Sentences with phrase «traffic noise»

It is located centrally, but in a green area, free of traffic noise.

The associations between road traffic noise and ill health were much weaker and less consistent, the findings showed.

A small double room, very warm and with a busy road so traffic noise was loud and constant.

The hotel is located in a pedestrian only street which was great as it reduces traffic noise.

Many think that living near a highway will result in restless nights from loud traffic noises.

If you want to avoid traffic noise, stay on one of the side streets.

Coming from the bush were you don't have much traffic noise was a concern, are we going to get any sleep?

Despite being close to the highway there was very little traffic noise.

What a great response (to my email regarding traffic noise).

This has another big consequence on the city itself too — it feels incredibly dead, with no street conversation and instead just the odd traffic noise or too.

In addition to the typical downtown traffic noises, the facility was situated near a helicopter flight pattern.

What a great idea to put a fountain on the deck to mask traffic noise!

Dining, shopping, banking and postal facilities are within a few minutes walk, and being off the main road assures a minimum of traffic noise.

However, the researchers say the findings are consistent with a large number of studies linking road traffic noise and hypertension, which is a leading cause of stroke.

Our only negatives were that it was on a busy street so there was traffic noise at night and the noise from the air conditioner was so loud that I could not sleep in the king bed room.

Paul and his doomed wife Joanna (Hope Lange) flinch at the NYC traffic noise as they return from a Hawaiian vacation — a reluctant descent from Paradise back into this fallen world.

In London more than 1.6 million people are exposed to daytime road traffic noise levels above 55dB, which the World Health Organization defines as a level of community noise that causes health problems.

Calls made on the Samsung Galaxy S II were clear, and callers reported that our voice was easy to hear even on crowded city streets filled with traffic noise.

Our findings contribute to the body of evidence suggesting reductions in traffic noise could be beneficial to our health.»

Be sure to ask about traffic noise.

They looked at levels of road traffic noise during the day (7am - 11 pm) and at night (11pm - 7 am) across different postcodes, comparing this to deaths and hospital admissions in each area for adults (aged 25 and over) and the elderly (aged 75 and over).

Traffic noise when window open.

The villa location on a small cul - de-sac street offering peace and tranquility, no motor bike or traffic noise here, yet within 5 minutes walk your at the beach entering at KuDeTa's famous beach club.

The researchers estimated the link between road traffic noise on these deaths and admissions, taking into account other factors such as individuals» age and sex, as well as neighbourhood characteristics like ethnicity, smoking rate, air pollution, and socioeconomic deprivation.

There are millions of people whose lives have been blighted by traffic noise outside their homes.

A Tufted Titmouse visits a feeding platform as part of an experiment on how traffic noise affects birds» responses to alarm calls.

Megan Gall and Jacob Damsky of New York's Vassar College tested how traffic noise affected the reactions of Black - capped Chickadees and Tufted Titmice to titmouse alarm calls, which warn birds that a predator is nearby.

It insulates against traffic noise particularly well, though tire noise is noticeable on the highway.

This project involves addressing comments and completing development of the FHWA Traffic Noise Model version 3.0 including user interface, incorporating fixes identified during the public comment period and beta - testing of the draft version.

Thick walls and double glazing keep traffic noise to a minimum.

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Pros: Comfortable bed... nice room amenities Cons: To close to road... heavy traffic noise Prominent «old hotel smell» of diinfectant in room.

She said Suozzi has the experience needed to bring federal dollars back to the district to address local issues like transportation and air traffic noise.

City - dwellers may hate traffic noise and loud, late parties, but they enjoy a «vibrant calm» soundscape, says Trevor Cox, and we should cultivate it

Manoj Thota and Kon - Well Wang at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have designed a noise barrier that can reduce acoustic energy by 90 per cent, so traffic noise previously audible at 1.6 kilometres away only travels half a kilometre.

To date, most attempts at blocking traffic noise rely on erecting concrete walls, but sound can bend over their rigid, flat tops and then continue onward.

In the kitchen of his suburban apartment, not far from the San Francisco airport, traffic noise seeps in from the street.

«The idea is that by using fiber that can be buried underground for a long time, we can transform traffic noise or other ambient vibrations into usable seismic signals that can help us to monitor near - surface changes such as permafrost thaw and groundwater - level fluctuations.»

Using speakers set up near feeding platforms baited with bird seed, they recorded the birds» responses to three different recordings — alarm calls alone, traffic noise alone, and a combination of the two.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications shows that traffic noise makes birds less responsive to alarm calls that would otherwise alert them to dangers such as predators.

Added Dou: «We can monitor the near surface really well by using nothing but traffic noise.

«Using low rolling resistance tires to counter traffic noise.»

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.

For instance, it has been shown that artificial light during the night suppresses immune function [13] and advances timing of reproductive physiology [14], air pollution increases antioxidant activity [15] and traffic noise shortens early - life TL [16].

NOAA scientists studying sounds made by Atlantic cod and haddock at spawning sites in the Gulf of Maine have found that vessel traffic noise is reducing the distance over which these animals can communicate with each other.

The metallic creak of the cable as Petit walks; the rustle and hiss of wind passing over his clothes and through his hair; the muffled sound of traffic noises floating up from 110 stories below: «The Walk» makes these and other sensations palpable, along with Petit's delight, defiance and moments of doubt and fear.

The film's New York City feels more alive than ever before, right from the start when pedestrian conversations and traffic noises envelop both the tiny protagonist and us.

A modern city of 300 thousand, traffic noises assailed my ears from the traffic jam outside the Shinkansen train station.

Traffic noises woke me in the morning.

i get mine next month and I can't wait, I noticed with the top off traffic noise was minimal and top on was oh so quiet.