The indoor environmental index and its relationship with symptoms of office building occupants

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1440-1451

  Moschandreas, Demetrios J ^a   Sofuoglu, Sait C ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; SYMPTOM INDICES;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 8444231179     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2004.10470999     Document Type: Article

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