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Heat and humidity buildup under earmuff-type hearing protectorsRickie R Davis
Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Noise Health 13:93-8. 2011..The present study demonstrates that relatively inexpensive tools and a low-exertion task can provide important information about the under-earmuff environment, which can inform assumptions about comfort during use...
Acoustic measurement: a tutorial for molecular biologistsRickie R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Brain Res 1091:32-9. 2006..The present article presents guidelines for measuring acoustic stimuli which is within the abilities of a well equipped laboratory. It also presents a set of links for further information and some sources for procurement of equipment...
What do we know about hearing protector comfort?Rickie R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Noise Health 10:83-9. 2008..Finally, presented are some recent efforts by NIOSH to examine issues of hearing protector comfort in greater detail. These efforts include a field study of a semi-custom earplug hearing protector...
Genetic influences in individual susceptibility to noise: a reviewR R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Section, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Noise Health 5:19-28. 2003..Reduction of, or missing otocadherin weakens the cell and may allow stereocilia to be more easily physically damaged by loud sounds and by aging...
Susceptibility to the ototoxic properties of toluene is species specificRickie R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Section, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Hear Res 166:24-32. 2002..However, chinchillas may provide a valuable model for investigating how ototoxic agents can be detoxified to less damaging compounds...
Hearing protector use in noise-exposed workers: a retrospective look at 1983Rickie R Davis
Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
AIHA J (Fairfax, Va) 63:199-204. 2002..Whether an establishment had a written policy on wearing PPE seemed to make no difference, because there appeared to be no tie between the percentage of workers wearing of hearing protection and presence of a PPE policy...
N-Acetyl L-Cysteine does not protect mouse ears from the effects of noise*Rickie R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, C 27, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
J Occup Med Toxicol 5:11. 2010..2006; Hamernik et al., 2008). The present study was undertaken to determine if L-NAC could protect C57BL/6J (B6) mice from the permanent effects of noise...
Quantitative measure of genetic differences in susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss in two strains of miceR R Davis
Bioacoustics and Occupational Vibration Section, Physical Agents Effects Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Hear Res 134:9-15. 1999....
N-Acetyl L-cysteine does not protect against premature age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice: a pilot studyRickie R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, C 27, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Hear Res 226:203-8. 2007....
Genetic basis for susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss in miceR R Davis
Hearing Loss Prevention Section, Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop C 27, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati OH 45226, USA
Hear Res 155:82-90. 2001..2000. Genomics 70, 171-180]. All of the available evidence supports a role for the Ahl gene in both AHL and NIHL among these strains of mice...
Hearing loss in the chinchilla from impact and continuous noise exposureD E Dunn
U S Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
J Acoust Soc Am 90:1979-85. 1991..These data indicate a need to more closely examine the parameters and effects of impact noise. There may be a need to develop expanded damage-risk criteria for occupational exposure to impulse/impact noise...
Exposure to hazardous workplace noise and use of hearing protection devices among US workers--NHANES, 1999-2004SangWoo Tak
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Am J Ind Med 52:358-71. 2009..To estimate the prevalence of workplace noise exposure and use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) at noisy work, NIOSH analyzed 1999-2004 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)...
Relationship between comfort and attenuation measurements for two types of earplugsDavid C Byrne
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Noise Health 13:86-92. 2011..The primary research objective was to determine whether hearing protector comfort was related to measured attenuation values. A linear mixed effects model provided evidence for an inverse relationship between comfort and attenuation...
Deficiency in plasma membrane calcium ATPase isoform 2 increases susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss in micePeter J Kozel
Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
Hear Res 164:231-9. 2002..0007) permanent threshold shifts at 16 and 32 kHz that were 15 or 25 dB greater than those observed in Pmca2+/+ littermates. Pmca2 may be the first gene with a known mutated protein product that confers increased susceptibility to NIHL...
Characterization of a new allele of Ames waltzer generated by ENU mutagenesisJesse L Washington
Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Hear Res 202:161-9. 2005..These results are consistent with characteristics of the mutation in the Pcdh15(av-nmf19) allele and they support our previous finding that Protocadherin 15 plays an important role in hair-bundle morphogenesis...
