AN EFFICIENT AUDIO CODING SCHEME FOR QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE LARGE SCALE ACOUSTIC MONITORING USING THE SENSOR GRID APPROACH

An Efficient Audio Coding Scheme for Quantitative and Qualitative Large Scale Acoustic Monitoring Using the Sensor Grid Approach

The spreading of urban areas and the growth of human population worldwide raise societal and environmental concerns.To better address these concerns, the monitoring of the acoustic environment in urban as well as rural or wilderness areas is an important matter.Building on the recent development of low cost hardware acoustic sensors, we propose in

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Connotations of Animal Metaphors in the Jordanian Context

Purpose.This paper examines the connotations of the most common ten animal metaphors in the Jordanian context as perceived by Jordanian Arabic speakers.Methods.The data were collected in three stages.First, the principal researcher shared a post on his Facebook account in which he asked his Jordanian-Arabic speaking virtual friends to report in a c

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