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Community Response to High-Energy Impulsive Sounds An Assessment of the Field Since 1981 (1996) / Chapter Skim
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... 1981 Assessment of Community Response to High Energy Impulsive Sounds. Report of Working Group 84, Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biomechanics, National Research Council.
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... Pearsons 1993 Comparison of Methods of Predicting Community Response to Impulsive and Nonimpulsive Noise. Sonic Boom Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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... Sullivan 1990 Loudness of Shaped Sonic Booms. Presented at NOISE-CON 90 (The 1990 National Conference on Noise Control Engineering)
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  • social survey

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  • reporting annoyance
  • amplitude impulse


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