Sentences with phrase «affect by noise»

The Gatwick boss also focused on the environmental credentials of his airport's offer and noted that it would pay the council tax bill for any residents directly affected by noise.

«So against the background of the rapidly growing use of leisure boats and other sources of noise in the marine environment, it is important to understand how fish are affected by noise.»

«The studies also show that when you do experiments involving fish, the environment needs to be as quiet as possible, or else the results may be affected by noise.

If Norway is to achieve its target of reducing the number of people affected by noise nuisance by 10 per cent by 2020, additional local measures must be put in place.

«Although plants can't hear, many animals that disperse seeds or pollinate flowers can hear, and are known to be affected by noise, resulting in indirect impacts on plants,» said Buxton.

The size of the EMG amplitude is markedly affected by noise from the equipment, the surrounding environment, and even the nature of the signal itself.

It is often taken to be a good indicator of how large the EMG amplitude can be as a result of a particular muscle action, although the extent to which this could be affected by noise and causative factors is unclear.

Dogs and cats are probably most affected by the noise of fireworks but even before the fireworks start you want to take a few precautions.

According to a Harris Poll conducted for Zoetis, approximately one - third of dog owners claim that their pet is affected by noise aversion.

Bring earplugs if you are affected by noise.

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In line with the growing trend for self - analytics, the Mappiness app was launched by the London School of Economics as part of a research project looking into how our feelings are affected by features in our environment — the amount of noise or green space we encounter, for example.

Arlington Heights: — The village's Advisory Committee on O'Hare Noise took its show on the road last week to areas of the village most affected by rising air - traffic noise leNoise took its show on the road last week to areas of the village most affected by rising air - traffic noise lenoise levels.

The village's Advisory Committee on O'Hare Noise took its show on the road last week to areas of the village most affected by rising air - traffic noise leNoise took its show on the road last week to areas of the village most affected by rising air - traffic noise lenoise levels.

Amid the plans for 84 new road schemes are plans to spend # 300 million on an «environmental fund to mitigate carbon emission (sic) and reduce the number of people affected by serious noise.»

Partly as a result of the UK's relatively high population density, the top 15 UK airports account for more than one million of the 2.5 million people affected by aviation noise across the Europe Union (41 per cent of the total), based on the European standard measure of 55LDen.

The belief that transparent, open government exists, allowing for full participation and debate by all citizens affected by helicopter noise abuse, is a fantasy.

Next up, Queens and Long Island Lawmakers, who are already adversely affected by airplane noise coming out of LaGuardia, also sent a letter to the governor, saying they also oppose lifting the perimeter rule.

«Mrs. Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet)(Con): How many children will have their education affected by a deteriorating noise environment if the Government press ahead with their plans for a third runway and mixed mode at Heathrow?

Silver suggested the city use noise - dampening devices on the heavy equipment, and also asked that the city look into installing sound barriers in the apartments most affected by the construction.

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

Later this year, the team will explore in more detail how light, noise and temperature affect employee performance, as measured by tests of executive function and productivity, surveys of perceived productivity and physiological measures.

«We found that the sporulation timer and the competence switch work in a coordinated fashion, but the interplay is complex because the two circuits are affected very differently by noise,» said Schultz, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and a former graduate student at CTBP.

«It's interesting that the birds» foraging behavior was not affected under any of the playback conditions, which suggests that the behavioral effects were due to the call playbacks being masked by noise, rather than the noise being simply aversive.»

A Japanese collaboration led by Osaka University has explored the ability of single molecules to affect the noise generated by carbon nanotube - based nanoscale electronic devices.

Two days after my visit, the team identified flickering frequencies that are less affected by the mechanical noise and filmed a researcher controlling the exoskeleton with his mind alone.

Sounds, such as music and noise, are capable of reliably affecting individuals» moods and emotions, possibly by regulating brain dopamine, a neurotransmitter strongly involved in emotional behavior and mood regulation.

Noise: it affects us all by distracting us.

The bulletin needed updating after eight years to take account of new trends in learning styles and inclusion of vulnerable listeners, who are particularly adversely affected by poor acoustics (high noise levels and long reverberation times), in mainstream schools.

The vehicle's ride quality was not affected by the modification, nor did the new part contribute any new noises.

And there's no doubt its everyday useability is affected by the firm ride, interior noise and a manual gearbox.

Whenever, with the partition closed, the driver and passengers open only the lower section of the tailgate, the passenger compartment will not be affected in any way while loading by draughts or other effects of weather, or by any noise or acoustic annoyance.

Likewise, odor, consistency, taste, and learned dietary habits determine which foods a cat prefers, but how much a cat will eat is affected by factors such as noises, lights, food containers, the presence or absence of people or other animals (including other cats), physiologic state, and disease.

It's an easy - to - use, effective choice for most dogs, but it may not be appropriate for sensitive / shy dogs or for hunting breeds that may not be affected by loud noises.

This was the culmination of a three - year long project which is intended to help reduce the number of people affected by aircraft noise.

Pelicans are affected by ancillary fishing activities, including the presence of vessels, noise, and lights, near roosting and breeding areas.

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Venturing into snowy mountains will make you freeze, while heading into heat will also have an adverse affect on your survivability; both noise and temperature factor into how Link reacts (and survives) his surroundings, each monitored by an on - screen gauge.

In this story, children are gifted with a supernatural noise, which is transmitted by touch and echoes the collective howl of creatures affected by the pollution of the planet.

The differences between the quadratic acceleration numbers come from differences in the decadal to multidecadal variability in the curves which I don't consider very robust (we have shown in Rahmstorf et al. 2012 how strongly these can be affected by a small amount of «noise» in the sea - level data).

Mr Barnard also fails to mention the opinions of rural family physicians such as Dr Sandy Reider, from Vermont, who is at the front line of clinical care for those affected by wind turbine noise, that «wind turbine syndrome» is a euphemistic description which does not sufficiently depict the clinical severity of the clinical cases he is seeing [10].

Whales and Dolphins can be affected by off shore wind farms by: • seismic exploration; • intense noise due to ramming / piling, drilling and dredging operations; • increased vessel activities during exploration and construction and later maintenance operations, • increased turbidity due to construction and cable laying; and, later, • decommissioning of wind farms.

We have been contacted with requests for information and assistance by affected people living in urban as well as rural areas, and the noise and vibration sources have included coal mining, gas fired power stations, large refrigeration units with compressors and swimming pool compressors in city apartment blocks.

The study says the global ocean heat content record robustly represents the signature of global warming, and is affected less by weather - related «noise» and climate variability such as El Niño and La Niña events.

When Adelaide University masters student Frank Wang surveyed residents within a 5 km radius of the Waterloo wind turbines he found 70 per cent of respondents claimed they had been negatively affected by the wind development and the noise, with more than 50 per cent having been very or moderately negatively affected.

It also suffers from different noise intensity for different paleoclimatic periods and is affected by changing sampling rates.

This study characterizes the propagation and growth of this type of noise through chaos, shows examples for various perturbation strategies, and discusses the important implications for past and future studies that are likely affected by this phenomenon.»

These megaturbines are reported to be emitting more low - frequency noise (LFN) than smaller models, and this causes more people to be affected, and over greater distances, by the usual symptoms of the wind turbine syndrome: insomnia, headaches, nausea, stress, poor ability to concentrate, irritability, etc, leading to poorer health and a reduced immunity to illness.

CO2 affects all surface temperatures on Earth, and in order to improve the signal - to - noise ratio, an ordinary arithmetic mean will enhance the common signal in all the measurements and suppress the internal variations which are spatially incoherent (e.g. not caused by CO2 or other external forcings).

«However, it is physically and biologically plausible that low frequency noise generated by wind turbines can affect people, and the author puts forward several possible theories regarding this.»