Community response to high-energy impulsive sounds : an assessment of the field since 1981 / / Sanford Fidell, Editor; Working Group on Assessment of Community Response to High Energy Impulsive Sounds

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (65 p.)
• Disciplina: 620.23
• Soggetto topico: Sound - Measurement; Sound
• Altri autori: FidellS. A (Sanford A.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Community Response to High-Energy Impulsive Sounds: An Assessment of the Field Since 1981""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""DEFINITION OF HIGH-ENERGY IMPULSIVE SOUNDS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS, AND DEFINITIONS OF ACOUSTIC TERMS""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""2 Recent Findings""; ""SOCIAL SURVEY FINDINGS""; ""LABORATORY AND CONTROLLED-EXPOSURE FIELD STUDIES""; ""Studies Finding a Greater Rate of Increase in Annoyance for Impulsive Sounds""; ""Studies Finding Little or No Difference in Rate of Increase in Annoyance Between Impulsive and Nonimpulsive Sounds"" ; ""EVALUATION OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION""""Variability in Social Survey Findings""; ""Findings of Controlled-Exposure Studies""; ""Summary of the Findings of Controlled-Exposure Studies""; ""3 Development of a Dosage-Response Relationship ""; ""LIMITATIONS OF UNDERSTANDING""; ""PURPOSE AND APPROACH TO PREDICTION""; ""CHOICE OF METRICS""; ""CHOICE OF FREQUENCY WEIGHTING AND INTEGRATION METHOD""; ""Frequency Weighting""; ""Integration Method""; ""POSSIBLE FITTING FUNCTIONS""; ""Adaptation of Green and Fidell (1991) Model""; ""Level-Dependent Summation Approach"" ; ""4 Conclusions and Recommendations """"DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH""; ""Greater Precision in Measurement of Noise Exposure""; ""Improved Study Designs""; ""FURTHER ANALYTIC EFFORTS""; ""Appendices""; ""APPENDIX A Interepretations of Findings of Controlled-Exposure and Social Survey Studies ""; ""DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STUDY TYPES""; ""DIFFICULTIES IN LINKING OF LABORATORY AND FIELD DATA""; ""APPENDIX B Reanalysis of Noise Exposure Estimates ""; ""FT. BRAGG AND FT. LEWIS DATA""; ""DATA TABULATION""; ""APPENDIX C Glossary ""; ""ADDITIONAL TERMS""; ""References""
• Titolo autorizzato: Community response to high-energy impulsive sounds
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819020703321
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