Car Radio Research Articles

Evaluating the feasibility of a Mobile Audio Companion (Elly) to reduce anxiety and to improve patient-reported outcomes among patients with cancer.

11120 Background: Anxiety is one of the most commonly reported symptoms among cancer patients, and is a known risk factor for reduced health-related quality of life and other negative patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Mobile health applications (apps) are tools that can be used flexibly in patients’ preferred environments with the potential to reduce anxiety and improve quality of life. The current study sought to examine the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a mobile audio companion app, Elly, to improve anxiety and other critical PROs among cancer patients. Methods: This was a single-site, single-arm pilot study conducted over 6-months. Adults 18 years or older with a diagnosis of cancer of any type, received treatment within 6 months of consent, and had access to an iPhone were eligible. The primary outcome was change in mean anxiety t-scores (NIH PROMIS anxiety short form (8a)) administered electronically via REDCap at baseline, 1 (primary timepoint), 3, and 6 months. Secondary outcomes included changes in NIH PROMIS depression, loneliness, social support, and perceived stress scores from baseline to 6 months. Changes in NIH PROMIS T-scores at each time point were calculated and analyzed using paired t-tests. Results: Of 53 patients who consented for the study, 38 patients (72%) were included in the analysis ( Mage: 52.8 years, SD: 11.7, 84.2% female). Most participants reported a history of breast cancer (50%), followed by ovarian (16%), hematologic (11%), and other cancer types (24%) Phone incompatibility and technological challenges were the most common reasons for screen-fails (n=15). All participants downloaded and used the app at least once, with an average of 154 app usage events across participants recorded over the study period (median: 64, range 11-1186 times). The mean baseline anxiety T-score was 63.5 (SD: 2.1). Anxiety levels decreased among participants over time, with a mean difference in anxiety T-scores of -1.9 at 30 days, -3.3 at 90 days, and -3.0 at 6 months from baseline, which was statistically (p<0.05) and clinically significant. Participants also reported improvements in perceived stress, depression symptomatology, social support, and loneliness, although statistical significance was not reached. Conclusions: Mobile apps, such as Elly, may feasibly be used to support patient-reported anxiety as well as other PROs, especially among those who present with high levels of anxiety at baseline. Efforts to increase access to mobile health apps and provide technical support for patients should be made increase equity across the cancer survivor population. Larger, multi-center randomized controlled trials are needed to build on these findings.

ARCnet: A Multi-Feature-Based Auto Radio Check Model

Radio checks serve as the foundation for ground-to-air communication. To integrate machine learning for automated and reliable radio checks, this study introduces an Auto Radio Check network (ARCnet), a novel algorithm for non-intrusive speech quality assessment in civil aviation, addressing the crucial need for dependable ground-to-air communication. By employing a multi-scale feature fusion approach, including the consideration of audio’s frequency domain, comprehensibility, and temporal information within the radio check scoring network, ARCnet integrates manually designed features with self-supervised features and utilizes a transformer network to enhance speech segment analysis. Utilizing the NISQA open-source dataset and the proprietary RadioCheckSpeech dataset, ARCnet demonstrates superior performance in predicting speech quality, showing a 12% improvement in both the Pearson correlation coefficient and root mean square error (RMSE) compared to existing models. This research not only highlights the significance of applying multi-scale attributes and deep neural network parameters in speech quality assessment but also emphasizes the crucial role of the temporal network in capturing the nuances of voice data. Through a comprehensive comparison of the ARCnet approach to traditional methods, this study underscores its innovative contribution to enhancing communication efficiency and safety in civil aviation.

One Big Cry

One Big Cry

Development of speech recognition system for remote vocal music teaching based on Markov model

With the popularization of smart homes, car audio systems and various speech recognition software, speech recognition systems have gradually entered people’s sights and are favored by most users because of their practicability and accuracy. Cognition is an important interface for human–computer interaction. It will become a research focus in the field of artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in cultivating the basic characteristics of music and cultivating students’ interest in music, and vocal music teaching. Teaching traditional vocal music education to students is in the form of classrooms, such as vocal music, arrangement, and bel canto. The disadvantage is the lack of communication between the classroom and teachers and students. On the other hand, the development of Internet technology provides a new teaching method for traditional vocal music teaching and provides a network infrastructure for building a vocal teaching system platform. Therefore, this article provides a preliminary construction of a remote vocal music education platform by combining vocal music education with Internet technology. The remote audio and video training system is a complex and relatively large project with multiple functions and is to introduce important functions in this system. At the same time, register and log in to the remote voice and video implementation requirements and system functions, respectively, to realize functions such as video training and video-on-demand training.

Introduction

Introduction| March 01 2023 Introduction: Words from the Editor Jay Needham, MFA Jay Needham, MFA Jay Needham is an artist, musician, and cultural producer who utilizes multiple creative platforms to produce his works. As a hearing-divergent person, Needham explores present and emerging ecologies of the electromagnetic spectrum that often feature the sense of sound and vibration as a component in the interpretation of his works. His sound art, works for radio, visual art, performances, and installations have appeared worldwide at museums, festivals, and on the airwaves. His most recent sound installation is on permanent display in the BioMuseo, designed by Frank Gehry in the Republic of Panama. Needham’s writing appears in the books Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time, Culture and Moving Sounds: A Cultural History of the Car Radio. His research has been published in Exposure, Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology and Leonardo Music Journal. Needham is a professor in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He received his MFA from the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Resonance (2023) 4 (1): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2023.4.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jay Needham; Introduction: Words from the Editor. Resonance 1 March 2023; 4 (1): 1–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2023.4.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentResonance Search As I introduce the fourth volume of Resonance, I’m very proud to welcome the newest members of the journal’s editorial board. These sound studies scholars and artists add to the diversity of perspectives as we continue to explore cultural boundaries and expand upon the concept of sound as a living, cultural force. Throughout our fourth volume we will be presenting a new special series, “Queer Politics & Positionalities in Sonic Art.” The series will be guest edited by Charles Eppley (they/he), assistant teaching professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance at Arizona State University and co-editor and research coordinator for the Proclaiming Disability Arts initiative at the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Their work will be assisted by a diverse team of scholars and artists from within the Resonance community. “Queer Politics & Positionalities in Sonic Art” asks vitally important questions such as, Does queer sound exist, and are there... You do not currently have access to this content.

Test-retest evaluation of a notched-noise test using consumer-grade mobile audio equipment

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether consumer-grade mobile audio equipment can be reliably used as a platform for the notched-noise test, including when the test is conducted outside the laboratory. Design Two studies were conducted: Study 1 was a notched-noise masking experiment with three different setups: in a psychoacoustic test booth with a standard laboratory PC; in a psychoacoustic test booth with a mobile device; and in a quiet office room with a mobile device. Study 2 employed the same task as Study 1, but compared circumaural headphones to insert earphones. Study sample Nine and ten young, normal-hearing participants completed studies 1 and 2, respectively. Results The test-retest accuracy of the notched-noise test on the mobile implementation did not differ from that for the laboratory setup. A possible effect of the earphone design was identified in Study 1, which was corroborated by Study 2, where test-retest variability was smallest when comparing results from experiments conducted using identical acoustic transducers. Conclusions Results and test-retest repeatability comparable to standard laboratory settings for the notched-noise test can be obtained with mobile equipment outside the laboratory.

Study on Low-jitter and Low-power PLL Architectures for Mobile Audio Systems

This paper compares four phase-locked loops (PLLs) for mobile audio applications. We compare and analyze PLL structures and discuss the optimized PLL structure in the audio band frequency. A charge-pump-based integer-N PLL (NPLL) is employed as a reference. To improve the jitter performances, multiplying delay-locked loop (MDLL), sub-sampling PLL (SSPLL), and reference-sampling PLL (RSPLL) are employed and analyzed. The frequency range of the PLLs is from 8 MHz to 71.5 MHz. These PLL chips are fabricated using a Samsung 0.13-μm CMOS process. The resulting figures-of-merit for the NPLL, MDLL, SSPLL, and RSPLL are -204.3, -211.07, -220.29, and -213.32 dB, respectively, at 24.576 MHz. The total power consumption from a 1.5-V supply voltage is 1.82, 1.35, 1.43, and 1.64 mW, respectively.

Driver’s distraction and its potential influence on the extension of reaction time

The driver's reaction time is one of the most important parameters for the road pre-accident analysis. There are known the results of tests, in which the value of this parameter was determined in expected and unexpected road situations. But in some cases, this time may be longer e.g. in situations in which the driver's attention may be distracted by keeping observations other than the area, in front of the car's surroundings. There are many manoeuvres, when the driver is obliged to observe many areas at the same time. Thus, his attention must be turned away from the main area – in front of the vehicle. The paper presents the results of tests involving the measurement of the driver's attention time focused on observing the surrounding other than the car's path. During the test, the driver's attention was focus on observing the side and back mirror, car radio and at the mobile phone. Certain values can be potentially considered as extending the typical driver's reaction time. The results of the presented tests have practical applications and can be used in the process of issuing opinions on traffic accidents.

Analysis of the Characteristics of Mobile Audio Payment Platform

With the popularization and development of the Internet and mobile devices, the forms of knowledge production and dissemination are increasingly rich. Mobile paid audio platform has become one of the carriers of high-quality content due to its fragmentation, accompanying, social and other characteristics. As the largest mobile paid audio platform in China at present, Himalayan FM adopts the content production mode of "UGC+PGC+exclusive copyright" in terms of program content. The audio program content is mainly "fast, short and flat", which is more in line with the current fragmented scene environment. In 2016, the Himalayan FM took the lead in trying to produce and disseminate knowledge-based audio pay programs, creating a premium pay program zone, and playing a leading role in the mobile pay audio field. Although Himalayan FM is the "leader" of mobile pay audio platform, there are also some problems that must be solved in the development. Therefore, understanding its characteristics can provide some suggestions for the future development of Himalayan FM.

Automotive audio system evaluation over headphones based on the biaural vehicle impulse responses of different listening positions: A case study of a specific audio system

In recent years, car manufacturers have consistently upgraded the audio systems of their vehicles, with audio aficionados adding further modifications to them. The acoustics of the vehicle cabin and the sound effects of the audio systems have become one of the most important topics of the Research and Development Departments of manufacturers. For example, the selected vehicle in this experiment has implemented different spatial audio algorithms in its models to achieve a better listening experience. By capitalizing on impulse responses, binaural audio technology provides the opportunity and the flexibility to virtually generate the sound effects of a particular space without the requirement of physically being in that space. We used binaural technology and the vehicle to develop a standardized procedure for the evaluation of car audio systems. A perceptual listening test was integrated into this study to verify the procedure and to further evaluate this specific audio system.

Development of a Self-diagnostic System Integrated into a Cyber-Physical System

CONTROLAR provides Bosch with an intelligent functional testing machine used to test the correct functioning of the car radios produced. During this process, the radios are submitted to several tests, raising the problem of how the machine detects errors in several radios consecutively, making it impossible to know if the device has a problem since it has no module to see if it works correctly. This article arises from the need to find a solution to solve this problem, which was to develop a self-diagnostic system that will ensure the reliability and integrity of the cyber-physical system, passing a detailed state of the art. The development of this system was based on the design of an architecture that combines the KDT methodology with a DSL to manage and configure the tests to integrate the self-diagnostic test system into a CPS. A total of 28 test cases were performed to cover all its functionalities. The results show that all test cases passed. Therefore, the system meets all the proposed objectives.

City Symphony

City Symphony

The Role of Digital Geography in the Development of Tourism and Tourist Activities

Geography and tourism are interconnected and mutually enriching areas. Tourism, as the most susceptible activity to innovations, responds to digital geography by increasing population flows, developing territories, organizing services and leads to an increase in the level of self-organization of activities. Digital technologies are actively penetrating the field of excursions and independent tourism. Mobile audio guides capture the infinite variety of urban space, help young people get involved in the process of developing audio guides, update knowledge of geography, history, culture and form the skill of digital presentation of the knowledge gained. Digital technologies contribute to the intensive development of independent tourism in places inside of the "Infrastructures oecumene ". High rates of inbound tourism are registered in Iceland. Tourism in the form of a family trip by car is largely due to the arrival of digital services for accommodation and meals, car rental. In connection with the development of digital geography in the sphere of tourism, new areas of research are taking shape. The main aim of the study is to investigate the role of digital geography in the development of tourism and tourist activities and attempt to draw some practical and innovative conclusion since the tourism industry has been one of the most lucrative industries over the last decades. In this study, methods of analysis and synthesis of scientific literature, data from a review of audio tours of Perm on the izi.TRAVEL platform, and official tourism statistics from Iceland were utilized to fulfil the aim of the study.

Tú Te Vas

Tú Te Vas Sandra Del Rio Madrigal (bio) When the US invaded México,nuestra gente became foreigners to their own tierra. Theirrivers, arches, canyons, lakes, and frosted hillswere stripped of the soil that kept the greenery growing,all while their voices withered away to the soundof a white man’s destiny. And when I broughtmy daughters to a place I had heardto give a different kind of hopethan the ones we could find at church, Ionly thought of the fields nuestra gente walkthrough to get to a state we all know could be home. ________ Mariana never listened to the Rolling Stones. She didn’t listen to Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses, nor Hall and Oates. Billy Joel, the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, the Smiths . . . No—other musicians played through her parents’ car radio and home stereos when the day came through to make her family work. Mariana, then, had those other musicians to listen to when she needed a place to stay. When she needed to nestle into spaces the eighth-notes made when they rose and sank for each other, and where they slanted to take her home. Those notes gently nudge narratives into one another, lifting the last one into a dance. Mariana’s music was alive and unbounded. Her musicians didn’t think about music genres’ borders. They demolished limitations while forging their wreckage into a modest labor: moving stories forward. [End Page 191] She had Juan Gabriel when she broke up with Micah. “Yo No Nací para Amar” still hurts. Still heals. Juanga knew how to make the young girl cry. Mariana mourned losing love with Selena, too, through “No Me Queda Mas.” No other artist could relay such pain like Selena and Juan Gabriel. Their voices came not from the throat, but from their entire beings. Breakup songs were cliché, sure, but as Mariana would argue, us dreamers are dramatic at best. She listened to Shakira’s sweet yearning when she fell in love with Cece (“Día de Enero” was their song!) and Vicente Fernandez’s soul-splitting ballads when she had realized Frank would never be the one to tether her to a better world. “Por Tu Maldito Amor” was so theatrical, even the violins sang in anguish. There was Rocio Durcal for when she lost her abuelita. Who would have thought Abuelita Clara would later pass the anthem for grieving her husband, “Amor Eterno,” to Mariana for her own grief? Who knew dark loneliness could sound so beautiful? There was Luis Miguel, also, for when it was safe to dream. Soothing melodies provide the best backdrops for romanticizing futures. Vivacious melodies provide the best backdrops for feeling rich in struggling times. Luis Miguel provided it all for Mariana. Now that Arizona had abandoned her, she can’t find the right CD to nod her head to, nor the best playlist on her phone to get her through the day. It’s hard to say whether Arizona was ever there for Mariana, but at least the state felt like it would accept her at some point. As a child, she never imagined the many ways her life would have been uprooted. Disillusion began when Mariana couldn’t get her driver’s license. Then she wondered if she could figure out a way to get a worker’s permit to save money for college. When tuition rates for the schools in her community became too difficult to look at, Mariana knew her future depended on her ability to leave everything behind. Her immigration status would make her tuition equivalent to that of an out-of-state student. Slowly, Arizona stopped looking like the place she had learned to call home. She ran her hands across the vinyl records she’d be leaving behind for her soon-to-be-born sobrino. He’d listen to her music while she was in Mexico. He would grow up knowing the turntable’s needle running across a record’s grooves. He’d know how the needle strengthened the depth of beats. She thought about taking a few, but one look at her sister’s panza made guilt rise at the...

Daylong Mobile Audio Recordings Reveal Multitimescale Dynamics in Infants’ Vocal Productions and Auditory Experiences

The sounds of human infancy—baby babbling, adult talking, lullaby singing, and more—fluctuate over time. Infant-friendly wearable audio recorders can now capture very large quantities of these sounds throughout infants’ everyday lives at home. Here, we review recent discoveries about how infants’ soundscapes are organized over the course of a day. Analyses designed to detect patterns in infants’ daylong audio at multiple timescales have revealed that everyday vocalizations are clustered hierarchically in time, that vocal explorations are consistent with foraging dynamics, and that some musical tunes occur for much longer cumulative durations than others. This approach focusing on the multiscale distributions of sounds heard and produced by infants is providing new, fundamental insights on human communication development from a complex-systems perspective.

Mobile Audio Recording Technology to Promote Informed Decision Making in Advanced Prostate Cancer.

Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer increasingly encounter complex treatment decisions. Consultation audio recordings and summaries promote patient informed decision making but are underutilized. Mobile recording software applications may increase access. Little is known regarding the feasibility of implementation in clinical encounters. We conducted a mixed-methods pilot study in men with progressive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. We instructed patients to use a mobile software application to record an oncology visit. Patients could share the recording with our patient scribing program to receive a written summary. We assessed feasibility and acceptability with postvisit surveys. We measured patient-reported helpfulness of the intervention in decision making and change in Decisional Conflict Scale-informed subscale. We conducted semistructured interviews to explore implementation and analyzed transcripts using thematic analysis. Across 20 patients, 18 (90%) recorded their visits. Thirteen of 18 (72%) listened to the recording, and 14 of 18 (78%) received a summary. Eighteen of 20 (90%) visits were telehealth. Fourteen patients (70% of all 20; 78% of 18 question respondents) found the application easy to use. Nine patients (50% of 18 recording patients; 90% of 10 question respondents) reported that the recording helped treatment decision making. Decisional conflict decreased from baseline to 1-week postvisit (47.4-28.5, P < .001). Interviews revealed benefits, facilitators, contextual factors, and technology and patient-related barriers to recordings and summaries. In this single-institution academic setting, a mobile application for patients to record consultations was a feasible, acceptable, and potentially valued intervention that improved decision making in the telehealth setting. Studies in larger, diverse populations are needed.

Virtualization of Self-Driving Algorithms by Interoperating Embedded Controllers on a Game Engine for a Digital Twining Autonomous Vehicle

Computer simulation based on digital twin is an essential process when designing self-driving cars. However, designing a simulation program that is exactly equivalent to real phenomena can be arduous and cost-ineffective because too many things must be implemented. In this paper, we propose the method using the online game GTA5 (Grand Theft Auto5), as a groundwork for autonomous vehicle simulation. As GTA5 has a variety of well-implemented objects, people, and roads, it can be considered a suitable tool for simulation. By using OpenCV (Open source computer vision) to capture the GTA5 game screen and analyzing images with YOLO (You Only Look Once) and TensorFlow based on Python, we can build a quite accurate object recognition system. This can lead to writing of algorithms for object avoidance and lane recognition. Once these algorithms have been completed, vehicles in GTA5 can be controlled through codes composed of the basic functions of autonomous driving, such as collision avoidance and lane-departure prevention. In addition, the algorithm tested with GTA5 has been implemented with a programmable RC car (Radio control car), DonkeyCar, to increase reliability. By testing those algorithms, we can ensure that the algorithms can be conducted in real time and they cost low power and low memory size. Therefore, we have found a way to approach digital twin technology one step more easily.

My First 51 Years Teaching Microbiology at The Community College of Baltimore County

I have had just one job interview in my life and it was for the position of Biology Instructor at Catonsville Community College. Having just completed my M.S. Degree at Northern Illinois University, I knew I needed employment because I was moving to Maryland prior to September 1970. After enquiring about the possibility of a teaching position at 4 Maryland community colleges, I was granted an interview at Catonsville Community College. On May 4, 1970, I found myself driving from Illinois to Maryland for a real job interview. I remember the date because I was listening on my car radio to the aftermath of the Kent State shooting earlier that day. The interview apparently went well because I was offered the position beginning in September for the amazing salary of $10,000! My professional life had begun. Armed with little more than a love of microbiology and a lot of patience and desire, I began the journey to hopefully become the best microbiology educator of which I am capable. Fifty-one years later I am still striving for that goal.

Implementing health communication tools at scale: mobile audio messaging and paper-based job aids for front-line workers providing community health education to mothers in Bihar, India

IntroductionAs part of an investment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Government of Bihar to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) statewide,...

Anthropogenic Noise and Its Footprint on ELF Schumann Resonance Recordings

A set of various short artificial disturbances from rifle firings, car engine operation, car radio, shakings of the apparatus, etc., were generated deliberately near our ELF recording stations in order to identify their footprint on the recordings of atmospheric electromagnetic radiation in the Schumann resonance (SR) band (from about 2–50 Hz). Such disturbances simulate anthropogenic noises from hunters, hikers, campers, etc., which may occur in a remote-isolated ELF recording station. We expect that our work will assist fellow scientists to differentiate between artificial signals created from anthropogenic activity and real signals attributable to geophysical phenomena.