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Subject Index<br />

3 dB bandwidth 463<br />

A<br />

abdominal muscles 670<br />

ABR (audi<strong>to</strong>ry brainstem responses)<br />

353<br />

absolute threshold 460<br />

absorption 390<br />

– coefficient 390<br />

– low frequency 392<br />

AC (articulation class) 421<br />

accelerometer 907<br />

ACF (au<strong>to</strong>correlation function) 351,<br />

352<br />

acoustic<br />

– cavitation 292<br />

– chaos 289<br />

– distance 1059<br />

– Doppler current profiler (ADCP)<br />

187<br />

– fingerprints 596<br />

– holography 1079<br />

– impedance 61<br />

– impedance of ground surfaces<br />

123<br />

– intensity 208<br />

– source identification 1077<br />

– telemetry 191<br />

– transfer impedance 1045<br />

–trauma 447<br />

– tube 733<br />

acoustic system<br />

– biological 785, 802<br />

acoustic waves<br />

– types of 208<br />

acoustical<br />

– efficiency 906<br />

– holography 1102<br />

– horn 431<br />

– resistance 906, 927<br />

acoustically hard/soft 120<br />

acoustically neutral 134, 135<br />

acoustics<br />

– 19th century 12<br />

– 20th century 15<br />

– architectural 15, 299<br />

– biological 785, 802<br />

– engineering 18, 1019<br />

– his<strong>to</strong>ry 9<br />

– musical 21, 22, 531<br />

– physical 16, 205<br />

– physiological 20, 429<br />

– psychological 20, 459<br />

– speech 21, 669<br />

– structural 19, 901<br />

– underwater 19, 149<br />

actin 443<br />

action potentials 441<br />

active cochlea 439<br />

active intensity 1055<br />

active processing 185<br />

adaptation mo<strong>to</strong>r 444, 445<br />

ADC (analog-<strong>to</strong>-digital converter)<br />

520, 714, 769, 1131<br />

ADCP (acoustic Doppler current<br />

profiler) 187<br />

additive synthesis 719<br />

adiabatic mode theory 170<br />

admittance<br />

– local 536<br />

–matrix 910<br />

– non-local 536<br />

– simple harmonic oscilla<strong>to</strong>r 535<br />

–tensor 579<br />

– violin 594<br />

admittance measurement<br />

– violin 595<br />

ADP (ammonium dihydrogen<br />

phosphate) 18<br />

AF (audio frequency) 859<br />

afferent 435, 436<br />

AFSUMB (Asian Federation for<br />

Societies of Ultrasound in<br />

Medicine and Biology) 895<br />

AI (articulation index) 419<br />

air absorption 116<br />

air coupled Rayleigh waves 129<br />

airflow 1063, 1068<br />

air-jet<br />

– coupling <strong>to</strong> air column 633<br />

– modelling 633<br />

– Rayleigh instability 633<br />

– vorticity 634<br />

air-jet resona<strong>to</strong>r<br />

– modelling 634<br />

– mouthpiece impedance 635<br />

air-moving devices (AMDs) 984<br />

AIUM (American Institute of<br />

Ultrasound in Medicine) 894<br />

ALARA (as low as reasonably<br />

achievable) 895<br />

alias 521<br />

aliasing 715<br />

all-pass filter 734<br />

AM (amplitude modulation) 768<br />

American Institute of Ultrasound in<br />

Medicine (AIUM) 894<br />

American National Standards<br />

Institute (ANSI) 1008<br />

ammonium dihydrogen phosphate<br />

(ADP) 18<br />

amplitude 504<br />

– modulation (AM) 768<br />

–wave 210<br />

AN (audi<strong>to</strong>ry nerve) 434<br />

AN fiber 441<br />

AN population 449<br />

analog<br />

– electric network 789<br />

–network 800–802<br />

analog signal 521<br />

– spectrum 521<br />

analog-<strong>to</strong>-digital converter (ADC)<br />

520, 714, 769, 1131<br />

analytic listening 482<br />

analytic signal 514<br />

ana<strong>to</strong>my<br />

– of sounds 540<br />

– vocal 795<br />

animal 785, 793, 802<br />

– air breathing 787<br />

– aquatic 797<br />

– audi<strong>to</strong>ry system 794<br />

– bioacoustics 785, 802<br />

– hearing 785, 793, 802<br />

– hearing range 787<br />

– sound power 787<br />

– sound production 785, 787, 802<br />

– vocalization frequency 785, 786<br />

anion transporters 448<br />

ANSI (American National Standards<br />

Institute) 1008<br />

ANSI standard 1058<br />

anti-resonances 726<br />

apparent source width (ASW)<br />

309<br />

AR (assisted resonance) 348<br />

architectural acoustics 4<br />

area function 687<br />

articulation class (AC) 421<br />

articulation index (AI) 419<br />

articula<strong>to</strong>ry processes 687<br />

1167<br />

Subject Index

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