Search Results - "FIDELL, Sanford"

Brief on noise-induced sleep disturbance by Fidell, Sanford

“…Attempts to predict the probability of at least one awakening per night from numbers, times of occurrence, and sound levels of intruding noises also account…”
Get full text

Evaluation of an ANSI standard for predicting transportation noise-induced sleep disturbance by Fidell, Sanford

“…An ANSI Working Group has completed its review of a noise-induced sleep disturbance standard (Part 6 of ANSI/ASA S12.9-2008) by deciding not to re-affirm it…”
Get full text

Community tolerance level as a paradigmatic shift in development of dosage-response relationships by Fidell, Sanford

“…Dosage-response functions relating the prevalence of a consequential degree of annoyance in communities to cumulative exposure to transportation noise have…”
Get full text

Social survey of community response to a step change in aircraft noise exposure by Fidell, Sanford, Silvati, Laura, Haboly, Edward

“…Community response to a step change in aircraft noise exposure associated with the opening of a new runway at Vancouver International Airport was documented in…”
Get full text

The state of the art of predicting noise-induced sleep disturbance in field settings by Fidell, Sanford, Tabachnick, Barbara, Pearsons, Karl S

“…Several relationships between intruding noises (largely aircraft) and sleep disturbance have been inferred from the findings of a handful of field studies…”
Get full text

Relationship between low-frequency aircraft noise and annoyance due to rattle and vibration by Fidell, Sanford, Pearsons, Karl, Silvati, Laura, Sneddon, Matthew

“…A near-replication of a study of the annoyance of rattle and vibration attributable to aircraft noise [Fidell et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 1408-1415…”
Get full text

Effects on sleep disturbance of changes in aircraft noise near three airports by Fidell, S, Pearsons, K, Tabachnick, B G, Howe, R

“…Field measurements were conducted of potential sleep disturbance associated with changes in nighttime aircraft noise exposure near three airports. One study…”
Get full text

Introductory remarks for special issue on wind turbine noise by Schomer, Paul, Fidell, Sanford

Get full text

An alternate approach to regulatory analyses of the findings of a 20-airport social survey by Fidell, Sanford, Mestre, Vincent, Gjestland, Truls, Tabachnick, Barbara

“…Miller, Czech, Hellauer, Nicholas, Lohr, Jodts, Broene, Morganstein, Kali, Zhu, Cantor, Hudnall, and Melia [(2021). HMMH Report 308520.004.001] reported the…”
Get full text

Sample size implications for calculations of community tolerance level values from social surveys of noise-induced annoyance by Gjestland, Truls, Gelderblom, Femke B., Fidell, Sanford

“…The relationship between noise exposure and the prevalence of annoyance of transportation noise in a community is commonly characterized by a so-called…”
Get full text

Predicting noise-induced sleep disturbance by Pearsons, Karl S., Barber, David S., Tabachnick, Barbara G., Fidell, Sanford

“…The findings of 21 studies of the effects of noise on sleep were reanalyzed in an effort to develop a quantitative dosage-response relationship. Large and…”
Get full text

Some practical difficulties in assessing community response to low-amplitude sonic booms by Fidell, Sanford, Horonjeff, Richard, Mestre, Vincent

“…NASA Langley Research Center has been engaged for several years in planning tests of public acceptance of exposure to low-amplitude sonic booms that will be…”
Get full text

Updating a dosage-effect relationship for the prevalence of annoyance due to general transportation noise by FIDELL, S, BARBER, D. S, SCHULTZ, T. J

“…More than a decade has passed since a relationship between community noise exposure and the prevalence of annoyance was synthesized by Schultz [T. J. Schultz,…”
Get full text

Aircraft noise-induced awakenings are more reasonably predicted from relative than from absolute sound exposure levels by Fidell, Sanford, Tabachnick, Barbara, Mestre, Vincent, Fidell, Linda

“…Assessment of aircraft noise-induced sleep disturbance is problematic for several reasons. Current assessment methods are based on sparse evidence and limited…”
Get full text

The Schultz curve 25 years later: a research perspective by Fidell, Sanford

“…The contemporary technical rationale for assessing effects ("impacts") of transportation noise on communities rests in large part on a purely descriptive…”
Get full text

A wide-area system for tracking supersonic aircraft overflights and capturing their shock waves by Sanchez, Gonzalo, Horonjeff, Richard, Mestre, Vincent, Fidell, Sanford

“…An Internet-based, geographically-distributed prototype system for capturing sonic booms produced by NASA’s low boom flight demonstrator (LBFD) aircraft has…”
Get full text

A first-principles model for estimating the prevalence of annoyance with aircraft noise exposure by Fidell, Sanford, Mestre, Vincent, Schomer, Paul, Berry, Bernard, Gjestland, Truls, Vallet, Michel, Reid, Timothy

“…Numerous relationships between noise exposure and transportation noise-induced annoyance have been inferred by curve-fitting methods. The present paper…”
Get full text

Role of community tolerance level (CTL) in predicting the prevalence of the annoyance of road and rail noise by Schomer, Paul, Mestre, Vincent, Fidell, Sanford, Berry, Bernard, Gjestland, Truls, Vallet, Michel, Reid, Timothy

“…Fidell [(2011), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130 (2), 791-806] have shown (1) that the rate of growth of annoyance with noise exposure reported in attitudinal surveys…”
Get full text

Erratum: A systematic rationale for defining the significance of aircraft noise impacts [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 136, 1129–1138 (2014)] by Fidell, Sanford, Mestre, Vincent, Schomer, Paul, Horonjeff, Richard, Reid, Tim

Get full text

Field study of noise-induced sleep disturbance by Fidell, Sanford, Pearsons, Karl, Tabachnick, Barbara, Howe, Richard, Silvati, Laura, Barber, David S.

“…Behaviorally confirmed awakenings were recorded during nighttime hours for periods of approximately one month in 45 homes of 82 test participants. Measurements…”
Get full text