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Annoyance
About: Annoyance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2015 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38300 citations. The topic is also known as: annoy.
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TL;DR: An advanced approach is proposed, which starts from any annoyance due to traffic noise, and which aims at identifying an optimal trade-off by means of evaluation of the minimum cost for the whole community.
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TL;DR: In this article, residents' responses to a questionnaire on environmental and neighborhood noise are discussed and the most serious noise source in daily life is the idling of cars, the sound from the loudspeaker used by a collector of old newspapers and magazines, and the third cries of domestic animals.
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TL;DR: A major finding in the study was a higher rating of annoyance among men with noise-induced hearing loss compared to men with normal hearing in the activities in which noise interferred with speech.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the value of supplemental aircraft noise information in the form of combining aircraft movement numbers and noise levels to assist airport neighbours in understanding airport noise is discussed, based on a questionnaire survey of households affected by aircraft noise around OR Tambo International Airport near Johannesburg.
Abstract: This paper deals with the value of supplemental aircraft noise information in the form of combining aircraft movement numbers and noise levels to assist airport neighbours in understanding airport noise. To analyse the socio-spatial interaction of annoyance with, and interference by, aircraft noise, an alternative is recommended, namely the number of noise events above selected noise levels so that laypeople can better understand the extent of noise. The research is based on a questionnaire survey of households affected by aircraft noise around OR Tambo International Airport near Johannesburg. The results indicate that levels of annoyance and disturbance across a number of normal household activities are positively related to the number of noise events recorded, irrespective of noise levels above 60 dB.
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TL;DR: In older people, both neighbourhood and traffic noise indicated a lower risk of noise annoyance induced illness than in adults, and it can be assumed that the effects of noise induced annoyance in older people is concealed by the physical consequences of age (with a strong increase in illnesses).
Abstract: Traffic noise (road, train and flight noise, and the noise of parking cars), is the dominant source of annoyance in the living environment of many European countries. This is followed by neighbourhood noise (neighbouring apartments, staircases and noise within the apartment). The subjective experience of noise stress can, through central nervous processes, lead to an inadequate neuro-endocrine reaction and finally to regulation diseases. Within the context of the LARES-survey, noise annoyance within the everyday living environment was collected and evaluated in connection with medically diagnosed illnesses. Adults who indicated chronically strong annoyance due to neighbourhood noise were found to have an increased health risk in the cardiovascular system, the movement apparatus as well as depression and migraine. For adults with chronically strong annoyance caused by traffic noise, the risks to the respiratory system also increased. In older people, both neighbourhood and traffic noise indicated, in general, a lower risk of noise annoyance induced illness than in adults. It can be assumed that the effects of noise induced annoyance in older people is concealed by the physical consequences of age (with a strong increase in illnesses). With children, the effects of noise induced annoyance from traffic as well as neighbourhood noise is evident in the respiratory system. The increased illness risks in the respiratory system in children do not seem to be caused primarily by air pollutants but rather, as with case of neighbourhood noise, though emotional stress.
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