Sentences with phrase «decibels for»

I measured it at 95 decibels, compared to 90 decibels for the Link 20.

For example, high - pitched tones that we can detect at a mere 30 decibels when we are young have to be boosted to an earsplitting 90 decibels for the elderly to hear.

Suddenly, you're yelling at the top of your lungs, matching him decibel for decibel.

Not exact matches

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You can expect park music to be turned down, ride music will be off / turned down, ride announcements will be turned down to a lower decibel, certain geysers / water features turned off and VIP passes will be available for any guests who can not wait in line.

The noise was measured in decibels with a signal - to - noise ratio and not surprisingly, the lower the ratio, the easier it was for toddlers to learn.

«All it said was I wanted to thank the Cary Park District for showing how anal - retentive Cary could be by driving around for five hours taking decibel readings and telling kids not to pee in the weeds.»

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, for infants, a noise level that exceeds 45 decibels is of concern, and some movies, such as action movies, can have a sustained level of 90 decibels.

The authors point out that the 85 - decibel limit is, of course, set for adults, and so it may not be conservative enough for infants, whose developing ears might be more sensitive and prone to harm.

Another study found that rats» hearing became impaired when they were exposed to 100 or 110 decibels of broadband noise, eight hours a day, for five days, but that their hearing wasn't affected when they were exposed to 90 decibels.

There is, however, some controversy here, because when researchers stuck microphones in pregnant women's uteruses for a 1990 study I'm glad I wasn't a part of, they found that fetuses are exposed to between 72 and 88 decibels of baseline noise in the womb — the latter being about as loud as the maximum output of the white - noise machines tested in the study.

Overall, they found that, at maximum volume, every one of the noise machines placed within 3 1/4 feet of infants» ears were capable of producing sounds that exposed the babies to more than 50 A-weighted decibels, what the study describes as «the current recommended noise limit for infants in hospital nurseries.»

This controller using digital acoustic technology reproduces the sounds and patterns in your musical choices in safe and stable decibel levels, suitable for any music for a fetus in womb, for they say that music during pregnancy has an array of benefits to your unborn child.

(For comparison, 50 decibels is the sound level associated with moderate rainfall; 60 decibels corresponds to the noise of typical conversation; 70 decibels is comparable to the sound of a vacuum cleaner; and blenders and blow - dryers emit 80 to 90 decibels.

I learned that 85 decibels is the level that the World Health Organization considers «safer» for kids.

Using cotton balls or small earplugs may help to decrease the decibel level your baby is exposed to, and as a result make it easier for her to sleep or relax.

For perspective, the Thruway Authority said a chainsaw gives off 120 decibels and a whisper is 20 decibels.

Thom Doud, project manager for Controlled Demolition, Inc., said on Friday the implosion would be lower than 140 decibels, about as loud as the montage of a fireworks show.

The Town Board said it would be difficult to set decibel limits that would work for the entire town, which includes dense areas like Barclay Heights and very rural areas.

They have the highest rated protection available at 34 decibels and are great for the shooting range and many other situations.

But for real quiet — defined as less than 20 decibels — the West is best.

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Next, the volunteers selected a punishment suitable for students who gave wrong answers in a test, with a choice of horn sounds ranging from 10 decibels to a deafening 130 decibels.

The sheer number of insects to come out at once can be a pain for nearby residents, as the noise they produce can be in excess of 120 decibels at close range.

Kim says that the European Commission has already set guideline maximum levels for night - time noise of 40 decibels.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

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.

A Danish study found a 27 percent increase in stroke risk for every 10 - decibel increase in street noise for those over 65.

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 — 1922) The Scottish - born inventor of the telephone and teacher of the deaf may have a famous name, but the unit named for him hides behind a fractional prefix: the decibel.

These sound waves can travel for hundreds of miles under water, and can retain an intensity of 140 decibels as far as 300 miles from their source.

For some the decrease was around 12 decibels, about the magnitude of an electric light bulb's hum.

In 1966, Science News reported that the «acceptable» noise level for a restaurant was about 55 decibels — the intensity of an easy conversation.

As governments and industries expand their use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean bottom for resources, experts from eight universities and environmental organizations are calling for new global standards and mitigation strategies.

«New international standards needed to manage ocean noise: Growing use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean for resources poses increased risks to vulnerable marine life, experts say.»

But a study that compared the various modes of mass transit in New York City found that the subways topped all other transit types for average noise, at a grinding 80 decibels.

The aircraft and road traffic noise exposure levels estimated for their postcodes at that time — less than 50 decibels to more than 60 dB — were used for the current study in 2013.

The communal sound is three to six decibels louder than the background noise of the ocean, making it difficult for the human ear to distinguish, but it could provide scientists with a new way to study these organisms and give them new insights into this ecosystem, she said.

The study analyzed the medical records of 52 children diagnosed with EVA from the UH Rainbow Department of Otolaryngology, selecting records with both a computerized tomography (CT) scan for diagnosis and a median of five sets of audiogram test data to measure speech reception threshold, or the minimum intensity of decibels at which a patient can recognize half of spoken words, and the percent of words the patient recognized.

Opera singers train for years to build up the strength to produce sustained notes at volumes above 100 decibels.

Killer whales, for instance, are known to swim away from areas where they have encountered sonar signals of about 142 decibels, a sound level lower than currently allowed by the U.S. Navy for its ships, Tyack said, referring to a 2014 study in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that determined the mammals» likely response.

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iFrogz Animatones Volume Limiting Earbuds for Kids, Blue ($ 13; amazon.com) Most MP3 players have a limit on how loud they can go, with a typical max decibel level of 100.

MP3 players may harm your hearing Up to 10 million Europeans are at risk for hearing damage from MP3 players and European Union regulators are mulling a plan to lower the legal volume - limit of MP3 players to 100 decibels.