Background: Despite improvements, air pollution still remains a major public health issue. Numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated the adverse health effects of air pollution exposure based on modeled measures, but only a few have considered the health impact of perceived air quality. Improving our knowledge of individual perceptions is crucial to defining targeted actions and promot...

This study arose from the need to control noise in naval vessels to reduce their detectability and hence vulnerability to enemy attack. In this report a detailed review of sensor and actuator technologies that could be used for active noise and vibration control in ship structures has been provided. The review focused on a wide range of sensor and actuator materials, such as piezoelectric and e...

unknown noise and artifacts present in medical signals with  non-linear fuzzy filter will be estimate and then removed. an adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system which has a nonlinear  structure presented  for the noise function prediction by before samples. this paper is about a neuro-fuzzy method to estimate unknown noise of electrocardiogram (ecg) signal. adaptive neural combined with fuzz...

background: it has been prover that the prevalence of experiencing job related stress is very high among the dentists. this stress can be the result of factors such as poor lightening of dental office and noise. this stress can cause emotional distress and threaten dentists’ physical health and affect the quality of their life. this study is conducted to determine dentists’ professional quality...

A subjective survey on perceived environmental quality has been carried out on 51 secondary-school classrooms, some of which have been acoustically renovated, and acoustical measurements were carried out in eight of the 51 classrooms, these eight being representative of the different types of classrooms that are the subject of the survey. A questionnaire, which included items on overall quality...

Introduction FP7 project ATOPICA (Atopic diseases in changing climate, land use and air quality) supported by EU Grant agreement NO: CP 282687 explores the combined panEuropean impact of changes in climate, land use and air pollution on allergen pollen-induced diseases with an accent on atopy due to ragweed sensitization. Sensitization to ragweed pollen correlates with levels of airborne pollen...

Annoyance and sleep disturbance are generally accepted effects of environmental noise. Traffic noise is the most important source of noise induced annoyance. Long-term derogation of the recovery function of sleep by traffic noise has the potential to increase the sensitivity to daytime noise annoyance as well as the risk of cardiovascular and several other diseases. Noise induced arousal and se...