Vol. 44 No. 3 (2016)

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

• SCALE-MODEL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT AND OPTIMAL DESIGN OF SOUND ABSORBERS IN AN OPEN-PLAN OFFICE

  Md Amin Mahmud, Murray Hodgson

• Listening to speech in noise : Evaluation and training

  Benoît Jutras, Mojgan Owliaey, Lyne Lafontaine, Alexis Pinsonnault-Skvarenina, Jean-Pierre Gagné

• A data processing method for noise measurements of snowmobiles and their sub-systems on test bench

  Jason Méjane, Raymond Panneton, Alain Desrochers, Rémy Oddo

• Comparison of two methods of transfer path analysis applied to snowmobile for noise source identification

  Nassardin Nassar Guenfoud, Olivier Robin, Raymond Panneton, Alain Desrochers, Walid Belgacem

• Understanding sources and sound radiation of a snowmobile track

  Stéphane Beuvelet, Raymond Panneton, Alain Desrochers, Remy Oddo

• The lasso and elastic-net algorithms for predictive sound quality models using large pool of predictive metrics and factors

  Abdelghani Benghanem, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Lévy Leblanc, Alain Berry

• ACOUSTICAL DESIGN FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

  Paul Marks

• PREDICTING EXHAUST SOUND POWER LEVELS OF GENERAL PURPOSE BOILERS

  Robert D Stevens, William J Gastmeier

• Advances in Acoustic Monitoring

  Corey Kinart, Bill Gastmeier

• Gradient Representations in Seabed Geoacoustic Inversion by Bernstein Polynomials

  Jorge E. Quijano, Stan E. Dosso, Charles W. Holland, Jan Dettmer

• Ear canal deformations by various earplugs: An in situ investigation using MRI

  Simon Benacchio, Arthur Varoquaux, Eric Wagnac, Olivier Doutres, Virginie Callot, David Bendahan, Franck Sgard

• Considerations regarding an acoustic criterion for wind turbine acceptability

  William Keith Gregory Palmer

• Does training to perceive L2 English vowels in one phonetic context transfer to other phonetic contexts?

  Ron I Thomson

• Monitoring of Road Traffic Sound Levels

  Bill Gastmeier, Sheeba Paul

• Custom molded silicon earplugs: effect of material properties on acoustic attenuation and mechanical skin contact

  Guilhem Viallet, Jérémie Voix

• Perceptual Learning of speech sounds: A bias for 'sipper' over 'zipper'?

  Molly Babel, Zoe Lawler, Carolyn Norton

• Optimizing Ceiling Systems and Lightweight Plenum Barriers to Achieve Ceiling Attenuation Class (CAC) Ratings of 40, 45 and 50

  Gary S. Madaras, Andrew E. Heuer

• Individual Variations and Gradience in English Palatalization

  Jae-Hyun Sung

• Objective acoustical quality in healthcare office facilities

  Murray Hodgson

• Subjective acoustical quality in healthcare office facilities

  Murray Hodgson

• Acoustical properties of homogeneous planar surfaces in room acoustics: A theoretical review

  Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Murray Hodgson

• Promoting hearing and communication health in long-term residential care through the use of communication apps

  Jeff Small, Rozanne Wilson, Alex Milhailidis, Diana Cochrane

• OPTIMIZATION STUDY AND PANEL PARAMETER STUDY FOR NOISE RADIATION REDUCTION OF AN AIRCRAFT PANEL EXCITED BY TURBULENT FLOW

  Steven Albert James Sonnenberg, Joana Rocha

• EFFECT OF VARIABILITY IN MICRO-GEOMETRY OF POLYURETHANE FOAMS ON THE DOUBLE WALL TRANSMISSION LOSS

  Mohammad Sadegh Gholami, Olivier Doutres, Noureddine Atalla

• Audiologic care for clients with multiple medical comorbidities: Modifications to clinical practice and inclusion of family members and caregivers

  Kate Dupuis, Ulrike Lemke, Marilyn Reed, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

• (Canadian) Raise your vowels in song

  Murray Schellenberg, Avery Ozburn

• Addressing Social Isolation in Hearing Rehabilitation

  Marilyn Reed

• The Case for a Canadian Trade Association for Acoustic Consulting Companies

  Eric de Santis, Steve Meszaros

• Bayesian Inversion of Time-difference-of-arrival Data to Localize Bowhead whales in the Chukchi Sea

  Graham A. Warner, Stan E. Dosso, David E. Hannay

• Intelligibility, response time and listening efficiency of native and non-native listeners in various acoustical conditions

  Alice V Lam, Murray Hodgson

• Acoustic characteristics of preaspirated stops in Plains Cree

  Katherine Schmirler

• Pilot study on individual dose-response relationship evaluated through otoacoustic emission measurements in controlled noise exposure: influence of circadian rhythm

  Vincent Nadon, Annelies Bockstael, Dick Botteldooren, Jérémie Voix

• Effects of Traffic Density on Measured Sound Levels – A Case Study

  Ian Matthew, Anthony Amarra

• Geoacoustic Inversion of Reflection Data in a Water Tank

  Junjie (Jason) Shi, Stan Dosso, Dajun Sun

• Noise Levels from Heavily Travelled Roads for Use with Environmental Noise Regulations in British Columbia and Alberta

  Shira Daltrop, Andrew C. Faszer, Victor W. Young

• Sound Field Diffuseness in Oblique-Shaped Reverberation Rooms with Different Test Configurations

  Md Mehadi Hasan, Murray Hodgson

• Effect of ear canal occlusion on loudness perception

  Fabien Bonnet, Jérémie Voix, Hugues Nélisse

• Acoustical Investigation of Laneway House Facades

  Rosa Lin, Maureen Connelly

• Acoustic factors related to emotional responses to sound

  Erin Margaret Picou

• Increasing Sound Insulation of Window with Add-on Systems & Various Insulating Glass Unit Configurations

  Joyce Mak, Maureen Connelly

• Dental overjet, articulatory compensation and acoustics of speech

  Lauretta Cheng, Tiffany Doe, Derek Lew, Melissa Henderson, Murray Schellenberg, Bryan Gick

• Investigation of Airflow and Sound Transmission through Vented-Acoustical Panels for Natural Ventilation

  James Higgins, Vivek Shankar, Murray Hodgson

• Development of the Second Generation NRC Acoustic Spectrum Control System for High Intensity Noise Testing

  Anant Grewal, Yong (Eric) Chen, Shahrukh Alavi, Viresh Wickramasinghe, Brent Lawrie

• Sustainability in Acoustic Design

  Forest Borch, Brigette Martin

• Selecting Suitable Noise Control for Mine Return Air Raise Systems

  Andrew Dobson, William Gastmeier

• Schlieren study of external airflow during the production of nasal and oral vowels in French

  Jeffrey Rowell, Masaki Noguchi, B. May Bernhardt, Anthony Herdman, Bryan Gick, Murray Schellenberg

• Colt C8A2 Carbine Impulsive Noise Auditory Hazard Assessment through Testing In a Reverberant Environment

  Sebastian Ghinet, Andrew Price, Anant Grewal, Yong Chen, Viresh Wickramasinghe

• Using Spatialized Sound to Enhance Self-Motion Perception in Virtual Environments and Beyond: Auditory and Multi-Modal Contributions

  Bernhard E. Riecke

• Ultrasound overlay videos and their application in Indigenous language learning and revitalization

  Heather Bliss, Strang Burton, Bryan Gick

• Sensorimotor integration of vestibular, proprioceptive, and visual information about head motion in the interpretation of dynamic auditory cues for front/back sound localization

  Ewan A Macpherson, Janet Kim

• Using CSA Standard Z107.56 to Investigate Noise Exposure of Call Center Employees

  Shira Daltrop, Ryan Bessey

• The Evolution of Environmental Ground Borne Vibration Measurement, Assessment and Reporting Over the Last 50 Years

  Kathryn Katsiroumpas, Ian Matthew

• Skin conductance responses to emotional speech in hearing-impaired and hearing-aided listeners

  Gabriel A Nespoli, Gurjit Singh, Frank A Russo

• What Do Forced Alignment Likelihood Scores Tell Us About the Aligned Speech?

  Ayushi Mrigen, Daniel Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker

• A software platform to administer the Canadian Digit Triplet Test

  Nicolas Ellaham, Christian Giguère, Josée Lagacé, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

• Standards for Modelling Road Traffic Noise in Western Canada

  Forest Borch, Mark Bliss

• Perception of emotional speech by listeners with hearing aids

  Huiwen Goy, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Gurjit Singh, Frank A. Russo

• Intelligibility of older talkers on the NU6 test

  Huiwen Goy, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Pascal van Lieshout

• Comparison of Air Craft Noise Exposure in between NEF Contour Prediction and 24-Hour Measurement Results

  Eric Gu, Mark Bliss

• There’s something about that groove: Rhythm improves detection of audio but not vibrotactile asynchronies

  Andrew P. Lauzon, Frank A. Russo, Laurence R. Harris

• The realisation of coronal obstruents across Hul’q’umi’num’ speakers

  Sonya Bird, Donna Gerdts, Janet Leonard

• The potential of remote real-time noise monitoring

  Henk de Haan, Virgini Senden

• Meaningful Measurements to Assess Transformer Noise

  Henk de Haan, Virgini Senden

• Comparison between modelled and measured sound levels for a Southern Alberta Wind Farm

  Henk de Haan, Virgini Senden

• Effectiveness of Noise Reducing Asphalt Pavements

  Scott Penton

• Blind channel estimation of underwater acoustic waveguide impulse responses using marine mammal vocalizations

  Brendan P. Rideout, Eva-Marie Nosal, Anders Høst-Madsen

• Does swallowing bootstrap speech learning?

  Connor Mayer, Francois Roewer-Despres, Ian Stavness, Bryan Gick

• Noise Mitigation of Small PTAC Systems

  Scott Penton, Lucas Arnold, Nick Walters

• CSA Z1007: A new management standard from the Canadian Standards Association for the management of hearing loss prevention programs

  Jeffrey Michael Goldberg, T Kelsall, A Behar, P Malek

• CSA Z107.56 and Safe Use of Music Players

  Tim Kelsall

• Shifty Vowels: Variation in Dialectal Lowering in Gitksan

  Kyra Fortier

• Time domain source localization technique based on generalized cross correlation and generalized mean

  Thomas Padois, Olivier Doutres, Franck Sgard, Alain Berry

• An ecological approach to assess auditory perception.

  François Bergeron, Aurore Berland, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Christophe Vincent, Annie Giasson, Danielle Cloutier, Genevieve Tremblay, Mathieu Hotton, Kevin Leung Kam, Jean-Luc Puel, Jean-Charles Ceccato, Bastien Bouchard

• Speech auditory brainstem responses and words-in-noise recognition scores: is there a link?

  Josée Lagacé, Amineh Koravand, Jordon Thompson, Suzanne Lteif

• Changing Standards for Building Acoustics Regulation

  J. David Quirt

• Japanese EFL Learners’ production of pronouns and articles in English: Evidence for L2 Prosodic Structures

  Noriko Yamane, Noriko Yoshimura, Atsushi Fujimori

• Discrimination of aspiration noise in breathy vowels

  Ilse Labuschagne, Valter Ciocca

• Environmental Sound and its Relation to Human Emotion

  Barry Truax

• Breathing position and the perception of consonants

  Henny Yeung, Mark Scott, Lionel Granjon

• Improving communication for persons with dementia

  Sara Mamo, Samantha J. Mayhew, Matthew McNabney, Esther S. Oh, Frank R. Lin

• Infants' use of temporal and phonetic information in the encoding of audiovisual speech

  D. Kyle Danielson, Cassie Tam, Padmapriya Kandhadai, Janet F. Werker

• Exterior Noise Ingress in Greater Vancouver Residential Buildings: Prediction versus Field Measurements

  Gary Mak, Mark Bliss

• Community Noise Investigation of a "Low Level Thrumming" attributed to the Operation of Mine

  Andrew Williamson

• Identifying Localized Noise Sources During Industrial Vehicle Passbys

  Jordan Michael Reniak

• Acoustics in Alberta schools - Overview and challenges

  Philippe Moquin, Ellen Buchan

• An automated real-time vessel sound measurement system for calculating monopole source levels using a modified version of ANSI/ASA S12.64-2009

  David Edward Hannay, Xavier Mouy, Zizheng Li

• Modular Expansion Joint Noise in B.C.

  Duane Ernest Marriner, Clair Wakefield

• Noise Control Issues in a Steel-Framed Institutional Building

  Clair Wakefield

• Acoustical verification testing of ground run-up enclosure at Vancouver International Airport

  Mark Bliss, Mark Cheng, Rachel Min, Ron Reeves, Ryan McMullan

• A Review of the BC Wind Power Project Acoustic Assessment Guidelines

  Brigette Martin, Mark Bliss

• Noise Control for High Plume Exhaust Fans: A Case Study

  Peter VanDelden, Greg Downey, Matt Downey

• CSA Z107.6 Audiometric Testing for use in Hearing Loss Prevention Programs: A new title for a new edition

  Sasha Brown, Christian Giguère, Michael Sharpe

• Acoustic characteristics of obstruents in Huehuetla Tepehua

  Rebekka Puderbaugh

• Effects of modality and linguistic materials on memory

  Jenna Pattison, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Sherri L. Smith

• THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE FLOATING FLOORS IN BUILDINGS

  Max De Castro Magalhães

• LABORATORY AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF NAIL GUNS’ NOISE EMISSION

  Marc-André Gaudreau, Frédéric Laville, Pierre Marcotte, Jérôme Boutin

• A comprehensive approach for assessing the effectiveness of frequency-lowering hearing aids and electric acoustic stimulation (EAS) cochlear implant for treating people with a severe-to-profound high-frequency hearing loss.

  Mathieu Hotton, François Bergeron

• Association between sensory loss and social outcomes: A preliminary report

  Maksim Parfyonov, Paul Mick, Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Walter Wittich

• Interdisciplinary Approaches for Advancing Articulatory Speech Theory and Synthesis

  Sidney Fels, Bryan Gick