Acoustic and sound engineering

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Mechanical Engineering (IC-RIDME 2018).

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Mechanical Engineering (IC-RIDME 2018).

The study of animal communication has led to significant progress in our general understanding of motor and sensory systems, evolution, and speciation.

Modern noise research and assessment techniques are commonly used in the workplace and our personal living environment.

This book explains the challenges and advancements in cutting precise cylindrical shapes on difficult materials through spark erosion.

It is remarkable that until recently sonographic studies of the bowel have not reached the diagnostic level that sonography has attained for other parts of the gastrointestinal tract.

Popular music plays a substantial role in most people's life.

This second edition offers a unique and focused study of the use of ultrasound during the first trimester, a critical time in a fetus' development.

Preoperative and intraoperative echocardiography has become an indispensable tool for guiding mitral valve surgery and has fostered the development of many innovative surgical techniques.

This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of shengse-sound and sight-which connotes "e;sensual pleasure.

This book collects original peer-reviewed papers describing the latest developments in railway noise and vibration from the 14th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN14), held on 7-9 December 2022, in Shanghai, China.

High standards of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) performance are expected in vehicle design.

Well established as a classic reference and specialized textbook since its first publication in 1973, Room Acoustics combines detailed coverage with a state-of-the-art presentation of the theory and practice of sound behaviour in enclosed spaces.

Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 9:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the ninth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This unique reference book offers a holistic description of the multifaceted field of systematic musicology, which is the study of music, its production and perception, and its cultural, historical and philosophical background.

Volume 1 covers:* Mathematical models* Differential equations* Stochastic aspects of hysteresis* Binary detection using hysteresis* Models of unemployment in economicsVolume 2 covers:* Physical models of magnetic hysteresis* All aspects of magnetisation dynamicsVolume 3 covers:* Hysteresis phenomena in materials* Over 2100 pages, rich with supporting illustrations, figures and equations * Contains contributions from an international list of authors, from a wide-range of disciplines* Covers all aspects of hysteresis - from differential equations, and binary detection, to models of unemployment and magnetisation dynamics

The problems it addresses include emotion representation, annotation of music excerpts, feature extraction, and machine learning.

This book highlights advances and prospects of a highly versatile and dynamic research field: Therapeutic ultrasound.

Imaging-Guided Interventional Breast Techniques instructs the reader on the performance of invasive breast procedures and discusses issues related to the selection and purchase of equipment to perform these cutting edge techniques.

Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Aetiology and Management will be the first book to focus exclusively on this extremely important and common complication of pregnancy.

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book addresses the wide range of issues that face the program leader - from how to choose a site and how to negotiate for equipment, to how to determine staffing requirements and how to anticipate and defuse possible turf issues with other programs and services in the hospital or healthcare facility.

What is sound design?

Digital sound synthesis has long been approached using standard digital filtering techniques.

This literature study presents an overview of underwater acoustic networking.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.

Suitable for both individual and group learning, Engineering Acoustics focuses on basic concepts and methods to make our environments quieter, both in buildings and in the open air.

This book covers all small details about Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN).

This book presents recent research works related to blast resistant buildings, green roofs and sustainability, retrofit interventions with C-FRP fibers, analysis of cracking in pile cap foundation by delayed ettringite formation and acoustic performance in buildings.

Speech dynamics refer to the temporal characteristics in all stages of the human speech communication process.

This book highlights the potential of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound, or LIPUS, to introduce a new era in dentistry by revolutionizing the approach to dental treatment and providing a cure for pathologic conditions long considered untreatable.

This book examines how compression can be understood not only as a digital process enacted through computing, but as a wider economic and political phenomenon that impacts on the ecology of waste, diversity and social inclusivity.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.

Since the concept was first proposed at the end of the 20th Century, metamaterials have been the subject of much research and discussion throughout the wave community.

Ultrasonic nano/microfabrication, handling and driving is an emerging actuation technology, which utilizes ultrasonic vibration and the physical effects of ultrasonic vibration in fluids and solids to implement the fabrication, handling and driving of nano/micro scale objects.

This book aims to provide reader an overview of clinical applications of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in hepatic neoplasms diagnosis.

This book concerns the presentation of particle velocity measurement for acoustics using lasers, including Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV or Anemometry (LDA)) and Particle Imagery Velocimetry (PIV).

This book examines the indoor acoustic environment of China's care homes.

This book provides a practically applicable manual to the utilisation of ultrasound in rheumatology.

This book derives physical models from basic principles, studies the effect of equivalent models on the dynamic characteristics of phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, and analyzes the physical mechanisms behind vibration and noise reduction.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the use of ultrasound in the care of acutely and critically ill patients.