Results of the national institute for occupational safety and health-U.S. environmental protection agency interlaboratory comparison of american national standards institute S12.6-1997 methods A and B

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3262-3277

  Murphy, William J ^a   Byrne, David C ^a   Gauger, Dan ^b   Ahroon, William A ^c   Berger, Elliott ^d   Gerges, Samir N Y ^e   McKinley, Richard ^f   Witt, Brad ^g   Krieg, Edward F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Bose Corporation   (United States)

^c U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Aearo Technologies   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^f AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Howard Leight Industries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTES; ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; HEARING PROTECTION DEVICES; HEARING PROTECTORS; INTER-LABORATORY COMPARISONS; INTERLABORATORY STUDIES; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTHS; NATIONAL STANDARDS; NEW YORK; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES;

EAR PROTECTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; LABORATORIES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER ANALYSIS;

STANDARDS;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR CANAL; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEAD; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); PROSTHESIS FITTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 65549090129     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3095803     Document Type: Article

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