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... Appendix H Glossary of Terminology
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... Appendix H – Glossary of Terminology H-2 ACRP    ‐  Airports Cooperative Research Program  ADO    ‐  Airports District Office  ANSI    ‐  American National Standards Institute  ASNA    ‐  Airport Safety and Noise Abatement Act  ATADS  ‐  ‐  Air Traffic Activity Data System  ATC ‐  Air Traffic Control  ATCT    ‐  Airport Traffic Control Tower  CFQ ‐  Cognitive Failures Questionnaire  CFR ‐  Code of Federal Regulations  dB ‐  Decibel  dBA ‐  A‐weighted Decibel  DNL ‐  Day‐Night Average Sound Level  FAA ‐  Federal Aviation Administration  FICAN    ‐  Federal Interagency Committee on Aviation Noise  GIS ‐  Geographic Information System  GPS ‐  Global Positioning System  HHR    ‐  Jack Northrop Field/Hawthorne Municipal Airport  HMMH    ‐  Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc.  ICAO    ‐  International Civil Aviation Organization  INM    ‐  Integrated Noise Model  LAeq    ‐  A‐weighted Equivalent Sound Level  LAWA    ‐  Los Angeles World Airports  LAX ‐  Los Angeles International Airport  Lmax    ‐  Maximum Sound Level  NA ‐  Number of Events Above (for a given threshold sound level)   NAVAIDS  ‐  Navigational Aid System  NLR ‐  Noise Level Reduction  PSS ‐  Perceived Stress Scale  QMUL    ‐  Queen Mary University, London  RANCH  ‐  ‐  Road Traffic Noise and Aircraft Noise Exposure and Children's Cognition and Health  STAR    ‐  Standard Terminal Arrival Route  TA ‐  Time Above (for a given threshold sound level)

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