Designing the human stress ontology: A formal framework to capture and represent knowledge about human stress

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 258-273

  Nasiri Khoozani, Ehsan ^a   Hadzic, Maja ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human stress ontology; Ontology; Stress; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149442444     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00050061003664811     Document Type: Article

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