The incidence of melanoma has been increasing steadily in many countries since 1960, but the underlying mechanism causing this increase remains elusive. The incidence of melanoma has been linked to the distance to frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting towers. In the current study, the authors sought to determine if there was also a related link on a larger scale for entire countries. Exposure-...

Complex sounds, especially natural sounds, can be parametrically characterized by many acoustic and perceptual features, one among which is temporal modulation. Temporal modulations describe changes of a sound in amplitude (amplitude modulation, AM) or in frequency (frequency modulation, FM). AM and FM are fundamental components of communication sounds, such as human speech and speciesspecific ...

Many natural sounds are characterized by periodic envelope or amplitude modulation (AM). The perceptual qualities corresponding to this signal characteristic are rhythm for low and pitch for high modulation frequencies (fm). We demonstrate that fm ranges corresponding to these two perceptual qualities seem to be represented by different codes in the primary auditory cortex (AI) of the Mongolian...

The question of how frequency is coded in the peripheral auditory system remains unresolved. Previous research has suggested that slow rates of frequency modulation (FM) of a low carrier frequency may be coded via phase-locked temporal information in the auditory nerve, whereas FM at higher rates and/or high carrier frequencies may be coded via a rate-place (tonotopic) code. This hypothesis was...

Most communication sounds and most echolocation sounds, including those used by the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), contain frequency-modulated (FM) components, including cyclical FM. Because previous studies have shown that some neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of this bat respond to linear FM sweeps but not to pure tones or noise, we asked whether these or other neurons are specializ...

Frequently, a need exists to compute the postdetection (recovered data) signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) in a given frequency modulated (FM) or double frequency modulated (FM/FM) transmission link; alternately certain postdetection SNR requirements are established, and the link’s parameters must be correspondingly specified. In either case, relationships that clearly relate postdetection SNR to lin...

Temporal correlation between atmospheric anomalies and earthquakes has recently been verified statistically through measuring VHF FM radio waves transmitted beyond the line-of-sight. In order to locate the sources of such atmospheric anomalies, we developed a VHF interferometer system (bistatic-radar type) capable of finding the arrival direction of FM radio waves scattered possibly by earthqua...

A mathematical model is developed that can be used to analyze the effects of multipath on any modulation of an FM carrier. The predictions of this model are verified by simulation and by actual field testing. The model is used to analyze the existing FM stereo system and the proposed FMX system. The analysis, confirmed by field tests in over 15,000 locations, shows that FMX transmission signifi...