Vol. 38 No. 3 (2010)

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Stan Dosso

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Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

The Marine Soundscape and the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Mammals

Christine Erbe

20-21
Passive Classification of Marine Mammal Vocalizations Using an Automatic Aural Classifier

Carolyn Ward, Paul Hines

22-23
Assessing the Effects of Mid-Frequency Sonar on Cetaceans in Southern California

Mariana Melcon, Amanda Cummins, Sean Wiggins, John Hildebrand

24-25
Bias in Estimates of Numbers of Marine Mammals Affected by Underwater Noise

David Bain

26-27
Underwater 3-D Passive Acoustic Bayesian Tracking of Pacific Walrus

Brendan Rideout, Stan Dosso, David Hannay

28-29
Detection of Precise Time Events for Marine Mammal Clicks

Tin Ma, Nicole Collison, James Theriault, Joe Hood, Sean Pecknold, Ben Bougher

30-31
Automatic Signal Detection in Noise Using Entropy

Christine Erbe

32-33
Acoustic Diversity and Mating Signals in the Psylloidea (Hemiptera)

Diana Percy

34-35
The Effect of Fibril Erection on Hearing in Male Aedes togoi: an Open and Shut Case

Melanie Hart, Peter Belton, Gerhard Gries

36-37
Modeling the Effect of Shell Thickness on High Frequency Ultrasound Scattering from Ultrasound Contrast Agents

Omar Falou, Amin Jafari Sojahrood, Carl Kumaradas, Michael Kolios

38-39
Multiple Source Localization in an Uncertain Ocean Environment

Michael Wilmut, Stan Dosso

40-41
Estimating Geoacoustic Parameters of Gassy Sediment Using Low-Frequency Sound in St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia

Marie-Noel Matthews

42-43
Determining Acoustic Scattering Properties of Marine Sediments through Bayesian Inversion

Gavin Steininger, Stan Dosso, Charles Holland

44-45
Multifrequency Classification and Characterization of Single Beam Echosounder Data Offshore Ireland

Stephen Bloomer, Xavier Monteys, Ross Chapman

46-47
The Role of Echo Duration in Acoustic Seabed Classification and Characterization

Ben Biffard, Steve Bloomer, Ross Chapman, Jon Preston

48-49
Seabed Sediment Classification and Seafloor Bathymetry Using Single Beam Hydro-Acoustic Echo Backscatter

Ian Murfit

50-51
A Comparison of Measured Ocean Acoustic Ambient Noise with Estimates from RADARSAT Remote Sensing

Sean Pecknold, John Osler, Brendan DeTracey

52-53
Measurements and Modelling of Atmospheric Acoustic Propagation over Water

Emma Murowinski, Cristina Tollefsen

54-55
Multiple Shock Loading on Fluid-Filled Shell Structures

Serguei Iakovlev, Adrien Lefieux, Jean-Francois Sigrist, Kyle Williston

56-57
Effect of Structural Enhancement on the Acoustic Response of a Submerged Fluid-Filled Cylindrical Shell

Serguei Iakovlev, Kyle Williston, Jean-Francois Sigrist, Adrien Lefieux

58-59
Comparison of Sound Speed Profile Interpolation Methods with Measured Profiles; Effects on Modelled and Measured Transmission Loss

Cristina Tollefsen, Sean Pecknold

60-61
Evanescent Liquid Sound-Pressure Waves Near Underwater Resonators

Reinhart Frosch

62-63
Performance Prediction via the Java Acoustic Model Interface

Gary Brooke, Steven Kilistoff, David Thomson, Dale Ellis

64-65
Bayesian Acoustic Source Tracking and Track Prediction with Environmental Uncertainty

Stan Dosso, Michael Wilmut

66-67
Verification of a Bubble Curtain Model Using an Impulse Response Function for a Towed Source

Caitlin O’Neill, Graham Warner, David Hannay

68-69
Temporal Robustness of an Automatic Aural Classifier

Stefan Murphy, Paul Hines

70-71
Range-Dependent Reverberation and Target Echo Calculations Using the DRDC Atlantic Clutter Model

Dale Ellis, Sean Pecknold

72-73
Ocean Bottom Reflection Loss from Elastic Solid Materials: Reflections on reflectivity

Ross Chapman

74-75
Musical Noise Limits to Speech Enhancement

Brady Laska

76-77
Signal Characterization of Occluded In-Ear versus Free-Air Voice Pickup on Human Subjects

Antoine Bernier, Jérémie Voix

78-79
Predicting the Intelligibility of Speech Corrupted by Nonlinear Distortion

Anthony Brammer, Gongqiang Yu, Eric Bernstein, Martin Cherniack, Jennifer Tufts, Donald Peterson

80-81
Ear Cup Selection for Feedforward Active Noise Reduction Hearing Protectors

Eric Bernstein, Anthony Brammer, Gongqiang Yu, Martin Cherniack, Donald Peterson

82-83
Noise Levels in Pubs and Nightclubs in Vancouver

Eric de Santis, Mark Gaudet

84-85
Occupational Noise Exposure in Nightclubs

Andrew Dobson, William Gastmeier

86-87
Analysis of Human Oto-Acoustic Emissions

Reinhart Frosch

88-89
Fit Testing of Hearing Protectors

Alberto Behar, Willy Wong

90-91
Shift Work, Noise Exposure and Hearing Loss

Tim Kelsall, Alberto Behar

92-93
Noise Modelling Versus Reality Under Worst-Case Meteorological Conditions

Gordon Reusing, Tim Wiens

94-95
CSA and Hearing Conservation

Tim Kelsall, Alberto Behar, David Shanahan

96-97
The New CAA Acoustical Standards Committee

Tim Kelsall, Christian Giguère

98-99
Movement, Memory & the Senses in Soundscape Studies

Jennifer Schine

100-101
Relocating the Ear: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Electrified Soundscape

Vincent Andrisani

102-103
The Sounding Museum: Two Weeks in Alert Bay

Hein Schoer

104-105
Mobile Soundscape Mapping

Milena Droumeva

106-107
Sound Matters: Mediation, Mimesis, and Embodiment in Soundscape Music

Andrew Czink

108-109
Use of Pitch for Processing Emotions

Masako Hirotani

110-111
Constraints on Durational Increase in Boundary Positions : A Cross-Linguistic Study of Languages with Contrastive Quantity

Zita McRobbie-Utasi

112-113
Examining Vocal Affect in Natural versus Acted Expressions of Emotion

Barbra Zupan, Madeline Shiah

114-115
Processing of Speech and Non-Speech Tonal Information by Native and Nonnative Tone Language Speakers: an Event-Related Electrophysiological Study

Yang Zhang, Angela Cooper, Yue Wang

116-117
An Ultrasound Investigation of Possible Covert Contrasts in First Language Acquisition: The Case of /sp ~ sw ~ sm/ > [f] Mergers

Sonya Bird

118-119
Production and Perception of Laryngeal Constriction in the Early Vocalizations of Bai and English Infants

Allison Benner

120-121
The Effect of Task Type on Native Speaker Judgments of L2 Accented Speech

Ron Thomson, Paris Campagna

122-123
How the Role of F3 in Vowel Perception May Be Influenced by Listener Expectations

Santiago Barreda, Terrance Nearey

124-125
Perceptual Effects of Visual Evidence of the Airstream

Connor Mayer, Bryan Gick, Tamra Weigel, Douglas Whalen

126-127
Two Phonological Segments, One Motor Event: Evidence for Speech-Motor Disparity from English Flap Production

Donald Derrick, Bryan Gick, Ian Stavness

128-129
A Look into the Plosive Characteristics of Japanese /r/ and /d/

Thomas Magnuson

130-131
An Acoustic and Auditory Comparison of Implicit and Explicit Phonetic Imitation

Meaghan Delaney, Soraya Savji, Molly Babel

132-133
Gender Differences in Automatic Phonetic Accommodation

Alexis Black

134-135
Speaker-Specific Place of Articulation: Idiosyncratic Targets for Japanese Coda Nasal

Noriko Yamane, Bryan Gick

136-137
Examining the Acoustic Contributions of the Epilaryngeal Tube to the Voice Source and Vocal Tract Resonance

Scott Moisik, John Esling

138-139
Pitch Estimation from Noisy Speech based on Residual-Temporal Information

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

140-141
Voice Acoustic Analysis of Taiwanese Adults with Dysarthria Following Stroke

Yu-Tsai Wang, Yuh-Mei Chung, Hsiu-Hsien Chen, Lin-Yang Chi, Hsiu-Jung Lu

142-143
Contrast Salience and Talker Normalization in Nonsibilant Fricative Perception

Molly Babel, Grant McGuire

144-145
Effect of Age on Lexical Decision Speed When Sentence Context Is Acoustically Distorted

Marianne Pelletier, Huiwen Goy, Marco Coletta, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

146-147
Noise Reduction Potential of Green Roofs

Ramani Ramakrishnan, Zarko Sopkic

148-149
Measurement of the Sound Absorption Characteristics of Vegetative Roofs

Maureen Connelly, Murray Hodgson

150-151
Measurement of Speech Privacy of Closed Rooms Using ASTM E2638 and Setting Criteria in Terms of Speech Privacy Class

Bradford Gover, John Bradley

152-153
Case Study About Speech Privacy of Integrated Furniture in an Open-Plan Office

Jean-Philippe Migneron, Jean-Gabriel Migneron

154-155
Reverberation Measurement and Prediction in Gymnasia with Non-Uniformly Distributed Absorption: The Importance of Diffusion

Kevin Packer, Clifford Faszer

156-157
Design and Testing of an Antenna Array for Sound-Source Localization

Murray Hodgson, Vincent Valeau

158-159
Acoustical Challenges for a Hospital Chiller Room Addition

Zohreh Razavi

160-161
Evaluation of the Noise-Masking System in a Community Health-Care Facility

Ahmed Summan, Musarrat Nahid, Murray Hodgson

162-163
Location of Horn Speakers in a Reverberation Room

Ramani Ramakrishnan

164-165
Characterization and Improvement of Scattering and Absorption by Architectural Surfaces Without the Use of Specialized Facilities

Chris Bibby, Murray Hodgson

166-167
Acoustical Evaluation of Temporary Performance Facilities

Ben Gaum, Ramani Ramakrishnan

168-169
Effect of Some Floor-Ceiling Construction Changes on Flanking Transmission

Frances King, Stefan Schoenwald, Brad Gover

170-171
Effects of a Concrete Topping and Modified Resilient Interlayers on Sound Transmission through a Concrete Floor

Johannes Klein, Berndt Zeitler, Bradford Gover

172-173
Beam-tracing Model For Prediction of Impulse Responses, and Effects of Surface-Reaction Modelling and Edge Diffraction in Rooms

Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Murray Hodgson

174-175
A Nonlinear Geometrical Acoustic Model for Sonic Boom Propagation

Marco Berci, Luigi Vigevano

176-177
Validation of COMSOL Multiphysics and Acoustical Performance of Splitter-Silencers

Ramani Ramakrishnan

178-179
Field Impact Insulation Class (FIIC) Testing of Hardwood Flooring on a Variety of Resilient Underlayments in a Concrete Condominium Building

Andrew Williamson

180-181
Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Absorptive Surfaces on the Acoustical Performance of a Barrier in an Anechoic Chamber

Shira Daltrop, Murray Hodgson, Clair Wakefield

182-183
Features of Low Frequency Wind Turbine Sound

Werner Richarz, Harrison Richarz

184-185
Post Construction HVAC Noise Control

Werner Richarz, Harrison Richarz

186-187
Air Injection Vacuum Blower Noise Control

Tyler Mose, Andrew Faszer

188-189
Prediction of Flow-Induced Noise in Aircraft Cylindrical Cabins

Joana da Rocha, Afzal Suleman, Fernando Lau

190-191
A Laser Position-Sensing System for the Study of Vibration Shaker Tilting

Lixue Wu

192-193
Experimental and Numerical Comparison of Viscoelastic Material Damping to Equivalent Mass as Acoustic Treatment to Aircraft Composite Fuselage Structure under Various Excitations

Esen Cintosun, Tatjana Stecenko

194-195
Brazils’s First Undergraduate Course in Acoustical Engineering

Stephan Paul, Andrey da Silva, Erasmo Vergara, Dinara da Paixao

196-197
An Ultrasound Investigation of Didgeridoo Articulations

Kostas Zolotas, Sonya Bird

198-199
Whale Song or Whale Music? From a Composer’s Perspective

Lisa Walker

200-201

Other Features

Abstracts for Presentations without Summary Papers

202-209