HSS, by contrast, shoots tightly focused waves of ultrasound (meaning it exceeds the frequency range of human hearing).
The team expects that future, smaller designs will work at ultrasonic frequencies outside the range of human hearing.
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Engineered to listen with the intelligence of human hearing, Tiki employs a suite of patent-pending algorithms custom-designed in collaboration with iZotope, foremost experts in audio processing.
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Second is the fact that FM signals have room for extra signals that are outside the range of human hearing but are good for transmitting data.
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.
However, what we are hearing from the human resources community is that this is not at all affecting the level of output workers are expected to deliver.
But for 18th-century French audiences, simply hearing the glories of the human voice was not enough.
The European Court of Human Rights is due to hold a hearing on her case next month.
The Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is planning to grill the Department of Health and Human Services about the program in a hearing Tuesday.
It is also worth remembering that gesture is still a crucial part of human language, even for those with normal hearing.
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He said the public inquiry's chair, retired High Court judge Sir Christopher Holland, had failed to consider the officers' rights under the European Convention on Human Rights when he ruled at a preliminary hearing last month that they had to give evidence in public.
Normally low-key and supportive, Baucus challenged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Wednesday's hearing.
The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee has not yet scheduled a confirmation hearing for Herman.
The Agence France-Presse reports on a Japanese research team that is developing a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings.
Dr Esther McGuinness from the University of Ulster's School of Law also highlighted that the time taken to deal with grievances - up to two years in some cases - could breach people's rights, under the Human Rights Act, to a fair and timely hearing.
Dogs are capable of hearing high-frequency sounds imperceptible to the human ear.
Melanie Gingell, the U.K.-based Gulf Center For Human Rights, said her group requested to attend the hearing over the weekend but so far had heard nothing.
Such "hidden" hearing loss, not evident in the audiogram (a test that measures hearing sensitivity), is also apparent in human listeners who experience persistent tinnitus, but otherwise normal sensitivity.
But there was no chance now of hearing music from the train or being able to make out a human being.
The lawmaker's trip follows a hearing last week before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, which Smith chairs.
"I felt the animal data were worrisome and didn't see sufficient human data to feel reassured, " panel member Peter Savage said at the hearing.
"We believe that his testimony in a sworn deposition on Feb. 5 and at a hearing on Feb. 13 that he never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation, " the letter said.
Pettitte, who was excused from Wednesday's hearing, issued a statement shortly before the session started and acknowledged using human growth hormone in 2004, in addition to his December admission that he took it for two days in 2002.
The court in Port-au-Prince is hearing an appeal by victims challenging the January 2012 ruling regarding the charges of human rights abuses.
It also raised concerns: The House of Representatives held a second hearing this month to try to determine whether there should be a federal ban on human cloning.
Pettitte, who began spring training with the Yankees shortly after the Clemens hearing, told the committee in a sworn deposition that Clemens admitted his use of human growth hormone to Pettitte in 1999 or 2000.
During the hearing earlier this month, she argued the lack of clarification was a breach of her human rights.
Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Irwin dismissed Mr Catt's claim at a hearing in May 2012, ruling that his right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights had not been infringed.
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The hearing this week was an attempt to address America's role both as a leader in human trafficking outreach and the continued role it plays in hosting and attracting human traffickers.
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