The Energy Puppet is an ambient display device that provides peripheral awareness of energy consumption for individual home appliances. The display produces different “pet-like” behavioral reactions according to energy use patterns of the appliances to give homeowners an indication of their energy consumption status. The puppet would raise its “arms” in victory to display normal consumption rat...

The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars – sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for learning visual models. To demonstrate this, we train a convolutional neural network to predict a statistical summary of the sound associated with a video frame. We show that, thro...

Comparative analyses of the roar vocalization of male harbor seals from ten sites throughout their distribution showed that vocal variation occurs at the oceanic, regional, population, and subpopulation level. Genetic barriers based on the physical distance between harbor seal populations present a likely explanation for some of the observed vocal variation. However, site-specific vocal variati...

To evaluate the case volume (CV) and mortality outcomes relationship after both open (OAR) endovascular repair (EVAR) of elective (e) ruptured (r) abdominal aortic aneurysm using contemporary administrative database. Healthcare Cost Utilization Project Database for NY (2016) NJ/MD/FL (2016-2017) were queried International Classification Disease-10th edition to identify OAR EVAR. Hospitals categ...

This article explores the specificities and psychological effects of urban noise in John Dos Passos’ novel Manhattan Transfer. It seeks to elucidate how Manhattan’s soundscape is represented on novel’s formal content level it assumes an agency its own right, when ceaselessly enveloping characters. The city’s specific acoustic regimes, therefore, prove much more instrumental constituting charact...