Acoustic comfort
Acoustic comfort in large dining spaces
... diners’ acoustic comfort evaluation on various sound sources in background ...of acoustic comfort evaluation on the sound sources of background music and television sound were close to 3 ...
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Effects of individual sound sources on the subjective loudness and acoustic comfort in underground shopping streets
... The statistical analysis of the survey results reveals four sound sources that were cited most frequently (>600 times) by the interviewees in the questionnaire survey. These sources are background music (1485 times), ...
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Prediction of Noise Transmission Loss and Acoustic Comfort Assessment of a Ventilated Window using Statistical Energy Analysis
... the acoustic performance of the ventilated window and evaluation of the effectiveness of the ventilated window in providing the indoor acoustic comfort according to outdoor traffic ...indoor ...
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Field study on the influence of spatial and environmental characteristics on the evaluation of subjective loudness and acoustic comfort in underground shopping streets
... and acoustic comfort have been an important issue for architects, owners, administrators, and customers ...more comfort especially when the auditory and visual components are ...
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Influence of Social and Behavioural Characteristics of Users on Their Evaluation of Subjective Loudness and Acoustic Comfort in Shopping Malls
... of acoustic comfort evaluation is influenced by income, education level, and occupation, with correlation coefficients or contingency coefficients of ...and acoustic comfort is statistically ...
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A soundscape approach to exploring design strategies for acoustic comfort in modern public libraries: a case study of the Library of Birmingham
... tic comfort in modern public libraries and measured the quality of the perceived sound environment, focusing on the appropriateness of the spatial organisation to facili- tate users’ activities of reading and ...
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Acoustic comfort in open plan offices: The role of employee characteristics
... Additionally, although we endeavoured to include a wider range of employee characteristics than had been typically considered in past research, it is nonetheless likely that additional unmeasured traits or ...
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Using the Absorptive-Dissipative Silencer in Air Conditioning Systems of an Office Environment in Order to Provide Acoustic Comfort
... Air conditioning systems are the main source of background low frequency noise in administrative buildings, restaurants, classrooms, and hotels. There are different ways to reduce the low frequency noise. Silencers are ...
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Acoustic comfort in the living environment and its association with noise representation: A systematic review
... read. Acoustic studies focusing on aircraft and railway noise were excluded from the study because these specific noise sources were considered to be unrepresentative of typical central urban residential areas in ...
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The influence of crowd density on the sound environment of commercial pedestrian streets
... perceived acoustic comfort is ...the acoustic comfort score decreased with both decreasing and increasing crowd ...the acoustic environment was less comfortable with both a lower and a ...
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The effects of expectation on the perception of soundscapes
... For example, Kang suggests acoustic comfort evaluation where types of sound sources, users of a space, and social factors play a role in perception [14] Combining these factors could for[r] ...
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Acoustic Design of a Classical Concert Hall and Evaluation of its Acoustic Performance A Case Study
... the acoustic performance between the timber and timber-concrete ...the acoustic comfort level and structural ...an acoustic evaluation of a contemporary church based on in situ ...two ...
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Acoustic Structural Influences in Brazilian Education
... acoustical comfort in educational en- vironments” (Levandoski, 2013) analysed two work environments with different acoustic characteristics, verifying if the quality of life and the occupational health of ...
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POST-OCCUPANCY EVALUATION OF CAMPUS HOSPITAL, NIT, TRICHY
... The acoustic comfort means adequate level of noise in the indoor environment. If the level of noise is high, it may cause the mental stress and hypersensitivity sometimes lead to hearing loss. In hospital ...
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Predictors of patient satisfaction with hospital health care
... the questionnaire and if the patient completed the ques- tionnaire or did so with the assistance of someone else. As in previous studies, we showed that older patients tended to have higher satisfaction scores in all ...
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Comfort temperature in air conditioned office buildings: case study of Indonesia and Singapore
... thermal comfort in office buildings in Indonesia, while Singapore uses a standard regulation SS 554:2009, which recommends indoor operative temperature between 24 to 26°C, with an acceptable limit of at least 8 ...
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Sustainable Structures for Smart Cities and its Performance Evaluation
... The acoustic emission analysis makes use of sensors mounted on the outside of parts or constructions to file elastic waves brought about inside of through microscopic processes comparable to, ...constitution. ...
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Comfort: a project for cultural studies
... of comfort are evident not only in the ways that comfort is “played out” as a defining marker of the sorts of lives considered worth living in this present moment of late capitalist excess but also in the ...
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Research on Intelligent Home Adaptive Control Strategy
... The data selection criteria in this paper is shown in Table 1. The quantitative analysis of the indoor comfort prediction results and the optimal joint control strategy are based on the control strategy ...
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Two-stage Looped-tube Thermoacoustic Cooler –
... the acoustic impedance is above 70 ...the acoustic driver achieves the maximum efficiency within the permitted current, voltage and acoustic and electrical ...of acoustic networks used in this ...
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