Environmental noise has been growing in recent years, causing numerous health problems. Highly sensitive environments such as hospitals deserve special attention, since noise can aggravate patients’ health issues and impair ...

Road traffic noise is one of the major environmental issues affecting city dwellers’ human health and well being in an urban environment. This study develops a method to assess measures to reduce traffic noise by modeling ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is an imaging technique created to visualize 3-D mammary structures for the purpose of diagnosing breast cancer. This imaging technique is based on the principle of computed tomography. ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers noise pollution as the second-largest pollutant source in the world. The growth of cities along with the evolution and abrupt change of the urban environment caused the ...

Noise is the most frequent type of occupational exposure and can lead to both auditory and extra-auditory dysfunction as well as increasing the risk of work accidents. The purpose of this study was to estimate the attributable ...

Noise is the most frequent type of occupational exposure and can lead to both auditory and extra-auditory dysfunction as well as increasing the risk of work accidents. The purpose of this study was to estimate the attributable ...

Urban traffic noise (engine sound, horns, sirens, etc.), because it is a source of irritation that can affect the hospital environment, depending on its sound pressure level, contributes to the reduction of the welfare of ...