Report of assessment of Noise Pollution survey in Kolkata during Kali puja & Diwali Festivals- 2005 Introduction: The use of loudspeakers is regulated in terms of the Rules under the Environment Protection Act (1986) as well as the orders of the Supreme Court and the Calcutta High Court. The Police is empowered to enforce these rules and the orders. While the legal restrictions are mostly known by and large‚ special vigilance becomes necessary during festivals such as the Durga Puja‚ Kali Puja &
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In Theo Padnos’ memoir‚ My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher’s Notes‚ he recounts his journey in discovering his career choice and his adventures of being a part-time teacher in a county prison. Discussing the variety of prisoners that came in and out of the Woodstock jail‚ Padnos reveals his relations with the prisoners. Padnos starts off describing the tediousness of the work in graduate school and how the‚ once fun‚ aspects of analyzing text no longer appealed
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Ground Transportation Noise Literature Review Introduction Noise is‚ generally‚ all the unwanted sound‚ which could generate a number of detrimental effects both on human’s physical body and psychology. While certain types of noise could bother you and affect your working and life quality‚ some other types of noise could affect or even harm human’s auditory sense temporarily or permanently. Therefore‚ noise is defined as one of the most serious pollutions all over the world and how to address
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In the novel “White Noise”‚ DeLillo claims that “testing on rats is okay because they are a vermin” (DeLillo 124). Animal testing is not mentioned a lot‚ but Babette does become a test subject for a new undisclosed medicine. If you go by DeLillo’s suggestions in the book‚ “White Noise”‚ animal testing and human testing is almost the same. They are both trying out new medicines‚ to see whether or not the medicines work. The only difference is Babette is willing to try the medication and the rat is
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Background to the study Noise is a disturbance to the human environment that is escalating at such a high rate that it will become a major threat to the quality of human lives. In the past thirty years‚ noise in all areas‚ especially in urban areas‚ has been increasing rapidly. There are numerous effects on the human environment due to the increase in noise pollution. Slowly‚ unresponsively‚ we seem to accept noise and the physiological and psychological deterioration that accompanies it as an inevitable
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS‚ VOL. 11‚ NO. 4‚ AUGUST 2003 429 Noise Reduction by Fuzzy Image Filtering Dimitri Van De Ville‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Mike Nachtegael‚ Dietrich Van der Weken‚ Etienne E. Kerre‚ Wilfried Philips‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Ignace Lemahieu‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE Abstract—A new fuzzy filter is presented for the noise reduction of images corrupted with additive noise. The filter consists of two stages. The first stage computes a fuzzy derivative for eight different directions
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How Noise Affects Memory and Learning Your Name Your College How Noise Affects Memory and Learning According to past studies background and low-level noise in homes‚ work‚ and school‚ disrupts concentration and lowers the performance of people while learning and studying. For example‚ Anderson and Fuller (2010) looked at the effects of music on reading comprehension. Their results state the music environment reading comprehension score was lower than the non-music
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Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability‚ disorder‚ harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat‚ or light. Pollutants‚ the elements of pollution‚ can be foreign substances or energies‚ or naturally occurring; when naturally occurring‚ they are considered contaminants when they exceed natural levels. Pollution became a popular issue after
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assess aircraft noise of the planned three-runway system‚ or 3RS‚ based on the number of events where aircraft noise exceeds a certain level‚ we would like to point out that no major international airport has been found to use such an approach for assessing the noise impact of aircraft operations. The aircraft noise impact assessment presented in the environmental impact assessment for the proposed expansion of Hong Kong International Airport into 3RS was undertaken based on the noise exposure forecast
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