Soft-computing base analyses of the relationship between annoyance and coping with noise and odor

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2974-2985

  Botteldooren, Dick ^a   Lercher, Peter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

PERSON-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIP; SOFT-COMPUTING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT COMPUTING; SOUND; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANGER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FUZZY LOGIC; GROUP STRUCTURE; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NOISE; ODORS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 2942639673     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1719024     Document Type: Article

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