Young Adults’ Knowledge and Perceptions of Permanent Noise-Induced Tinnitus and its Influence on Behavioural Intentions by Lucy Runciman, Christine Johnson

“…Objective: Young adults’ music-listening behaviours may put them at risk of developing permanent hearing loss and tinnitus. …”
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Subjective Evaluation of Music Compressed with the ACER Codec Compared to AAC, MP3, and Uncompressed PCM by Stuart Cunningham, Iain McGregor

“…Our previous research presented a novel codec named ACER (Audio Compression Exploiting Repetition), which achieves data reduction by exploiting irrelevancy and redundancy in musical structure whilst generally maintaining acceptable levels of noise and distortion in objective evaluations. …”
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“No Damn Black Gown Sons of Bitches among Them”: Rough Music and the Counter-Pastoral in the Eighteenth-Century Carolina Backcountry by Allan KULIKOFF

“…“Rough music,” according to English historian E. P. Thompson, included “raucous, ear-shattering noise, unpitying laughter, and the mimicking of obscenities.” …”
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Chroni(qu)es new-yorkaises : City Life de Steve Reich by Antoine CAZÉ

“…This article analyzes Steve Reich’s City Life, a 1995 piece in which the American composer blends noises and voices he recorded on the streets in New York City with the sounds of an instrumental ensemble. …”
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“Voice of anarchy”: Gender aspects of aggressive metal vocals. The example of Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy) by Florian Heesch

“…This article examines the musical phenomenon of death metal growling, as well as the marginalization of women in what has been conceived as a primarily masculine style.…”
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Eavesdropping against wireless spatial scrambling secure communication: hyperplane clustering by Lu LIU, Liang JIN, Kai-zhi HUANG, Zhou ZHONG

“…Simulation results show that the HC algorithm, compared with the existing MUSIC-like algorithms, holds the advantages of better anti-noise performance and lower computing complexity.…”
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Fondling Breasts and Playing Guitar. Textual and Contextual Expressions of a Sociomusical Conflict in Accra by Tobias Robert Klein

“…The Ga religious authorities in Accra traditionally impose a ban on drumming and noise-making in advance of the annual Homowo festival. …”
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Novel DOA estimation method for coherent wideband LFM signals by Peng,LIUKai-hua LUO, Jie-xiao YU, Yong-tao MA

“…A novel direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method for coherent wideband linear frequency modulation (LFM) signals was proposed.Based on the dechirping property of LFM signal in fractional Fourier domain,a new array data model was constructed,then the matrix reconstruction and MUSIC algorithm were used to estimate the DOA of coherent LFM signals.If there were multiple groups of coherent LFM signals incident,separated them in different energy-concentrated domains first,then carried the DOA estimation on each of the groups.Owing to fully excavating the time-frequency information included in observed signals,this method has good resolution ability and anti-noise performance,and the number of DOA that can be resolved is also increased.In addition,this method has no array redundancy and aperture loss,and can be applied to arbitrary array manifold.Simulation results show that this method can obtain nearly 8dB signal-to-noise ratio gain compared with the conventional method.…”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…Virginia Woolf was a keen preserver of some Victorian values, and among these the art of Charles Dickens, with his representation of London, its voices, sounds, music and noises. Dickens’s Little Dorrit and its closing sentence opens up my critical track by suggesting that Woolf’s reconstruction of the past must give to Victorian sounds a role that is neither ancillary nor merely impressionistic. …”
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M-estimate like correlation based algorithm for direction of arrival estimation under alpha-stable environments by Jin-feng ZHANG, Tian-shuang QIU, Ai-min SONG, Hong TANG, Na WANG

“…A novel class of bounded statistics,namely,the M-estimate like correlation (MELC) for independently identi-cal distributed symmetric alpha-stable (SαS) random variables was defined.Based on the MELC matrix for the array sensor outputs,a new algorithm for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of complex SαS noise was proposed.The comprehensive Monte-Carlo simulation results show that the MELC-MUSIC algorithm not only outper-forms the fractional lower order statistics (FLOS) based MUSIC algorithms under low SNR conditions and multi-source signals environment,but also is robust with circular and noncircular signals.…”
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Computationally efficient direction-of-arrival estimation of non-circular signal based on subspace rotation technique by Wei WANG, Ming ZHANG, Bobin YAO, Qinye YIN, Pengcheng MU

“…In order to solve the problem that the high computational burden of the multiple signal classification algorithm of non-circular signal (NC-MUSIC) in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation,a novel computationally efficient DOA estimation algorithm based on subspace rotation technique was proposed.Firstly,the partitioning of noise subspace matrix and the subspace rotation technique (SRT) were used to construct a new reduced-dimension noise subspace.Then,the two-dimensional peak searching was converted to the one-dimensional peak searching on the basis of the separation of variables and the orthogonality between the new reduced-dimension noise subspace and the space spanned by the columns of the extended manifold matrix.The proposed algorithm can enhance the computational efficiency by means of the conversion of the two-dimensional peak searching into the one-dimensional peak searching and the removal of redundant computations.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the computational complexity to less than 5% as compared to NC-MUSIC algorithm on the premise of ensuring the accuracy of DOA estimation.Especially,the efficiency advantage of the proposed algorithm is more obvious in scenarios where the large numbers of sensors are required.…”
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The Domestic Acoustic Environment in Online Education—Part 2: Different Interference Perception of Sound Sources and While Conducting Academic Tasks by Virginia Puyana-Romero, Angela María Díaz-Márquez, Christiam Garzón, Giuseppe Ciaburro

“…Noise is increasingly recognized as a factor impacting health, including its effects on online education. …”
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Direction-of-arrival estimation performance analysis of the rank reduction estimator in the presence of finite samples by Ding WANG, Hui YAO, Ying WU

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Du dépouillement surgit le silence : une adaptation sous couvert de minimalisme audiovisuel by Louis Daubresse

“…Taking up the cause of Cormac McCarthy’s rigorously ascetic style in No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ adaptation offers several sequences where, due to the absence of words, the economy of extradiegetic music and the rarefaction of noises, the spectator finds himself confronted with a (relative) cinematographic silence in which the slightest sound, usually imperceptible, is likely to become intelligible. …”
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Improving multi-talker binaural DOA estimation by combining periodicity and spatial features in convolutional neural networks by Reza Varzandeh, Simon Doclo, Volker Hohmann

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Sound recurrence analysis for acoustic scene classification by Jakob Abeßer, Zhiwei Liang, Bernhard Seeber

“…Abstract In everyday life, people experience different soundscapes in which natural sounds, animal noises, and man-made sounds blend together. Although there have been several studies on the importance of recurring sound patterns in music and language, the relevance of this phenomenon in natural soundscapes is still largely unexplored. …”
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Analysis and verification on one-dimensional location performance of shortwave single station by Ting LI

“…With the low sensitivity of beam field and noise-sensitive of high resolution spatial spectrum algorithm,the low location precision under the complex electromagnetic environment becomes a severe problem.The Capon and Root-MUSIC (CRMU) joint algorithm was proposed to research the one-dimensional location technology.The proposed algorithm could not only avoid the high operation caused by the peak search but also suppress the noise,which contributed to reduce the root mean square error (RMSE) of azimuth.Then,the simulation results demonstrate that the RMSE of the proposed algorithm is at least 0.2 degrees less than that of the Root-MUSIC algorithm.In addition,the location error of the proposed algorithm is less than 3% in the practical application of one-dimensional location of shortwave single station,which satisfies the demand that the location error should be below 5%.…”
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Two-Dimensional Direction-of-Arrivals Estimation Based on One-Dimensional Search Using Rank Deficiency Principle by Feng-Gang Yan, Zhi-Kun Chen, Ming-Jian Sun, Yi Shen, Ming Jin

“…This 1D quadratic optimal problem is further proved equivalent to finding the conditions of noise subspace rank deficiency (NSRD), which can be solved by an efficient 1D spectral search, leading to a novel NSRD-MUSIC estimator accordingly. …”
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Convolutional Neural Networks for Direction of Arrival Estimation Compared to Classical Estimators and Bounds by Christopher J. Bell, Kaushallya Adhikari, Andrew Brown

“…We show that for the single-source case, the CNNs do not offer any performance improvement relative to MUSIC at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For the two-source cases, the CNNs perform better than MUSIC but only at low SNR. …”
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“All Creatures Yum!!”: Cicada Mania in Southern Indiana by Julianne Graper

“…in Bloomington, IN, which featured a combination of cicada culinary pop-ups with an album of cicada music. Critiquing David Rothenberg’s claim that cicada noise is evidence of a prior stage of human musical evolution, I argue that the pairing of cicadas-as-food with cicadas-as-musical-collaborators suggests a complex negotiation by which participants are involved in “eating the Other” as theorized by bell hooks . …”
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