Traffic noise, toxin, emotional stress: How to control?

How Psychological Stress Affects Emotional Prosody

We explored how experimentally induced psychological stress affects the production and recognition of vocal emotions. In Study 1a, we demonstrate that sentences spoken by stressed speakers are judged by naïve listeners as sounding more stressed than sentences uttered by non-stressed speakers. In Study 1b, negative emotions produced by stressed speakers are generally less well recognized than th...

Why and how to control the authentic emotional speech corpora

The affects are expressed in different levels of speech: metalinguistic (expressiveness), linguistic (attitudes), both anchored in the “linguistic time”, and para-linguistic (emotions expressions) that is anchored in the emotional causes timing. In an experimental approach, the corpus are the base of analysis. Main of emotional corpus have been produced by acting/elicitating speakers on one sid...

How to Manage Failures in Air Traffic Control Software Systems

Noise control: how to plan for OSHA's new interpretation.

Industry has had nearly three decades of relative peace and quiet with its noise control programs. Since 1983, OSHA has typically not cited employers who deployed personal protective equipment and a hearing conservation program to address noise, rather than using engineering and administrative controls. The exceptions were for noise so loud that it borders on 100 dBA when the most effective hea...

Occupational stress and stress prevention in air traffic control