Workload during approaches: Comparison of simulated standard and noise-abatement profiles

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 364-370

  Elmenhorst, Eva Maria ^a   Vejvoda, Martin ^a,b   Maass, Hartmut ^a,b   Wenzel, Jürgen ^a,b   Plath, Gernot ^a,b   Schubert, Ekkehart ^a,b   Basner, Mathias ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Eye blinks; Fatigue; Flight simulator; Heart rate; LDLP; Saliva Cortisol; SCDA; Sleepiness; Tension

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; SALIVA; SOMNOLENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENSION; WORKLOAD; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AVIATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRAFFIC NOISE;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AVIATION; BLINKING; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; SALIVA; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 63849167999     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2382.2009     Document Type: Article

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