background noise at intensive care units (icu) has an adverse effect on patients and icu staff. there are some evidences that sleep, recovery from critical illness and average background noise in hospitals as recommended by the us environmental protection agency (epa) and world health organization (who) should not exceed 30 a-weighted decibel (dba) and peaks during night time should be less tha...

Removing salt and pepper noise is an active research area in image processing. In this paper, a two-phase method is proposed for removing salt and pepper noise while preserving edges and fine details. In the first phase, noise candidate pixels are detected which are likely to be contaminated by noise. In the second phase, only noise candidate pixels are restored using adaptive median filter. In...

Background: The recruitment of medicinal herbs for the treatment of psychological disorders such as anxiety and stress has a long history. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the compensatory effects of hydroalcoholic extract of green tea on anxiety behaviors that are induced by noise stress in male Wistar rats. Methods: In this study, male Wis...

OBJECTIVE To measure and analyse noise levels in the learning-teaching activities at the Dental School of the University of Porto (Portugal). MATERIALS AND METHODS Sound levels were measured in five different practice areas and laboratories, selected as representative of a variety of learning-teaching activities. The noise levels were determined using a precision sound level meter that was po...

introduction noise pollution is one of the environmental pollution that threats public health to the survival of organisms. urban traffic causes noise pollution as a major factor of air pollution. this is one of the problems of urban citizens. this is also a growing problem that has a potential impact on public health, which is mainly resulted from transport vehicles in the cities and the resid...

a direct conversion modulator-demodulator with even harmonic mixers with emphasis on noise analysis is presented. the circuits consist of even harmonic mixers (ehms) realized with antiparallel diode pairs (apdps). we evaluate the different levels of i/q imbalances and dc offsets and use signal space concepts to analyze the bit error rate (ber) of the proposed transceiver using m-ary qam schemes...

original article   introduction: a practical solution which is sometimes efficient for noise control in the receiver locations is to enclose workers in an acoustic cabin. accordingly, prediction of the noise insulation performance is regarded as an important aspect of the design a personnel cabin. this study empirically aims to design an acoustic cabin using sandwich panels in a typical metal i...