Acoustic and sound engineering

 This book covers the principles, historical development, and applications of many acoustic logging methods, including acoustic logging-while-drilling and cased-hole logging methods.

This book is a collection of papers presented at Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures 2017 - AVMS 2017 - highlighting the current trends and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

This book comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology.

Noise from cars, trains, and aeroplanes can be heard at large distances from the source.

In the last few years, the development of sonographic contrast agents - or "e;microbubbles"e; - has stimulated increasingly intensive studies on the rela- tionships between ultrasound and contrast media.

Die Praktische Duplexsonographie ist nicht als Konkurrenz zu umfangreichen Lehrbüchern der Doppler-, B-Bild- und Duplexsonographie, sondern speziell für die tägliche Praxis des Niedergelassenen gedacht.

This book addresses the prediction and control of noise and vibration in ventilation systems and their psychoacoustic effects on people.

The book meticulously details a constructive mathematical model of a stochastic noise process, specifically a linear random process and its characteristics.

The second edition of Applied Structural and Mechanical Vibrations: Theory and Methods continues the first edition's dual focus on the mathematical theory and the practical aspects of engineering vibrations measurement and analysis.

Real-time ultrasonography has entered office practice in obstetrics and gynecology.

This book presents a three-dimensional analysis of acoustic wave propagation in an elliptical waveguide, and applies the equations and concepts to design axially short elliptical end-chamber muffler configurations which are an important component of a complex multi-pass muffler used in a modern-day automotive exhaust system.

Noise Control: From Concept to Application presents the basic principles of noise control and their practical application to real problems.

An international meeting of experts on Cardiovascular Imaging by Ultrasound was held in Aachen from 26-27 April, 1991.

This book presents how to apply recent machine learning (deep learning) methods for the task of speech quality prediction.

This book presents computational methods for extracting the useful information from audio signals, collecting the state of the art in the field of sound event and scene analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of spherical microphone arrays, and was written for graduate students, researchers and engineers who work with spherical microphone arrays in a wide range of applications.

This book systematically introduces readers to the fundamental physics and a broad range of applications of acoustic levitation, one of the most promising techniques for the container-free handling of small solid particles and liquid droplets.

Now in an updated edition, this is the most comprehensive book on modern ultrasound imaging in assisted reproductive technology (ART) and reproductive medicine.

This book provides an expert introduction to audio forensics, an essential specialty in modern forensic science, equipping readers with the fundamental background necessary to understand and participate in this exciting and important field of study.

This book presents sixteen chapters in Volume 1.

`Morphological imaging' and `functional imaging' are current mainstays for the diagnosis, successful treatment and accurate follow-up of patients with endocrine disorders.

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

Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques.

This book highlights time reversal acoustics, techniques based on the symmetry properties of acoustic fields.

Traditional reliance on chemical analysis to understand the direction and extent of treatment in a bioremediation process has been found to be inadequate.

Intelligent Music Production presents the state of the art in approaches, methodologies and systems from the emerging field of automation in music mixing and mastering.

This book of diagnostic exercises cannot be used to good advantage without a good grasp of elementary sonoanatomy and the most common pathologic l images .

Provides a summary of current research results on the physiological and psychological effects of sound on people Covers how the operation of the hearing mechanism affects our reactions to sounds Includes research results from studies on noise sources of public concern such as transportation, public utility, and recreational sources, with emphasis on low frequency sound and infrasound Covers sounds that affect some but not others, how sounds can be controlled on a practical level, and how and what sounds are regulated Includes coverage of both positive and negative effects of sound

Written by a pioneer in critical care ultrasound, this book discusses the basic technique and "e;signatures"e; of lung ultrasound and explains its main clinical applications.

This book highlights the mathematical, physical, and technical properties of moving acoustic sources.

Voice recognition is here at last.

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world.

Environmental Noise Barriers is a unique one-stop reference for practitioners, whether acoustical engineers, landscape architects, or manufacturers, and for highways departments in local and central authorities.

Very thorough knowledge of breast pathology is a sine qua non for interpretation of breast films .

This volume presents the proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Vibration Conference (APVC) 2019, emphasizing work devoted to Vibration Engineering for a Sustainable Future.

Owing to the anatomic complexity of the neck and the diver- sity of pathologic entities affecting it, the cervical region has long been of great semiological interest.

This book highlights the acoustic performance of concrete made with Coal Bottom Ash (CBA) that has contributed to environmental issues.

Caused by downsizing of combustion engines, the torque fluctuation at the crankshaft induces torsional vibrations in the powertrain.

This book provides an analysis of acoustic features of polysemous strings and an implementation of a speech disambiguation program based on the phonetic information.

Modern concert halls and opera houses are now very specialized buildings with special acoustical characteristics.

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 will be of interest to anyone who wants to use ultrasound to understand human physiology both in the clinical setting and the classroom.

Durch die technische Weiterentwicklung von der einfachen Dopplersonographie bis hin zur farbkodierten Duplexsonographie ist diese Methode in vielen Gebieten der Medizin mittlerweile ein wichtiger Bestandteil der nichtinvasiven Gefäßdiagnostik geworden.