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Acoustics
A publication of the Acoustical Society of America
TABLE OF CONTENTS
6 From the Editor
7 From the Executive Director
10 From the Editors of JASA-EL and POMA
Featured Articles
12 Designing Active Learning Environments - John R. Buck, Kathleen E. Wage and
Jill K. Nelson
Switching from lecture to active learning is an act of courage, but the growing consensus of research on the benefits of active learning is difficult to ignore.
22 Violin Acoustics - Colin E. Gough
The acoustics of thin-walled shallow boxes –
a tale of coupled oscillators.
31 Acoustics of Regionally Accented Speech - Ewa Jacewicz and Robert A. Fox
Sociocultural variation in pronunciation is a fast-developing, captivating area of acoustic research as regional accents continue to diversify American speech.
40 Regeneration of Auditory Hair Cells:
A Potential Treatment for Hearing Loss on the Horizon
- Rebecca M. Lewis, Edwin W Rubel and Jennifer S. Stone
Regeneration of cochlear hair cells is being investigated as a potential therapy for hearing impairments.
Departments
43 Technical Committee Report: Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
- Andrew J. Oxenham
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48 News from the Acoustical Society Foundation - Carl J. Rosenberg
52 ASA News: Standards Committee Meetings Reports: ISO/TC 43 (Acoustics) and ISO/TC 43/SC 1 (Noise), Milan, Italy, September 2015 - Robert D. Hellweg, Jr., Jeff G. Schmitt and Laura Ann Wilber
54 Book Announcements from ASA Press: Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design - D.T. Bradley, E.E. Ryherd, L.M. Ronsse (Eds.)
Acoustics of Musical Instruments - A. Chaigne, J. Kergomard
5 6 - 5 9 Obituaries:
56 - George Elias Ioup (1939-2016) 57 - Norman C. Pickering (1916–2015) 58 - Roelof J. Ritsma (1925-2015)
59 - Ewart Wetherill (1928–2015)
60 Classifieds, Business Directory and Advertisers Index
About The Cover
The cover image is from the article, Re- generation of Auditory Hair Cells: A Po- tential Treatment for Hearing Loss on the Horizon, by Rebecca Lewis, Edwin Rubel, and Jennifer Stone, located on pages 40-48 of this issue (see Figure 2a). It is a photo- micrograph of a side view the mammalian cochlea stained by fluorescent antibodies. The apex, encoding low frequencies, is toward the top and it spirals toward the base (high frequencies). The rows of hair cells (green) and adjacent nerve fibers (red) are seen along with the spiral gangli- on neurons (yellow mass at the bottom). Image provided by Glen MacDonald and Edwin Rubel.