Effects of cultural factors on the environmental noise evaluation

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 3782-3791

  Yu, Chia Jen ^a   Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC QUALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CULTURAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; LIVING ENVIRONMENT; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; SHEFFIELD; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; STUDY SITES; TYPICAL URBAN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; EXHIBITIONS; QUALITY CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84867961609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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