BIBLIOGRAPHY ON HEARING PROTECTION,
HEARING CONSERVATION, AND AURAL CARE,
HYGIENE AND PHYSIOLOGY

1831 - 2001
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August 15, 2001

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  1. AAI (1984). "Technical Guide No. 9, Background for Loss of Hearing Claims, Third Edition," Alliance of American Insurers, Schaumburg, IL. /1/
  2. AAO-HNS (1983). "Otologic Referral Criteria for Occupational Hearing Conservation Programs," Am. Acad. of Otolaryngol. - Head and Neck Surg., Washington, DC. /2210/
  3. AAO-HNS (1988). "Guide for Conservation of Hearing in Noise," Am. Academy of Otolaryngol. - Head and Neck Surg. Foundation, Washington, DC [previous edition, 1982]. /2/
  4. AAO-HNS (1998). "Evaluation of People Reporting Occupational Hearing Loss," Am. Acad. Otolaryngol. - Head and Neck Surg. Foundation, Inc., Item No. 5206275, Alexandria, VA. /2426/
  5. Abdelbaki, A. A. (1986). "Efficiency of Ear Plugs as Ear Protector," XVIII Int. Congr. of Audiology, Prague, Czechoslovakia, abstracts p. 1. /3/
  6. Abel, A. M. and Spencer, D. L. (1997). "Active Noise Reduction versus Conventional Hearing Protection: Relative Benefits for Normal-Hearing and Impaired Listeners," Scand. Audiol. 26(3), 155-167. /2338/
  7. Abel, S. (1995). "Comments on: R. Hetu, 'The Hearing Conservation Paradigm and the Experienced Effects of Occupational Noise Exposure,' Canadian Acoustics 22(1), 3-19 (1994).," Canadian Acoust. 23(1), p. 11. /1959/
  8. Abel, S. M. (1986). "Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Hearing Protective Devices," Can. J. Pub. Health 77, Suppl. 1, May/June, 104-107. /4/
  9. Abel, S. M. (1990). "Speech Intelligibility Measures on Level-Dependent Hearing Protectors," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 1, 88, S9. /5/
  10. Abel, S. M. (1993a). "The Effect of Hearing Protective Devices on Directional Hearing in Quiet and Noisy Surroundings," in Noise & Man '93 - Proceedings of the 6th Int. Congr., Noise as a Public Health Problem, Vol. 3, edited by M. Vallet, Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et Leur Securite, Nice, France, 225-231. /1921/
  11. Abel, S. M. (1993b). "Sound Localization with Hearing Protectors," J. Otolaryngol. 22(5), 357-363. /1848/
  12. Abel, S. M. and Alberti, P. W. (1988). "The Attenuation of Hearing Protectors in Relation to Design and Fit," Final Report for Ontario Ministry of Labour Grant #176/R, Dept. of Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. /6/
  13. Abel, S. M., Alberti, P. W., Haythornthwaite, C., and Riko, K. (1980). "Speech Intelligibility in Noise With and Without Ear Protectors," Silverman Hearing Res. Lab. Final Report to Ontario Ministry of Labour, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. /7/
  14. Abel, S. M., Alberti, P. W., Haythornthwaite, C., and Riko, K. (1982a). "Speech Intelligibility in Noise: Effects of Fluency and Hearing Protector Type," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71(3), 708-715. /8/
  15. Abel, S. M., Alberti, P. W., Haythornthwaite, C., and Riko, K. (1982b). "Speech Intelligibility in Noise: With and Without Ear Protectors," in Personal Hearing Protection in Industry, edited by P. W. Alberti, Raven Press, New York, NY, 371-386. /9/
  16. Abel, S. M., Alberti, P. W., and Riko, K. (1980). "Speech Intelligibility in Noise with Ear Protectors," J. Otolaryngol. 9(3), 256-265. /10/
  17. Abel, S. M., Alberti, P. W., and Riko, K. (1982). "User Fitting of Hearing Protectors: Attenuation Results," in Personal Hearing Protection in Industry, edited by P. W. Alberti, Raven Press, New York, NY, 315-322. /11/
  18. Abel, S. M., Alberti, P. W., and Rokas, D. (1988). "Gender Differences in Real-World Hearing Protector Attenuation," J. Otolaryngol. 17(2), 86-92. /12/
  19. Abel, S. M. and Armstrong, N. M. (1992). "The Combined Sound Attenuation of Earplugs and Earmuffs," Appl. Acoust. 36(1), 19-30. /13/
  20. Abel, S. M., Armstrong, N. M., and Giguere, C. (1993). "Auditory Perception with Level-Dependent Hearing Protectors," Scand. Audiol. 22(2), 71-85. /1770/
  21. Abel, S. M. and Hay, V. H. (1996). "Sound Localization: The Interaction of Aging, Hearing Loss and Hearing Protection," Scand. Audiol. 25(1), 3-12. /2127/
  22. Abel, S. M. and Hay, V. H. T. (1993). "Sound Localization in Noise with Hearing Protectors: The Effect of Aging," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93(4), Pt. 2, p. 2361. /1682/
  23. Abel, S. M. and Haythornthwaite, C. A. (1984). "The Progression of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss - Survey of Workers in Selected Canadian Industries," J. Otolaryngol. 13, Suppl. 13, 1-36. /14/
  24. Abel, S. M., Krever, E. M., Giguere, C., and Alberti, P. W. (1991). "Signal Detection and Speech Perception with Level-Dependent Hearing Protectors," J. Otolaryngol. 20(1), 46-53. /15/
  25. Abel, S. M., Kunov, H., and Alberti, P. W. (1984). "Effect of Hearing Protective Devices on Auditory Communications in Noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 1, 76, S43. /16/
  26. Abel, S. M., Kunov, H., Alberti, P. W., and Rokas, D. (1986). "The Attenuation of Insert Ear Protectors in Males and Females," 12th Int. Congr. on Acoustics, Toronto, Vol. 1, paper B10-3. /17/
  27. Abel, S. M., Kunov, H., Pichora-Fuller, M. K., and Alberti, P. W. (1983a). "The Effect of Hearing Protection on Narrowband Signal Detection in Industrial Noise," J. Otolaryngol. 12(2), 83-88. /19/
  28. Abel, S. M., Kunov, H., Pichora-Fuller, M. K., and Alberti, P. W. (1983b). "Hearing Protectors: Signal Detection in Industrial Noise and the Effect of Noise Exposure History," Silverman Hearing Res. Lab. Report re Grant #113/R, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. /18/
  29. Abel, S. M., Kunov, H., Pichora-Fuller, M. K., and Alberti, P. W. (1985). "Signal Detection in Industrial Noise: Effects of Noise Exposure History, Hearing Loss, and the Use of Ear Protection," Scand. Audiol. 14, 161-173. /20/
  30. Abel, S. M., Rockley, T., Goldfarb, D., and Hawke, M. (1990). "Outer Ear Canal Shape and Its Relation to the Effectiveness of Sound Attenuating Earplugs," J. Otolaryngol. 19(2), 91-95. /21/
  31. Abel, S. M. and Rokas, D. (1986). "The Effect of Wearing Time on Hearing Protector Attenuation," J. Otolaryngol. 15(5), 293-297. /22/
  32. Abel, S. M., Sass-Kortsak, A., and Bruce, S. (2000). "The Effect on Sound Attenuation Provided by Earmuffs of Other Safety Gear Worn in Combination," Canadian Acoust. 28(3), 150-151. /2743/
  33. Abel, S. M. and Spencer, D. L. (1995). "Active Noise Cancellation vs. Passive Sound Attenuation: Help or Hindrance?," Canadian Acoust. 23(3), 23-24. /2064/
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  41. Acton, W. I. (1970a). "Personal Ear Protection," Occup. Health 22, 315-320. /27/
  42. Acton, W. I. (1970b). "Speech Intelligibility in a Background Noise and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss," Ergonomics 13(5), 546-554. /28/
  43. Acton, W. I. (1972). "Investigation of the Feasibility of Providing Music and Public Address Signals in Ear-Muffs," Inst. of Sound and Vibration Research, Wolfson Unit Report No. 1514, Project No. 567, Southampton, England. /29/
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  45. Acton, W. I. (1981). "Industrial Deafness - A Review of the Information Available to the Ordinary Reasonable and Prudent Employer Prior to 1972," Inst. of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, England. /31/
  46. Acton, W. I. (1982). "Noise and Occupational Deafness," in Current Approaches to Occupational Health 2, edited by A. W. Gardner, Wright PSG, London, UK, 169-185. /32/
  47. Acton, W. I. (1987). "History and Development of Hearing Protection Devices," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 1, 81, S4. /33/
  48. Acton, W. I. and Childs, J. (1974). "Background Music as an Incentive to Wearing Ear Muffs," Protection 11(10), 16-18. /34/
  49. Acton, W. I., Dove, A. R., Hedgecock, G. A., and Pugsley, R. H. (1979). "Guide for the Design of Hearing Protectors for General Industrial Use," Ann. Occup. Hyg. 22, 203-211. /35/
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