Vol. 36 No. 3 (2008)

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Editorial

Guest editorial

Murray Hodgson

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Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

The role of acoustics in sustainable design

Zohreh Razavi

16-17
Acoustical evaluation of UBC non-classroom learning spaces

Murray Hodgson, Jorge García Moreno Villarreal

18-19
Statistical analysis of classroom questionnaires and acoustical parameters

Gavin Steininger, Murray Hodgson

20-21
Speech privacy class for rating the speech privacy of meeting rooms

John S. Bradley, Bradford N. Gover

22-23
The effects of room acoustics on the speech privacy of meeting rooms

John S. Bradley, Marina Apfel, Bradford N. Gover

24-25
Prediction of speech transmission index in eating establishments

Musarrat Nahid, Murray Hodgson

26-27
Reverberation rooms and spatial uniformity

Ramani Ramakrishnan, Anant Grewal

28-29
Auditory scene analysis as a system

Albert S. Bregman

30-31
Organising by object: How auditory memory can be structured within complex scenes

Benjamin J. Dyson

32-33
Low intensity pulsed ultrasound stimulates osteogenic differentiation of human gingival fibroblasts

Nesrine Mostafa, Paul Scott, Douglas N. Dederich, Michael Doschak, Tarek El-Bialy

34-35
Histomorphometric analysis of the effect of therapeutic ultrasound on the dentoalveolar structures during orthodontic force application in-vitro

B. Lam, S. Aldaghreer, A.J. Sloan, T. El-Bialy

36-37
Modelling high frequency acoustic backscatter response from nonnucleated biological specimens

Omar Falou, J. Carl Kumaradas, Michael C. Kolios

38-39
Cell expansion genes expression by therapeutic ultrasound. pros and cons.

Tarek El-Bialy, Taghreed Aldosary

40-41
In-vivo ultrasound assisted tissue engineered articular condyle

Tarek El-Bialy, Hasan Uludag, Walied Moosa, Saranjeev Lalh, Nadr Jomha, Stephen Badylak

42-43
Ultrasound transmission through time-varying phononic crystals

Derek W. Wright, Richard S.C. Cobbold

44-45
Noise reduction in hydraulic system driven by swash plate pump by optimizing the control unit

Molham Hasan Chikhalsouk, Rama B. Bhat

46-47
The evaluation of noise level in hand-held pneumatic tools (rock drill) by "pneurop cagi test code" method

Farhad Forouhar Majd, Parvin Nassiri

48-49
The evaluation of whole-body vibration level in hand-held pneumatic tools (rock drill) by "pneurop cagi test code" method

Farhad Forouhar Majd, Parvin Nassiri

50-51
An investigation into wind generated aero-acoustic tones

Peter Alexander Ibbotson, Jason Cambridge, John Pearse

52-53
A justification for using a 45 dba sound level criterion for wind turbine projects

Stephen E. Keith, David S. Michaud, Stephen H.P. Bly

54-55
Recent developments in environmental assessment methods for wind turbine noise

Brian Howe, Nick McCabe

56-57
Recent studies of infrasound from industrial sources

William J. Gastmeier, Brian Howe

58-59
Typical hourly traffic distribution for noise modelling

Peter Van Delden, Scott Penton, Aaron Haniff

60-61
The acoustic correlates of the unparsed: Why we need more than a strong-weak distinction

Marion Caldecott

62-63
Vowel quality and duration in deg xinag

Sharon Hargus

64-65
Using acoustics to resolve place controversies in deg xinag fricatives

Richard Wright, Sharon Hargus, Julia Colleen Miller

66-67
Definitely indefinites? Using acoustics as a diagnostic in st'át'imcets

Marion Caldecott, Henry Davis

68-69
Dentals are grave

Darin Flynn, Sean Fulop

70-71
Acoustical evaluation of six 'green' office buildings

Murray Hodgson, Rosamund Hyde, Blair Fulton, Catherine Taylor-Hell

72-73
Sound transmission loss of extensive green roofs - Field test results

Maureen Connelly, Murray Hodgson

74-75
Relationship between ventilation, air quality and acoustics in 'green' and 'brown' buildings

Alireza Khaleghi, Karen Bartlett, Murray Hodgson

76-77
The noise scales and their units

Himanshu Dehra

78-79
A cepstral-domain algorithm for pitch estimation from noise-corrupted speech

Celia Shahnaz, Wei-Ping Zhu, M. Omair Ahmad

80-81
FFT tutor: A matlab-based instructional tool for FFT parameter exploration

Arvind Singh, Tom DeRybel, José R. Marti

82-83
Structural segmentation of music with fuzzy clustering

Daniel Graves, Witold Pedrycz

84-85
Measurement and calculation of the parameters of santur

Peyman Heydarian, Lewis Jones

86-87
An overview of standards and guidelines influencing the implementation of noise emission declarations for machinery

Stephen H. P. Bly, Ifaz T. Haider

88-89
ISO/IEC GUM applied to estimation of sound power measurement uncertainties

Stephen E. Keith

90-91
Testing of health canada's acoustic chamber at the consumer and clinical radiation protection bureau based on ISO standard 3745: 2003

Jason T. Tsang, Stephen E. Keith, William J. Gastmeier

92-93
The ANSI standard S12. 68-2007 method of estimating effective a-weighted sound pressure levels when hearing protectors are worn: A canadian perspective

Jérémie Voix, Alberto Behar, Willy Wong

94-95
CSA appendix on measurement of noise exposure from headsets

Alberto Behar, Christian Giguère, Tim Kelsall

96-97
Noise exposure from communications headsets: The effects of environmental noise, attenuation and SNR under the device

Christian Giguère, Hilmi R. Dajani

98-99
Adjusting historical noise estimates by accounting for hearing protection use: A probabilistic approach and validation

Hind Sbihi, Kay Teschke, Ying MacNab, Hugh W. Davies

100-101
Cross-modal integration in music perception

Michael Maksimowski, Frank Rosso

102-103
A case of superior auditory spatial attention

Robert Qnelch, Gurjit Singh, Kathy Picborm-Fuller

104-105
The effect of informational masking and word position on recall

Payam Ezzatian, Liang Li, Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Brace Schneider

106-107
The effect of types of acoustical distortion on lexical access

Marianne Pelletier, Marco Coletta, Renée Giroax, Huiwen Goy, Kathy Pickora-Fuller

108-109
The effect of the degree of acoustical distortion on lexical access by younger adults

Marco Colette, Marianne Pelletier, Renée Giroux, Huiwen Goy, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

110-111
Is there a 'rise-fall temporal archetype' of intensity in electroacousti music?

Roger T. Dean, Freya Bailes

112-113
Effects of emotional content and emotional voice on speech intelligibility in younger and older adults

Kate Dupuis, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

114-115
Variability of the consonant modulation spectrum across individual talkers

Pamela Souza, Frederick Gallun

116-117
'I said made (mate?)': Catalan/spanish bilinguals' production of english word-final obstruents

Natalia Fullana, Ian R. A. MacKay

118-119
Effects of training modality on audio-visual perception of nonnaitve speech contrasts

Yue Wang, Dawn Behane, Haisheng Jiang

120-121
Learning mandarin tones at sentence level through training: A pilot study

Xinchun Wang

122-123
Acoustic realization and perception of english lexical stress by mandarin learners

Yuwen Lai, Joan Sereno, Aliard Jongman

124-125
The transfer of L1 acoustic cues in the perception of L2 lexical stress

Qian Wang, Tae-Jin Yoon

126-127
Production of english lexical stress by inexperienced and experienced learners of english

Yunjuan He, Qian Wang, Caroline Wiltshire

128-129
Durational properties of stressed syllables as a cue for English-accented French?

Christian Guilbault

130-131
Do mandarin-english bilinguals have an accent in their L1 vowel production?

Haisheng Jiang

132-133
L2 english vowel learning by mandarin speakers: Does perception precede production?

Ron I. Thomson

134-135
An acoustic study of L2 Vgn rime production

Ya Li

136-137
Mandarin speakers' production of english vowels in real and pseudo words

Xianghua Wu, Murray Munro

138-139
Variability in cantonese speakers' productions of English vowels

Murray J. Munro

140-141
Pressure/mass method to measure open porosity of porous solids

Yacoubou Salissou, Raymond Panneton

142-143
Fabrication of acoustic absorbing topologies using rapid prototyping

Oliver Godbold, Jian Kang, Richard Buswell, Rupert Soar

144-145
The temporal window of audio-tactile integration in speech perception

Bryan Gick, Yoko Ikegami

146-147
Analysis of a vowel database

Peter F. Assmann, Terrance M. Nearey, Sneha Bharadwaj

148-149
Pattern recognition in speech perception research

Terrance M. Nearey

150-151
Mismatch between the production and perception of F0 in New Zealand English ethnolects

Anita Szakay

152-153
Processing of Japanese pitch accent by native Japanese and English listeners

Jung-Yueh Tu, Xianghua Wu, Yue Wang

154-155
The McGurk effect affected by the right ear advantage

Mark Scott

156-157
Analysing coarticulation in scottish English children and adults: An ultrasound study

Natalia Zharkova, Nigel Hewlett, William J. Hardcastle

158-159
A formant frequency estimator for noisy speech based on correlation and cepstrum

Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, Wei-Ping Zhu, M. Omair Ahmad

160-161
Quantitative analysis of subphonemic flap/tap variation in NAE

Donald Derrick, Bryan Gick

162-163
Numerical model of a thermoacoustic engine

Omar Hireche, Catherine Weisman, Diana Baltean-Carlès, Maurice X. François, Patrick Le Quéé, Luc Bauwens

164-165
A semi-analytical approach to the study of the transient acoustic response of cylindrical shells

Cédric Leblond, Jean-François Sigrist, Serguei Iakovlev

166-167
Shock wave reflection and focusing phenomena in fluid-interacting shell systems

Serguei Iakoviev, Garrett Dooley, Kyle Williston

168-169
Array element localization of a bottom-mounted hydrophone array using ship noise

Gordon R. Ebbeson, Laetitia Thierion, Garry J. Heard

170-171
Comparison of measured and modelled transmission loss in emerald basin

Brian H. Maranda, Nicole E. Collison

172-173
Bayesian source tracking and environmental inversion

Stan E. Dosso

174-175
Two approaches to source tracking in an unknown ocean environment

Michael J. Wilmut, Stan E. Dosso

176-177
Geoacoustic inversion of noise from ships-of-opportunity with unknown position

Dag Tollefsen, Stan E. Dosso

178-179