Sentences with phrase «in urban noise»

Humankind is loud, and research already suggests that birds alter their singing in urban noise.

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As in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as Manhattanhenge.

With the growth of the city, however, the increase in traffic and urban noise threatened the solitude of the abbey.

Instead of one main paved street, there was a medley of surfaced streets, churches, buildings of all kinds, and all the noise of a busy urban and commercial environment to be found in a town with a population of 12,000.

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There was no way cry it out sleep training was going to happen in a small urban condo without some white noise.

If you are a traveling therapist who works in urban areas, the following tips may be particularly useful because research shows that homes in urban environments tend to have higher levels of environmental and background noise.

Driving down the dusty main road of Butembo — a city of over half a million people, in the eastern DRC province of North Kivu — I hear the usual urban Congolese noises of motorcycles and lorries driving madly by.

Based on 1.5 million hours of acoustical monitoring from places as remote as Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and as urban as New York City, scientists have created a map of noise levels across the country on an average summer day.

In a bid to make cities quieter, the European Union requires member states to create noise maps of their urban areas once every five years.

Concerns about sounds in urban settings may have fallen on deaf ears: Noise levels have increased.

Olivier Dubois, secretary - general of the National Order of Medical Doctors in Paris, argues that French people need more treatment for depression and anxiety because of the country's high unemployment, political malaise, urban noise — which makes sleeping difficult — and the fact that the French were slower than other Europeans to move to cities and are still adjusting.

But now researchers can study smaller groups of subjects to see how specific factors — for example, noise in the home or proximity to a green space — play into mental illness and, more broadly, urban stress.

In 2004, for instance, researchers showed that individual nightingales made their songs very much louder so they could be heard over urban noise (see Urban nightingales» songs are illegally lurban noise (see Urban nightingales» songs are illegally lUrban nightingales» songs are illegally loud).

Noise may be a problem when fleets of delivery drones start operating in urban airspace.

Urban environments differ from natural habitats in many regards and are for instance associated with higher levels of anthropogenic pollution, such as traffic noise, artificial light pollution and air pollution, which enhance oxidative stress and inflammatory responses.

These colorful headphones from Urban Ears provide rich, noise - cancelling sound, so your girlfriend can enjoy her music in the most stylish way possible.

Located in the urban - rural periphery of Nairobi, the campus is easily accessible from the city center while being surrounded by small scale agriculture, away from the noise, pollution, and turbulence of the city (Upper Kabete Campus on Google Maps).

In Atlas's installation, this urban noise becomes a chance accompaniment to the dancer's movement in a manner that honors the music Cage provided for many of Cunningham's danceIn Atlas's installation, this urban noise becomes a chance accompaniment to the dancer's movement in a manner that honors the music Cage provided for many of Cunningham's dancein a manner that honors the music Cage provided for many of Cunningham's dances.

The exhibitions this year and next will be jointly titled «Wild Noise,» a reference to the chaotic beauty of urban spaces based on a passage in a Victor Hugo poem about «the wild noise where infinity begins.&rNoise,» a reference to the chaotic beauty of urban spaces based on a passage in a Victor Hugo poem about «the wild noise where infinity begins.&rnoise where infinity begins.»

The artist's intention is to establish a progressive path through several purposefully built interconnected environments which enables the viewer to experience the passage from a dimension of noise, chaos and visual saturation — expressing life in contemporary cities — to a neutral setting where he intends to conduct a methodical dissection of familiar urban components with recourse to the unconventional media and destructive techniques which he has been exploring in his work.»

This reading and meet - the - poet talk with one of the first Cuban women to celebrate blackness in poetry will be set against the backdrop of the Bronx Museum's Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje exhibition, a survey of Cuban artists both on the island and abroad grappling with issues of identity, community, and the urban experience.

Attracted to nature, she finds cemeteries a quiet place to commune and escape from the urban noise and traffic in her Brooklyn neighborhood.

The company is constructing a six - hour energy storage project for a US utility in a dense urban pocket of a major East Coast city and lithium - ion technology has proven to be the best choice across a range of considerations including cost, safety and noise performance, and land use.

Humans make quite a racket, and all of the excessive noise we make is not just a problem in urban areas.

Triple - glazed, airtight windows also reduce street noise, which is an important selling point in urban areas.

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.

An expert of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said that the green roof has a good many practical strongpoints, like strengthening the buildings» anti-mechanocaloric effect ability, releasing the effect of acute temperature change in winter and summer, absorbing and minishing urban noise, as well as creating new eco-environment for the species of animals and plants in cities.

For example, planting trees in urban areas sequesters carbon dioxide emissions while simultaneously reducing air pollution, beautifying the area, reducing energy use, and stifling noise, among other benefits.

The possibility to take off and land without contravening the noise regulations set for small airfields, in urban areas and near population centers, will allow the use of airfields late at night, when noise regulations are the most stringent.

5,000 Plants From 20 Species The vertical garden, the first in Denmark, serves to insulate the building, absorbing urban noise and reduce dust, thereby improving air quality, while also offering potential habitat to birds and insects.

Urban farming is relatively new, but its positive impact is beginning to emerge in areas such as energy efficiency, noise and air pollution, soil decontamination, food quality and nutrition.

An increasing number believe that any warming is so small it is indistinguishable from the noise in the environmenal data sets, and that the data have not been properly adjusted for such things as urban heat island effects (are the city temps warmer than the suburbs where you live?

When listening to the headphones in the real world — in the office, on public transit, and while walking around urban centers — we loved the clarity and focus the noise - canceling brought to the overall sound profile, creating a perfectly blank canvas on which to paint sound, even in the noisiest of settings.

High levels of public transport density are usually accompanied by higher levels of traffic - related noise and air pollution, especially in urban environments typified by a concentration of tall buildings.54 Both excessive traffic - related noise and air pollution have been linked to stress, inability to psychologically restore and depression.55 56 One of the main features included in the measure of street connectivity used in this study was the presence of bridges, overpasses or tunnels.

Depending on where you live, whether in an urban city or in the suburbs, overpopulation remains an issue, and dealing with noise pollution has become a real responsibility.

Eighteen percent of those in the report said their home is too bright, and a portion of those studied living in India said muffling urban noise would «improve their well - being.»

As an added bonus, double - paned windows significantly reduce traffic sounds and other outdoor noise, making them a smart buy in busy urban areas.