noise induced hearing loss (nihl) is one of the most important occupational disease worldwide. nihl has been found potentiate by simultaneous carbon monoxide (co) exposure. free radicals have been implicated in cochlear damage resulted from the exposure to noise and due to the co hypoxia. this study examined whether α-tocopherol administration, as a free radical scavenger, causes the attenuatio...

Introduction One of the most important pre-processing steps in optical coherence tomography (OCT) is reducing speckle noise, resulting from multiple scattering of tissues, which degrades the quality of OCT images. Materials and Methods The present study focused on speckle noise reduction and edge detection techniques. Statistical filters with different masks and noise variances were applied on ...

This paper addresses the issue of perceptual image quality assessment in image restoration systems. Firstly, experiments are conducted to evaluate perceived quality in images degraded only by frequency distortion. Based on the resulting experimental data, a distortion quality measure (DQM) is proposed. Then another experiment, whose test images present frequency distortion and noise injection, ...

Since publication of the World Health Organization’s report Burden of disease for environmental noise in 2011, several new studies on traffic noise and ischemic heart disease (IHD) have been published. There is thus a need for a meta-analytic update of risk estimates for these outcomes. We conducted a systematic review and retained published cohort and case-control studies using road, rail or a...

Many countries are suffering from severe air pollution. Understanding how different air pollutants accumulate and propagate is critical to making relevant public policies. In this paper, we use urban big data (air quality data and meteorological data) to identify the spatiotemporal (ST) causal pathways for air pollutants. This problem is challenging because: (1) there are numerous noisy and low...