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Time-frequency analysis of acoustic signals using concentrated spectrogram
PublicationThe paper presents improved method of time-frequency (TF) analysis of discrete-time signals. The method involves signal's local group delay (LGD) and channelized instantaneous frequency (CIF) to purposely redistribute all Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) lines. Additionally, the energy concentration index (ECI) and some histogram-like statistics are used to evaluate readability of estimated TF distributions of the energy. Recorded...
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Application of PL-Grid Platform for Modeling of the Selected Acoustic Phenomena
PublicationDomain grids are specific computational environments, developed within the PLGrid Plus project. For the Acoustic domain grid two supercomputer grid based services were prepared. Dedicated software consists of the outdoor sound propagation module and psychoacoustical noise dosimeter. The results are presented in a form of maps of sound level and Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS) values, therefore the services may play an informative...
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Auto adaptation of mobile device characteristics to various acoustic conditions
PublicationThe proposed methodology of auto adaptation of the mobile device characteristics to various acoustic conditions is presented in the paper. The first goal of this study was to determine the parameters of the acoustic path of the mobile device, for both transmitting (speaker) and receiver (microphone). Results of the measurement of characteristics of mobile devices were presented. Information about characteristics of individual parts...
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Acoustic Streaming Induced by Periodic and Aperiodic Sound in a Bubbly Liquid
PublicationThe vortex ow which follows intense sound propagating in a bubbly liquid, is considered. The reasons for acoustic streaming are both nonlinearity and dispersion. That makes streaming especial as compared with that in a Newtonian uid. Conclusions concern the vortex ow induced in a half-space by initially harmonic or impulse Gaussian beam. The vortex ow recalls a turbulent ow with increasing in time number of small-scale vortices...
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Numerical modeling of sound intensity distributions around acoustic transducer
PublicationThe aim of this research study is to measure, simulate and compare sound intensity distribution generated by the acoustic transducers of the loudspeaker. The comparison of the gathered data allows for validating the numerical model of the acoustic radiation. An accurate model of a sound source is necessary in mathematical modeling of the sound field distribution near the scattering obstacles. An example of such obstacle is a human...
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On intermolecular potential determination via equations of state and by acoustic data
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Efficiency of acoustic heating produced in the thermoviscous flow of a fluid with relaxation
PublicationInstantaneous acoustic heating of a fluid with thermodynamic relaxation is the subject of investigation. Among others, viscoelastic biological media described by the Maxwell model of the viscous stress tensor, belong to this type of fluid. The governing equation of acoustic heating is derived by means of the special linear combination of conservation equations in differential form, allowing the reduction of all acoustic terms in...
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Machine learning applied to acoustic-based road traffic monitoring
PublicationThe motivation behind this study lies in adapting acoustic noise monitoring systems for road traffic monitoring for driver’s safety. Such a system should recognize a vehicle type and weather-related pavement conditions based on the audio level measurement. The study presents the effectiveness of the selected machine learning algorithms in acoustic-based road traffic monitoring. Bases of the operation of the acoustic road traffic...
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Machine learning applied to acoustic-based road traffic monitoring
PublicationThe motivation behind this study lies in adapting acoustic noise monitoring systems for road traffic monitoring for driver’s safety. Such a system should recognize a vehicle type and weather-related pavement conditions based on the audio level measurement. The study presents the effectiveness of the selected machine learning algorithms in acoustic-based road traffic monitoring. Bases of the operation of the acoustic road traffic...
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ACOUSTICS RESEARCH LETTERS ONLINE-ARLO
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MOLECULAR AND QUANTUM ACOUSTICS. ANNUAL JOURNAL
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JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND ACOUSTICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
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Lenalidomide in heavily pretreated refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a case report
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Accoustic verification of onomatopoeic sets in contrastive approach
PublicationPraca relacjonuje efekty prób wykorzystania technik cyfrowego przetwarzania sygnału mowy dla zaspokojenia specyficznych potrzeb nauk humanistycznych, które, ograniczając się wyłącznie do tra-dycyjnie stosowanego warsztatu badawczego, napotykają współcześnie na bariery znacznie blokują-ce oczekiwany postęp. Omówiono proces badawczy, który służyć ma językoznawcom dokonującym porównań wyrażeń dźwiękonaśladowczych odnajdywanych w odmiennych...
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Modeling of acoustics of hearing aid earmold systems
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Impact of the glazed roof on acoustics of historic interiors
PublicationThe paper discusses the adverse acoustic phenomena occurring in the semi-open interiors (courtyards, yards) covered with a glass roof. Particularly negative is the rever-beration noise, which leads to the degradation of the utility functions of the resulting spaces. It involves the drastically reducing the intelligibility of speech, loss of natural sounding of music, problems with the sound system, as well as disturbances in the...
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The effect of pumpkin flour on quality and acoustic properties of extruded corn snacks
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Application of acoustic emission metod for measurement of joint gap and cartilage surfaces
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zastosowanie emisji akustycznej do lokalizacji wczesnych uszkodzeń stawu biodrowego lub kolanowego człowieka. Ponadto metoda ta służy do pomiaru wysokości szczeliny stawu oraz struktury geometrycznej powierzchni chrząstki stawowej. Jest to metoda nieinwazyjna. Pomiary metodą emisji akustycznej stosujemy na ogół w materiałach, w których energia sprężysta zmienia się nagle. Takie zmiany energii mogą być...
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Detection of corrosion process in marine environment by means of acoustic emission technique
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono możliwość detekcji procesu korozyjnego nieniszczącą metodą emisji akustycznej konstrukcji metalowych pracujących w środowisku wody morskiej. Pewną alternatywą wobec technik elektrochemicznych w monitorowaniu korozji zaproponowano nieniszczącą technikę emisji akustycznej. Emisja akustyczna znana jako zjawisko fizyczne i technika pomiarowa znalazły zastosowanie w detekcji korozji obiektów morskich. W związku...
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Detection and localisation of corrosion process effect by means of acoustic emission technique
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono możliwość wykorzystania techniki emisji akustycznej do detekcji i lokalizacji skutków procesu korozyjnego - wycieku. Wyniki badań wykonanych w warunkach laboratoryjnych, zbliżonych do rzeczywistych, potwierdziły akustyczne wykrycie oraz ustalenie położenia wycieku. Położenie wycieku obliczono również na podstawie techniki interkorelacji i porównano z lokalizacją uzyskaną bezpośrednio z pomiarów akustycznych....
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Interaction of vortical and acoustic waves: from general equations to integrable cases
PublicationWyprowadzono operatory rzutu przepływu w warstwie lepkiej przyściennej na podstawowe typy ruchów. Wyprowadzono również układy równań dynamicznych sterujących przepływem. Zaproponowano metody analityczne dalszego rozwiązywania tych równań.
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Near Boundary Acoustic Streaming in Ni-Fe alloy electrodeposition control
PublicationSilny wpływ na osadzanie elektrochemiczne stopów metali mają zjawiska występujące w warstwie dyfuzyjnej, modyfikujące rozkład koncentracji jonów w odmienny sposób dla każdego ze składników. Artykuł przedstawia metodę pobudzania akustycznego prowadzącą do kontrolowanego, jednorodnego osadzania stopów. Metoda ta polega na generowaniu prze-pływu akustycznego prostopadle do powierzchni osadzania, w polu stojącej fali akustycznej równoległej...
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Signal conditioning for examination of shallow-water acoustic noise correlation properties
PublicationThe article describes the process of signal conditioning for examination of acoustic noise correlation properties in shallow water. Knowledge of these properties is very important for the design processes of passive and active hydroacoustic systems. This paper focuses on the above issue from the point of view of passive sonar. In sonar systems, signal processing algorithms operate on both useful acoustic signals, and accompanying...
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Wake-Up Receiver for Underwater Acoustic Communication Using in Shallow Water
PublicationA data frame transmitted over the underwater acoustic channel usually begins with a preamble. Therefore, underwater communication systems have a dedicated receiver that constantly listens to the preamble signals. A receiver that is to work effectively in shallow waters must have solutions that effectively reduce the impact of the permanently occurring multipath propagation. The article presents a solution based on complementary...
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High resolution optical and acoustic remote sensing datasets of the Puck Lagoon
PublicationThe very shallow marine basin of Puck Lagoon in the southern Baltic Sea, on the Northern coast of Poland, hosts valuable benthic habitats and cultural heritage sites. These include, among others, protected Zostera marina meadows, one of the Baltic’s major medieval harbours, a ship graveyard, and likely other submerged features that are yet to be discovered. Prior to this project, no comprehensive high-resolution remote sensing...
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An Experimental Study on the Effect of Temperature on Acoustic Emission Characteristics in Metallic Structures
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Self-refraction of acoustic pulses with shock fronts in some nonequilibrium media
PublicationThe nonlinear self-refraction of acoustic pulsed beams, which include shock fronts, is studied. The medium of sound propagation is a gas where thermodynamically nonequilibrium processes take place, such as exothermic chemical reaction or excitation of vibrational degrees of a molecule’s freedom. Comparative analysis of the features of sound propagation over gases where pure nonlinear attenuation of the shock wave occurs, and gases...
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Thermal self-action effects of acoustic beam in a vibrationally relaxing gas
PublicationThermal self-action of acoustic beam in a molecular gas with excited internal degrees of molecules’ freedom, is studied. This kind of thermal self-action differs from that in a Newtonian fluid. Heating or cooling of a medium takes place due to transfer of internal vibrational energy. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium gases, which may be acoustically active, are considered. A beam in an acoustically active gas is self-focusing unlike...
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Probe signal processing for channel estimation in underwater acoustic communication system
PublicationUnderwater acoustic communication channels are characterized by a large variety of propagation conditions. Designing a reliable communication system requires knowledge of the transmission parameters of the channel, namely multipath delay spread, Doppler spread, coherence time, and coherence bandwidth. However, the possibilities of its estimation in a realtime underwater communication system are limited, mainly due to the computational...
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Testing the Wide-Sense Stationarity of Bandpass Signals for Underwater Acoustic Communications
PublicationThe Underwater Acoustic Communication (UAC) systems work in communication channels characterized by a large variety of multipath propagation conditions that can additionally change over time. Designing a reliable communication system requires knowledge of the transmission parameters of the channel. There is a need for the development of adaptive signaling schemes that would dynamically optimize the signal parameters of the physical...
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Calibration of acoustic vector sensor based on MEMS microphones for DOA estimation
PublicationA procedure of calibration of a custom 3D acoustic vector sensor (AVS) for the purpose of direction of arrival (DoA) estimation, is presented and validated in the paper. AVS devices working on a p-p principle may be constructed from standard pressure sensors and a signal processing system. However, in order to ensure accurate DoA estimation, each sensor needs to be calibrated. The proposed algorithm divides the calibration process...
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Weakly nonlinear dynamics of short acoustic waves in exponentially stratified gas
PublicationRozpatruje się dynamika krótkich (w porównywaniu z charakterystyczną skalą zmiany gęstości gazu atmosferycznego) fal akustycznych. Wyprowadzone nowe równanie ewolucyjne, które uwzględnia dyspersję i nieliniowy charakter propagacji tych fal. Porównuje sie liniowa i nieliniowa dynamika. Ilustracje propagacji, numeryczne wyliczione na podstawie nowych wzorów, są przedstawione. Indexed and abstracted (from vol. 32(1) 2007) in Science...
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Dynamic computation of acoustic field distribution in the city area employing a supercomputer
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Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Technique for Underwater Acoustic Communication System
PublicationThe performance of an underwater acoustic communication (UAC) system is limited due to tough propagation conditions in the UAC channel. Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique can improve the reliability of the data transmission system, increase its speed, increase its range, and reduce the energy consumption. The paper presents an implementation method of MIMO technique in the form of coding the Space-Time Block Code and...
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Thermal Self-Action of Acoustic Beams Containing Several Shock Fronts
PublicationThermal self-action of an acoustic beam with one discontinuity or several shock fronts is studied in a Newtonian fluid. The stationary self-action of a single sawtooth wave with discontinuity (or some integer number of these waves), symmetric or asymmetric, is considered in the cases of self-focusing and self- defocusing media. The results are compared with the non-stationary thermal self-action of the periodic sound. Thermal self-action...
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Comparison of Acoustic and Visual Voice Activity Detection for Noisy Speech Recognition
PublicationThe problem of accurate differentiating between the speaker utterance and the noise parts in a speech signal is considered. The influence of utilizing a voice activity detection in speech signals on the accuracy of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is presented. The examined methods of voice activity detection are based on acoustic and visual modalities. The problem of detecting the voice activity in clean and noisy...
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Investigation of Acoustic Properties of Poroelastic Asphalt Mixtures in Laboratory and Field Conditions
PublicationMeasures for the improvement of acoustic conditions in the vicinity of roads include the construction of pavement structures with low-noise surfaces with optimal macrotexture and the highest possible sound absorption coefficient. Laboratory evaluation of acoustic properties of a designed asphalt mixture before its placement in the pavement is a good solution. Currently, the most popular method for the determination of the sound...
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Modeling of performance of a AUV vehicle towards limiting the hydro-acoustic field.
PublicationSome results of research devoted to the modeling of a AUV-Stealth vehicle performance towards limiting its hydro-acoustic field are presented in the paper. At the beginning the AUV-Stealth autonomous underwater vehicle concept is described. Then the method of research is introduced. Next the key design drivers of the AUV-Stealth vehicle are presented. Between them are the AUV-Stealth hull form, arrangement of internal spaces,...
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Application of the corrosion tester in corrosion tests using the acoustic emission method.
PublicationThe article presents an innovative method of corrosion tests using the acoustic emission method and the corrosion tester. The problem of corrosion occurring in ballast tanks and tanks carrying petroleum products is discussed. The acoustic method is presented which, due to the use of a unique corrosion tester, is used to monitor the course of corrosion processes in steel. The principle of operation of the corrosion tester, its construction...
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Analysis of Vibration and Acoustic Signals for Noncontact Measurement of Engine Rotation Speed
PublicationThe non-contact measurement of engine speed can be realized by analyzing engine vibration frequency. However, the vibration signal is distorted by harmonics and noise in the measurement. This paper presents a novel method for the measurement of engine rotation speed by using the cross-correlation of vibration and acoustic signals. This method can enhance the same frequency components in engine vibration and acoustic signal. After...
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Performance of Coherent Modulation Scheme Used in Acoustic Underwater Communication System
PublicationThe development of an acoustic underwater communication system for shallow waters is still a big scientificand construction challenge. Currently, non-coherent modulations in combination with strong channel coding are used to achieve reliable communication with low rate in such a channel. To obtain transmission with a higher transmission rate, it is required to use coherent modulation. This paper presents the assumptions of such...
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Transmission vs. Diffuse Transmission in Circular Dichroism: What to Choose for Probing Solid-State Samples?
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Central nervous system prophylaxis with intrathecal liposomal cytarabine in diffuse large B‑cell lymphomas
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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Shengxue Xuebao/Acta Acustica
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Acoustic emission studies of the 7075 aluminium alloy pitting corrosion process
Open Research DataThe dataset contains the cyclic polarization studies and corresponding acoustic emission measurements, revealing the pitting corrosion process of the passive layer at the surface of the 7075 aluminum alloy in the borate buffer with different chloride ions concentrations, in the range between 0.05 and 25 mM.
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Letter to the Editor: Complete resonance assignments of the 'donor-strand' AfaD: The afimbrial invasin from Diffusely Adherent E. coli.
PublicationUstalono strukturę NMR rekombiantowego białka AfaD-dsc. Uzyskane wyniki są podstawą do badań rentgenograficznych struktury białek AfaD/DraD.
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Time-varied-gain correction for digital echosounders. W: [CD-ROM] Forum A-custicum Sevilla 2002. 3rd European Congres on Acoustics. XXXIII Spanish Congress on Acoustics - TECNIACUSTICA 2002. European and Japanese Symposium on Acoustics. Sevilla, Spain 16-20 September 2002. Madrid: Sociedad Espano- la de Acustica**2002 vol. 33, [6 s.] 6 rys. bibliogr. 2 poz. ISBN: 84-87985-06-8 Special Issue of the Journal Revista de Acustica, vol.XXXIII, ano 2002. Korekcja zasięgowej regulacji wzmocnienia dla echosond cyfrowych.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono modyfikację statystycznej metody EMS stosowanej w za-gadnieniach odwrotnych, polegającą na iteracyjnym rozwiązaniu równania Fred-holma. Pokazano jej zastosowanie do pośredniej estymacji siły celu ryb sto-sowanej dla danych pozyskanych przez hydrakustyczne systemy jednowiązkowewykorzystywane w przeszukiwaniach akustycznych. Wyniki porównano z rezulta-tami uzyskanymi technikami dekompozycji SVD.
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development of an open source software to transform acoustic data for classification of benthic habitat
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