scholarly journals Sources, Extents and Factors for the Proliferation of Urban Noise Pollution in Wolaita Sodo city, Wolaita zone, Ethiopia

Author(s):  
Melese Mesene ◽  
Tamirat Mengistu
Author(s):  
Neelima S. Naik

Noise pollution in urban areas is recognized as a major environmental concern in India. The lack of infrastructure and fast paced life in major metropolitan cities of India has made the urban environment extremely crowded, busy as well as noisy and as a result the millions of people living in the major metropolitan areas are suffering from the impacts of noise pollution. Noise levels are escalating at such a rate that it has become a major threat to the quality of human lives. Direct links between noise and health have been established by research conducted over the past few decades. There are several causes for urban degradation such as population migration, environmental considerations not adequately being incorporated into master plans, uncoordinated and haphazard development, weak implementation of plans and laws and inadequate institutional competences and resource crunch. This paper discusses the causal factors, impacts and the different approaches adopted by the Central Government as well as some major State Pollution Control Boards to curb the urban noise problem and the need for looking into non-conventional solutions such as Ecocity programme to bring in visible environmental improvement.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2150027
Author(s):  
Junlan Nie ◽  
Ruibo Gao ◽  
Ye Kang

Prediction of urban noise is becoming more significant for tackling noise pollution and protecting human mental health. However, the existing noise prediction algorithms neglected not only the correlation between noise regions, but also the nonlinearity and sparsity of the data, which resulted in low accuracy of filling in the missing entries of data. In this paper, we propose a model based on multiple views and kernel-matrix tensor decomposition to predict the noise situation at different times of day in each region. We first construct a kernel tensor decomposition model by using kernel mapping in order to speed decomposition rate and realize stable estimate the prediction system. Then, we analyze and compute the cause of the noise from multiple views including computing the similarity of regions and the correlation between noise categories by kernel distance, which improves the credibility to infer the noise situation and the categories of regions. Finally, we devise a prediction algorithm based on the kernel-matrix tensor factorization model. We evaluate our method with a real dataset, and the experiments to verify the advantages of our method compared with other existing baselines.


2002 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 2375-2375
Author(s):  
Paulo H. T. Zannin ◽  
Fabiano B. Diniz
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1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 201-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Rene Serra ◽  
Carlos A. Frassoni ◽  
Ana Maria Verzini de Romera ◽  
Ester Cristina Biassoni de Serra

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Aumond ◽  
Catherine Lavandier ◽  
Carlos Ribeiro ◽  
Elisa Gonzalez Boix ◽  
Kennedy Kambona ◽  
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