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American Institute of Physics
4 Foreword to the special issue on uncertainty in noise measurement and prediction
Melville NY, for the Jean Tourret
Institute of Noise Control Engineering 5 Relationships between noise sampling design and uncertainties in occupational noise
of the USA, Inc. exposure measurement
Léon Thiery
12 Towards a harmonized procedure for the declaration of sound power levels within
Directive 2000/14/EC
INCE USA Eleonora Carletti
Publications Advisory Board 20 On the uncertainty in measurement of sound power using sound intensity
Finn Jacobsen
James K. Thompson, Chair 29 A hierarchical approach to the assessment of the variability of interior noise levels
Link Engineering measured in passenger cars
Cécile Lionnet and Pascal Lardeur
38 Sensitivities of outdoor sound propagation predictions to environmental input parameters
Joe Cuschieri François-Edern Aballéa, Jérôme Defrance, Marine Baulac, Matthieu Fournier and Eric Premat
Lockheed Martin—Perry Technologies 50 Interpretation of uncertainties in acoustic measurements in buildings
Eddy Gerretsen
55 Listening test methods for perceptual assessment of structural uncertainty
Patricia Davies Vincent Koehl and Etienne Parizet
Purdue University 67 Uncertainty of measured and calculated sound insulation in buildings - Results of a
Round Robin Test
Christian Simmons
Gerald Lauchle 76 Experimental approach for evaluating uncertainties associated with vehicle noise
The Pennsylvania State University according to ISO 5725
Thierry Ageron, Louis-Ferdinand Pardo, Céline Berthou, Serge Ficheux and
Christophe Perruchet
Michael Lucas 82 Uncertainties in measuring aircraft noise and predicting community response to it
Ingersoll-Rand Sanford Fidell and Paul Schomer
89 Determination of sound power levels using sound pressure: The uncertainties related
with the measurement surface and the number of microphones
George Maling Thierry Loyau
98 Noise test codes for machinery families in relation to measurement uncertainty: European
INCE USA and International perspective
Jean R. Jacques, Patrick Kurtz and Knud Skovgaard-Nielsen
Nicholas Miller 107 Sound power level measurement in reverberant room: Estimating the uncertainties and
their laboratory use
Harris Miller Miller & Hanson François Bessac and Bertrand Blanquart
116 The evaluation of uncertainty in environmental acoustic measurements according to the
Paul Schomer ISO ‘Guide’
Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri
Schomer and Associates 133 Uncertainties in long-term road noise monitoring including meteorological influences
S. Kephalopoulos, M. Paviotti, D. Knauss and M. Bérengier
142 Variation in subcomponents and assembled products
Rajendra Singh Arthur Blanc and Robert J. Bernhard
The Ohio State University 149 Quantification of uncertainty by real time confidence limits in separation of sound
immission levels
Alois Heiss and Klaus-Georg Krapf
Scott Sommerfelt
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