Sentences with phrase «a-weighted decibels»

«If you can curate someone's environment even by five decibels, that can be the difference between your ears ringing for three days or not,» Kraft says.

Last fall, Boston - based Third Rock Ventures launched a startup called Decibel with $ 52 million in funding.

Now Decibel is working on ways to repair that connection.

(Decibel levels by seats near the engine can reach 90, which can conceivably cause ear damage if sustained for eight hours or more.)

The decibel level of the objections is no guide to the policy's fairness or unfairness.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign found that ambient noise played at 70 decibels — louder than conversational speech but comparable to street noise — actually increases creative thinking.

While silence may be golden, it has been shown to impair innovative ideas; the same study found that moderate noise was more effective than a quieter level of background sound — a whispering 50 decibels — for abetting creative thinking.

Throughout the stadium, fans wear custom - built wristbands that send real - time biometric data to the engineers, while dozens of hidden sensors record decibel levels and other intel.

The engineers also concluded that the noises were at decibel levels too low to cause hearing loss — but that the primary sounds on the recordings were made by cicadas.

He estimated that the Cuban cicada could reach a deafening 95 decibels at a distance of about 20 inches, but emphasized that the sound - pressure level would drop six decibels with every doubling distance.

I spoke with Steven Holtzman, who heads up the hearing disease therapeutics firm Decibel and was one of the main driving forces behind the letter, and he expressed that the immigration issue is extremely important to him personally as his parents immigrated from Cuba.

Hensarling — a polite and low - decibel conservative with a deadpan sense of humor and an occasionally sharp tongue — has become a tea party favorite by relentlessly striving to cut federal spending and shrink the federal government.

The regulations on the church dictate that the bells must register at 55 decibels.

Experts say normal conversation produces 55 - 60 decibels while an airplane in flight produces 110 - 120 decibels.

At his new church, several hundred worshippers showed up in jeans on a recent Sunday to listen to high - decibel Christian rock from plush stadium - style seats.

Concerning Nicaragua, it means that we listen less to high - decibel advocates for the administration and for the Sandinistas, and we listen more to people who offer ways to peace without supposing that all would be well if only Managua would cry «Uncle,» or if only Washington would emulate a dove.

The Death of the West is a high «decibel jeremiad that calls the sullenly resentful to stop whining and man the barricades.

The isolation of a foreign country makes those words ring several decibels above the tolerable limit.

We don't always agree on theology or politics, (the 2016 election promises to raise the pitch of our dinner conversations a few decibels), but my parents have always prioritized maintaining our relationship over maintaining ideological uniformity.

Decide your comfort level regarding decibels.

The maximum permitted noise level has also recently been lowered from 95 decibels to 85 decibels, which is a huge difference if you walked into a room and heard it.

Pairing it with juicy segments of grapefruit creates a delightful call and response between the two citruses and their varying decibels of sweetness and tart zing.

As Shaquille O'Neal prepared to tool away from the Los Angeles Lakers» practice facility last Friday in his black Mercedes - Benz, he turned down the bass on his stereo to jumbo - jet decibel level, flashed a sly smile and said, «I want to show you something.»

Everybody is currently outraged about Oklahoma State getting denied a shot, but the outrage would only be about one decibel lower if Oklahoma State got picked instead.

After his fourth offside penalty in an hour, defensive end Hurvin McCormack hears this from Palmer at about 93 decibels: «Get me another defensive end!

With that in mind, the decibel level was monitored at every game across the country, and recorded for fans to judge where the best value for money lay this weekend.

The decibel levels generally go up, irrespective of the state of the match — whether the home side is winning, losing or playing bad.

Jan 04,2016... 86.7 Decibel level of Maria Sharapova's on - court bleatings at Wimbledon — louder than a revving motorc...

Wherever you first arrive in Madrid, one in four streets offer a decibel level that violates the World Health Organization limits on noise, posing a threat to health and sanity.

The scoutingreport on Maryland Coach Lefty Driesell is that he's lost half a step in hispursuit of referees, that his scalp looks more like Yul Brynner «s eachweek, that he's toned down a couple of decibels and that he's even begun tomellow out.

They might even have a little decibel meter on the screen like they did in the NFC Championship, when the Seahawks fans didn't come close to getting as loud as they've been in the past.

But after the fight was over — all three, 60 - second rounds of it — I will never forget Charlie impishly staring out across the room, his face completely unmarked, coyly waiting for the decibel level to reach fever pitch.

Decibel records are consistently breaking at CenturyLink Field, which should make this one of the most memorable Super Bowl parades in recent memory.

The absolutely electric atmosphere inside Rogers Place that ratcheted up about ten decibels with every successive Oilers goal.

There's also odds on what the highest decibel level shown will be, with the over / under set at 135.5 and -140 on over.

Before the game started, the Dodger Stadium PA was playing Drake at 400 decibels, as they do.

The decibel level at the Superdome in New Orleans will be deafening when McMahon starts the match... and then finally tags Bryan into the match.

O'Brien has a chance to be the first Bill Belichick decibel to enjoy a successful head coaching run.

I understand now why one of this place's nicknames is «Thunder Valley» — the sound climbs to 140 decibels, the same as an aircraft carrier in full swing.

One only has to Google playoff intros from that era to hear the decibels through your YouTube device.

The sound level in the Stadium has been measured at 130 decibels, which is louder than the water thundering at the foot of Niagara Falls or the noise of a rock concert.

It's why the decibel level of our watching venue may have reached its peak when Chris Wondolowski — a De La Salle - Concord graduate and San Jose Earthquakes star — entered the game with approximately 20 minutes left in regulation.

When decibel levels are causing your rib cage to jump out of our chest as you're trying to call in offensive plays, life can get MIGHTY STRESSFUL.

The Guinness Book of Records states that the loudest registered crowd roar at a sports stadium was 142.2 decibels by supporters of American Football side Kansas City Chiefs in 2014.

The answer is overwhelmingly «yes» with noise levels reaching the kind of decibels usually reserved for title - winning days.

«The Besiktas fans break all the decibel records.

The Vicente Calderon stadium should be renamed the Vicente Cauldron this season as the fans have been ramping up the atmosphere and the decibels.

There was a surge in the decibel levels at Turf Moor last night when fourth official Darren England held up the board showing we would have six extra minutes to play as we tried to fight back from a goal behind against Middlesbrough.

We put them under some tremendous pressure as the decibel levels inside Turf Moor increased more and more.

In fact, some toys designed for preschoolers are so loud that when they were tested for the Sight and Hearing Association's annual list of noisy toys, they blared at 129.2 and 119.5 decibels.