An inter-laboratory investigation of ANSI standard fitting protocols, sample size, subject and experimenter gender, and trial on the real-ear attenuation of two types of earplugs

Identical experiments were conducted between two acoustical-testing laboratories to determine the inter-laboratory differences of using two different hearing protection device (HPD) fitting procedures for testing the real-ear attenuation at threshold (REAT) of a popular vinyl foam earplug and a mult...

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Main Author: Mears, Mark G.
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44425
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08252008-161851/