Railway bonus for noise disturbance in laboratory settings

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 258-266

  Ma, Hui ^a   Yano, Takashi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory task; Noise disturbance; Non auditory task; Railway bonus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS LABORATORIES; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AUDITORY TASKS; NOISE DISTURBANCES; NON-AUDITORY TASKS; RAILWAY BONUS;

RAILROADS;

EID: 20444371582     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.26.258     Document Type: Article

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