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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: In this paper, a new Nordtest Method, NT ACOU 106 Acoustics (Assessment of annoyance by vibrations in dwellings from road and rail traffic) has been defined, based on experiences with the 1998 Norwegian Socio-vibrational Survey and a Swedish socio-acoustic survey supplemented with vibration measures.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that fear is related to a heightened sensitivity to noise, but indicate that this does not lead to widespread psychiatric disorders.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: On 4 October 1992 a plane crashed on the south-eastern (SE) borough of Amsterdam. This study examines the effects of this disaster on the reported annoyance caused by aircraft noise and on psychiatric disorders measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), in an ongoing Health Interview Survey (HIS). METHODS: In the HIS 5092 people were interviewed; 1006 before the accident and 305 in the SE borough. Odds ratios (OR) were computed comparing the period before the disaster with the 8 months thereafter. RESULTS: After aircraft crossings restarted (weeks 3-10 after the disaster) 60.0% of the respondents in the disaster borough reported annoyance, compared to 36.8% before the event (crude OR = 2.57, 95% confidence interval (Cl); 2.63-3.04). In the three subsequent 2-month periods these OR for the SE borough steadily decreased. No significant change was found either for the rest of Amsterdam or for the GHQ measure. Logistic regression modelling showed the increase to be highest immediately after the aircraft crossings restarted. (OR = 7.50, 95% Cl: 2.40-23.4). CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that fear is related to a heightened sensitivity to noise, but indicate that this does not lead to widespread psychiatric disorders. The results further indicate that this HIS was sufficiently sensitive to show changes in annoyance caused by aircraft noise after such a severe incident. Language: en
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between public annoyance with aircraft noise, objective measures of the noise itself, and mediating social or psychological conditions which affect the noise-annoyance relationship.
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TL;DR: Noise values gives desirable annoyance predicting values in comparison to vehicular data, and the attitudinal response of local population due to existing vehicular noise is presented in the paper.
Abstract: The major objective of the investigation was to evaluate the road traffic noise and its likely impacts on the local community of Asansol city (West Bengal, India) by monitoring and modeling. The attitudinal response of local population due to existing vehicular noise is presented in the paper. Noise and Attitudinal Survey was conducted at 25 locations. A total of 869 individuals were surveyed. The relationship between traffic noise levels and annoyance was studied using correlation, linear and multiple linear regressions analysis. The average Ldn value was 73.28 ± 8.51 dB(A) (55.1–87.3); The Traffic Noise Index (TNI) was 80.62 ± 15.88 dB(A) (49.4–115.8). The mean value of percent of population Highly Annoyed (%HA) due to road traffic noise was 26.50 ± 3.37 (19.44–33.2), whereas the mean dissatisfaction score (MDS) was 2.96 ± 0.90 (1.04–4.45). Annoyance modeling was also performed based on field data. It can be said that Noise values gives desirable annoyance predicting values in comparison to vehicular data.
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed the correspondence between aircraft noise exposure and annoyance responses reported in aircraft noise study analyses undertaken over a period of decades and found that the statistical evidence for an upward trend in annoyance versus noise exposure is weak, and may simply be due to sampling and/or methodological differences between the studies.
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