Soundscape quality analysis by fuzzy logic: A field study in Cordoba, Argentina

A comparative study on the effect of soundscape and landscape on tourism experience

“…The support for H4 and H5 suggesting that there is a positive mutual effect between landscape perception and soundscape perception, rather than a unidirectional effect of landscape perception on soundscape perception. Thus, we should pay attention to the whole environment when we focus on the landscape (Maristany et al, ), because the interaction between the auditory sense and the visual sense plays an important role in environmental perception (Hong & Jeon, ). Therefore, this paper empirically demonstrates that there is a positive mutual relation between soundscape and landscape.…”

“…More recently, scholars have begun to pay attention to the positive effect of soundscape with the development of soundscape studies. Maristany, López, and Rivera (2016) noted that sound is an important element of comfortable environments. This is especially true in tranquil environments, where people can improve their health (Pheasant et al, 2010).…”

“…That is to say, there is a closed correlation between soundscape and landscape (Liu, Kang, Behm, & Luo, 2014). Therefore, we should not just focus on soundscape (Maristany et al, 2016) but should also take the surrounding environment into consideration (Hong & Jeon, 2013). Many scholars have studied the correlation between soundscape and landscape: Viollon, Lavandier, and Drake (2002) found that, the more urban a landscape, the more negative will be people's soundscape evaluations; Liu, Kang, Behm & Luo (2014) found that the proportion of building, vegetation, and sky in city parks can affect soundscape perception.…”

A Novel Method to Evaluate the Effect of Slope Blasting under Impact Loading

“…Typically, the form used to define the membership function can be divided into two types: quantitative and qualitative [20,21]. According to research and membership function principles, the Gaussian distribution quantitative method and triangle quantitative method have been used to study the effect of cast blasting separately.…”

“…e results obtained by the two methods of evaluation are substituted into equation (21) for calculation, and two effectiveness indices are obtained as follows: α (gauss) � 0.47 and α (triangle) � 0.46. e range of the confidence level judged according to the implementation of the principle of maximum membership indicates that the principle of maximum membership is inefficient in this case. erefore, using the closeness analysis method is considered to process the evaluation results to determine the specific level of the evaluation object.…”