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| Mathias BasnerSummaryAffiliation: German Aerospace Center Country: Germany Publications
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Aircraft noise effects on sleep: application of the results of a large polysomnographic field studyMathias Basner
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, 51170 Cologne, Germany
J Acoust Soc Am 119:2772-84. 2006..Issues concerned with the representativeness of the study sample are discussed...
Markov processes for the prediction of aircraft noise effects on sleepMathias Basner
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Areospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany
Med Decis Making 30:275-89. 2010..Aircraft noise disturbs sleep and impairs recuperation. Authorities plan to expand Frankfurt airport...
Aircraft noise effects on sleep: a systematic comparison of EEG awakenings and automatically detected cardiac activationsMathias Basner
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, 51170 Cologne, Germany
Physiol Meas 29:1089-103. 2008..This inexpensive, objective and non-invasive method facilitates large-scale field studies on the effects of traffic noise on sleep...
An ECG-based algorithm for the automatic identification of autonomic activations associated with cortical arousalMathias Basner
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Koln, Germany
Sleep 30:1349-61. 2007..Visual EEG arousal scoring is time consuming and suffers from low interobserver agreement. We hypothesized that information on changes in heart rate alone suffice to predict the occurrence of cortical arousal...
Aircraft noise: effects on macro- and microstructure of sleepMathias Basner
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Koln, Germany
Sleep Med 9:382-7. 2008..The effects of aircraft noise on sleep macrostructure (Rechtschaffen and Kales) and microstructure (American Sleep Disorders Association [ASDA] arousal criteria) were investigated...
Annoyance and self-reported sleep disturbance due to night-time railway noise examined in the fieldSibylle Pennig
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, 51170 Cologne, Germany
J Acoust Soc Am 132:3109-17. 2012..The responses of this subject sample referring to railway noise in the previous night point to rather low impairments of exposed residents...
Examining nocturnal railway noise and aircraft noise in the field: sleep, psychomotor performance, and annoyanceEva Maria Elmenhorst
German Aerospace Centre, DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, 51170 Cologne, Germany
Sci Total Environ 424:48-56. 2012..Railway noise proved less annoying than aircraft noise in surveys which were the bases for a so called 5 dB railway bonus regarding noise protection in many European countries...
Single and combined effects of air, road, and rail traffic noise on sleep and recuperationMathias Basner
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany
Sleep 34:11-23. 2011..Traffic noise disturbs sleep and may impair recuperation. There is limited information on single and combined effects of air, road, and rail traffic noise on sleep and recuperation...
Pressure variations on a train - Where is the threshold to railway passenger discomfort?Sandra Schwanitz
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Department of Flight Physiology, Linder Hohe, 51147 Cologne, Germany
Appl Ergon 44:200-9. 2013..g. 50% dissatisfied passengers regarding a pressure increase of approximately 30 mbar within 5 s). The findings may help design engineers to meet passengers' comfort requirements...
Effects of nocturnal aircraft noise on cognitive performance in the following morning: dose-response relationships in laboratory and fieldEva Maria Elmenhorst
DLR German Aerospace Centre, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Linder Hoehe, 51170 Cologne, Germany
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 83:743-51. 2010..We investigated in laboratory and field studies whether noise-induced sleep fragmentation is associated with performance impairments in a psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) and a memory search task...
Continuous assessments of pressure comfort on a train -- a field-laboratory comparisonSandra Schwanitz
German Aerospace Center DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Department of Flight Physiology, Linder Hohe, 51147 Cologne, Germany
Appl Ergon 44:11-7. 2013..g. high amplitudes, short durations), pressure events of the recent past significantly influenced current discomfort. Design engineers may use these findings to improve train and tunnel design...
Pilot workload during approaches: comparison of simulated standard and noise-abatement profilesEva Maria Elmenhorst
DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany
Aviat Space Environ Med 80:364-70. 2009..A new noise-reduced landing approach was tested--a Segmented Continuous Descent Approach (SCDA)-with regard to the resulting workload on pilots...
Autonomic arousals related to traffic noise during sleepBarbara Griefahn
Institute for Occupational Physiology at Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
Sleep 31:569-77. 2008..To analyze the heart rate (HR) response to traffic noise during sleep and the influence of acoustic parameters, time of night, and momentary sleep stage on these responses...
