Causes And Effects Of Noise Pollution Noise can be defined as an unwanted or undesired sound. Decibel is the standard unit for measurement of sound. Usually 80 db is the level at which sound becomes physically painful. And can be termed as noise. Humans‚ animals‚ plants and even inert objects like buildings and bridges have been victims of the increasing noise pollution caused in the world. Be it human or machine-created‚ noise disrupts the activity and balance of life. While traffic dons the
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CCCH9008 Noise Pollution and Control in HK Two important characteristics of sound or noise Frequency of Sound Sound is the quickly varying pressure wave travelling through a medium. When sound travels through air‚ the atmospheric pressure varies periodically. The number of pressure variations per second is called the frequency of sound‚ and is measured in Hertz (Hz) - cycles per second. Loudness A loud noise usually has a larger pressure variation and a weak one has smaller pressure variation
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and heavy city traffic noise can be 85 decibels. Examples of sources of loud noises that cause NIHL are motorcycles‚ firecrackers‚ and firearms‚ all emitting sounds from 120 to 150 decibels. Sounds of less than 80 decibels‚ even after long exposure‚ are unlikely to cause hearing loss. Exposure to harmful sounds causes damage to the sensitive hair cells of the inner ear as well as the hearing nerve. These structures can be injured by two kinds of noise: loud impulse noise‚ such as an explosion‚ or
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The Signal and the Noise Introduction Summary "The Signal and the Noise" is a non-fiction book written by Nate Silver that talks about predictions based on probability; particularly focusing on the outcomes of real-world predictions and why they did or did not fail. Published in 2012‚ this book is a commentary on the world of probability made by an ex-statistician. Silver begins this work by effectively emphasizing the relevance of his points by supporting his argument with data applicable
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Some Essential Concepts in the Analysis of Cohesion A Note on Texture In Halliday’s grammar‚ the analysis of cohesion is closely related to the analysis of theme-rheme and given-new‚ as all these features are connected to thetextual metafunction of language. Theme-rheme and given-new combine in the grammar of English to form what Halliday calls the structural component ofTEXTURE‚ which is defined as ‘the property of ‘being a text’’. The other component of TEXTURE is the cohesive‚ which is the non-structural component
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A Concept Analysis if Patient Centered Care Christina Babbs Chamberlain College of Nursing Theoretical Basis Advanced Nursing NR 501 Cecelia Lipscomb-Hammond November 15‚ 2014 A Concept Analysis if Patient Centered Care Concept analysis is a process of researching‚ gaining knowledge of concepts for the purpose of clarification or further development. Concept analysis should be conducted when concepts require clarification or further development to define them for a nurse scholar’s purposes‚ whether
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WHAT IS EDUCATION? Paula Friere and Mark Edmondson try to explain the concept of education in two different perspectives. According to the banking concept of education‚ Friere brings out education as the mere act of depositing. In this regard‚ education involves the teacher depositing knowledge to the students while the students’ role is restricted to just absorbing‚ storing it and memorising whenever required to do so. According to his ideology‚ education is all about having the two extreme parties
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in different ways. Some healthy‚ some not. Humans are instinctively curious‚ the fear exists because of the unknown‚ and we don’t know what happens‚ which instills fear in us. We create ways to get on with our lives‚ to move past the fear. In White Noise‚ Don DeLillo states how humans try to protect themselves from the fear of death by building protective walls between them and their fear‚ which can keep them from living their honest life. People join a crowd to feel safe. A form of herd mentality
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Property and the Concept of ‘Stridhana’ As mentioned earlier there were two schools of law namely Mitakshara school and Dayabhaga school. In both the schools women’s property rights were restricted. Under Mitakshara law male were coparcenaries ie‚ the owners of land. They got this right by birth and not by succession. But the main characteristic of this property was the inalienability. A person who possessed that property cannot dispose it by sale‚ gift or by will. Ownership was just a notion. The
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