Underwater acoustics

In my life, cacophony is all around me. When me and my family watch sports on the TV there is a lot of hubbub when the team we are rooting for scores or makes a good play. It also happens during one of the many hockey and lacrosse games that my brother or I play in. Cacophony is all around me when I go to a crowded city or store. It affects me in many different ways, some worse than others. I can either handle it really well, or get a pounding headache and become disconsolately until I get away from

An ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, more commonly known as an MRI, are two common ways doctors obtain pictures of what is happening in one’s body. An ultrasound uses soundwaves to penetrate human flesh. As these waves encounter things of varying density in the body, the waves are reflected back differently. Due to these waves’ reflections, the ultrasound machine can formulate an image in real time, and physicians can interpret these pictures to give diagnoses (No Author, 2008). On the

The article “ Feasibility of Group Voice Therapy in Individuals with Parkinson’s disease” by Jeff Seal, Kristel Wilson, Karen Haring, Angela Dietsch, Kelly Lyons, and Rajesh Pahwa sought to test the likelihood of increasing speech loudness levels in individuals with PD through group-focused tasks. The LSVT-certified Speech Pathologist and graduate students who conducted this study mimicked the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) as closely as possible to test patient’s loudness levels in the group

Historically, speech-language pathology was formed by integrating multiple disciplines including elocution, psychology, medicine, linguistics, education and communication. Similarly, my passion for the field of speech-language pathology is an integration of teachings from my academic and professional career. Many ideas come to mind when I reflect on the statement, “Speech-language pathology is a science-based clinical service profession.” To best explain what this statement means to me, I will give

In the Tiffany case study titled, She Just Stopped Talking, Tiffany’s parents describe how their daughter’s normal language development halted after an ear infection. Tiffany’s communicative behavior was on par with what is considered normal language development. However, months after her first birthday, Tiffany began to show signs of an ear infection that developed into what is known as Otitis Media with effusion. This infection heavily impacted Tiffany’s language development, causing much distress

I am here to explain an ultrasound, so that way you are not nervous. First, there are different types of sound waves, and how they travel. There are transverse, longitudinal, and surface waves. The transverse waves are a mechanical wave which means that the wave travels like an S- wave sideways. Longitudinal waves travel parallel to the direction the wave travels. When the longitudinal wave travels it compresses through the particles in the medium that it passes through. Longitudinal waves are like

There is a lot of controversy over music, musical genres, and the volume that music is played at, but the indirect effects of excessive volume are frequently overlooked. One novel helps illustrate these effects when caused by ear equipment. Contemporary earbuds as well as “seashells” in a book called Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury often lead to hearing loss, which leads to less socializing, and therefore physical and medical problems. Earbuds today are the same as seashells in Fahrenheit 451. It

I agree with this statement. The purpose of the regulation was to keep peace with RAR because the city's final desire was to deliver a good show to the public but at the same time, it wanted to maintain the individual rights of the community and the residences close to the bandshell. "The record indicates that inadequate sound amplification has had an adverse affect on the ability of some audiences to hear and enjoy performances at the bandshell." That is why the city wished to sort out this problem

the produced vowel, typically vowels are between 0 to 3000 Hz. Due to Ms. Noid’s persistent “severe hoarseness and breathiness” and reduced glottal closure, the power spectrum will display a continuous spectrum and interharmonic energy. The three acoustic measures used to quantify Ms. Noid’s vocal roughness

AIM 1- Identifying the role of CB1R in determining the critical periods for different sound features in mice in vivo Aim 1.1: What are the critical periods for frequency and amplitude modulated sweeps in mice? Using voltage sensitive dye imaging we will locate the area of interest in the AC. With single-unit electrophysiology and sensory manipulation by sound exposure we propose to find the layer in AC which is most sensitive during developmental plasticity. Aim 1.2: When does the shift in GABA release