive enumerability, is employed to analyze the complexity of various problems r...
It is known that in Lorentz-violating effective field theory, there is a classical equivalence between certain coefficients (c and f), in spite of the fact that the operators of the two types of coefficients described appear to have opposite behavior...
21 February 2023
Urbanization leads to an increased demand for urban housing, which can be met by building dwellings closer to streets. Regulations often limit equivalent sound pressure levels which do not account for changes in time structure that occur when decreas...
Alexander Grothendieck suggested creating a new branch of topology, called “topologie modérée”. In a paper by N. A’Campo, L. Ji, and A. Papadopoulos the authors conclude that no such tame topology has been developed at...
The community learning center provides a means of completing compulsory education and increasing the level of educational participation in Indonesia. Through this program, regardless of age, people can continue their education to a level equivalent t...
The differences in CO2 equivalent emissions and carbon compensation due to land use changes can provide a basis for formulating low-carbon development policies in various regions according to net CO2 emissions. Based on the land use and energy consum...
This paper investigates the effect of equivalence ratio on pollutant formation characteristics of CH4O/H2/NH3 ternary fuel combustion and analyzes the pollutant formation mechanisms of CO, CO2, and NOX at the molecular level. It was found that loweri...
In the late 1960s, a uranium province was explored in the Shu-Sarysu depression in southern Kazakhstan. These mining operations can lead to potential contamination of the environment and pose health risks to the population. The aim of this study is t...
High penetration of wind power increases the need for coordinated frequency support from wind farms and battery energy storage systems (BESSs). To address insufficient power coordination, state-of-charge (SOC) deviation, and suboptimal intra-farm all...
Noise energetic indicators, like Lden, show good correlations with long term annoyance, but should be supplemented by other parameters describing the sound fluctuations, which are very common in urban areas and negatively impact noise annoyance. Thus...
Pulmonary loborraphy can be performed using manual sutures and staples, although other methods, such as tissue adhesives, are also cited in the veterinary literature. Although the surgery is well tolerated in the canine species, failure in pulmonary...
Purpose: Intermittent androgen deprivation is increasingly used as an alternative to continuous life-long androgen deprivation therapy for men with advanced or recurrent prostate cancer. Recent Findings: Two recent phase III trials have clarified the...
Background: The purpose of this study was to compare postoperative opioid consumption following total shoulder arthroplasty, after: (A) a single-shot undiluted liposomal bupivacaine (LB; commercial name: Exparel) interscalene block, or (B) a Ropivaca...
Noise annoyance depends not only on sound energy, but also on other features, such as those in its spectrum (e.g., low frequency and/or tonal components), and, over time, amplitude fluctuations, such as those observed in road, rail, or aircraft noise...
Urban-scale road traffic noise mapping is frequently constrained by limited access to spatially continuous traffic observations, particularly in data-scarce cities. This study developed an integrated framework for reconstructing road-segment traffic...
In China, where some regions are over-reliant on groundwater, groundwater consumption is faster than replenishment, which results in a continuous decrease in the groundwater level. Here, we applied spatial and temporal methods to analyze the spatiote...
Background: Heavy media multitasking has been linked to poorer cognitive control, but findings are heterogeneous, and claims of an inverted-U relationship have rarely been tested with methods that establish curve shape. Methods: Using a publicly avai...
Smart sensor devices increasingly require remote firmware updates to deploy new functionality, security patches and algorithmic improvements without interrupting services. Runtime firmware updates remain a significant challenge in embedded sensing sy...
In order to study the stiffness degradation of pre-stressed concrete T-beams throughout their entire service life, full-scale destructive tests were conducted on newly constructed T-beams. The test process characterized the relationship between load...
The aim of this paper is to describe a study of the anaerobic digestion of industrial citrus solid waste (ISCW) in both batch and semi-continuous modes for the production of bioenergy without the elimination of D-limonene. The study was conducted at...
19 July 2017
The aim of this study is to compare vibration exposure to noise exposure from railway traffic in terms of equal annoyance, i.e., to determine when a certain noise level is equally annoying as a corresponding vibration velocity. Based on questionnaire...
Continuity is a fundamental principle of integrated Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) systems, yet little is known about how adults’ educational beliefs vary across developmental references. The study examined developmental differentiat...
As a common fault of transformer winding, inter-turn short circuits cause severe consequences, such as excessive current and serious deformation of winding. Aiming to solve the problem of inter-turn short circuit at the end-winding and middle-winding...
Agricultural and livestock production plays an important role in Inner Mongolia, China, but its continued development poses challenges for greenhouse gas mitigation. Using multi-source data from 2005 to 2023, this study integrates the IPCC emission-f...
28 February 2019
The chronic disease management program, a community-based intervention including patient education, recall and remind service, and reduction of out-of-pocket payment, was implemented in 2005 in Korea to improve patients’ adherence for antihyper...
This study evaluated contamination by polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDDs/Fs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 390 feeds and 1756 food samples collected in Latium and Tuscany (Italy, 2016–2025) using HRGC-HRMS. PCDDs/...
Hospitals include a variety of different spaces with different requirements and levels of sensitivity to noise but also different activities and equipment that can cause high noise levels. In this article, noise disturbance in hospitals is studied wi...
This study analyzes the concentration of radioactive material in the soil near the Maanshan nuclear power plant (NPP). Out of the thirty samples, only one sample was found to have 137Cs radioactivity measuring 2.58 Bq/kg. The activity concentrations...
Energy losses are a fundamental issue in the electricity distribution sector, being an inevitable consequence of transporting energy from supplying sources to consumers’ installations and are becoming one of the factors to be considered in plan...
Background/Objectives: The objective of this study was to design and optimize a continuous wet granulation process for Amiodarone hydrochloride tablets using a Design of Experiments approach. The study compared and evaluated the characteristics of gr...
Ensuring a consistent, continuous, and efficient spare parts supply is a critical issue that must be addressed in the equipment support system. In order to effectively improve the coverage level and handle the common asymmetry information present in...
Time series of regional 2° × 2° Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) solutions of surface water mass change have been computed over Africa from 2003 to 2012 with a 10-day resolution by using a new regional approach. These regional maps are...
As the number and complexity of operative techniques taught at U.S. podiatric medicine and surgical residencies (PMSR) with the added credential in reconstructive rearfoot and ankle (RRA) surgery has continued to increase, so to has the use of intrao...
In industrial trajectory planning and real-time motion control, quintic B-splines are widely used for corner smoothing owing to their local support and high-order continuity. However, existing evaluation methods mainly rely on basis-function recursio...
Conventional masonry infill walls can significantly alter the seismic response of framed buildings and often produce damage patterns incompatible with resilience-based seismic design. Dry-jointed sliding masonry wall systems have therefore emerged as...
Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy plays a fundamental role in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) following appropriate surgical intervention. High levels of TSH are required in order to achieve maximum RAI uptake in residual thyroid...
The distribution process in business-to-business materials trading is among the most complex and in transparent ones within logistics. The highly volatile environment requires continuous adaptations by the responsible decision-makers, who face a subs...
Car-like robot formations on variable-friction roads experience slip-induced model mismatch and changing avoidance capability. This paper presents a friction-aware formation-control architecture combining a longitudinal–lateral error model, thr...
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the noise levels in current incubator models and a prototype designed to improve acoustic comfort in neonatal incubators. Methods: Tests were carried out on three different models of i...
This article presents analysis of deterioration indicators for a comparative quantification of the operational structural performances of bridge inventories. The analysis considers the various kinds of material in the entire database of the US Nation...
Presently, large cities have significant problems with noise pollution due to human activity. Transportation, economic activities, and leisure activities have an important impact on noise pollution. Acoustic noise monitoring must be done with equipme...
One of the main objectives facing climate protection targets is how to deal with the existing building stock. Refurbishment measures are essential to ensure sustainable urban transformation. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) enable refurbishment measures...
Existing post hoc XAI (Explainable Artificial Intelligence) methods produce numerical attributions without symbolic structure (SHAP, LIME), low-coverage local rules (Anchors), or crisp tree surrogates without an interpretable rule-level uncertainty p...
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