Melville, New York, October 10, 2005
The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and NOISE-CON 2005 to be held October 17-21 in Minneapolis. Since ASA/NOISE-CON 2005 meeting papers are not vetted by scientific referees, please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17
Regulating Environmental Noise in Minnesota by Tim
Casey
Aural Comfort and Acoustical Privacy in the Workplace
by Dennis A. Paoletti
Personal Computer, Printer, and Portable Equipment
Noise in Classrooms by Robert D. Hellweg, Egons K. Dunens, Terrance
Baird, and John N. Olsen
Using Sound to Detect Shuttle Defects by J. Adin Mann III and Todd
A. Thompson
Biases Introduced by the Fitting of Functions to Attitudinal
Survey Data by Paul Schomer
Voice Recognition in Frogs by Mark A. Bee
Chimpanzees Know When to Keep Quiet by Michael
l. Wilson, Marc D. Hauser, and Richard W. Wrangham
How Many People will be Awakened by Nighttime Aircraft Operations? by
Nicholas P. Miller and Grant S. Anderson
Listening to Bacterial Gases by Miguel A.
Horta and Steven L. Garrett
Sound Waves: Untapped Fire Extinguishers? by
Dmitriy Plaks, Elizabeth Nelson, Nesha Hyatt, James Espinosa, Zade Coley,
Cathy Tran, and Ben de Mayo
Where'd You Get those Ultrasonic Peepers? by Martin
Lenhardt
What Do We Know About Noise in Hospitals?
by James E. West and Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac
Ultrasound Beyond the Speed of Light by Joel
Mobley
Painting Sound in Space by Joung-Woo Choi and Yang-Hann
Kim
Queuing For Quiet - The Natural Soundscape From a Visitor Perspective by Richard D. Horonjeff
Noise Exposure Associated with Marching and Pep Bands
by Joseph Keefe
Acoustic Analysis of a Horse Whinny:
"Hello" and "I'm excited to see you" too! by David G. Browning and Peter M. Scheifele
What Are the Differences Between Amateur and Professional
Choirs? by Harald Jers
Historic Recording Gives Choir "Alien" Feeling: In
Anechoic Space, No One Can Hear You Sing by Ron Freiheit
The Phase-Shift Method for Studying Nonlinear Acoustic
Behaviors of Soils by Zhiqu Lu
Studying the Acoustic Behavior of Plastic, Blast-hardened,
Anti-tank Landmines by W. C. Kirkpatrick Alberts II
Speech-Recognition Interfaces for Music Information Retrieval
by Masataka Goto
Melodic Representations for Theme Retrieval
by Norman Adams and Gregory Wakefield
Communicating Underwater Using Natural Ocean Noise
by Dennis Jones