Expecting a person to investigate every possibility
of noise sources is not a requirement to protect a person.
Such an instrument performance budget is a necessity for both identifying the variety
of noise sources currently limiting Doppler measurements, and estimating the achievable performance of next generation exoplanet hunting Doppler spectrometers.
She has over 16 years of project / program management and principle investigator experience involving the impacts
of noise sources on marine animals.
«Although mitigation measures would be investigated and provided based on final site and equipment design, the addition
of the noise source at pump stations would be an unavoidable adverse impact,» Pilgrim officials wrote.
Not exact matches
One example is the flaring
of wells, which is a
source of air,
noise and light pollution, and has decreased dramatically in recent years.
While it sometimes provides me with an instant
source of boredom alleviation, more often than not it's just blasting out a bunch
of unwanted
noise.
Typically, those
sources of noise confound the «signal» that we want to identify, so unless the
noise is filtered away, there is a risk
of being misled by meaningless short - term fluctuations.
The Fly team scours all
sources of company news, from mainstream to cutting - edge, then filters out the
noise to deliver short - form stories consisting
of only market moving content.
Despite being outclassed on the pitch, the
noise from the away section was a constant
source of merriment to a bemused Etihad crowd.
Providing white
noise also blocks out other
sources of stimulation that might be causing your baby stress.
It can sound a bit like static, whooshing wind, or a fan depending on the particular
source of the white
noise you choose.
Humidifiers don't just keep your little one's room nice and comfortable, they can also be a great
source of white
noise.
The second important safety factor is to place the
source of the
noise a distance away from your baby.
4) Bring along a
source of soothing background
noise for baby's room: baby's nighttime cd's, a sleep sounds app for your mobile device, or sound machine.
Bring along a
source of soothing background
noise for baby's room: baby's night - time cd's, a sleep sounds app for your mobile device, or sound machine.
In 2001, the ICAO Assembly agreed that a balance
of at -
source restrictions, planning controls, operating restrictions and
noise abatement practices by pilots and air traffic controllers would form the appropriate methods to address aviation
noise.
David Cameron's repeated assertions that we are in a «global race» are part
of it; sadly the patronising
noises from «
sources close to the leadership» are just the latest manifestation.
The
source, who spoke on condition
of anonymity added: «Contrary to the
noise being made, we are ready to approach the court for interim forfeiture
of $ 3 million and N500 million linked to two governors through their fronts.
A
source told the Guardian that Hilary Benn, the environment secretary, had achieved concessions on air and
noise pollution levels towards the end
of last week, but Miliband's concerns were unresolved until overnight on Tuesday.
The most common
sources of noise - induced hearing loss include explosions, power tools, music and common machinery.
A new doctoral thesis from the University
of Gothenburg shows that
noise pollution impedes reproduction in sand and common gobies, both
of which are important food
sources for juvenile cod.
«So against the background
of the rapidly growing use
of leisure boats and other
sources of noise in the marine environment, it is important to understand how fish are affected by
noise.»
To examine the possible negative effect
of underwater
noise, the fish were exposed to a sound
source in their aquarium.
He says his team excluded most
sources of noise, which would have corrupted the entanglement process, by forcing laser and atoms to interact only at a high frequency.
Computer scientists aiming to improve computer speech recognition need to enhance the ability
of machines to achieve «
source separation,» the ability to distinguish and make sense
of several voices talking at the same time even in the presence
of background
noise (although a phenomenon Maye has not researched herself).
Then they must hunt down and eliminate remaining
sources of noise to see what level
of sensitivity they can achieve with the steel wires still in place.
The task
of eliminating
noise sources is sure to take several months, says Lisa Barsotti
of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge, co-chair
of the LIGO - Virgo Joint Run Planning Committee.
There, shielded from most
sources of contaminating
noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth
of time looking for flashes
of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.
«We need to be much more aware
of the impact that this
noise might have on children,» Newman said, «and make a point
of trying to turn off background television, background radio, background
noise sources for at least some
of the time when we're interacting with our children, to give them the best opportunity to learn from that input.»
But whatever the
source of the stellar
noise, Gilliland says that Kepler will have to detect twice as many transits
of Earth - like analogues than planned — an average
of six passages per planet rather than three, at intervals
of roughly a year — to be sure that a dip in starlight is a true signal
of an Earth - sized body.
Later, as an engineer for a Silicon Valley software company, he defended his dog, Paco, against a neighbor's
noise complaints by logging barks on a spreadsheet (the numbers vindicated Paco, showing he was not the
source of the public disturbance).
It is a widespread practical application
of this
noise - trauma - alert principle — and an increasing
source of noise pollution worldwide as the global traffic population grows.
Rather than deploying costly sensors all over a city, the maps are often created using computer models that predict how various
sources of noise, such as airports and railway stations, affect the areas around them.
AIS provides a tool for helping understand underwater soundscapes and identifying
sources of acoustic
noises that can be linked to decreased fisheries catches or disruptions to marine mammal behaviors and migrations.
That required devising algorithms to account for how cityscapes deflect or absorb various types
of waves, for instance, and filtering out
noise from
sources such as subways, the vibrations
of which could interfere with interpreting vibrations from the detonation.
Although not all ambient
noise comes from human activity, a busy interstate or a new housing development is a more persistent
source of noise than intermittent natural phenomena like wind and rain, Horn said.
The scientists found that some
of the whales engaged in deep feeding stopped eating and either sped up or moved away from the
source of the
noise.
The scientists developed an algorithm to distinguish rockfalls from other
sources of seismic
noise, like rainstorms, avalanches, and earthquakes.
In particular, ESD can arise when two
sources of environmental «
noise» act to disrupt an entangled state.
This last
source of noise can be avoided by placing a radio telescope in space.
The result, after the calculations have been cleared
of residual «
noise,» offers a close estimate
of the trajectory
of the
source of sound under examination.
And in the 1950s they distinguished a particularly powerful
source of radio
noise there.
«The only
source of noise is the cosmic microwave background,» says Tarter, referring to remnant radiation from the big bang, whose signal has been well studied.
Discounting false positive
sources based on observational or instrumental artifacts or produced by statistically possible coincidences
of noise - features in low - amplitude detections, such
sources are all related to eclipsing systems.
However, the use
of coherent light
sources introduces annoying visual phenomenon, namely speckle
noise, an intrinsic interference effect due to the laser.
They are, said Joe Nichols, among the loudest
sources of human - made
noise that exist.
But while they're good at predicting supersonic sound
sources, they have a hard time predicting all the components
of subsonic jet
noise, especially in the sideline direction, or perpendicular to the exhaust stream.
Here, we made the assumption
of conditional independence for two reasons: (1) since our AN model had no correlated
noise source, we wished to put the decoders from the three locations on an equal footing; (2) more importantly, ignoring
noise correlations rendered inference far more tractable.
Traffic, aircraft, mobile devices and personal music equipment are not the only
sources of noise pollution.
US and French scientists have had a crack at cracking the long - standing mystery
of knuckle cracking, specifically the
source of the
noise our knuckles make when we crack them, by developing a mathematical model.