Sound as a non-visual component of landscape, has a significant impact on individuals perception of space. Because unlike the landscape that seeing and looking is totally an optional action, soundscape regardless of people comes to be heard and understood. Lack of attention to quality of emitted sounds in the environment may leads to problems such as noise pollution, lack of concentration, nois...

Seismic ambient noise sources have received increased attention recently, creating new possibilities to study the Earth's subsurface and atmosphere-ocean-solid Earth coupling. In efforts locate such using nonlinear finite-frequency inversions, methodological developments as pre-computed wavefields spatially variable grids were necessary. These make inversions feasible for secondary microseismic...

Noise pollution is a critical factor affecting public health, the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several diseases in urban areas being especially disturbing. The Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC and the CNOSSOS-EU framework are the main instruments of the European Union to identify and combat noise pollution, requiring Member States to compose and publish noise maps a...

We report on the sensitivity of SPIRE photometers on the Herschel Space Observatory. Specifically, we measure the confusion noise from observations taken during the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey. Confusion noise is defined to be the spatial variation of the sky intensity in the limit of infinite integration time, and is found to be consistent amon...

Target Audience: Engineers interested in speeding up high-channel-count parallel MRI reconstruction. Introduction: While receiver arrays with many channels can increase parallel imaging acceleration and provide high signal-to-noise, processing the large datasets they produce is computationally demanding. Coil compression algorithms reduce, and denoise in the process, data from many coils into f...

How orientation and ocular-dominance maps develop before visual experience begins is controversial. Possible influences include molecular signals and spontaneous activity, but their contributions remain unclear. This paper presents LISSOM simulations suggesting that previsual spontaneous activity alone is sufficient for realistic OR and OD maps to develop. Individual maps develop robustly with ...