Sentences with phrase «using decibel»

We measured alarm volume using the Decibel 10th app on an iPhone 6 Plus, with the microphone pointed toward the sensor from six inches away.

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.

Not exact matches

Shushing — The louder the baby is crying, the louder you must shush, don't worry, your baby is used to the high decibels in utero.

The recommended noise level used in many hospital nurseries is 50 decibels at 6.5 feet away from the baby.

This controller using digital acoustic technology reproduces the sounds and patterns in your musical choices in safe and stable decibel levels, suitable for any music for a fetus in womb, for they say that music during pregnancy has an array of benefits to your unborn child.

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.

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.

Even though these earmuffs have a 39 decibel protection rating, you'll get even more protection if you use earplugs at the same time.

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

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.

«New international standards needed to manage ocean noise: Growing use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean for resources poses increased risks to vulnerable marine life, experts say.»

Throughout this story, decibels are measured using a dBA filter, which closely matches how the human ear absorbs sound.

The aircraft and road traffic noise exposure levels estimated for their postcodes at that time — less than 50 decibels to more than 60 dB — were used for the current study in 2013.

And they built a sound model... so to get at an idea of noise pollution, we used two thresholds: where anthropogenic noise raises sound levels three and 10 decibels above natural.»

It comes with a new exhaust silencer section for a start, which should add a few decibels, while the suspension is altered by the use of Abt height - adjustable springs and Abt anti-roll bars.

When activated, the Quiet Exhaust mode uses the active valve performance exhaust to shut down valves and limit the amount of noise the engine emits to roughly 72 decibels, which is roughly equivalent to the sound of a standard home dishwasher.

For our test, we measured the decibels using each sound field from the front and back seats.

New Pirelli P Zero tires use the company's Pirelli Noise Cancelling System (PNCS) to cut in - cabin noise by up to a claimed three decibels, leaving you to enjoy the standard - fit eight - speaker McLaren Audio Plus system.

Rachel Buxton, a post-doctoral researcher at Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources and lead author of the study, led a team of researchers that recorded sounds at 492 sites across the country in order to quantify the extent of noise pollution in the U.S. Using baseline sound levels for each study area established by machine learning algorithms that took into account geospatial features of the area, the researchers determined that anthropogenic noise pollution exceeds three decibels (dB), essentially doubling background sound levels, in 63 percent of the nation's protected areas.

By using a raft of measures including altering piling schedules, air - filled tubes, hydro - sound dampeners, and even utilizing bubbles as a barrier against underwater sound waves, the research — published by WWF and conducted by SMRU Consulting — suggests that a drop of even 8 decibels in construction noise could reduce the chance of a 1 % annual drop in North Sea porpoise populations.

Called Sons de Mar («sounds of the sea»), you can compare a blue whale's call (measuring 188 decibels and heard at hundreds of kilometres) with the incessant sounds of industrial shipping (180 db heard at hundreds of kilometres) and low - frequency sonar used by the military (240 db heard at hundreds of kilometres).

D. M. Brown J. held in CCLA v. Toronto Police Service, released today, that the police can use the devices, but limited the decibel level for its use for communication with crowds, thereby avoiding the Charter infringements.

So potent was the PC — especially the Windows PC — two decades ago, that The New York Times commented: «Computer use has become so widespread, and Microsoft's grip on the industry so powerful, that the introduction of Windows 95 took on the decibel level of a national event, almost a new August holiday that might be dubbed Bill Gates Day.»

I used a free app on the iOS App Store called Decibel Meter to test how loud each speaker was using my iPhone.

When used on the highest setting, it is on the louder end of the scale, with a decibel level of 67.