To address increasing patient demands and acuity, the Calgary Health Region is renovating the intensive care units (ICU) at three of their adult acute care sites. Before finalizing the design plans, mock-up rooms were created at two of the sites according to several proposed room designs in order to identify potential issues during the design phase of the project. All necessary equipment was in...

It has been shown [1, 2] that radio frequency (RF) current flowing on the shield of balanced audio wiring will be converted to a differential signal on the balanced pair by a cable-related mechanism commonly known as ShieldCurrent-Induced Noise. This paper investigates the susceptibility of audio input and output circuits to differential signals in the 200 kHz 30 MHz range, with some work exten...

Oral presentations: 20 minutes each, 15-18 minutes presentation + 2-5 minutes Q&A. Poster Presentations: The size of the poster-boards is 0.9m (width) by 1.5m (height). Please let us know in case you require any special equipment for your poster presentations (earphones will be available in the "Audio Day"). Spotlight presentations: These are 2-minutes "promos" for some of the papers to be pres...

purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...

Users and computing equipment have varying capabilities that include the abilities to exchange text and audio, engage in high bandwidth communication, etc. As the technological options increase, effective communication between the different media has be able to bridge across these options: the bridges have to take into account network quality, end-user equipment capabilities as well as user pre...

Digital signal processing (DSP) underpins modern wireless and wireline communications, medical diagnostic equipment, military systems, audio and video equipment, and countless other products, becoming increasingly common in consumers' lives. Due to advances in semiconductor technology, ever more complex DSP algorithms, protocols, and applications are now feasible, which, in turn, increase the c...

Producing and manipulating the sine wave function is a common problem encountered by circuit designers. Sine wave circuits pose a significant design challenge because they represent a constantly controlled linear oscillator. Sine wave circuitry is required in a number of diverse areas, including audio testing, calibration equipment, transducer drives, power conditioning and automatic test equip...

Competitive audio consumer products require not only cheap signal processing hardware but also low-cost analog equipment and sound transducers. The nonlinear distortions produced by these electro-acoustic transmission systems cannot be described and analyzed by standard methods based on linear systems theory alone. In order to take the nonlinear properties into account, we present a measurement...

Biotagging used audio-visual equipment to engage a range of individuals in ‘tagging’ plants and animals with specific and local meaning to them. This was an experiment in subverting conventional approaches to biodiversity monitoring with the aim of expanding ideas of both biodiversity and citizen science.

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