Sentences with phrase «urban noise»

The researchers say this is explained by the fact that urban noise pollution, most of which comes from traffic, tends to be at a lower pitch.

The richly - layered soundtrack pairing urban noises with historical recordings, was reflected off the surfaces of the architectural elements, creating spiraling echoes that become gradually softer as they move from the upper walkways to the floor of the Rotunda.

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

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

«Their natural sounds would be masked by urban noise,» says Potvin.

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 loud).

Some Final Tributes then is not about urban noise but about silence, creativity and the domestic space.

Examples include a grid of 30 small color photos, all diptychs; videos that incorporate urban noises with close - ups of the artist's face; and several intricate large - scale pen drawings that alternately resemble close - ups of fingerprints, vascular systems and tangled rope.

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.

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.

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.»

The Fairholm is well - situated for walking around Charlottetown and, except for the occasional motorcycle races down the street at odd hours of the night, it is close enough to the shopping areas, but not too close for the urban noise.

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.

Exposure to loud noise such as blasts and urban noise, adverse side effects from some drugs, stress, deficiency of certain minerals, etc have also been known to cause tinnitus.

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 dances.

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