Array processing techniques such as beamforming or matched field processing require accurate knowledge of the location of individual elements in the array. For horizontal arrays laid on the ocean floor, relative arrival times measured across the array from nearby implosive…

The book is about diagnostic ultrasound imaging authored by Dr. Thomas L. Zabo. Graduate students in medical physics and biomedical engineering with backgrounds in calculus, complex numbers and some knowledge on electric circuits would benefit from this book.

The characteristics of lawsuits involving hand-arm vibration (HAV), the medical issues involved, and the strategies of defense and plaintiff attorneys as noted in a particular occupational medicine practice, are outlined. The study finds that there is widespread lack of physician…

A novel method of detection and classification for marine mammals is presented which uses techniques from independent component analysis to solve the blind source separation problem for North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis). Using the fundamentally non-Gaussian nature of marine…

Infrasound is discussed in terms of what it actually is, how the media has dealt with it and what those with limited knowledge say about it. The perception of infrasound occcurs at levels higher than the levels produced by wind…

The threat to the survival of several whale species and the introduction of the Species at Risk Act (SARA) has highlighted the need for better knowledge about the biology and ecology of marine mammals in Canadian waters. The North Pacific…