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Elevated workplace or environmental noise can cause hearing impairment, tinnitus, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, and sleep disturbance. [3] [4] Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been also attributed to noise exposure. [5] Although age-related health effects ( presbycusis) occur naturally with age, [6] in many ...
Anechoic chamber. An anechoic chamber ( an-echoic meaning "non-reflective" or "without echoes") is a room designed to stop reflections or echoes of either sound or electromagnetic waves. They are also often isolated from energy entering from their surroundings. This combination means that a person or detector exclusively hears direct sounds (no ...
As Flippy continues to count, a woodpecker behind him begins pecking at the tree it's perching on. The sound of the woodpecker's pecking causes Flippy to act all scared. Just seconds later, Flippy thinks of these sounds as a machine gun being fired, and he starts to act all viciously as if he's back in a war.
The device is described as a combination white noise generator and AM radio receiver modified to sweep back and forth through the AM band selecting split-second snippets of sound. Critics of the device say its effect is subjective and incapable of being replicated, and since it relies on radio noise, any meaningful response a user gets is ...
All the while, the sound of a piano being played poorly can be heard in the background. After the 6-minute mark, the video cuts to black as the sound of TV white noise replaces the original banging piano music. The video then cuts back to Mickey, who starts sneering after a while, and the sound of a garbled cry can be heard.
A dog named Lucy Marie went missing six years ago in Lorain, Ohio and last week she was found and brought into the Lorain County Dog Kennel in Elyria.
food and drink deprivation, and stress positions. Music can be used as a tool of psychological warfare. The term "music torture " is sometimes used to describe the practice. [citation needed] While it is acknowledged by United States interrogation experts to cause discomfort, it has also been characterized as having no "long-term effects". [1]
Noise pollution, or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise or sound with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of which are harmful to a degree. The source of outdoor noise worldwide is mainly caused by machines, transport and propagation systems. [1] [2] [3] Poor urban planning may give rise to noise ...