Sounds and sound preferences in Han Buddhist temples

From Sound to Sounds

This chapter addresses machine audition and natural audition by carefully analyzing the difficulties and roles of audition in real-world conditions. The reason for this focus is my experience with the development of a verbal aggression detection system (van Hengel and Andringa, 2007). This system was first deployed in 2004 and 2005 in the inner city of Groningen (the Netherlands), by the abStract

Product Sound Design: Intentional and Consequential Sounds

The excellence of Aomori Hiba (Hinokiasunaro) in its use as building materials of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.

Five hinokitiol-related compounds (hinokitiol (beta-thujaplicin), beta-dolabrin, gamma-thujaplicin, 4-acetyltropolone and alpha -thujaplicin) isolated from the acid oil of Aomori Hiba (Thujopsis dolabrata Sieb. et Zucc. var hondai MAKINO) showed clear antifungal activity against wood-rotting fungi. These compounds have obvious insecticidal effects on termites. They also exhibited potent acarici...

Early sound symbolism for vowel sounds

Children and adults consistently match some words (e.g., kiki) to jagged shapes and other words (e.g., bouba) to rounded shapes, providing evidence for non-arbitrary sound-shape mapping. In this study, we investigated the influence of vowels on sound-shape matching in toddlers, using four contrasting pairs of nonsense words differing in vowel sound (/i/ as in feet vs. /o/ as in boat) and four r...

Visualizing Video Sounds through Sound Word Animation

Sound information in video plays an important role in constructing audience experience. On the other hand, there are many circumstances where the audience cannot watch video with sounds. Subscripts are conventionally used as visual aids to provide the missing sound information. However, conventional subscripts are far less expressive for non-verbal sounds since it is designed to visualize speec...