Engineering
Noise pollution has become increasingly common in urban areas, stemming from traffic, construction activities, and factories, which can seriously impact health, causing stress, sleep disturbances, and cardiovascular issues. ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Engineering
In a bid to combat escalating traffic noise pollution, a novel study presents a semianalytical meshless method to optimize the acoustic performance of sound barriers. The research focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of ...
Jul 8, 2024
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Engineering
Walking out of a hair salon can have customers feeling brand new, but the noisy environment may have negative effects at the cost of a new "do." At Image Creators salon in Maryland, owner Silvia Campana along with her employees ...
May 14, 2024
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Engineering
Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric aircraft is, the noisier it ...
Mar 15, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Organic photodetectors (OPDs) are the "eyes" of the image sensor and can be applied to various diode systems for next-generation advanced devices. The distinct advantages of OPDs over conventional inorganic photodetectors ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Telecom
For voice communication, it is important to suppress background noise without introducing unnatural distortion. Deep learning-based speech enhancement approaches can effectively suppress background noise components.
Jul 23, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
A significant increase in the demand of accelerometers is expected as the market for consumer electronics, such as smartphones, and social infrastructure monitoring applications are expanding. Such miniaturized and mass-producible ...
Jul 23, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
There are times when we all would like to tune out the outside world and just relax in peace and quiet.
May 15, 2019
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Engineering
A series of NASA flight tests has successfully demonstrated technologies that achieve a significant reduction in the noise generated by aircraft and heard by communities near airports.
Jun 27, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
A new study has revealed how inspiration from owls' wings could allow aircraft and wind turbines to become quieter.
Jul 4, 2017
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