The effect of mechanical stress on Barkhausen noise from pure nickel plates is reported for as-rolled plate and plates which are annealed at various temperatures up to 1000 K. The data are compared with Vickers hardness and SEM images. The Barkhausen noise energy detected has been found generally to decrease rapidly with nominal stress except a case of a plate annealed at around 400 K. The larg...

Temporal variations of low-frequency, broadband ambient noise measured in early summer under drifting ice floes of the marginal ice zone (MIZ) are cross correlated with local environmental forces and ice field descriptors. Surface gravity wave forcing is the primary correlate of the noise; its interaction with ice floes generates ound, most likely via flexural floe failure, and unloading motion...

background: mental disorders have an important relationship with work conditions. excessive workload, laborers needs and expectations ignorance, harmful physical agents, noise, poor lightning and bad work atmosphere result increasing stress and job dissatisfaction in workers . methods: this descriptive-analytical survey implemented in order to investigate stress and job satisfaction rate of one...

early life stress during fetal development has been hypothesized to predispose several neurological and psychiatric disorders in adulthood. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of maternal stress on the volume of granular cells, total number of dark neurons and also the distribution of glycol-conjugates and changes of terminal sugars in the dentate gyrus. pregnant sprague-daw...

background: noise is one of the most important harmful agents in work environment. noise pollution in oil refinery industries is related to workers' health. this study aimed to determine the overall noise pollution of an oil refinery operation and its frequency analysis to determine the control plan for a vent noise in these industries. methods: this experimental study performed in control unit...

The fast adaptation of Escherichia coli to stressful environments includes the regulation of gene expression rates, mainly of transcription, by specific and global stress-response mechanisms. To study the effects of mechanisms acting on a global level, we observed with single molecule sensitivity the effects of mild acidic shift and oxidative stress on the in vivo transcription dynamics of a pr...

Increasing scientific evidence point to a non-pharmacological complementary treatment for insomnia: white noise. Its presentation has been shown to induce sleep in human neonates and adults, probably by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio of ambient sound. White noise may be a simple, safe, cost-effective alternative to hypnotic medication in many psychiatric disorders, especially acute stress d...

Today technology and rapid industrialization has thrown up a new and rapidly spreading environmental pollutant – Noise. Nowadays, noise has become the most commonly encountered stressor in our daily lives. When noise intensity that we are exposed to exceeds 90dB, then it becomes a stressor. Depending on the frequency, intensity and duration of exposure noise affects the body in different ways. ...

Limited information is available on occupational exposures during routine, nonoutage work activities in coal-fueled power plants. This study evaluated occupational exposures to the principal contaminants in the facilities, including respirable dust (coal dust), arsenic, noise, asbestos, and heat stress. The data were collected over a 3-month period, during the summer of 2001, in 5 facilities th...

Anthropogenic noise has fundamentally changed the acoustics of terrestrial and aquatic environments, and there is growing empirical evidence that even a single noise exposure can affect behaviour in a variety of vertebrate organisms. Here, we use controlled experiments to investigate how the physiology of a marine invertebrate, the shore crab (Carcinus maenas), is affected by both single and re...