Sentences with phrase «decibels as»

These sound waves can travel for hundreds of miles under water, and can retain an intensity of 140 decibels as far as 300 miles from their source.

When the hybrid ran the Laptop Mag Audio Test (measuring a constant tone from 23 inches for laptops, 13 inches for tablets), the Switch 11 hit 77 decibels as a laptop and 70 dB as a standalone tablet.

These sound waves can travel for hundreds of miles under water, and can retain an intensity of 140 decibels as far as 300 miles from their source.

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I spoke with Steven Holtzman, who heads up the hearing disease therapeutics firm Decibel and was one of the main driving forces behind the letter, and he expressed that the immigration issue is extremely important to him personally as his parents immigrated from Cuba.

As Shaquille O'Neal prepared to tool away from the Los Angeles Lakers» practice facility last Friday in his black Mercedes - Benz, he turned down the bass on his stereo to jumbo - jet decibel level, flashed a sly smile and said, «I want to show you something.»

They might even have a little decibel meter on the screen like they did in the NFC Championship, when the Seahawks fans didn't come close to getting as loud as they've been in the past.

Before the game started, the Dodger Stadium PA was playing Drake at 400 decibels, as they do.

I understand now why one of this place's nicknames is «Thunder Valley» — the sound climbs to 140 decibels, the same as an aircraft carrier in full swing.

When decibel levels are causing your rib cage to jump out of our chest as you're trying to call in offensive plays, life can get MIGHTY STRESSFUL.

The Vicente Calderon stadium should be renamed the Vicente Cauldron this season as the fans have been ramping up the atmosphere and the decibels.

There was a surge in the decibel levels at Turf Moor last night when fourth official Darren England held up the board showing we would have six extra minutes to play as we tried to fight back from a goal behind against Middlesbrough.

We put them under some tremendous pressure as the decibel levels inside Turf Moor increased more and more.

(That's as many as 80 to 90 decibels!)

These types of toys include cap guns, musical toys, toy phones, horns, sirens, and even squeaky rubber toys, which can produce noise as high as 90 to 120 decibels.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, for infants, a noise level that exceeds 45 decibels is of concern, and some movies, such as action movies, can have a sustained level of 90 decibels.

It has low decibel sounds as well as a stop function button.

While a baby in utero hears what's going on outside the womb at about 10 decibels lower than you do, the rhythm, melody, and other language patterns that serve as the foundation of speech are -LSB-...]

A baby's screams can reach 110 decibels, which is almost as loud as an ambulance siren.

There is, however, some controversy here, because when researchers stuck microphones in pregnant women's uteruses for a 1990 study I'm glad I wasn't a part of, they found that fetuses are exposed to between 72 and 88 decibels of baseline noise in the womb — the latter being about as loud as the maximum output of the white - noise machines tested in the study.

Overall, they found that, at maximum volume, every one of the noise machines placed within 3 1/4 feet of infants» ears were capable of producing sounds that exposed the babies to more than 50 A-weighted decibels, what the study describes as «the current recommended noise limit for infants in hospital nurseries.»

Using cotton balls or small earplugs may help to decrease the decibel level your baby is exposed to, and as a result make it easier for her to sleep or relax.

If the expansion goes ahead as planned, the number of people subject to aviation noise levels above 57 decibels will rise from 375,000 to 535,000.

Thom Doud, project manager for Controlled Demolition, Inc., said on Friday the implosion would be lower than 140 decibels, about as loud as the montage of a fireworks show.

Harbor porpoises are frequently exposed to sounds from shipping vessels that register at around 100 decibels, about as loud as a lawnmower, scientists report February 14 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Sounds this loud can cause porpoises to stop echolocation, which they use to catch food.

But for real quiet — defined as less than 20 decibels — the West is best.

Since the decibel scale is logarithmic, growing exponentially, that means a jet sounds twice as loud as a train when the noise levels of both vehicles are objectively the same.

The broader aim, says Clark, is to shift the research and mitigation paradigm from using decibel level to using acoustic habitat as a measure of the impact of noise on marine mammals.

The sheer number of insects to come out at once can be a pain for nearby residents, as the noise they produce can be in excess of 120 decibels at close range.

Workers who felt up to their jobs selected quieter punishments, between 55 and 62 decibels, as did those primed to feel incompetent yet powerless (Psychological Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02452.x).

Workers who felt up to their jobs, selected far quieter punishments, between 55 and 62 decibels, as did those primed to feel incompetent yet powerless.

When they next measured responses in the auditory regions of the brain, a more sensitive test, the mice responded to much quieter sounds: 19 of 25 mice heard sounds quieter than 80 decibels, and a few could heard sounds as soft as 25 - 30 decibels, like normal mice.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

Deep blue regions, such as Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, have background noise levels lower than 20 decibels — a silence likely as deep as before European colonization, researchers say.

They found that by shaving off the peaks and irregularities that dot the surface of concrete pavement (top images) with a machine that is essentially a large drum encrusted with diamond dust, workers can reduce road noise by as much as 10 decibels — or nearly half.

One ship created a 130 decibel noise — twice as loud as a chainsaw — that caused a porpoise to flee at top speed.

As governments and industries expand their use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean bottom for resources, experts from eight universities and environmental organizations are calling for new global standards and mitigation strategies.

As the sound and antisound bounce off the walls they get out of synch, so the overall noise reduction is only around 5 decibels, which is barely audible.

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

(A reduction of 10 decibels makes noises sound half as loud.)

Because the decibel scale is logarithmic, a 10 dB difference between sounds means that the larger one is 10 times as loud.

In fact, the turbine clocks in at 35 decibels — about the same level as a whisper, according to Lehti.

The elephants» calls would be deafening — around 110 decibels, as loud as a rock concert — but we can not hear a note because the waves are so lengthy, as long as 225 feet.

18 The loudest human burp ever recorded — 107.1 decibels, about as loud as a chain saw from three feet — was produced by Londoner Paul Hunn in September 2008.

The fluctuation in levels can be as high as 10 to 12 decibels.»

The battery - powered engine, at 80 decibels, is half as noisy as a 3.5 - horsepower petrol - driven mower (86 decibels).

As the noise loops back towards the jet nozzle, new turbulence is triggered, creating extremely large tones that can reach into the 170 - decibel range and do structural damage to the aircraft in question.

In some cases, the improvement in understanding is equivalent to turning down the speech volume by more than 5 decibels, which is similar to the difference in the strength between car and truck noise, while still being able to hear what is said just as clearly.

But try as they might, bands just can't compete with the decibel ranges produced by jet engines.

Noise reduction headphones are also helpful as air cabin decibels can range from 75 to 100 (a loud nightclub is about 100 decibels).

You simply sit in a gorgeous restaurant, sip tea, eat finger sandwiches, and throw your head back as you laugh at a lady - like decibel.