The acoustic environment of inpatient hospital wards in the United Kingdom

Bridget Shield; Nicola Shiers; Rosemary Glanville

doi:10.1121/1.4962276

The acoustic environment of inpatient hospital wards in the United Kingdom

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.4962276 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 140 (3) ◽

pp. 2213-2224 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Bridget Shield ◽

Nicola Shiers ◽

Rosemary Glanville

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Acoustic Environment ◽

Inpatient Hospital ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Hospital Wards

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How are nature based solutions contributing to priority societal challenges surrounding human well-being in the United Kingdom: a systematic map protocol

Environmental Evidence ◽

10.1186/s13750-019-0180-4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jan Dick ◽

James D. Miller ◽

Jonathan Carruthers-Jones ◽

Anne J. Dobel ◽

Steve Carver ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Environmental Justice ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Research Question ◽

Well Being ◽

Acoustic Environment ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Societal Challenges ◽

Cost Efficacy ◽

Management Issues

Abstract Background The concept of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) has evolved as an umbrella concept embracing concepts such as Green/Blue/Nature Infrastructure, Ecosystem Approach, Ecosystem Services, but at their core, they cluster into the general theme of learning from and using nature to create sustainable socio-ecological systems, which enhance human well-being (HWB). NBS address societal challenges across a broad range of spatial scales—local, regional and global—and temporal scales—medium to long-term. While there are many reviews and a clear evidence base linking certain NBS to various elements of HWB, particularly urban greenspace and human health, no comprehensive mapping exists of the links between NBS interventions and the associated multiple positive and negative HWB outcomes across a range of habitats. The initial research phase used a participatory co-design process to select four priority societal challenges facing the United Kingdom: three related to management issues i.e. NBS cost-efficacy, governance in planning, environmental justice, and the fourth threats to the acoustic environment. These challenges collectively address priority management issues which stakeholders requested be investigated widely i.e. across landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes and soundscapes. Results of the study are intended to identify and define potential future environmental evidence challenges for UK science. Methods This protocol describes the methodology for approaching the research question: What evidence is there for nature based solutions and their impacts on human wellbeing for societal challenges related to cost-efficacy, governance in planning, environmental justice, and the acoustic environment? Using systematic mapping, this study will search for and identify studies that seek to assess nature-based solutions on human well-being with regard to these four societal challenges. Systematic searches across a number of academic/online databases are tested against a number of test articles. Search results are refined using eligibility criteria through a three stage process: title, abstract, full text. Data from screened studies are extracted using a predefined coding strategy. Key trends in data will be synthesized according to a range of secondary questions and be presented in a graphical matrix illustrating the knowledge gaps and clusters for research into nature-based solutions and human well-being for each societal challenge.

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The acoustic environment of inpatient hospital wards.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.3588933 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 129 (4) ◽

pp. 2668-2668

Author(s):

N. J. Shiers ◽

B. M. Shield ◽

R. C. Glanville

Keyword(s):

Acoustic Environment ◽

Inpatient Hospital ◽

Hospital Wards

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Listeners' Perception of English Cathedral Girl and Boy Choristers

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.1525/mp.2002.20.1.35 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 35-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

David M. Howard ◽

John Szymanski ◽

Graham F. Welch

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Choral Music ◽

Male Role ◽

Acoustic Environment ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Average Accuracy ◽

Perceptual Ability ◽

Sacred Choral Music ◽

Musical Context

In the United Kingdom, it is increasingly common to find girls in English cathedral choirs, and some appear to wonder whether they can perform this traditionally male role appropriately. We report results from a perceptual experiment designed to establish whether or not listeners can correctly identify trained girl and boy English cathedral choristers when they are singing the top lines in samples of professionally recorded sacred choral music from one cathedral choir. In the experiment, the lower three parts (alto, tenor, and bass), the musical director, and the acoustic environment remained constant. Results suggest that listeners can identify the sex of the choristers singing the top line with an average accuracy of approximately 60%%, but the results also suggest that musical context plays an important part in this perceptual ability. In addition, boys are accurately identified more often than girls, and adult listeners can discriminate between the two more reliably than child listeners.

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