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Evolution of a signaling system can also be driven by preexisting sensory biases. The signaler adapts to the receiver s sensory abilities ( sensory drive Endler and MacLellan, 1988). In acoustic communication of frogs, such an evolutionary process has been termed sensory exploitation (Ryan etal., 1990). 

In crustaceans, communication is mainly through the visual, chemical, and mechanical channels (see e.g., Mead and Caldwell, Chap. 11 Christy and Rittschof, Chap. 16 Clayton 2008). Whereas visual communication is mainly limited to species from terrestrial and clear-water environments, chemical communication can occur under most environmental conditions. Not surprisingly, studies on chemical communication dominate the literature. Of a total of 76 publications on crustacean communication (with the keywords communicat and Crustacea ) published between 1990 and 2010, 43 were on chemical communication, 24 on visual communication, and only 9 on mechanical/acoustic communication (Web of Science 2010). 

Peculiarities of Chemical Communication as Compared with Visual and Acoustic Communication... 

Lithium Niobate. Lithium niobate [12031 -64-9], LiNbO, is normally formed by reaction of lithium hydroxide and niobium oxide. The salt has important uses in switches for optical fiber communication systems and is the material of choice in many electrooptic appHcations including waveguide modulators and sound acoustic wave devices. Crystals of lithium niobate ate usually grown by the Czochralski method foUowed by infiltration of wafers by metal vapor to adjust the index of refraction. 

Flare noise (roar of combustion) is the most serious because it is elevated and the sound carries. The flare can be located at a remote distance from the operating unit or surrounding community. Noise of steam injection into the burner can be reduced by using multiple no22les. Furnace noise from air intake, fuel systems, and combustion blower forced draft/induced draft (FD/ID) fans can be reduced by acoustics. The plot plan should be evaluated for noise generation and to find the means of alleviating or moving noise to a less sensitive area. 

This frequency is a measure of the vibration rate of the electrons relative to the ions which are considered stationary. Eor tme plasma behavior, plasma frequency, COp, must exceed the particle-coUision rate, This plays a central role in the interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasmas. The frequencies of electron plasma waves depend on the plasma frequency and the thermal electron velocity. They propagate in plasmas because the presence of the plasma oscillation at any one point is communicated to nearby regions by the thermal motion. The frequencies of ion plasma waves, also called ion acoustic or plasma sound waves, depend on the electron and ion temperatures as well as on the ion mass. Both electron and ion waves, ie, electrostatic waves, are longitudinal in nature that is, they consist of compressions and rarefactions (areas of lower density, eg, the area between two compression waves) along the direction of motion. 

As I look back at this experience, it was an awesome adventure to be alone, during and for an interval of time after this discovery, with the apparatus showing one new effect after another, when there was no one in the Illinois Physics Department experienced in NMR with whom I could talk. Little did the early NMR resonance community realize that the analogue of spin echo hidden memory contained in excited phases of all kinds of states of matter, including plasmas, would be obtained in the future by use of optical laser, electric, and acoustic pulses as well. And now today the use of spin echoes is a standard procedure for magnetic resonance imaging of the human body for medical diagnosis. 

Apart from optical, acoustical, and tactile cues, transfer of information by volatile compounds plays a pivotal role in the transfer of information between living beings. In insects, intra- and interspecific chemical communication is particularly widespread and important. 

The bias observed between experimental measurements and Kieffer s model predictions is due to the relative paucity of experimental data concerning cutoff frequencies of acoustic branches, and also to the assumption that the frequencies of the lower optical branches are constant with K and equivalent to those detected by Raman and IR spectra (corresponding only to vibrational modes at K = 0). Indeed, several of these vibrational modes, and often the most important ones, are inactive under Raman and IR radiation (Gramaccioli, personal communication). The limits of the Kieffer model and other hybrid models with respect to nonempirical computational procedures based on the equation of motion of the Born-Von Karman approach have been discussed by Ghose et al. (1992). 

Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.7 When modulated IR radiation is absorbed by a sample, the substance heats and cools in response to modulated IR energy impinging on it. This thermal hysteresis is converted into pressure waves that can be communicated to surrounding gases and detected by acoustic detectors (essentially a sensitive microphone in the enclosed sample chamber). In such measurements, the acoustic detector replaces the IR detector of the spectrometer. 

Srulovicz and Goldstein, 1983] Srulovicz, P. and Goldstein, J. L. (1983). A central spectrum model a synthesis of auditory-nerve timing and place cues in monaural communication of frequency spectrum. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 73 1266-1276. 

The existence of acoustic emission (AE) during the martensitic transition in various systems is well known [7,8,9]. However, in Nitinol the AE is missing as shown in the private communication I had with Dr W.F. Hartman of John Hopkins University as shown in the excerpt below ... 

There are several applications of ZnO that are due to its excellent piezoelectric properties [28,164]. Examples are surface-acoustic wave (SAW) devices and piezoelectric sensors [28,165-167]. Typically, SAW devices are used as band pass filters in the tele-communications industry, primarily in mobile phones and base stations. Emerging field for SAW devices are sensors in automotive applications (torque and pressure sensors), medical applications (chemical sensors), and other industrial applications (vapor, humidity, temperature, and mass sensors). Advantages of acoustic wave sensors are low costs, ruggedness, and a high sensitivity. Some sensors can even be interrogated wirelessly, i.e., such sensors do not require a power source. 

Figure 49. The mobility of the excess electrons in various SnCh samples determined by means of the Hall effect and conductivity. The high temperature behavior points to acoustic phonon scattering. Both samples differ in purity. According to Ref..155. (Reprinted from H. J. van Daal, Polar Optical-Mode Scattering of Electrons in SnC>2. , Solid State Commun. 6, 5-9. Copyright 1968 with permission from Elsevier.)...

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