Sound therapy, or use of any sound for the purpose of tinnitus management, is widely accepted as a management tool for reduction of tinnitus complaints. The rationale for the use of sound is minimizing the patient’s perception of tinnitus by effectively reducing the perception of tinnitus relative to environmental sounds (Del Bo & Ambrosetti, 2007; Folmer & Carroll, 2006). Despite this common r...

The subtraction method is a technique critical to several important acoustic measurements. It involves subtracting a reference measurement including only direct sound from one with direct sound and a reflection, to isolate the reflection. The process is very sensitive to environmental conditions, such as changes in temperature, air movement, and microphone positioning. These variations cause sm...

The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (SWO) is a collaborative sound performance project that has been actively performing for the past several years. The basic idea is that each participant plays a sine wave, and by changing its frequency and volume, creates a collection of sine waves as a collective sound representation. Although all SWO works use the same sound representation (i.e., sine waves), different...

PIBS: 4277e 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report summarizes the findings of the chemical and microbiological analysis of: 1. paper fibre biosolids generated by the Whitby paper recycling mill owned by Atlantic Packaging Ltd. and 2. Sound-Sorb, a product, comprised of an approximate 70:30 mixture of paper fibre biosolids to screened mineral soil. Paper fibre biosolids have been spread on agricultural...

current standards for indoor comfort are based on studies of adults, but they also apply tochildren, even though children differ in terms of metabolic rates, clothing types, activity levels, and preferences in space arrangement. children are also more sensitive to a range of environmental factors, they are usually unable to interact with their environment, and they accept indoor conditions pass...

In this paper we present an experimental study concerning gestural embodiment of environmental sounds in a listening context. The presented work is part of a project aiming at modeling movement-sound relationships, with the end goal of proposing novel approaches for designing musical instruments and sounding objects. The experiment is based on sound stimuli corresponding to “causal” and “non-ca...

Many bio-based materials, which have lower environmental impact than traditional synthetic materials, show good sound absorbing and sound insulation performances. This review highlights progress in sound transmission properties of bio-based materials and provides a comprehensive account of various multiporous bio-based materials and multilayered structures used in sound absorption and insulatio...

Underwater sound propagation in the continental shelf is complicated due to many threedimensional (3-D) oceanographic and marine geologic features, such as shelfbreak fronts, nonlinear internal gravity waves and topographic variability. The long-term goals of this project are targeted on understanding the 3-D sound propagation effects caused by these environmental factors, and also on applying ...