1.   Its headquarters opposite the Georges Pompidou Center is packed with computers, electronic synthesizers and acoustic equipment designed to create and organize new sounds into avant-garde compositions.

2.   Other bats emit such low intensity sounds that they are difficult to record even with specialized acoustic equipment.

3.   Organizers said, however, that some loudspeakers and acoustic equipment were seized by police.

4.   A Russian scientist on Friday accused intelligence agents of stifling scientific research by charging him with illegally exporting acoustic equipment.

5.   Rescue crews who knew there was little hope of finding survivors under the rubble first heard murmurs on their acoustic monitoring equipment, and stopped digging to call out.

6.   The expedition also used, for the first time ever in the Caspian, acoustic equipment to scan for marine life.