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Comparison of Annoyance from Railway Noise and Railway Vibration

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 data from the Train Vibration and Noise Effects (TVANE) research project from residential areas exposed to railway noise and vibration, the dose r...

Railway Open System Tribology Railway Open System Tribology

Tribology in the railway system is of increasing interest in the new railway era due to the demand for higher speed and load capacity. Since railway vehicles operate in an open environment, their performance depends greatly on temperature, humidity and natural and artificial contaminants. Meanwhile, the “feedback” of railway vehicles to the surroundings, such as noise and airborne particles, is...

New Mexico Sentencing Commission

Variably called bias-based policing, racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Brown, the phenomenon of apparent disparate treatment of minorities by police has received considerable attention from the media, academics, politicians, and government organizations in recent years. A common contention is that the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. combined with practices employed by loc...

Commission criticizes deProsse

Two experts on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff Monday recommended tha t all nuclear power plants buDt by Babcock and WDCOI, manufacturers of the Three Mile Island plant, be shut down temporarily. "I believe there exists a considerable m1amatch between operator training, operator experience and the B&W _hlne," said Edson Case at a staff briefing for the NRC commiuioners. But Case's...