Environmental and occupational noise is a common nuisance that affects the health of employees. Performed health checks of employees engaged by the Company “Pomorski Saobraćaj” showed that 5% of examined sailors had hearing loss. The results were a trigger for starting experiment on noise risk assessment with the objective of discovering the possibilities of noise pollution presence, precise si...

Several studies have sought to establish the link between the characteristics of a corporation and the audit fees charged by its auditor. Many studies have tried to discover whether auditor specialization affects audit fees. Other research has attempted to discover the effects of government regulation on fees. The impact of risk on audit fees has also been examined, but has proved to be an elus...

Noise injury in agriculture is a significant yet often unrecognized problem. Many farmers, farm workers, and family members are exposed to noise levels above recommended levels and have greater hearing loss than their non-farming contemporaries. The aim of this study was to gather up-to-date information on farm noise levels and to enhance the quality of information available to assist farmers i...

Growth in the commercialization, mobility and urbanization of human settlements across the globe has greatly exposed world urban population to potentially harmful noise levels. The situation is more disturbing in developing countries like Nigeria, where there are no sacrosanct noise laws and regulations. This study characterized noise pollution levels in Ibadan and Ile-Ife, two urban areas of S...

The paper presents the challenges involved in a system design of a robust reconfigurable RF front-end for navigation and mobile standards. Receiver architecture is chosen from the point of view of inter-system interference and 130nm CMOS process characteristics. System concept covers the implementation of GPS, Galileo, UMTS, GSM and CDMA2000 using a Zero-IF architecture with reconfigurable anal...

This study used an ecological model to examine Thai workers' beliefs and attitudes toward using occupational hearing protection. Data collection involved focus group sessions with 28 noise-exposed workers at four factories in Chiang Mai Province and an interview with a safety officer at each organization. Detailed content analysis resulted in the identification of three types of factors influen...

The need to reduce a logic system’s noise emission is becoming ever more apparent with the increased use of high-speed electronics, and with the progressive tightening of regulations covering the amount of permissible radiated system noise. This article presents empirical and analytical techniques for effective EMI control of 54HC/74HC high-speed CMOS-logic circuitry. Several sources conduct or...

In the ocean, the dominant seismoacoustic noise source mechanism varies greatly across frequencies from ocean wave generated microseisms (0.05Hz-0.2Hz) to sea-surface noise (above 1kHz), including noise generated by human or biological activities. Though incoherent imaging with ocean ambient noise has been demonstrated (e.g. daylight imaging), a goal of this research is to use ambient noise, an...

In the Netherlands, the second decade of the nineteenth century not only saw the end of the socalled 'French period', but also the publication of a Dutch version of Lindley Murray's English Grammar. Is there any relation between the two ? One might argue that there was. In 1795, when Murray's English grammar was published in York, the federalist Republic of the Seven United Provinces was transf...