Lay Language Papers
154th ASA Meeting
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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 154th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held November 27 - December 1, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Digitally Enhanced Practice (1pAA2) by Ron Freiheit
Infrasound measurements during Hurricane Katrina (1pPA3) by Ronald A. Wagstaf, Carrick Talmage and Heath Rice
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
Multitasking Microbubbles (2aBB3 & 4pBB3) by Vesna Zderic and Shahram Vaezy
What is attention, and what is it doing in speech perception? (2aSCa1) by Alexander L. Francis
Influence of roughness on coherence of signals reflected by the seafloor (2aUWa4) by Laurent Guillon and Charles W. Holland
Lizard ears and ancestral hearing (2pAB1) by Catherine Carr, Yezhong Tang, and Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
Sound Localization by Echolocating Dolphins (2pAB3) by Brian K. Branstetter and Eduardo Mercado III
Sound localization by echolocating bats: Are auditory signals enough? (2pAB4) by Murat Aytekin, Jonathan Z. Simon and Cynthia F. Moss
Just a smidgen to the right: Improving sound-localization ability with practice (2pAB6) by Beverly A. Wright
Whales Learn Songs to Explore Their Surroundings (2pAB10) by Eduardo Mercado III
Instrumentation for infrasonic wind noise studies (2pEA3) by Richard Raspet, Jeremy Webster and Jiao Yu
Inequities in Physics Access for Students in Urban Secondary Schools (2pED3) by Angela M. Kelly
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Acoustic environments of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Big Bend region of Florida (3aAB3) by Athena M. Rycyk and Douglas Pl. Nowacek
SSSSH! We're Tracking Whales! (3aAB7) by Val Schmidt, Tom Weber, Dave Wiley, Mark Johnson, Erik Dawe, Colin Ware and Roland Arsenault
NEW How squishy are jellyfish ? (3aAB11) by Joy N. Smith
Acoustic chemotherapy delivery for brain cancer (3aBB5) by George Lewis, Jr., William Olbricht and George Lewis, Sr.
Modulated Ultrasound and Multifrequency Radiation Force (3pBB1) by Matthew W. Urban, Mostafa Fatemi, and James F. Greenleaf
A New Look at Thyroid (3pBB3) by Azra Alizad, F. G. Mitri, R. R. Kinnick, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. Fatemi
Toward a less chaotic sound environment for nurses:
A study investigating the relationship between layout design, aural connectivity and user activities (3aNS7) by Selen Okcu and Craig Zimring
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Inverse Sound Rendering: capturing the acoustic properties of realistic interiors into a virtual model (4aAA1) by Gabriel Pablo Nava, Yoichi Sato, Sinichi Sakamoto and Yosuke Yasuda
Acoustical Renovation of Music Rooms in Schools to Improve Teaching and Listening Conditions (4aAA2) by Hyun Paek and Gary W. Siebein
Perception and Performance of Hearing-Impaired versus Normal-Hearing Persons under Noise (4aAA3) by Lauren M. Ronsse and Lily M. Wang
An Exploration of Virtual 3D Sound (4aAA7) by Scott McDermott and Cheehung Henry Chu
Sound Focused Personal Audio System (4aEA4) by Chan-Hui Lee, Jin Young Park, Ji-Ho Chang and Yang-Hann Kim
Making Spatial Music Accessible: Investigating elementary spatial movements (4aMU2) by Georgios Marentakis, Nils Peters and Stephen McAdams
A Modern Take on the Ancient Mridangam (4aMU12) by Rohan Krishnamurthy, Ian K. Hempe and James P. Cottingham
Response of Gopher Tortoises to Military Training Operations: Preliminary Data (4aNS5) by David Delaney, Tom Radzio, Joseph Hackler, Andrew Walde, and Matt Hinderliter
How Human Sound Affects Marine Animals (4aNS8) by Kathleen J. Vigness Raposa, Adam S. Frankel, Geoff Sisson, William T. Ellison and Christopher Damon
Time Reversed Sound detects land mines (4aPA6) by Laurent Fillinger, Brad Libbey, Alexander Sutin and Armen Sarvazyan
Somatosensory Adaptation in Deaf Adults (4aSC7) by Sazzad Nasir and David J. Ostry
Directivity pattern of footstep sound at ultrasonic frequencies (4aPA9) by Alexander Ekimov and James M. Sabatier
Internet Acoustics and "Plucking the Internet" (4pMU5) by Chris Chafe
A Floating Opera House for Toronto (4pSA2) by Steven L. Wolfe
Stretching the facial skin modifies the perception of speech sounds (4pSC3) by Takayuki Ito, Mark Tiede and David J. Ostry
Seismic Refraction Tomography of a Small Earth Dam (4pUW6) by Roger Gauss and John Preston
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