Spectral content of the attack portion of the tone produced by a soprano recorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. A98-A98
Author(s):  
Nicholas Giordano ◽  
Jared W. Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Content

Hearing in Mice by GSR Audiometry: II. Magnitude of Unconditioned GSR as a Function of Intensity and Frequency Interactions

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Gill ◽  
Charles I. Berlin
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Response Magnitude ◽  
Single Units ◽  
Spectral Content ◽  
Hearing Sensitivity ◽  
Subjective Magnitude ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
Viiith Nerve

The unconditioned GSR’s elicited by tones of 60, 70, 80, and 90 dB SPL were largest in the mouse in the ranges around 10,000 Hz. The growth of response magnitude with intensity followed a power law (10 .17 to 10 .22 , depending upon frequency) and suggested that the unconditioned GSR magnitude assessed overall subjective magnitude of tones to the mouse in an orderly fashion. It is suggested that hearing sensitivity as assessed by these means may be closely related to the spectral content of the mouse’s vocalization as well as to the number of critically sensitive single units in the mouse’s VIIIth nerve.

scholarly journals Ocular growth and metabolomics are dependent upon the spectral content of ambient white light

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond P. Najjar ◽  
Juan Manuel Chao De La Barca ◽  
Veluchamy A. Barathi ◽  
Candice Ee Hua Ho ◽  
Jing Zhan Lock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Spectral Composition ◽  
Light Therapy ◽  
World Population ◽  
Spectral Content ◽  
Ocular Growth ◽  
Nitric Oxide Metabolism ◽  
Therapy Strategies ◽  
Indoor Lighting ◽  
The Impact

AbstractMyopia results from an excessive axial growth of the eye, causing abnormal projection of remote images in front of the retina. Without adequate interventions, myopia is forecasted to affect 50% of the world population by 2050. Exposure to outdoor light plays a critical role in preventing myopia in children, possibly through the brightness and blue-shifted spectral composition of sunlight, which lacks in artificial indoor lighting. Here, we evaluated the impact of moderate levels of ambient standard white (SW: 233.1 lux, 3900 K) and blue-enriched white (BEW: 223.8 lux, 9700 K) lights on ocular growth and metabolomics in a chicken-model of form-deprivation myopia. Compared to SW light, BEW light decreased aberrant ocular axial elongation and accelerated recovery from form-deprivation. Furthermore, the metabolomic profiles in the vitreous and retinas of recovering form-deprived eyes were distinct from control eyes and were dependent on the spectral content of ambient light. For instance, exposure to BEW light was associated with deep lipid remodeling and metabolic changes related to energy production, cell proliferation, collagen turnover and nitric oxide metabolism. This study provides new insight on light-dependent modulations in ocular growth and metabolomics. If replicable in humans, our findings open new potential avenues for spectrally-tailored light-therapy strategies for myopia.

scholarly journals Picking up the hydrothermal whisper at Ischia Island in the Covid-19 lockdown quiet

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariarosaria Falanga ◽  
Paola Cusano ◽  
Enza De Lauro ◽  
Simona Petrosino
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Fluctuations ◽  
Hydrothermal Fluids ◽  
Shallow Aquifer ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Spectral Content ◽  
Ischia Island ◽  
Continuous Noise ◽  
Organ Pipes ◽  
Source Signals ◽  
Phase Fluid

AbstractIn this paper, we analyse the seismic noise at Ischia Island (Italy) with the objective of detecting the hydrothermal source signals taking advantage of the Covid-19 quiescence due to lockdown (strong reduction of anthropogenic noise). We compare the characteristics of the background noise in pre-, during and post-lockdown in terms of spectral content, energy release (RMS) and statistical moments. The continuous noise is decomposed into two independent signals in the 1−2 Hz and 2−4 Hz frequency bands, becoming sharpened around 1 Hz and 3 Hz respectively in lockdown. We propose a conceptual model according to which a dendritic system of fluid-permeated fractures plays as neighbour closed organ pipes, for which the fundamental mode provides the persistent whisper and the first higher mode is activated in concomitance with energy increases. By assuming reasonable values for the sound speed in low vapor–liquid mass fraction for a two-phase fluid and considering temperatures and pressures of the shallow aquifer fed by sea, meteoric and deep hydrothermal fluids, we estimate pipe lengths in the range 200–300 m. In this scheme, Ischia organ-like system can play both continuous whisper and transients, depending on the energy variations sourced by pressure fluctuations in the hydrothermal fluids.

scholarly journals Synchronization of Discrete-Time Chaotic Systems in Bandlimited Channels

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcio Eisencraft ◽  
Renato D. Fanganiello ◽  
Luiz A. Baccala
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Digital Filter ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Chaotic Systems ◽  
Signal Propagation ◽  
Slave System ◽  
Spectral Content ◽  
Channel Bandwidth ◽  
System Synchronization ◽  
Transmitted Signal

Over the last couple of decades, many methods for synchronizing chaotic systems have been proposed with communications applications in view. Yet their performance has proved disappointing in face of the nonideal character of usual channels linking transmitter and receiver, that is, due to both noise and signal propagation distortion. Here we consider a discrete-time master-slave system that synchronizes despite channel bandwidth limitations and an allied communication system. Synchronization is achieved introducing a digital filter that limits the spectral content of the feedback loop responsible for producing the transmitted signal.

scholarly journals Acoustic communication and the evolution of hearing in fishes

2000 ◽  
Vol 355 (1401) ◽  
pp. 1285-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Ladich
Keyword(s):  
Inner Ear ◽  
Acoustic Communication ◽  
Acoustic Signals ◽  
Spectral Content ◽  
Auditory Thresholds ◽  
Selective Pressures ◽  
Vocal Signals ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Hearing Abilities ◽  
Dominant Frequencies

Fishes have evolved a diversity of sound–generating organs and acoustic signals of various temporal and spectral content. Additionally, representatives of many teleost families such as otophysines, anabantoids, mormyrids and holocentrids possess accessory structures that enhance hearing abilities by acoustically coupling air–filled cavities to the inner ear. Contrary to the accessory hearing structures such as Weberian ossicles in otophysines and suprabranchial chambers in anabantoids, sonic organs do not occur in all members of these taxa. Comparison of audiograms among nine representatives of seven otophysan families from four orders revealed major differences in auditory sensitivity, especially at higher frequencies (> 1kHz) where thresholds differed by up to 50 dB. These differences showed no apparent correspondence to the ability to produce sounds (vocal versus non–vocal species) or to the spectral content of species–specific sounds. In anabantoids, the lowest auditory thresholds were found in the blue gourami Trichogaster trichopterus , a species not thought to be vocal. Dominant frequencies of sounds corresponded with optimal hearing bandwidth in two out of three vocalizing species. Based on these results, it is concluded that the selective pressures involved in the evolution of accessory hearing structures and in the design of vocal signals were other than those serving to optimize acoustic communication.

scholarly journals Spatial–spectral characteristics of momentum transport in a turbulent boundary layer

2017 ◽  
Vol 836 ◽  
pp. 599-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Fiscaletti ◽  
R. de Kat ◽  
B. Ganapathisubramani
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Turbulent Boundary Layer ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Spectral Characteristics ◽  
Momentum Transport ◽  
Spectral Content ◽  
Length Scales ◽  
Wall Distance ◽  
Wave Velocities ◽  
Local Average

Spectral content and spatial organization of momentum transport events are investigated in a turbulent boundary layer at the Reynolds number $(Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}})=2700$, with time-resolved planar particle image velocimetry. The spectral content of the Reynolds-shear-stress fluctuations reveals that the largest range of time and length scales can be observed in proximity to the wall, while this range becomes progressively more narrow when the wall distance increases. Farther from the wall, longer time and larger length scales exhibit an increasing spectral content. Wave velocities of transport events are estimated from wavenumber–frequency power spectra at different wall-normal locations. Wave velocities associated with ejection events (Q2) are lower than the local average streamwise velocity, while sweep events (Q4) are characterized by wave velocities larger than the local average velocity. These velocity deficits are almost insensitive to the wall distance, which is also confirmed from time tracking the intense transport events. The vertical advection velocities of the intense ejection and sweep events are on average a small fraction of the friction velocity $U_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}$, different from previous observations in a channel flow. In the range of wall-normal locations $60<y^{+}<600$, sweeps are considerably larger than ejections, which could be because the ejections are preferentially located in between the legs of hairpin packets. Finally, it is observed that negative quadrant events of the same type tend to appear in groups over a large spatial streamwise extent.

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