excessive exposure to noise can lead to noise-induced hearing loss. otoacoustic emissions affect the microscopic biomechanical activities of healthy outer hair cells. the present study aimed at assessing the influence of various sound pressure levels on distortion product otoacoustic emissions (dpoaes) in rats. to this end, 27 adult male rats with an age range of 3 to 4 months and a weight of 2...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...

We investigated the issue of noise pollution in the Bidboland gas refineryby noise measurement and surveys. The Bidboland gas refinery has several process units.The sound pressure levels were measured at several places, such as units of 200, 300,400, 500, boiler, powerhouse area, cooling towers pumps, and maintenance area, and thecorresponding noise maps were produced by using sound plan softwa...

This paper presents a new sound synthesis method utilizing the features of transitions contained in an existing sound, using spectral data obtained through Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) analysis. In this method, spectra obtained from each instantaneous sound are considered as multivariate data, and placed in a vector space, where an evaluation of distances between vectors is performed. As...

SonicData is a technique for broadcasting data to smartphones via audio streams using phone’s built-in microphone. SonicData augments an audio stream in the environment with nearly inaudible high-frequencies, allowing data to be sent to any smartphone in the vicinity using regular speakers and without any need for special hardware and software infrastructure or handshaking requirements. We deta...

This extended abstract describes Metopia, a research project in the early stages of progress, a wireless sensor network for urban spaces, to aquire a complex set of data from the environment for the purpose of making a sound composition. The programming language Pure Data is used to create a sound composition from the aquired data. This research project is using a real-world problem such as air...

Background: Today, the effects of environmental pollution on human life and human needs, which reduces the level of community health caused by traffic noise in large cities, are clearly visible by creating irritation and pathogenic conditions. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of noise pollution resulted from central traffic in Shiraz by analyzing its indicators and related componen...