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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"sound environment"”.
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AN EXAMINATION OF CHANGES IN THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT AS MODULATORS OF THE HUMAN ACOUSTIC STARTLE RESPONSE IN CONTROL AND TINNITUS SAMPLES
… reflex, initiated by sudden change in the environment. Responses can be facilitated by embedding a startle stimulus in background noise, or inhibited by preceding the startle stimulus by a prepulse (PPI) or a gap in background noise (GPI). This series of three studies examined the efficacy …
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Plastic modes of listening: affordance in constructed sound environments
… of listening modes, informs the creation of sound art installation, or more specifically as referred to in this thesis as constructed sound environments. The basis for the thesis has been a practiced based research where the aim and purpose of the written part of this PhD project has been to …
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Journey with Ganapati : a media exploration and analysis of Hindu religious ritual components
… and to entice the imagery in a cocoon of sound spirals with the mechanics of structural and layered sound. To attempt a marriage of the observed ethnographic ritual with the contrived experiential state that modern technological tools permit. The nature of the tape will be circular in time …
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Effects of altered prenatal auditory experience on postnatal auditory preferences in bobwhite quail chicks
… 36 hours prior to hatching. Using software for sound spectrographic analyses, information was collected on the average fundamental frequency, frequency modulation and range, repetition rate, and duration in seconds of notes emitted by the embryos. Based on frequency distributions plotted …
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China's special economic zones : are they still 'special' after China's accession to the WTO?
… induce and facilitate more investment within a sound environment. The WTO accession and implementation added momentum to a further opening up of China’s SEZs. Even though the biggest challenge for the SEZs was to adapt to universal principles, there is evidence of the use of particularistic …
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Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Operations and Supply Chain Practices, Complementary Assets, and Performance
<p> Operations-related research in environmental management has its roots in pollution control and regulatory compliance going back to the 1950s. Formalization of this movement came with the creation of the environmental management system or ISO 14001 in 1994. Today because of the issues and …
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Patient Satisfaction Related to Noise in the Coronary Care Unit
… for low patient-satisfaction score related to environmental noise levels. Based on the Press Ganey score, the patient-satisfaction score plummeted in relation to noise level beginning in March 2014.</p> <p><strong>Purpose</strong> To improve patient satisfaction regarding noise level in the CCU …
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EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC POLICIES
… to control private capital inflows. To provide a sound environment for private sector development, governments should differentiate the types of exchange rates risk in order to design and implement consistent policy to deal with issues at hand. In addition, exports play a key role in the economies …
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Correlación entre parámetros acústicos objetivos y características físico arquitectónicas en templos católicos del período colonial en ciudades representativas del Perú
… has provided the churches with particular sound features in terms of size, materials, and shapes. The objective acoustical parameters that made possible to characterize the sound environment of each church were clearly identified and it was statistically proved that in the case of the …