Vol. 43 No. 3 (2015)

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Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

Maneuvering Vehicle Localization with an Acoustic Long Baseline System

Zhao Li
Underwater Navigation Method Based on Side-scan Sonar Images

Ziqi Song, Adam Zielinski, Hongyu Bian
Measured C-Weighted Ambient Sound Levels for Use with Environmental Noise Regulations in Alberta

Victor W Young, Zhaohui Yu, Andrew C Faszer
Considerations in the Acoustical Design of Black Box Theatres

Mandy Chan, Bill Gastmeier
Recording and reproducing speech airflow outside the mouth

Donald James Derrick, Tom De Rybel, Romain Fiasson
Maneuvering Vehicle Localization with an Acoustic Long Baseline System

Zhao Li
Underwater Navigation Method Based on Side-scan Sonar Images

Ziqi Song, Adam Zielinski, Hongyu Bian
Measured C-Weighted Ambient Sound Levels for Use with Environmental Noise Regulations in Alberta

Victor W Young, Zhaohui Yu, Andrew C Faszer
Considerations in the Acoustical Design of Black Box Theatres

Mandy Chan, Bill Gastmeier
Recording and reproducing speech airflow outside the mouth

Donald James Derrick, Tom De Rybel, Romain Fiasson
HARBOUR PORPOISE PRESENCE NEAR OIL TANKERS

John Terhune
YEAR-ROUND MONITORING OF HUMPBACK WHALE (MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE) CALLS IN THE GULLY MPA AND ADJACENT AREAS

Katie Kowarski, Clair Evers, Hilary Moors-Murphy, Bruce Martin
The timing of Accentual Phrases in read and spontaneous speech: data from Acadian French

Wladyslaw Cichocki
Traffic and Industrial Vibrations and A Snake Hibernaculum

Richard Patching, Leslie Noble McCleave, Adrian Radulescu
Acoustical Characteristics in Restaurants and Food Courts / Large Dining Areas with Varying Levels of Occupancy

Alex Lorimer, Jessica Tinianov
STC Ratings of Drywall Partitions with and without Structural Sheathing

Alex Lorimer, Jessica Tinianov
Performance Analysis of Annular Passive Silencers – An Update

Ramani Ramakrishnan
MULTISTATIC SONAR OPERATOR VISUALIZATION DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS

Mark A. Gammon, Christopher Strode
Investigation on Non-Point Sources Approximation in Outdoor Noise Predictions

Sheying Sun, Neil Morozumi, Justin Caskey, Richard Patching
Rumble Strip Noise

Frank Babic, Alfredo Rodrigues
Considerations for Acoustical Privacy within Commercial Tenant Space Fit-Outs

Jessica Tinianov, Alex Lorimer
Contrastive tongue shapes of the three sibilant fricatives in Taiwan Mandarin read speech

Masaki Noguchi, Chenhao Chiu, Po-Chun Wei, Noriko Yamane
Assessing the Performance of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Technologies for Porpoise Detection in a High Flow Tidal Energy Test Site

Peter Porskamp, Jeremy Broome, Brian Sanderson, Anna Redden
Comparative Field Test Evaluation of the Impact Insulation Class of Roofs

Jose R. Rodriguez, Maureen Connelly
Effects of noise flanking paths on ceiling attenuation class (CAC) ratings of ceiling systems and inter-room speech privacy

Gary S. Madaras, Andrew E. Heuer
A TOOLSET FOR MODELLING ANTHROPOGENIC UNDERWATER NOISE

Terry J. Deveau
MODELLING EXPOSURE OF MARINE MAMMALS TO UNDERWATER NOISE FROM PULSED SOURCES IN LONG-DURATION SURVEYS

Mikhail Zykov, Terry J. Deveau, David G. Zeddies
Traffic noise propagation through four Vancouver laneways

Rosa Lin, Maureen Connelly
Marine Mammal Vocalisations in the High Arctic: Resolute Bay, Nunavut

Caitlin O'Neill
Communication between native and non-native speakers of English in noise

Ann Nakashima, Sharon M. Abel, Ingrid Smith
Categorical perception of post-alveolar sibilants by Taiwan and Beijing Mandarin speakers

Masaki Noguchi, Carla Hudson Kam
Physical mechanisms underlying the acoustic signature of breaking waves

Cameron Dallas, Cristina Tollefsen
Rhythm metrics of spontaneous speech and accent

Yoichi Mukai, Benjamin V Tucker
HF Sonar Performance in Whitecaps and Wakes

Mark Trevorrow, Svein Vagle
Guidelines for New Development in Proximity to Railway Operations

Ian Matthew, Al D. Lightstone
Self-adjusting backup alarms in noisy workplaces

Hugues Nélisse, Jérôme Boutin, Christian Giguère, Chantal Laroche, Véronique Vaillancourt
The Effects of Duration on Human Processing of Reduced Speech

Dylan Bernhard, Benjamin Tucker
Vowels Spaces and Reduction in Plains Cree

Atticus Harrigan, Benjamin Tucker
The Age-related Strial Degeneration Inhibits the Inner Hair Cell- Auditory Synapse Complex: A Computational Investigation.

Amin Saremi
Spectrum Analysis and Directivity Pattern of a Transducer-Driven Conch Shell

Rasoul Morteza Pouraghdam, Rama Bhat
Towards convergence of methods for speech and sign segmentation

André Xavier, Oksana Tkachman, Bryan Gick
Sensitivity of Bellhop intensity to uncertainty in sound speed

Diana Flory McCammon, Sean Pecknold
Optical Coherence Tomography for Clinical Otology

Dan MacDougall, Thomas Landry, Manohar Bance, Jeremy Brown, Robert Adamson
ULTRASONIC DRY COUPLING THROUGH TISSUE

Jeremy Norman
Matched-field source localization with non-synchronized sensor arrays

Stan E. Dosso
Efficiency of Trans-dimensional Bayesian Inference for Geoacoustic Inversion

Stan E. Dosso
Time-Course Characterization of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Exposure Using B-Mode Ultrasound Imaging

Matthew Jahns, Rob Adamson
Patterning in northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) click trains

Hilary Bernice Moors-Murphy
Seasonal occurrence of blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) vocalizations in the Gully Marine Protected Area

Emmaline Camille Marotte, Hilary Moors-Murphy
Acoustic and articulatory qualities of smiled speech

Megan Keough, Avery Ozburn, Elise Kedersha McClay, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Samuel Akinbo, Bryan Gick
This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Library – The Challenges of Modern Library Acoustics

John Craven Swallow, Michael Julian Wesolowsky, Todd Busch
Investigation of Ground and Maintenance Crew Noise Exposure for the Royal Canadian Air Force CH-147F Helicopter

Andrew Price, Sebastian Ghinet, Viresh Wickramasinghe, Eric Chen, Anant Grewal
Finite-Element Modeling of a Reverberation Room: Effect of the Room Size and Shape on Measurement Accuracy

Md Mehadi Hasan, Murray Robert Hodgson
Theoretical Estimates of Groundborne Railway Vibration

Todd Busch, Michael Wesolowsky, John Swallow
Simulation of Fresnel based beam focusing and steering for a crossed electrode array

Katherine Latham, Roger Zemp, Jeremy Brown
The opportunities and challenges of in-ear noise dosimetry

Fabien Bonnet, Jérémie Voix, Hugues Nélisse
Ultrasound-Enhanced Multimodal Approaches to Pronunciation Teaching and Learning

Jennifer Abel, Blake Allen, Strang Burton, Misuzu Kazama, Bosung Kim, Masaki Noguchi, Asami Tsuda, Noriko Yamane, Bryan Gick
Localizing Bowhead whales in the Chukchi Sea using asynchronous hydrophones

Graham Warner, Stan E. Dosso, David E. Hannay, Jan Dettmer
Acoustic Emissions from leaky pipelines

Vishash Kumar Sharma
A Baffin Bay Acoustic Navigation and Communication System

Eric Rehm, Walid Baccari, Marcel Babin
Modelling Reverberation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Shannon-Morgan Steele, Sean Pecknold
Identification of thin slices of music by university students in PEI

Jessica Lynn McKellar, Annabel Cohen
The effect of vocal emotion identification on word repetition and recall accuracy in noise

Sylvia Maria Mancini, Kate Dupuis, Kathleen Pichora-Fuller
Use of auditory steady-state responses in measuring the occlusion effect of hearing protection devices.

Olivier Valentin, Frédéric Laville
The source dilemma: Perceptual coherence and the continuum of consonance-dissonance

Tanor Bonin, Daniel Smilek

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Guest Editor's Note - Welcome to Acoustics Week in Canada 2015