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Karl S. Pearsons
Researcher at BBN Technologies
Publications - 45
Citations - 786
Karl S. Pearsons is an academic researcher from BBN Technologies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aircraft noise & Annoyance. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 45 publications receiving 754 citations.
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Some Effects of Spectral Content and Duration on Perceived Noise Level
Karl D. Kryter,Karl S. Pearsons +1 more
TL;DR: Equal-noisiness experiments using variable sound durations and pressure levels to determine perceived noise level of listeners were conducted in this article, where variable sound duration and pressure level were used.
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Predicting noise‐induced sleep disturbance
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of noise on sleep were reanalyzed in an effort to develop a quantitative dosage-response relationship, and large and systematic differences in sleep disturbance were observed between the findings of studies conducted in laboratory and in field settings.
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Effects on sleep disturbance of changes in aircraft noise near three airports.
TL;DR: No major differences in noise-induced sleep disturbance were observed as a function of changes in nighttime aircraft noise exposure and similar methods of measuring nighttime noise levels and sleep disturbance in the two studies were maintained.
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Field study of noise‐induced sleep disturbance
Sanford Fidell,Karl S. Pearsons,Barbara G. Tabachnick,Richard Howe,Laura Silvati,David S. Barber +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that sound exposure levels of individual noise intrusions were much more closely associated with awakenings than long-term noise exposure levels, and the slope of the relationship between awakening and sound exposure level was rather shallow.
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Review of field studies of aircraft noise-induced sleep disturbance
TL;DR: A literature review of recent field studies of aircraft noise-induced sleep disturbance finds that reliable generalization of findings to population-level effects is complicated by individual differences among subjects, methodological and analytic differences among studies, and predictive relationships that account for only a small fraction of the variance in the relationship between noise exposure and sleep disturbance as mentioned in this paper.