Author: Committee on Potential Impacts of Ambient Noise in
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: mammals, marine, noise, ocean
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2003-05-22
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0309085365
ISBN-13: 9780309085366

For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the primary means of learning about the environment and of communicating, navigating, and foraging. The possibility that human-generated noise could harm marine mammals or significantly interfere with their normal activities is an issue of increasing concern. Noise and its potential impacts have been regulated since the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Public awareness of the issue escalated in 1990s when researchers began using high-intensity sound to measure ocean climate changes. M

Authors:Federico Bruccoleri, Eric Klumperink, Bram Nauta,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: noise, series, international, engineering, computer, science, springer, cancellation, low, amplifiers, exploiting, thermal, wideband
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2005-05-04
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 1402031874
ISBN-13: 9781402031878

Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) are commonly used to amplify signals that are too weak for direct processing for example in radio or cable receivers. Traditionally, low noise amplifiers are implemented via tuned amplifiers, exploiting inductors and capacitors in resonating LC-circuits. This can render very low noise but only in a relatively narrow frequency band close to resonance. There is a clear trend to use more bandwidth for communication, both via cables (e.g. cable TV, internet) and wireless links (e.g. satellite links and Ultra Wideband Band). Hence wideband low-noise amplifier techniques

Author: Committee on Characterizing Biologically Significa
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: noise, biologically, significant, effects, causes, determining, populations, ocean, marine, mammal
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2005-01-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309094496
ISBN-13: 9780309094498

A series of marine mammal strandings, lawsuits, legislative hearings and, most recently, a report from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, have all drawn attention to the subject of how ocean noise affects marine mammals. One way to assess the impact of ocean noise is to consider whether it causes changes in animal behaviour that are ’biologically significant’, that is, those that affect an animal’s ability to grow, survive, and reproduce. "Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise" offers a conceptual model designed to clarify which marine mammal behaviours are biologically

Author: Committee on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnit
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: loss, tinnitus, hearing, implications, military, service, noise
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2005-12-20
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0309099498
ISBN-13: 9780309099493

The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an assessment of several issues related to noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with service in the Armed Forces since World War II. The resulting book, "Noise and Military Service: Implications for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus", presents findings on the presence of hazardous noise in military settings, levels of noise exposure necessary to cause hearing loss or tinnitus, risk factors for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, the timing of the effects

Author: Sergey M. Bezrukov
Publisher: American Inst. of Physics
Keywords: conference, unsolved, fluctuations, problems, noise, proceedings, vol, aip, international, third, physics, biology
Number of Pages: 621
Published: 2003-06-02
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0735401276
ISBN-13: 9780735401273

All papers in this proceedings volume were peer reviewed. The purview of this third conference was shifted toward biology and medicine. Among the topics covered were: the constructive role of noise in the central nervous system, neuronal networks, and sensory transduction (hearing in humans, photo- and electroreception in marine animals), encoding of information into nerve pulse trains, single molecules and noise (including single molecule detection and characterization by nanopores - molecular "Coulter counting"), concepts of noise in neurophysiology (randomness and order in brain and heart e

Author: Russell Smith
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: noise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0889841977
ISBN-13: 9780889841970

A fast-paced comic extravaganza from the pen of the author of the runaway bestseller How Insensitive. Set in the cynical and celebrity-obsessed world of mainstreal media, and alternatively in the stultifying conservatism of suburban sprawl, a failed musician and intellectual nerd has become a freelance magazine writer and unwillingly been cast into the role of fashion arbiter.

Author: Darin Bradley
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: novel, noise
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-08-31
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0553386220
ISBN-13: 9780553386226

This haunting debut from a brilliant new voice is sure to be as captivating as it is controversial, a shocking look at the imminent collapse of American civilization—and what will succeed it. In the aftermath of the switch from analog to digital TV, an anarchic movement known as Salvage hijacks the unused airwaves. Mixed in with the static’s random noise are dire warnings of the imminent economic, political, and social collapse of civilization—and cold-blooded lessons on how to survive the fall and prosper in the harsh new order that will inevitably arise from the ashes of the old.Hiram