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ASA Seeks New Executive Director

The Acoustical Society of America's Executive Director, Charles Schmid, is retiring at the end of this year and the Society is initiating a search for a new director.

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Serkan Alagoz and Baris Baykant Alagoz
This study reports a wave-controlled sonic crystal switch device that exhibits a destructive interference-based wave to wave reverse switching effect. By applying control waves, this acoustic device, composed of a two-dimensional square lattice sonic crystal block, reduces acoustic wave transmissi ... [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, EL485 (2013)] published Fri May 17, 2013.
Claudia Sciallero and Andrea Trucco
This letter describes an ultrasound imaging assessment of novel contrast agents that are detectable by both medical ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Such agents are created by including superparamagnetic particles in polymer-shelled microbubbles through two different approaches. The redu ... [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, EL478 (2013)] published Thu May 16, 2013.
Felicia Roberts and Alexander L. Francis
This study addresses whether there is a threshold, some particular length of silent gap between two speakers' turns, at which negative social attributions emerge. The effect of such inter-turn silence was tested by constructing dialogues where responses to requests were identical and affirmative s ... [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, EL471 (2013)] published Thu May 09, 2013.