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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America to be held 5-9 June 2006 in Providence, Rhode Island. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.
MONDAY, JUNE 5
Mapparium Acoustics by William Hartmann, H. Steven Colburn, and Gerald Kidd, Jr.
Knocking On Brain's Door: Breaking through the barrier using sound by Elisa Konofagou and James Choi
Bad Vibrations: Treefrog Eggs Use Vibrational Cues to Flee from Predators by Karen M. Warkentin, Michael S. Caldwell, and J. Gregory McDaniel
TUESDAY, JUNE 6
Underwater Sounds Generated by the Great Sumatra Rupture by Catherine D. de Groot-Hedlin
When Katrina Hit California by Peter Gerstoft, Mike Fehler, and Karim Sabra
What Makes the Sound of the Saxophone Specific? by Jean-Pierre Dalmont, Bruno Gazengel, and Jean Kergomard
A New Family of Stringed Musical Instruments by Samuel Gaudet and Sophie Léger
Robots That Listen: Mimicking Human Hearing to Help Robots Find Snipers by Socrates Deligeorges, Aleks Zosuls, David Mountain, David Anderson, and Allyn Hubbard
Computer Simulations of the Propagation of Sound on Mars by Amanda D Hanford and Lyle N. Long
Hearing Levels in US Adults by William Murphy, Christa Themann, and Mark Stephenson
Sound from Light: Playing Notes on Nanoscopic Wires by A. SampathKumar, K.L. Ekinci and T.W. Murrray
Short-Term Non-Poissonian Temporal Clustering of Magnitude 4+ Earthquakes in California and Western Nevada by John E. Ebel, Daniel W. Chambers, Alan L. Kafka, and Jenny A. Baglivo
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7
A Better Hearing Test for Dogs by Peter M. Scheifele, Frank E. Musiek, Michael Darre, Michelle G. Pinto, and John Preece
Acoustics Say "Nano, Nano" to Materials Characterization by Donna Hurley, Malgorzata Kopycinska-Mueller, Tony Kos, Roy Geiss, and Eric Langlois
Suppression of Offensive Chants at Sporting Events Through Feedback of Sound by Sander J. van Wijngaarden and Johan A. van Balken
Music Synthesis for the Terrified: Using Everyday Words to Control Synthesizers by Alastair Disley, David Howard, and Andy Hunt
What Was That Snap in the Grass? by Brian Gygi and Valeriy Shafiro
"But Operator, I Need to Repeat This Again?" by Harsha M. Sathyendra, Ismail Uysal, and John G. Harris
Quiet, I'm Trying to Learn Language! -- The Effect of Background Noise on Infants by Rochelle Newman
Characterizing Sediment Properties in Shallow Water Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Towed Hydrophone Array by Jason D. Holmes, William M. Carey, and James F. Lynch
THURSDAY, JUNE 8
Killer Whales and Herring: Using Sound to Get a Meal by Lee A. Miller, Malene Simon, Fernando Ugarte, and Magnus Walberg
Do Humpback Whales Detect and Classify Fish by Transmitting Sound Through Schools? by Orest Diachok
Keeping in Contact: When Good Sockets Go Bad by Elizabeth Blickley and Bernhard Tittmann
Noise in the Operating Room by Jonathan Kracht, Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac, and James E. West
Multiple Mechanisms of Auditory Attention by Elyse S. Sussman
Adaptive Mechanical Model of Human Footsteps by Alexander Ekimov and James M. Sabatier
How Deep Brain Stimulation Affects Speech in Parkinson's Disease by Emily Wang
Using Sound to Measure and Predict the Ocean Weather by Peter J. Stein, Subramaniaum D. Rajan, and James K. Lewis
FRIDAY, JUNE 9
Intensity Of The American Alligator Vocal Courtship Display by Neil Todd
A Second Pair of Ears by Martin Lenhardt
The Search for Specific Equine Vocal Expression by David G. Browning and Peter M. Scheifele
Studying Violin Bowing by Diana Young
Marine Seismic Surveys with Vector Acoustic Sensors by Dennis Lindwall
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