Megan Gerhart, Au.D. received her doctorate of audiology from the University of Florida. She has experience helping pediatrics to geriatrics both in private practice and medical models of care. She ...

Getting medical staff to adopt some simple measures on three hospital wards reduced noise levels by just under 20 percent -- from 96.48 decibels to 77.52 decibels. Hospitals can be very noisy places.

Bourbon County Commissioners passed a resolution to monitor sound levels in the county, with new decibel level mandates to ...

One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a measure of relative intensity or ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center found that noise in patient rooms sometimes reaches twice the maximum 30-40 decibel level recommended by the World Health Organization, ...

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Vashi: While the MPCB (Maharashtra Pollution Control Board) authorities have declared the city of Navi Mumbai as 'eco-friendly' considering the average noise decibel level which has been recorded as ...

To engineers in the audio media and broadcasting fields, few subjects are more personal, and partisan, than the transmission level and loudness of audio content. If loudness was no issue we might see ...