Audiogenic seizure risk can be induced in genetically seizure-resistant BALB/c mice by exposure to an intense noise. Results of this experiment showed that combined exposure to noise and sodium salicylate could produce a greater priming effect than exposure to the noise alone, and the greatest potentiation effect was obtained when animals were exposed to the noise 6 hr after the intake of salic...

Voxel-based estimation of PET images, generally referred to as parametric imaging, can provide invaluable information about the heterogeneity of an imaging agent in a given tissue. Due to high level of noise in dynamic images, however, the estimated parametric image is often noisy and unreliable. Several approaches have been developed to address this challenge, including spatial noise reduction...

background: in dental practical classes, the acoustic environment is characterized by high noise levels in relation to other teaching areas. the aims of this study were to measure noise levels produced during the different dental learning clinics, by equipments used in dental learning areas under different working conditions and by used and brand new handpieces under different working condition...

This paper describes the design of an X-band balanced low noise amplifier (LNA) using an available HJFET device. The balanced LNA consists of a pair of electrically similar transistors whose input and output signals are divided or combined by 3 dB two-stage Wilkinson power dividers. The proposed balanced LNA is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the noise figure is 1.30 dB ...

Introduction: Brain visual evoked potential (VEP) signals are commonly known to be accompanied by high levels of background noise typically from the spontaneous background brain activity of electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Material and Methods: A model based on dyadic filter bank, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and singular value decomposition (SVD) was developed to analyze the raw data...

This paper presents a multiple-model framework for noiserobust speech recognition. In this framework, multiple HMM model sets are trained each identified by a noise type and a specific Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) value. This, however, does not increase the computational complexity of the recognition process since only one model set is selected according to the noise classification and SNR estim...

Since publication of the World Health Organization’s report Burden of disease for environmental noise in 2011, several new studies on traffic noise and ischemic heart disease (IHD) have been published. There is thus a need for a meta-analytic update of risk estimates for these outcomes. We conducted a systematic review and retained published cohort and case-control studies using road, rail or a...

this paper tries to determine efficiency of noise control method using fuzzy logic and based on collected data. from among various methods of noise control in workplace, sex methods (enclosure, installing noise absorber, enclosure and absorber, active, and administrative control, and personal protective equipment) were typically selected based on experts' judgment. for each of selected control ...

The paper reports on the noise and vibration control of a 451 m long steel railway bridge. The vibration and noise generation mechanisms were investigated first. Vibration of the rail fixture, sleeper, horizontal and main girders and the steel walking plates were measured, together with noise measurements in a number of measuring points both in the close vicinity of the bridge and at larger dis...

noise removal operation is commonly applied as pre-processing step before subsequent image processing tasks due to the occurrence of noise during acquisition or transmission process. a common problem in imaging systems by using cmos or ccd sensors is appearance of  the salt and pepper noise. this paper presents cellular automata (ca) framework for noise removal of distorted image by the salt an...