The emergence of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has greatly boosted the progress graph learning. However, two disturbing factors, noise and redundancy in data, lack interpretation for prediction results, impede further development GCN. One solution is to recognize a predictive yet compressed subgraph get rid obtain interpretable part graph. This setting similar information bottleneck (IB) pr...

The social context of noise exposure is a codeterminant of noise annoyance. The present study shows that fairness of the exposure procedure (sound management) can be used as an instrument to reduce noise annoyance. In a laboratory experiment (N = 117) participants are exposed to aircraft sound of different sound pressure level (SPL: 50 vs 70 dB A)--which is experienced as noise--while they work...

The increase of complaints about environmental noise shows the unchanged necessity of researching this subject. By only relying on sound pressure levels averaged over long time periods and by suppressing all aspects of quality, the specific acoustic properties of environmental noise situations cannot be identified. Because annoyance caused by environmental noise has a broader linkage with vario...

The concept of moist wound healing (MWH) is relatively new. It was possibly first espoused by John Bull and his co-workers (1948), and later demonstrated experimentally by George Winter (1962) and Howard Maibach (Hinman and Maibach, 1963). While these studies were conducted on experimental, acute wounds in animals (domestic pigs) and humans, their results have subsequently been interpreted as b...