Acoustics@Home: Laboratories and student-led projects conducted for an undergraduate engineering experimentation course during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hands-on, project-based learning was difficult to achieve in online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Engineering Experimentation course at Cooper Union teaches third-year mechanical engineering students practical experimental skills to measure physical phenomenon, which typically requires in-person laboratory classes. In response to COVID, a low-cost, at-home laboratory kit was devised to give students tools to conduct experiments.

Sensitivity of the human auditory cortex and reward network to reverberant musical stimuli.

A room's acoustics can alter subjective impressions of music, including preference. However, little research has characterized the brain's response to room conditions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the auditory and reward responses to concert hall stimuli.

Frequency of Self-Reported Concussion Amongst Professional and Semi-Professional Footballers in Ireland During the 2014 Season: a Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: This paper examines the occupational risk of concussion amongst professional and semi-professional footballers in Ireland during the 2014 League of Ireland season. As part of a broader nationally representative study examining occupational safety and health (OSH) awareness amongst professional footballers, this empirical quantitative study, utilising a convenience sample is the first and largest investigation of the frequency of, and attitudes towards, concussion and concussion reporting amongst Irish senior professional and semi-professional footballers.

Methods: A census survey using an anonymous questionnaire was provided to available League of Ireland clubs between March and May 2015.

Effects of test method and participant musical training on preference ratings of stimuli with different reverberation times.

Selecting an appropriate listening test design for concert hall research depends on several factors, including listening test method and participant critical-listening experience. Although expert listeners afford more reliable data, their perceptions may not be broadly representative. The present paper contains two studies that examined the validity and reliability of the data obtained from two listening test methods, a successive and a comparative method, and two types of participants, musicians and non-musicians.