The relationship between environmental noise and health is poorly understood but of fundamental importance to public health. This study estimated the relationship between noise sensitivity, noise annoyance and health-related quality of life in a sample of adults residing close to the Auckland International Airport, New Zealand. A small sample (n = 105) completed surveys measuring noise sensitiv...

In this paper, we create synthetic artifacts that are perceived to be predominantly blocky, blurry or noisy. We present them alone or in various combinations and have subjects rate the perceived strength of each artifact and the overall annoyance of the combined artifacts. We found that a simple linear model with no interactions predicted how the perceived artifacts combine to determine overall...

A laboratory experiment was conducted to quantify the annoyance response of people on the ground to en route noise generated by aircraft at cruise conditions. The en route noises were ground-level recordings of eight advanced turboprop aircraft flyovers and six conventional turbofan flyovers. The eight advanced turboprop en route noises represented the NASA Propfan Test Assessment aircraft oper...

This paper places the perception of noise annoyance within the framework of environmental assessment. It is shown that due to the inherent vagueness and uncertainties in the involved concepts, available data and knowledge, fuzzy techniques are very well suited for the modeling of this perception. This idea is then used to construct a fuzzy rule based model for the prediction of the level of gen...

Aircraft noise exposure is a health risk and there evidence that annoyance partly mediates the association between stress-related risks. Thus, approaches to reduce may be beneficial for health. Annoyance influenced by manifold non-acoustic factors perceiving fair trustful relationship airport its residents one of them. The distribution aircraft can regarded as fairness dilemma: while living nea...

Abstracl4n this paper a non-reference ohjeclive video quality metric is proposed. The quality metric is obtained by means of a non conventional use of data hiding technique. Test data are embedded in an MPEG-2 video; the basic w m p t i o n is that the data embedded undergo under the same degradation as the host video. To analyze the performance of the system, a comparison between the results o...

Based on the neural network (NN) technique, a new sound quality evaluation (SQE) model for synthetical annoyance of vehicle noises is proposed in this paper. Based on the measured noise signals of a sample vehicle, the psychoacoustical models for loudness, sharpness and roughness are investigated. Annoyance values of the measured vehicle noises are estimated by a jury test following an anchor-s...

BACKGROUND Access to a quiet side in one's dwelling is thought to compensate for higher noise levels at the most exposed façade. It has also been indicated that noise from combined traffic sources causes more noise annoyance than equal average levels from either road traffic or railway noise separately. METHODS 2612 persons in Malmö, Sweden, answered to a residential environment survey includ...

A study of community annoyance caused by exposures to civil aircraft noise was carried out in 20 sites around Gimpo and Gimhae international airports to investigate the effect of background noise in terms of dose-effect relationships between aircraft noise levels and annoyance responses under real conditions. Aircraft noise levels were mainly measured using airport noise monitoring systems, B&K...

Previous research has stressed the relevance of nonacoustical factors in the perception of aircraft noise. However, it is largely empirically driven and lacks a sound theoretical basis. In this paper, a theoretical model which explains noise annoyance based on the psychological stress theory is empirically tested. The model is estimated by applying structural equation modeling based on data fro...