Vol. 37 No. 3 (2009)

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Editorial

Editorial

Ramani Ramakrishnan

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Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

Architectural acoustics: Some historical developments and ongoing issues

John S. Bradley

21-31
I have never seen a sound

R. Murray Schafer

32-34
Biomedical ultrasound imaging from 1 to 1000 MHz

Michael Kolios

35-43
SPMSoft and speech privacy measurement in open-plan offices

John S. Bradley

44-45
NRC-IRC computer controlled acoustic measurement and quality system

Timothy Estabrooks

46-47
Nrc-Irc flanking sound transmission facility

Timothy Estabrooks, Frances King, Trevor Nightingale, Ivan Sabourin

48-49
Characterizing flanking transmission paths in the NRC-IRC flanking facility

Frances King, Stefan Schoenwald, Ivan Sabourin

50-51
THE effect of resilient channels on ceiling flanking transmission paths

Frances King, Ivan Sabourin

52-53
Effects of structural load and joist type on flanking sound transmission

Ivan Sabourin, Berndt Zeitler, Frances King

54-55
Trends in cell phone voice processing

Chris Forrester

56-57
Wideband echo control challenges

Sylvain Angrignon, Chris Forrester, Malay Gupta

58-59
An analysis of loudspeaker distortion in the context of acoustic echo cancellation

Trevor Burton, Rafik Goubran

60-61
Subband autoregressive modelling for speech enhancement

Brady Laska, Rafik Goubran, Miodrag Bolic

62-63
Loudness prediction model comparison using the equal loudness contours

Jeremy Charbonneau, Colin Novak, Helen Ule

64-65
Comparison of non-stationary loudness results to equal loudness contours

Colin Novak, Jeremy Charbonneau, Helen Ule

66-67
Prediction of psychoacoustic metrics from suspension induced vibration and road induced noise using transfer path and psychoacoustic analysis techniques

Nebojsa Radic, Colin Novak, Helen Ule

68-69
Description of the multiple look approach for calculating unsteady loudness

Helen Ule, Colin Novak

70-71
Tool for predicting transmission of air-borne and structure-borne sound in buildings

J.David Quirt, John K. Dickinson

72-73
A comparison of three methods for the in situ determination of acoustic absorption coefficients

Scott Mallais, John Vanderkooy

74-75
Low-frequency room demerit analysis and equalization using properly-modeled source terms in finite-difference time-domain simulations

Ryan J. Matheson

76-77
Noise Suppression in Cellular Telephony

Malay Gupta, Chris Forrester, Sean Simmons

78-79
The cocktail party problem: Solutions and applications

Karl Wiklund, Simon Haykin

80-81
Region-growing permutation alignment approach in frequency-domain convolutive blind source separation

Lin Wang, Heping Ding, Fuliang Yin

82-83
Review of wideband speech noise reduction techniques

Malay Gupta, Chris Forrester, Sean Simmons

84-85
Screech suppression of supersonic jet noise

Ramani Ramakrishnan, Sergio Raimondo, Anant Grewal, Gary Elfstrom

86-87
Trends in aero-acoustic wind tunnel testing

Gary M. Elfstrom

88-89
A residual-cepstrum method of pitch estimation from noisy speech

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

90-91
Band-adaptive formant frequency estimation from noisy speech in correlation domain

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

92-93
Digital earplug for brain plasticity research

Marc Schönwiesner, Jérémie Voix, Philippe Pango

94-95
Acoustic shock detection and control

Henry Luo

96-97
Sound created form exploring the influence of sound on architectural form and the aural quality of spaces it can create

Ben Gaum, Ramani Ramakrishnan

98-99
The sounding museum cultural soundscapes as a tool in museum education

Hein Schoer

100-101
Tapping to pitched auditory feedback tones: Effects of pitch contour and interval size on intertap-interval and tap force

Paolo Ammirante, William F. Thompson, Frank A. Russo

102-103
Temporal dynamics of selective attention during dichotic listening

Bernhard Ross

104-105
Hearing protectors standards

Alberto Behar, Willy Wong

106-107
Monitoring sound pressure at the eardrum for hearing conservation

Anthony J. Brammer, Gongqiang Yu, Eric R. Bernstein, Donald R. Peterson, Martin G. Cherniack, Jennifer B. Tufts

108-109
Acoustic localization of an autonomous underwater vehicle

Nicos Pelavas, Garry J. Heard, Gordon R. Ebbeson, Carmen Lucas, Derek Clark

110-111
Bayesian ocean acoustic source track with environmental uncertainty

Stan E. Dosso, Michael J. Wilmut

112-113
Bayesian source track prediction in an uncertain environmental inversion

Stan E. Dosso, Michael J. Wilmut

114-115
MRI measurement of dynamics of the liquid and a dissolved gas during acoustic cavitation

I.V. Mastikhin, B. Newling, N. Hetherington, S. Kristoffersen

116-117
Eigenfrequency analysis of fluid-filled pipes

N.M. Alam Chowdhury, Zaiyi Liao, Lian Zhao, Ramani Ramakrishnan

118-119
Modal solutions of the acoustic wave propagation through fluid-filled pipes

N M Alam Chowdhury, Zaiyi Liao, Lian Zhao, Ramani Ramakrishnan

120-121
Characteristics of wind turbine noise

Ramani Ramakrishnan

122-123
An approach to generating and calibrating a sound contour map

Ryan Daneluzzi, Steve Bogensberger, Mike Dobrin, Colin Novak, Helen Ule

124-125
Music and hearing aids

Marshall Chasin

126-127
Evaluation of aided and unaided auditory functions for royal Canadian mounted police (RCMP) members

Véronique Vaillancourt, Chantal Laroche, Christian Giguère, Marc-André Beaulieu, Jean-Pierre Legault

128-129
Automatic volume settings for environment sensitive hearing aids

Rana Rahal, Wail Gueaieb, Christian Giguére, Hisham Othman

130-131
A new feature selection method for volume control in direct-learning hearing aid systems

Jin Zhou, Hisham Othman, Hilmi Dajani, Tyseer Aboulnasr

132-133
Subband adaptive filtering for acoustic feedback compensation in hearing aids

Brady Laska, Miodrag Bolic, Rafik Goubran

134-135
Binaural objective intelligibility measurement and hearing aids

Nicolas Ellaham, Christian Giguère, Wail Gueaieb

136-137
Wlthtn-category variation in l2 english vowel learning

Ron I. Thomson, Talia Isaacs

138-139
Vowel imitation in spontaneous phonetic imitation

Molly Babel

140-141
Acoustic and auditory comparisons of polish and taiwanese mandarin sibilants

Chenhao Chiu

142-143
Talking while chewing: Speaker response to natural perturbation of speech

Connor Mayer, Bryan Gick, Elizabeth Ferch

144-145
Magnetic resonance imaging and videofluoroscopy of partial glossectomees' speech: Preliminary results

Janette Quintero, Tim Bressmann, Katalin Mady, Ambros Beer

146-147
The robustness of infants' early word representations

Marieke Van Heugten, Elizabeth K. Johnson

148-149
Controlling for age related hearing loss can eliminate aging differences in lexical competition: Evidence from eye-tracking as an online measurement of age and noise effects on listening

B.M. Ben-David, C.G. Chambers, M. Daneman, M.K. Pichora-Fuller, E. Reingold, B.A. Schneider

150-151
The environment for auditory research

Bruce E. Amrein, Tomasz R. Letowski

152-153
An investigation of the wind induced background sound levels in rural areas for existing and proposed wind farms

Ian Bonsma, Megan Munro

154-155
Inadequacy of wind turbine noise regulations and their application

John P. Harrison

156-157
Source-receptor path prioritization considerations for the specification of silencers in ventilation systems

Brian Chapnik, Alex Lorimer

158-159
Cooling-tower noise control for the niagara falls casino

Thomas Paige

160-161
Acoustic correlates of neutral versus angry affect in real and non-word sentences

Heather Flowers, Tim Bressmann

162-163
Underwater acoustic localization of marine mammals in an uncertain environment

Brendan Rideout, Stan E. Dosso, David Hannay

164-165
Andean ultrasonics: Bioacoustics of two tropical montane katydids

Glenn K. Morris

166-167
Measuring scattering in apoptotic cancer cells using ultra high frequency acoustic microscopy

Eric Strohm, Michael Kolios

168-169
A comparison of imaging modalities to monitor thermal and mechanical ultrasound tissue therapies

Arthur Worthington, Sankar Narasimhan, Jahan Tavakkoli, Michael C. Kolios

170-171
An enhanced numerical model to simulate nonlinear continuous wave ultrasound field

Shahram Mashouf, Jahan Tavakkoli

172-173
Old and new cochlear maps

Reinhart Frosch

174-175
Effect of headphone type on listening levels and localization abilities of portable audio device users in quiet and traffic noise

I. Ibrahim, R. Malcolmson, M.B. Jennings, M.F. Cheesman

176-177
Age and neuropathies in vibration exposed manual workers

Martin G. Cherniack, Anthony J. Brammer, Ronnie Lundström, Timothy F. Morse, Greg Neely, Tohr Nilsson, Donald R. Peterson, Esko M. Toppila, Nicholas Warren

178-179
Vlbrotactile perception as a test for numbness and pain

Anthony J. Brammer, Paivi Sutinen, Sourish Das, Ilmari Pyykko, Esko Toppila, Jukka Starck

180-181
Perception of musical sources with impoverished spectral envelopes

Michael D. Hall

182-183
Changes in melodic perception as a function of age and lowest harmonic component

Huiwen Goy, D. Timothy Ives, Frank A. Russo, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Roy D. Patterson

184-185
Development and validation of a sensory-substitution technology for music

Carmen Branje, Michael Maksimowski, Gabe Nespoli, Maria Karam, Deborah Fels, Frank Russo

186-187
The sound of stroop: Acoustic effects in stroop interference

Boaz M. Ben-David, Pascal H.H.M. Van Lieshout, Alex Nishta

188-189
Establishing normative voice characteristics of younger and older adults

Jessica Banh, Konstantin Naumenko, Huiwen Goy, Pascal Van Lieshout, David N. Fernandes, Kathy Pichora-Fuller

190-191
Assessing the intrinsic relationship between facial motion and acoustics in patients with parkinson's disease

Luyao Ma, Huawei Colin Li, Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, Willy Wong, Pascal Van Lieshout

192-193
Men, women and lenition: Gender differences in the production of intervocalic voiced stops in Mexican Spanish

Anna Limanni

194-195
Separating normal variation in movement amplitudes from gradient speech errors

Anneke Slis, Pascal Van Lieshout

196-197
Transfer path analysis using engine radiated sound and mount vibration

Nikolina Samardzic, Colin Novak

198-199
An accurate coupled structural-acoustic analytical framework for the prediction of random and flow-induced noise in transport vehicles: Its Uddation

Joana Da Rocha, Afzal Suleman, Fernando Lau

200-201
Experimental studies on the in-plane vibrations and sound radiation in an annular thick disk

Salem Bashmal, Rama Bhat, Subash Rakheja

202-203
Modeling electrostatic field in mems devices using artdticial springs in rayleigh-ritz method

Avinash K. Bhaskar, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Rama B. Bhat

204-205
Dynamic behavior of micro structure in micro fluidic channel

Md Shakhawat Hossain, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Subhash Rakheja

206-207