Sentences with phrase «study of acoustic»

The study of acoustic stimulation has spread rapidly over the past few years.

«Although there have been many studies of acoustic deprivation on the auditory system, few have looked at adult - onset deprivation, and none, to our knowledge, has documented changes in the inner ear.»

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The study, published in the Gallup Management Journal (GMJ), found that the less comfortable people feel in their working environment (because of the acoustics, ventilation, or physical surroundings), the less satisfied they are as employees.

«The mouse is a particularly suitable model in which to study the development of the auditory system, because newborn mice are deaf and only begin to perceive acoustic signals at 12 days after birth.

«The sound is roughly a steady note because the acoustic pulses keep happening at regular intervals,» says Peter Edmonds of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the Chandra study.

This finding is startling to scientists who study cetaceans and other marine life, as it is becoming clearer that whales rely heavily on the integrity of their acoustic habitat.

However, this study has provided proof - of - concept that devastating tsunamis could be mitigated by using acoustic - gravity waves to redistribute the huge amounts of energy stored within the wave, potentially saving lives and billions of pounds worth of damage.»

The newly derived wave equation allowed Kadri to study the behavior of both acoustic and gravity waves.

It's exceedingly difficult to find measurable differences in the tonal quality of the cherished old violins and more ordinary ones, let alone explain what causes them, comments Colin Gough, physicist and expert on musical acoustics at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Gough sees problems with the new study.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.

AUSTIN — Millions of birds slam into buildings, wind turbines, and other structures every year — a problem that could be lessened by erecting «acoustic lighthouses» to warn them of their impending doom, according to a study presented here today at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science.

Susanne Schmid, PhD, associate professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and principal investigator on the study explains that acoustic habituation is a common form of sensory filtering, which refers to the brain's ability to block out extraneous sounds, feelings or visual information so that we are able to focus on what's most important in our surroundings.

«Stridulation, or chirping, sounds produced by the beetles have been reported with respect to mating and aggressive male behavior, and while previous studies proposed the mechanism and reported on some preliminary acoustic recording of the chirps, the chirp characteristics have not been examined extensively,» explained John Allen, a scientist at the University of Hawaii.

Our studies would require a range of technologies, such as acoustic echo sounders, a magnetometer, subbottom acoustic profilers, a ground - penetrating radar, devices to recover sediment cores, an underwater television camera and a set of GPS receivers to enable study teams to track their position with a resolution of less than a meter.

Archaeoacoustic scientist David Lubman, who studies the acoustics of caves and religious sites and founded DL Acoustics in Westminster, CA, is not surprised Luray Caverns became home to the Great Stalacpiacoustics of caves and religious sites and founded DL Acoustics in Westminster, CA, is not surprised Luray Caverns became home to the Great StalacpiAcoustics in Westminster, CA, is not surprised Luray Caverns became home to the Great Stalacpipe Organ.

«Understanding the context under which blue whales make calls is a critical step in developing non-invasive, non-lethal acoustic methods to study population trends and recovery status of this endangered species,» Širovi?

By studying the acoustic power radiated from different portions of the lightning channel, researchers can learn more about the origins of thunder as well as the energetic processes associated with lightning.

Russell has long studied the acoustics of sports equipment, including baseball bats, tennis rackets and hockey sticks.

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

The lab is a part of the Southern California Acoustic Telemetry Tracking Network, a collaboration of researchers studying marine life.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

Studies of barn owls offer insight into just how the brain combines acoustic signals from two sides of the head into a single spatial perception

Future experiments could allow scientists to study the probable acoustic signatures of current pulses, step leader branches, and discharge channel zigzags independently.

If that seems like a small number of subjects for a major study, consider the fact that each acoustic transmitter costs approximately $ 300 to $ 550, not counting the investment of researchers» time and the expense of chartering a boat for the implantation phase.

In this study, the researchers, in collaboration with Cranfield University and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), used acoustic thermometry to make the measurement by building an acoustic resonator and making amazingly precise measurements of the speed of sound in argon gas.

Hoping to gain insight into how to build such a device, she spent two years at the Laboratory of Physiological Acoustics in France, studying alongside René - Guy Busnel, an expert in bioacoustics, especially dolphin whistles and human whistle - based languages.

The results of the study show it has the same acoustic quality as the best stethoscopes on the market.

This drove Preston S. Wilson, a coffee aficionado and acoustician who normally focuses on studying underwater acoustics in his role as an associate professor in The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, to explore the potential of using the «cracking» sounds emitted by coffee beans during the roasting process — as the basis for an automated acoustical roast monitoring technique.

The Nature study, titled «Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microbes in mammalian hosts,» was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Packard Fellowship, the Pew Scholarship, the Heritage Medical Research Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The study, which sheds light on the evolution of acoustic communication systems in animals, appears in the journal Current Biology.

In the first study of its kind Benjamin, who completed his PhD at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at Kent, monitored wildlife acoustic activity in Singapore before, during and after the major forest fires that hit the region in 2015.

«This study shows how we can expand the use of seismic data by looking at the acoustic waves from volcanic explosions that are recorded on seismometers,» explained Fee.

One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per year decline of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoise, according to a new study published this week in the journal Conservation Biology.

These recordings were then studied for several acoustic characteristics of the mothers» speech style and vocabulary productions directed to their infants.

Presentation # 4aSCb9, «Acoustic characteristics of infant - directed speech to normal hearing and hearing - impaired twins with hearing aids and cochlear implants: A case study,» by Maria V. Kondaurova, Tonya R. Bergeson - Dana and Neil A. Wright will be presented during a poster session on Thursday, October 30, 2014.

The study explores the acoustic characteristics of three mothers» speech towards their infant twins.

Using acoustics to monitor these organisms could also help scientists study how these animals could be affected by climate change, and the consequences of potential commercial fishing projects, she said.

«The value of acoustic tweezers for studying cell - to - cell information transfer is their ability to separate the cells to a precise distance or to bring them to a predetermined contact,» said Stephen J. Benkovic, Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry.

Sound waves can precisely position groups of cells for study without the danger of changing or damaging the cells, according to a team of Penn State researchers who are using surface acoustic waves to manipulate cell spacing and contact.

To quantify spatio - temporal patterns of reef use for three species of shark, the authors of this study analyzed data from acoustic transmitters placed on 18 sharks — 6 lemon sharks, 10 tiger sharks, and 2 Caribbean reef sharks — that were tracked with acoustic receivers covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers near the island of St. Thomas.

The study by Finnish researchers is the first to assess the acoustics of existing concert halls as the emotional impact.

The researchers studied surface acoustic waves in the sun's atmosphere, some of which penetrate to the sun's core, where they interact with gravity waves that have a sloshing motion similar to how water would move in a half - filled tanker truck driving on a curvy mountain road.

The Biomedical Acoustics TC is concerned with the study of the interactions of acoustic waves with biological materials, including cells, tissues, organ systems and entire organisms.

The study used data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, or BOSS, an Earth - based sky survey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early universe.

SWFSC scientists are also using fisheries acoustic technologies to measure the distribution and density of prey being exploited by foraging mysticete whales involved in behavioral studies.

Participants in the Northwestern study who received acoustic stimulation increased their overnight recall of word pairs — a measure of memory — by nearly 27 %.

I currently study effects of noise on acoustic and visual reproductive signals in fish.

Dorian has 23 years of experience in the study of marine mammal physiology and bioacoustics and has published over 100 papers and 8 book chapters on marine mammal physiology, behavior, and acoustics.

After finishing his studies on sound and image engineering and a MSc on architectural and environmental acoustics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he received an offer from Seiche Ltd. and the University of Bath to work as a research associate for a period of three years, under the Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme.

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.