Aircraft noise-induced awakenings are more reasonably predicted from relative than from absolute sound exposure levels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3645-3653

  Fidell, Sanford ^a   Tabachnick, Barbara ^b   Mestre, Vincent ^c   Fidell, Linda ^b  

^a Fidell Associates Inc   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mestre Greve Associates Division of Landrum and Brown   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT NOISE; DOSAGE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PREVALENCE RATES; RESIDENTIAL POPULATION; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; SOUND EXPOSURE LEVELS;

FORECASTING; NOISE POLLUTION;

AIRPORTS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AIRCRAFT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84887448910     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4823838     Document Type: Article

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