Vasquez 1 Naisy Vasquez Professor Machado EOH 350 T/Th April 29‚ 2010 Noise Pollution and Its Impact “Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.” -William H. Stewart The word noise is derived from the Latin word nausea meaning seasickness. Like its root meaning‚ noise has a negative effect to human health and well-being. Noise resulting from road traffic‚ jet planes‚ jet skis‚ garbage trucks‚ construction
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Noise Enforcement Introduction Barking dogs‚ construction equipment‚ amplified musical instruments‚ trash trucks‚ and loud parties are all examples of noise found in major urban areas. Understandably‚ certain noise levels must be tolerated by all citizens in order for normal functions of urban life to continue. However‚ excessive‚ unnecessary‚ and/or annoying noise is subject to regulation. On March 29‚ 1982‚ the City Council adopted a new Noise Ordinance that established limits on noise pollution
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UNDERSTANDING NOISE POLLUTION Most of us are very used to the sounds we hear in everyday life. Loud music‚ the television‚ people talking on their phone‚ the traffic and even pets barking in the middle of the night. All of these have become a part of the urban culture and rarely disturb us. However‚ when the sound of the television keeps you from sleeping all night or the traffic starts to give you a headache‚ it stops becoming just noise and start turning into noise pollution. For many of us
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Non-negative Matrix Factorization Based Noise Reduction for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition Seon Man Kim1‚ Ji Hun Park1‚ Hong Kook Kim1‚*‚ Sung Joo Lee2‚ and Yun Keun Lee2 1 School of Information and Communications Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology‚ Gwangju 500-712‚ Korea {kobem30002‚jh_park‚hongkook}@gist.ac.kr 2 Speech/Language Information Research Center Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute‚ Daejeon 305-700‚ Korea {lee1862‚yklee}@etri.re.kr Abstract
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ISSN 2229 – 6441 STUDY ON NOISE POLLUTION OF INDUSTRIALIZED AND URBANIZED TOWNS LIKE RABAKAVI AND BANAHATTI OF BAGALKOT DISTRICT‚ KARNATAKA STATE‚ INDIA Basavaraj M. Kalshetty & Basappa I. Karalatti Commerce‚ BHS Arts and TGP Science College Jamkhandi‚ District Bagalkot‚ Karnataka state‚ India. ABSTRACT The modern civilization creates more and more noise‚ because of the development of Industries‚ machinery and Technology. It has been reported that noise inside the factories can become
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NOISE IS A BARRIER Noise is indeed a barrier to communication‚ it is unavoidable and prevalent in just about every environment. Some types of noise are: * physiological noise - this includes hearing disorders‚ impairments and disabilities that make it difficult to send or receive messages‚ for e.g. deafness * semantic noise – the unintended meanings aroused by the use of certain behaviours or symbols that distract your
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Objectives The objectives of the experiment are: i. To determine the traffic noise level at L10 (i.e. the noise level which are exceeded by 10% of the specified time). ii. The L10 is then compared with that obtain from predicted method. iii. A statistical test is performed to find whether there is any significant difference between the two results at a 5% level of significance. Apparatus Data logging sound level meter‚ tripod‚ distance measurement tape and traffic counter. Procedure
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On Noise Critique With a great epiphany‚ I finished reading “On Noise” by Seneca. At the beginning of the passage‚ Seneca argues that serenity is not as necessary to the people who want to focus on their own further development as people thought. Seneca states that he ignores the distractions by occupying his minds in his own matters. What Seneca is explaining through the passage is that noises are inevitable in people’s lives‚ and even if people escape from external noises‚ their internal voices
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same fair opportunities that they give to non consumers. Tricia says‚ “I find it extremely frustrating to have a consumer go out and ask for what they need‚ and then have the consumer come back to me and say that they were shot down.” Tricia has been in social work all of her career. When she was hired at SafeHaven ‚ and learned what consumers face on a daily basis‚ she decided that doing advocacy work was where she was meant to be. Tricia said “My mission is giving a voice to someone who has
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impact of road traffic noise on the community. Section 1 outlines the proposed Road Traffic Noise Strategy‚ its scope‚ development and how you can contribute. Section 2 contains information on the effects‚ levels and sources of traffic noise‚ and outlines the current programs that contribute to reductions in road traffic noise in Victoria. 1.1 Scope and Purpose of this Paper This background paper is the start of a process to develop an integrated Road Traffic Noise Strategy (the strategy)
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