Persons suffering from perceptive deafness commonly find it difficult to understand amplified speech, and their understanding of speech is easily destroyed by competing speech or noise. One source of perceptive distortion is recruitment, which exaggerates loudness differences among the acoustical elements of speech. A transposition of these distorted loudness relationships from the deaf-subject...

one of the fields of creation and practice expansion is an attempt to diversify and multiply melodic modules which can increase practical potentials in a musical system. the most fundamental element of a sonic- musical atmosphere (mode) is ambits of tone; in other words, it is a sequence of tones with specific frequency. therefore, melodic modules combination depends on acoustical features and ...

2 Walking experiment 4 2.1 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.2 Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.3 Acoustical analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.3.1 Extraction of walking excerpts . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.3.2 Acoustical...

The modern use of ancient heritage sites can be, to say the least, challenging from an acoustical perspective. In fact, modern needs may require acoustical interventions in contrast with the preservation issues of the cultural heritage. This paper deals with this topic in an UNESCO designated world heritage site, the Palatine Chapel of the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy. Since this chapel is cu...

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Hydrogen is the preferred fuel for fuel cells due to high reactivity for electrochemical reaction at anode. In the present study, a three dimensional CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) code was developed and validated to simulate the performance of a catalytic monolith fuel processor used for hydrogen generation. Methane autothermal reforming on 5% Ru/ -Al2O3 catalyst was selected as the reacti...

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CePO(4) nanorods decorated with QDs (QDs@CePO(4)) can be prepared in a sequential, aqueous procedure under continuous flow using a rotating tube processor and a narrow channel reactor. The emission from the QD@CePO(4) is tunable from green to red by simply adjusting the feeding rate, which in turn regulates the particle size of the QDs. The Ce(3+) ions in the QDs@CePO(4) serve as an efficient f...