Vol. 34 No. 3 (2006)

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Nicole Collison

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Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

Voice-printing the Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)

Dennis F. Jones

14-15
Impulse noise hazard - What do we know about it?

Alberto Behar

16-17
Impulse measurement considerations in setting occupational noise criteria

Tim Kelsall

18-19
Alarmlocator: A software tool to facilitate the installation of acoustic warning devices in noisy work plants

Rida Al Osman, Christian Glguère, Chantal Laroche

20-21
Perceived holistic health effects of three levels of music participation

Betty A. Bailey

22-23
The emotionality of music: Death metal to amazing grace

Elysia Iversen, Jane F. MacNeil

24-25
Investigating the sound of an African thumb piano (kalimba)

David M. F. Chapman

26-27
A critical analysis of loudness calculation methods

Jeff Defoe, Colin Novak, Helen Ule

28-29
Experimental validation of the objective measurement of individual custom earplug field performance

Jérémie Voix, Lee D. Hager, Jean Zeidan

30-31
Comparison of methods for characterizing sound absorbing materials

Yacoubou Salissou, Raymond Panneton

32-33
The affect of short musical sequences with different melodic contours

Joshua Salmon, Bradley Frankland

34-35
An initial exploration of parallelism in music: Equi-temporal three-tone diatonic sequences

B.W. Frankland

36-37
Can silence affect perception? Duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure

Michael E. Lantz, Lola L. Cuddy

38-39
The role of music, sound effects & speech on absorption in a film: The congruence-associationist model of media cognition

Annabel J. Cohen, Kelti MacMillan, Robert Drew

40-41
Error bounds, uncertainties and confidence limits of outdoor sound propagation

Nicholas Sylvestre-Williams, Ramani Ramakrishnan

42-43
Preliminary acoustic performance investigation of concentric-tube perforated muffler design

Jun Zuo, Colin Novak, Helen Ule, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Robert Gaspar

44-45
Experimental evaluation of automotive cabin noise using psychoacoustic analysis techniques

Neb Radic, Colin Novak, Helen Ule

46-47
The use of environmental noise standards and guidelines in Canada

Bill Gastmeier

48-49
Automatic classification of impulsive-source active sonar echoes using perceptual signal features from musical acoustics

Victor W. Young, Paul C. Hines, Sean Pecknold

50-51
Geoacoustic inversion in a range-dependent environment under the assumption of range-independence

Michael G. Morley, Stan E. Dosso, N. Ross Chapman

52-53
Quantifying ocean acoustic environmental sensitivity

Stan E. Dosso, Diana F. McCammon, Peter M. Giles, Sean Pecknold, Paul C. Hines

54-55
Acoustic source localization with environmental uncertainty

Stan E. Dosso, Michael J. Wilmut

56-57
Sound pressure and particle velocity measurements from marine pile driving with bubble curtain mitigation

Alex MacGillivray, Roberto Racca

58-59
An acoustical study of IPOD output: Effects of headsets and control settings

Desiree Pereira, Shaun Sharma, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

60-61
Relating use of portable audio devices to audiometric thresholds in university students

Brenda Garrido, Andrew Gross, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

62-63
A survey of the use of portable audio devices by university students

Shazia Ahmed, Matthew King, Timothy W. Morrish, Ewelina Zaszewska, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

64-65
An acoustical study of IPOD use by university students in quiet and noisy situations

Sina Fallah, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

66-67
Localization of right whales using matched correlation processing

Gordon R. Ebbeson, Francine Desharnais

70-71
Utility of acoustic location technology for studying avian dawn choruses: Social dynamics of male black-capped chickadees

Jennifer Foote, Daniel Mennill, Laurene Ratcliffe

72-73
Design and testing of a thermoacoustic system for thermal management

Masoud Akhavanbazaz, M. H. Kamran Siddiqui, Rama B. Bhat

74-75
Review of computational aeroacoustics for application in electronics cooler noise

Jeff Defoe, Colin Novak

76-77
Graphics processing unit cooling solutions: Acoustic characteristics

Matt Nantais, Colin Novak, Jeff Defoe

78-79
The effect of varying heat sink fin distances from cooling fan blade tip on noise emissions

Helen Ule, Colin Novak, Robert Gaspar

80-81
Comparittve study of noise and vibration measurements of computer cooling fans

Colin Novak, Helen Ule, Robert Gaspar

82-83
Automated detection of white whale (delphinapterus leucas) vocalizations in St. Lawrence estuary and occurrence pattern

Catherine Bédard, Yvan Simard

84-85
The effect of localized sound leaks on the speech privacy of closed rooms

Bradford N. Gover, John S. Bradley

86-87
Developing a guide for Flanking sound transmission in wood framed construction

J. David Quirt, Trevor R. T. Nightingale, Frances King

88-89
On estimating sound power from a few single point measurements

Werner Richarz

90-91
The effect of ancillary volume on sound transmission measurements using ASTM standard test method E336

Frances King, Trevor R. T. Nightingale

92-93
A cross-language vowel normalisation procedure

Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Terrance M. Nearey

94-95
Conversational speech intensity under different noise conditions in hypophonia and parkinson's disease

Scott Adams, Allyson Dykstra, Kayla Abrams, Jennifer Winnell, Mary Jenkins, Mandar Jog

96-97
Directivity patterns for a short line array of barrel-stave flextensional transducers

Dennis F. Jones

98-99
Underwater communications testing of the multi-mode pipe projector

Richard Fleming, Donald Mosher, Joe Hood, Sean Spears, Charles Reithmeier

100-101
Effect of cardioid and limaçon directional sensors on towed array reverberation response

Dale D. Ellis

102-103
Spherical microphone arrays for analysis of sound fields in buildings

Bradford N. Cover

104-105
The effect of sentence repetition on speech intelligibility in noise

Roxanne Larose, Isabelle Mercille, Christian Giguère, Chantal Laroche, Véronique Vaillancourt

106-107
The role of formant amplitude in the perception of /i/ and /u/ in normal hearing listeners

Lacey Marshall, Teresa Enright, Michael Kiefte

108-109
Hearing and cognitive performance in low-frequency noise

Ann M. Nakashima, Sharon M. Abel, Matthew Duncan, David Smith

110-111
Wake acoustic measurements around a maneuvering ship

Mark V. Trevorrow, Boris Vasiliev, Svein Vagle

112-113
Modelling pulse-to-pulse coherent Doppler sonar

Len Zedel

114-115
High frequency broadband acoustic channel estimation error analysis for St. Margaret's Bay during the UNET06 demonstrations

Paul J. Gendron, Carry J. Heard

116-117