Vol. 30 No. 3 (2002)

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

• Acoustics: Bridge to the future

  Annabel J. Cohen

  7-10

• Cold War acoustics

  Harold M. Merklinger

  16-17

• The audio industry: The state of our science and art

  Floyd E. Toole

  18-21

• Centre for Research on Biological Communication Systems (CRBCS): An integrated systems approach to communication

  Bruce A. Schneider

  22-23

• Hearing accessibility, assistive technology, and acoustic design research facility

  Kathy Pichora-Fuller

  24-25

• Institute for interdisciplinary research in culture, multimedia, technology, and cognition

  Annabel J. Cohen

  26-27

• Prospects for a test method for rating floor toppings on joist floors

  A.C.C. Warnock

  30-31

• Flanking transmission in wood framed multifamily dwellings

  R.E. Halliwell, J.D. Quirt, T.R.T. Nightingale

  32-33

• Using floor toppings to control flanking transmission

  T.R.T. Nightingale, R.E. Halliwell, J.D. Quirt

  34-35

• Directivity of human talkers

  A.C.C. Warnock, W.T. Chu, J.-C. Guy

  36-37

• Speech levels in open plan offices

  A.C.C. Warnock, W.T. Chu

  38-39

• Quantifying public address system performance in a public transit environment

  Tim Kelsall, M. Fitzmaurice

  40-41

• Classroom acoustics for acceptable speech recognition: A review

  J.S. Bradley

  42-43

• An easy to use model to aid in the acoustic design of classrooms

  R. Dick Godfrey

  44-45

• Effect of early reflections on difficulty of listening to speech in noise and reverberation

  Hiroshi Sato, John S. Bradley, Masayuki Morimoto

  46-47

• Noise reduction in early childhood centers

  Cheryl M. Perry

  48-49

• Subjective measures to evaluate speech intelligibility, quality and difficulty in rooms for young and elderly listeners

  Hiroshi Sato

  50-51

• Crawler transporter noise control study and noise control design

  Clifford Faszer, James Farquharson

  52-53

• Large haul truck mufflers 'that work'

  Dan L'Heureux, Clifford Faszer, Rod MacDonald

  54-55

• Active sound radation control of cylindrical structures using piezoelectric actuators

  D.S. Li, L. Cheng, C.M. Gosselin

  56-57

• Preliminary investigation of active control of dipole noise sources

  Ann Nakashima, Jingnan Guo, Murray Hodgson

  58-59

• The effect of background noise on sound power in both a reverberant and anechoic environment

  Colin Novak, Helen Ule, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Robert Gaspar

  60-61

• On the mechanical behavior of vacuum applied surface treatments

  Annie Ross, Jean-Frédéric Roy, Germain Ostiguy

  62-63

• Finite element modeling of acoustical silencers

  S. Bilawchuk, Ken R. Fyfe

  64-65

• A method for the inverse characterization of poroelastic mechanical properties

  Luc Jaouen, Noureddine Atalla, Bruno Brouard

  66-67

• Modelling of machinery vibration isolation systems

  David Stredulinsky, Jeff Szabo, Lei Jiang, Michael Polack, Michael W. Chernuka

  68-69

• Numerical characterisation of nonlinear stiffness properties of pre-stressed vibration isolation mounts

  Lei Jiang, David Stredulinsky, Jeff Szabo, Michael W. Chernuka

  70-71

• Vibro-acoustic behaviour of multi-layer orthotropic panels

  Sebastian Ghinet, Noureddine Atalla

  72-73

• Comparison of experimental and modeled insertion loss of a complex multi-chamber muffler

  Helen Ule, Colin Novak, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Robert Gaspar

  74-75

• A fully hierarchical finite elements code for solving coupled elasto-poro-acoustic problems

  Christian Langlois, Noureddine Atalla

  76-77

• Current low frequency noise (LFN) assessment guidelines and their use in environmental noise impact assessment

  Scott Penton, Darron Chin-Quee

  78-79

• Sound travel time fluctuations caused by atmospheric gravity waves

  Igor Chunchuzov

  80-81

• Evaluation of wind turbine noise

  David C. DeGagne, Anita Lewis, Chris May

  82-83

• Propagation loss measurements for low frequency sonar in Emerald Basin and Exuma Sound

  Sean Pecknold, James Theriault, David Hazen

  84-85

• Meeting international standards for low frequency underwater radiated noise from ships

  Layton Gilroy, David Brennan

  86-87

• Complex shock loading on submarine oil pipelines

  Serguei Iakovlev

  88-89

• Iceshelf 2002 - Underwater acoustics in the Arctic environment

  Francine Desharnais, Garry J. Heard, Don Glencross

  90-91

• Using sediment porosity as an effective geoacoustic parameter for sonar performance prediction

  John C. Osler

  92-93

• Matched beam processing sensitivity to array element localization

  Matt Barlee, Stan Dosso

  94-95

• Bayesian approaches to geoacoustic inversion

  Anna-Liesa S. Lapinski

  96-97

• The effects of azimuthal variability on monostatic acoustic backscatter from the seabed

  Darey J. MacDougald, Paul C. Hines, John C. Osler

  98-99

• Bistatic scattering at shallow grazing angles

  Shawn A. Stewart, Paul C. Hines

  100-101

• Eliminating division operation in NLMS algorithm

  Heping Ding

  102-103

• The aggregate beamformer

  David I. Havelock

  104-105

• Free edge condition on porous materials

  Dominic Pilon, Raymond Panneton

  106-107

• The new CSA Z94-2 standard hearing protection devices - Performance, selection, care and use

  Alberto Behar, Dave Shanahan

  108-108

• The current status of international standards for sound level meters

  George S.K. Wong, Lixuc Wu, Peter Hanes

  110-111

• Human response to vibration and mechanical shock

  A.J. Brammer

  112-113

• Temporary changes in vibrotactile perception during operation of impact power tools: A preliminary report

  D.R. Peterson, A.J. Brammer, M.G. Cherniack

  114-115

• Review of activity in CSA standards activity in industrial noise

  Tim Kelsall

  116-117

• Standardization activities and Canadian participation in ISO TC43 'acoustics' and ISO TC43/SC1 'noise'

  Stephen Bly, G. Krishnappa, Stephen Keith

  118-119

• Noise exposure of music teachers

  Alberto Behar, Ewen MacDonald, Jason Lee, Richard Cui, Hans Kunov, Willy Wong

  120-121

• Filter selection to adapt earplug performances to sound exposure

  Jérémie Voix, Frédéric Laville, Jean Zeidan

  122-123

• Testing of ANR earmuffs

  Jie Cui, Alberto Behar, Hans Kunov, Willy Wong

  124-125

• Speech acoustics in a noisy environment

  Kimary Shahin, William H. McKellin, Janet Jamieson, Murray Hodgson, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  126-127

• Noise pollution in a general hospital

  Sergio Luzzi, Stefano Falchi

  128-129

• Noises off: What vocalizations can and can't tell us about animal welfare

  Caroline J. Hewson

  130-131

• Utilization of species specific vocalizations to improve productivity and welfare in food producing animals

  Luis A. Bate

  132-133

• Gap detection within and across auditory channels in younger and older listeners

  Antje Heinrich, Bruce A. Schneider

  134-135

• Age-related changes in car-driving

  Elzbieta B. Slawinski, Ben Zendel

  136-137

• Age related aspects of the processing of emotional language and detection of a vehicular warning sound: A preliminary investigation

  Jane F. MacNeil, Elbieta B. Slawinski

  138-139

• Age related changes in glide discrimination and its relation to the ERB

  Jane F. MacNeil, Elbieta B. Slawinski

  140-141

• Age-related changes in informational masking

  Elzbieta B. Slawinski, Andrea Haerle

  142-143

• Absolute identification of azimuthal sound location and judgment of auditory circular direction

  Annabel J. Cohen, M.J. Reina Lamothe, Susan M. Doucette, James F. Monthony

  144-145

• Timbral segregation of signals and the auditory attentional blink

  Cory Gerritsen, Elzbieta Slawinski, David Eagle

  146-147

• Better analysis for automatic speech recognition

  Douglas O'Shaughnessy

  148-149

• Tones that represent continuative intonation in Acadian French

  Wladyslaw Cichocki

  150-151

• Pitch-based acoustic feature analysis for the discrimination of speech and monophonic singing

  David Gerhard

  152-153

• Acquisition of musical vernacular in children, pre-adolescents, and young adults

  Betty A. Bailey, Annabel J. Cohen

  154-155

• Configural processing in melody recognition

  Jung-Kyong Kim, Daniel J. Levitin

  156-157

• The effects of the familiarity of the language of background music lyrics on a word memory task

  Shawn King

  158-159

• Targeting timbral recognition abilities of musical participants: When musicians hear what isn't there

  Stephan Bonfield, Elzbieta Slawinski

  160-161

• Are musicians listening to sounds in a different way than non-musicians?

  Elzbieta B. Slawinski, Kim Goddard, Stephan Bonfield

  162-163

• Acoustic parameters as cues to judgments of happy and sad emotions in music

  Michael E. Lantz, Lola L. Cuddy

  164-165

• Effect of microphone position on voice quality

  John Klepko

  166-167

• Program announcement Communication, Culture and Information Technology (CCIT): University of Toronto and Sheridan College

  William Forde Thompson

  168-169

• Program announcement. Communication, Culture and Information Technology (CCIT): University of Toronto and Sheridan College

  W.F. Thompson

  170-171