"Interestingly, we have been only hearing the sounds of birds, " said Abu Salah, a Homs resident.
Eyewitnesses spoke of hearing unusual sounds coming from the plane before it crashed.
Although at first hearing it sounds ludicrous, the Alliance argues that it is an eminently sensible way for representatives to stay in close contact with constituents living far from Edinburgh.
Jordan Pfeiler, a 21-year-old worker in a factory that makes fire engines for New York and other big cities, said people in the neighborhood had been hearing unusual sounds for weeks.
That "horn" is the trumpet with which Mr. Alpert climbed the pop charts first with "The Lonely Bull, " the garage recording he made in 1962 after hearing the sounds of a Mexican bullfight, followed by a string of singles in the '60s with his band, the Tijuana Brass.
When most people think about the live music scene in Miami, they will start hearing one of two sounds: Latin or hip-hop.
Dogs are capable of hearing high-frequency sounds imperceptible to the human ear.
The composite of the two sounds that an individual reports hearing depends on how he processes this diverse information and that, Dr Drayna believes, may well be influenced by genetics.
Ms Thomson, who works at Stracathro Hospital, had attended numerous clinics and appointments over the years for recurrent ear infections, which resulted in a conductive hearing loss in both her ears where sounds are heard at a much quieter level.
Michael Studdert-Kennedy, a psychologist at the Haskins Laboratory, in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the most vigorous critics of the approach, argues that other studies have shown that the brain processes speech sounds completely differently from non-speech sounds, and that the hearing problem identified by Dr Merzenich's group thus has nothing to do with dyslexia.
The espionage potential of many of the technologies in the In-Q-Tel portfolio are immediately apparent, but there are some surprises, like Sonitus Medical, which makes hearing aids that fit over the teeth and send sounds directly to the inner ear.
It all sounds great, but we've been hearing the same message about open data and online services from this and the previous government and journalists had pitched up in Hertfordshire briefed to expect some important news on the coalition's technology policy.
And yet, until what my friend Karen McGrane refers to as bionic hearing is no longer stigma-free, people will go on nodding blankly to vowel sounds they cannot distinguish.
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One provides natural hearing when sound levels are safe and either 9- or 15-dB sound reduction when sounds exceed safe levels.
Usually, elephants produce much deeper sounds, sometimes of such a low frequency that they are outside the range of human hearing, and these calls can boom many miles away.
The result is a pair of intelligent, high-fidelity active sound-reduction earplugs that allow natural hearing when sound is safe and provide automatic protection from both loud, sustained music and sudden, loud percussive sounds.
That, the company says, not only allows for the wearer to hear much more natural sounds since they don't have to be amplified as much, but allows them to wear the hearing aid for 24 hours a day.
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