ver, employs a full-time noise control specialist, Dave Jarinko. It seems that people do not take airport noise seriously until they are the ones impacted by it, and then they become activists in this area of environmental concerns. Jarinko says that, in general, Europeans are ahead of the United States on noise issues, but that is changing (Gordon, 2002, p.14CN1). People do not like to have their sleep disturbed, as eventually that begins to impact the quality of life. Research in psychoacoustics has revealed that an individual's attitudes, beliefs and values may greatly influence the degree to which a person c
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