Bøger af Yoichi Ando

The purpose of this volume is to attain survival power by means of maximizing a preference for life in terms of environmental conditions and minimizing stress of life. A variety of "stressors" set into motion defense reactions mediated through the nervous and the hormonal systems. The word ¿stress¿ has not been often used before 1950s, and the number of central hospitals was considerably lower. Nowadays, it is normative that human life is so occupied by a wide range of stressors including due to ill human relations that the pleasure derived from the process of living is regretfully often drained away by stress. In present volume, we shall discuss cultural evidences of preference attaining survival power, and serious noise stresses at the very beginning human life in term of the human placental lactogen (HPL). The first stage in the evolution of life is the physical body, and the second stage is the mind. The third stage refers to that part in the evolution of life whose influence spans across time-space and may, therefore, contribute to the health, happiness and overall conditions of future generations. Every creation may be an extension of a person¿s unique personality and DNA.

There are three phases or aspects of a person's life: the physical life, the spiritual or mental life, and the third stage of life, when a person moves from middle age into old age and can choose what he or she wishes to do instead of simply what must be done.

This book deals with methods of measurement and evaluation of environmental noise based on an auditory neural and brain-oriented model. Several examples of measuring environmental noise-from outdoor noise such as that of aircraft, traffic, and trains, and indoor noise such as caused by floor impact, toilets, and air-conditioning-are demonstrated.

Establishing a theory of subjective preference of the sound field in a concert hall, Ando bases this work on preference theory, along with a model of the human auditory-brain system. The model considers the specialization of human cerebral hemispheres.

The acoustic quality of a concert hall has frequently poseda mysterious puzzle, namely, what physical aspects of thesound field can produce superior sound for the listener. The capability of calculating acousticalquality at any seat in a proposed concert hall is a uniqueand quite useful aspect of Ando's design method.