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ASSESSING NOISE IMPACTS ON WILDLIFE UNDER THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT
"Examples include assessing construction noise impacts on the California coastal gnatcatcher in southern California, aircraft noise impacts on sage grouse in central California, and helicopter disturbance on caribou in Alaska..."
http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.nov08/asa87.html.

PITCH PERCEPTION, HARMONY, AND THE BRAIN
"For perception, the brain handles and reacts to an enormous amount of information from the senses in real time. The question of how all this information is represented and processed within the nervous system is addressed by the nonlinear and complex system researches through the proposal that dynamical attractors may form the basis of neural information processing..."
http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.nov08/asa172.html.

THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON NESTING BIRDS IN PINYON-JUNIPER WOODLANDS
"Anthropogenic noise appears not only to influence avian nesting patterns, thereby altering the avian community, but also to influence nest success through changes to predation patterns..."
http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.nov08/asa22.html.

EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS IN ENGLISH, GERMAN, HINDI, AND ARABIC
"Overall, the acoustic measures demonstrated many similarities among languages consistent with the notion of universal patterns of vocal emotion expression..."
http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.nov08/asa270.html.

GENERALIZED ACOUSTIC CLOAKING THEORY
"An acoustic cloak is a region enclosing an object such that acoustic waves from all direc
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