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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"sensory studies"”.
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The influence of yeasts on the aroma of Stilton cheese
… GC-MS) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Sensory studies (Flash Profile, Napping®, Triangle, Paired Comparison and Constant Reference ranking tests) were conducted to determine whether findings were perceivable by humans.<br/><br/>The concentration of yeasts and growth conditions of the …
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Understanding methods for internal and external preference mapping and clustering in sensory analysis
… used data from paint, milk and fragrance studies, representing complexity from lesser to higher. The techniques used are principal component analysis, multidimensional preference map (MDPREF), modified preference map (PREFMAP), canonical variate analysis, generalized procrustes analysis …
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Illuminating the path of darkness: social and sacred power of artificial light in Pharaonic Period Egypt
… BC. However, 19th and 20th century lychnological studies have exaggerated this point by placing an overwhelming emphasis on decorated lamps from the Greco-Roman Period. In an attempt to move beyond these antiquarian roots, recent scholarship has turned towards examining the role that light, both …
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Sensory Research on Ginseng Food Products
… growth of functional foods market. Few consumer sensory studies related to ginseng have been conducted in the United States. The overall objectives of this study were to: 1) probe U.S. consumers’ insights of ginseng food products, 2) determine the sensory acceptance of ginseng food products, and …
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Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose
This thesis studies how literature registers the importance of olfactory discourse—the language of smell and the olfactory imagination it creates—in structuring our social world. The broad aim of this thesis is to offer an intersectional and wide-ranging study of olfactory oppression by …
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Elucidation of the epithelial sodium channel as a salt taste receptor candidate and search for novel salt taste receptor candidates
… insensitive and not almost understood to date. Studies in primates showed amiloride-sensitive as well as amiloride-insensitive gustatory responses to NaCl, implying a role of both salt taste transduction pathways in humans. However, sensory studies in humans point to largely …
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Effects of UV Irradiation on the Reduction of Bacterial Pathogens and Chemical Indicators of Milk
… with UV technology were assessed. Olfactory studies were conducted and a highly significant difference was determined between the odor of fresh goat's milk and UV processed milk (p < 0.05). The extent of lipid oxidation and hydrolytic rancidity was measured by thiobarbituric acid reactive …
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The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine, 1650-1710
… on the fruition and tension of knowing through sensory experience.
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
… 1994 and 2021, I combine ecocriticism with sensory studies to analyse common sensory motifs that, when developed, model how humans can perceive and participate in the more-than-human world ecoconsciously. Literary portrayals of sensing require critical appraisal so that authors may avoid …
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What is seen: Challenging the five-sense hierarchy through performance and textile art
… in mid-20th century art practices and case studies of the now-iconic artists Yoko Ono and Lygia Clark, the dissertation interrogates how the radical embrace of performance and textile art strategies challenges the occularcentric focus of the so-called visual arts. Volume 2: Portfolio of …
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Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
… Rijn, Jan Steen, and Hendrik Goltzius. Over four studies, smell is visualised through a range of olfactory allusions, among them tobacco smoke, incense, pomanders, flowers, fruit, flies, smoking fires, chimneys, smelling salts, beached whales, and cadavers. The thesis uncovers the ways in which …
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
… 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John …