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January 13 2023
Scott C. Haskell, Ning Lu et al.
A 700 kHz histotripsy array is used to generate repeated cavitation events in agarose, gelatin, and polyacrylamide hydrogels. High-speed optical imaging, a broadband hydrophone, and the narrow-band ...
February 02 2023
Stephen McAdams, Etienne Thoret et el.
Timbre provides an important cue to identify musical instruments. Many timbral attributes covary with other parameters like pitch. This study explores listeners' ability to construct categories ...
November 01 2022
A. Mimani, S. Nama
This work presents the results of a perception-based study of changes in the local soundscape at residences across India during the last 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic and their effects on ...
May 02 2023
Alain de Cheveigné
This paper suggests an explanation for listeners' greater tolerance to positive than negative mistuning of the higher tone within an octave pair. It hypothesizes a neural circuit tuned to ...
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September 27 2023
Samuel D. Bellows, Dallin T. Harwood et al.
The distinctive geometry and structural characteristics of Balinese gamelan gongs lead to the instrument's unique sound and musical style. This work presents high-resolution directivity measurements ...
September 26 2023
Wenli Liu, Tianyu Wang et al.
The perception of the /da/–/ga/ series, distinguished primarily by the third formant (F3) transition, is affected by many nonspeech and speech sounds. Previous studies mainly investigated the ...
September 26 2023
Tae-Sok Jang, Yong-Nam An et al.
The aim of this work is to investigate and analyze the operation mechanism and power control principle of a bolted Langevin type (BLT)-loaded phase-shifted control inverter and to find a safe power ...

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