A5072391953- Noise Effects and Management
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Color perception and design
- transportation and logistics systems
- Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Environmental and Industrial Safety
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Legal, Health, Environmental and COVID-19 Challenges
Graz University of Technology
2019-2024
Research Institute of Highway
2019
Innsbruck Medical University
2008-2018
Universität Innsbruck
2003-2016
University of Zurich
2010
Institute for Social Anthropology
1999
Although accumulating evidence over the past two decades points towards noise as an ambient stressor for children, all of data emanate from studies in high-intensity, impact zones around airports or major roads. Extremely little is known about nonauditory consequences typical, day-to-day exposure among young children. The present study examined multimethodological indices stress children living under 50 dB above 60 (A-weighted, day-night average sound levels) small towns and villages...
Although the evidence of adverse impacts ambient noise exposure on reading acquisition in children is rather strong, a less consistent picture results from attention and memory studies chronically exposed to levels. This study incorporated three cognitive measures 4th-grade schoolchildren ( N = 123). The sample was carefully selected representative by stratification residential parental educational level. two sociodemographically homogeneous samples differed only their range M 46.1 Ldn vs....
There is some data suggesting that residential greenspace may protect against high blood pressure in urbanized areas, but there no evidence of effects on hypotension, less and idiosyncratic geographic contexts such as mountain valleys.The current study aimed to investigate the associations between an alpine valley Austria.We conducted a cross-sectional survey representative sample 555 adults living Lower Inn Valley, Austria. Several definitions were employed: continuously-measured systolic...
An approach is proposed to shed light on the mechanisms underlying human perception of environmental sound that intrudes in everyday living. Most research exposure-effect relationships aims at relating overall effects exposure indicators an epidemiological fashion, without including available knowledge possible mechanisms. Here, it start from audition and construct a computational framework for effect individuals. Obviously, individual level additional (inter-sensory, attentional, cognitive,...
Many countries around the world have chosen lockdown and restrictions on people’s mobility as main strategies to combat COVID-19 pandemic. These actions significantly affected environmental noise modified urban soundscapes, opening up an unprecedented opportunity for research in field. In order enable these investigations be carried out a more harmonized consistent manner, this paper makes proposal set of indicators that will address challenge from number different approaches. It proposes...
Objectives: To investigate the relation between typical ambient noise levels (highway, rail, road) and multiple mental health indices of school children considering psychosocial biological risk factors as potential moderators. Methods: With a two stage design strategy (representative sample extreme sample) cross sectional samples (n=1280; n=123) primary (age 8–11) were studied. Individual exposure to at home was linked with (self reporting by child on standard scale rating teacher classroom...
Online education became mandatory for many students during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and blurred distinction between settings where processes of stress restoration used to take place. The lockdown also likely changed perceptions indoor acoustic environment (i.e., soundscape) raised its importance. In present study, we seek understand how soundscape related university students' self-rated health in Bulgaria around time that country was under a state emergency...
There is increasing evidence that a complex interplay of factors within environments in which children grows up, contributes to children's suboptimal mental health and cognitive development. The concept the life-course exposome helps study impact physical social environment, including inequities, on development over time.Equal-Life develops tests combined exposures their effects Data from eight birth-cohorts three school studies (N = 240.000) linked exposure data, will provide insights...