The following are lay language papers being presented at the 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/16th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA/ASA '98), June 20-16, 1998, at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Towers and the Westin Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA.
JUNE 22, MONDAY MORNING
Sound Measures Ocean Temperature by Robert C. Spindel, B. D. Cornuelle, M. Dzieciuch, W. H. Munk, P. F. Worcester, A. B. Baggeroer, D. Menemenlis, C. Wunsch, T. G. Birdsall, K. Metzger, C. Clark, J. A. Colosi, D. Costa, B. D. Dushaw, B. M. Howe, J. A. Mercer, andA. M. G. Forbes 06/01/98
Jagged-edge Noise Barriers by Penelope Menounou, Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac, and David T. Blackstock 06/02/98
Future Directions in Speech Information Processing by Sadaoki Furui 06/01/98
How is Acoustics Contributing to the Study of the Upper Ocean? by David M. Farmer 06/12/98
JUNE 22, MONDAY AFTERNOON
Eric Dolphy's Playing Style in the Vienna Art Orchestra's Performance by Alexandra Hettergott 06/01/98
Characteristics of Fault Processes in Central Arctic Ice by Catherine Stamoulis and Ira Dyer 06/01/98
JUNE 23, TUESDAY MORNING
Boxes and Sound Quality in an Italian Opera House by Alessandro Cocchi, Massimo Garai, and Carla Tavernelli 06/01/98
Therapeutic Ultrasound: A Promising Future in Clinical Medicine by Lawrence Crum, Michael Bailey, Peter Kaczkowski, Inder Makin, Pierre Mourad, Kirk Beach, Stephen Carter, Udo Schmiedl, Wayne Chandler, Roy Martin, Shahram Vaezy, George Keilman, Robin Cleveland, and Ronald Roy 06/04/98
JUNE 23, TUESDAY AFTERNOON
The Acoustics of the Italian Opera House "Teatro di San Carlo" in Naples-Italy by Luigi Maffei, Gino Iannace, Carmine Ianniello, andRosario Romano 06/01/98
Sound Waves Target Cancer by Gail ter Haar 06/01/98
Development of Human Cochlear Function by Caroline Abdala 06/08/98
When the Future Disrupts the Past: Auditory Perception in Children with Language Disorders by Beverly A. Wright 06/01/98
JUNE 24, WEDNESDAY MORNING
The Impact of Train Noise on Seattle's New Concert Hall Design by Andrew Clapham and George Wilson 06/08/98
Toxin and Gene Transfer into Cells by Extracorporeal Shock Waves: in Vitro and in Vivo Effects by Michael Delius 06/01/98
Modal Analysis of Violins and Cellos by Thomas D. Rossing, Mark Roberts, Eric Bynum, and Laura Nickerson 06/12/98
The Remarkable Nonlinearities of Rock by James A. TenCate, Koen E.A. VanDenAbeele, Eric Smith, Thomas J. Shankland, and Paul A. Johnson 06/02/98
JUNE 24, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Sonic Gas Analysis by Matthew V. Golden, Robert M. Keolian and Steven L. Garrett 06/04/98
Motion-Compensated High-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) by James T. Christoff 06/01/98
JUNE 25, THURSDAY MORNING
Japan's New National Performing Arts Center by Takahiko Yanagisawa 06/01/98
Fish Love Songs by Andrew H. Bass and Deana Bodnar 06/12/98
JUNE 25, THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Using Sound to Map Fish Spawning: Determining the Seasonality and Location of Spawning by Fishes in the Family Sciaenidae (Seatrouts, Drums, and Croakers) Within Pamlico Sound, NC by Joseph J. Luczkovich, Mark W. Sprague and Stephen Johnson 06/02/98
Using Fish Sounds to Identify Spawning Activity of Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) and Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in Nature by Mark W. Sprague, Joseph J. Luczkovich and Stephen Johnson 06/02/98
Targeted Acoustic Contrast Agents: New Opportunities for Ultrasound in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy by Gregory M. Lanza 06/08/98
Trends in Modeling of Structural-Acoustics Systems with Structural Complexity in Low- and Medium-Frequency Ranges by Christian Soize 06/01/98
Are the Congenitally Blind Better at Attending to Auditory Information? by Kim M. Goddard, Matthew I. Isaak, and Elzbieta B. Slawinski 06/02/98
A Global Hydroacoustic Monitoring System for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Plans and Progress by Martin W. Lawrence and Marta Galindo Arranz 06/01/98
JUNE 26, FRIDAY MORNING
Extracorporeal Shock Waves Act by Shock Wave - Gas Bubble Interaction by Michael Delius 06/01/98
The Potential of Lithotripter Shockwaves for Gene Therapy of Tumors by Douglas L. Miller, Richard A. Gies, Brian Thrall, and Shiping Bao 06/01/98
Features of Japanese Soundscape Recognized by Foreigners: A Questionnaire Survey on Sounds for the Foreigners Living in Fukuoka by Shin-ichiro Iwamiya 06/04/98
Can a Machine Outperform a Radiologist in Interpreting Ultrasound Images? - Hope for a Cheap and Reliable Automatic Diagnostic System for Breast Cancer! by Georgia Georgiou and Fernand S. Cohen 06/08/98
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