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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"smell"”.
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Odora smell camera
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Smart prediction for test smell refactorings.
Test smells are considered bad practices for developing the test code. Their presence can reduce the test code quality, thus harming software testing and maintenance activities. Software refactoring has been a key practice to handle smells and improve software quality without changing its behavior. …
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That almond smell: seven short stories
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The role of smell in urban design
… design and management is well documented with smell overlooked by built environment professionals, considered of primarily negative influence upon experience and perception. However odour has special characteristics, retained in memory longer than visual images, and can transport people back …
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"A Metalloporphyrin-Based Colimetric Nose: ""smell-Seeing"
"To reduce response times, the ""Smell-Seeing"" array was miniaturized. Deposition of plasticized metalloporphyrin/polymer films on Teflon posts gave microarrays with faster response times (approximately 20fold) than reverse phase silica arrays at low analyte concentration. A prototype digital …
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Taste and smell dysfunction in clinical populations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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You smell : the mysterious science of scent
The sense of smell is a mystery-and the human sense of smell is a particularly inscrutable one. Only in the last 25 years have scientists identified the molecules in our noses responsible for detecting odors, and since then, the unexpected discovery of a new family of olfactory detection molecules …
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Touch taste hear smell see remember : District Six
My interest lies in the evocation of emotion through the sensory experience of architecture. I believe this is linked to issues of memory and spirituality, both dealing with an essence of other - a sense of presence or life that makes one aware that one is not alone in that space but is rather …
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Does that Sound Smell Good? An Experimental Investigation into the use of Verbal Smell References and Cooking Sounds in Radio Advertisements
… purpose of this study is to explore how verbal smell references (e.g. "You can almost smell the smoky and delicious aroma of your steak grilling to perfection" stated in the ad) and congruent cooking sounds (e.g. sizzling sounds for a steakhouse) in radio food advertisements impact consumer …
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Colorimetric Sensor Array: Do I See What You Smell
We have developed and patented a unique chemical detection technology in which colorimetric changes in an array of dyes constitute a signal much like that generated by the mammalian olfaction system; each dye is a cross-responsive sensor. This technology uses a disposable printed array of …
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Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
… identifying and interpreting visual allusions to smell. It draws together some of the most compelling cases of manifestations of smell in the art of the Dutch Republic by artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, and Hendrik Goltzius. Over four studies, smell is visualised through a range …
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SmellNet: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition
… and identify various substances based on their smell alone can have profound impacts on allergen detection (e.g., smelling gluten or peanuts in a cake), monitoring the manufacturing process, and sensing hormones that indicate emotional states, stress levels, and diseases. Despite these broad …
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Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose
… 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 establishing the underlying logics that facilitate smell’s …
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What's that smell? A systematic identification of previouslyunknown and uncharacterized "smoky" odorants
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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The smell of altruism: Incidental pleasant odors and chemosignal as prosocial decisions moderators
The study of the interactions between olfaction and the decision making processes has mainly focused on the investigation of what is considered the most useful odor to disperse in the air to drive the consumers' choices to prefer a product rather than another one. Despite the fact that some studies …
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Smell as Self-identity: Capitalist Ideology and Olfactory Imagination in Das Parfum’s Multimedia Storytelling
<p>This thesis explores smell as a cultural signifier in <em>Perfume</em>’s multimedia storytelling. By establishing the theoretical ground upon the historical importance of scent, the thesis focuses particularly on its close interrelationships with the politics of identity, an issue elaborated in …
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The effect of Alzheimer's disease on nutrition in relation to taste, smell, and memory
… demonstrate an inability to identify familiar smells, lose weight, and develop malnutrition. This study was undertaken to compare the ability of AD patients verses non-AD patients concerning food identification and its potential influence on food intake. Another objective of the study was to …
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Influences of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Sensory and Emotional Responses to Smell and Taste Cues
… influences sensory and emotional responses to smell and taste stimuli. Participants with ASD reported abnormal and non-uniform sensory experiences, which combined with environmental factors, influenced their food choices and eating behavior. Odor identification and odor discrimination ability …
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The Sense of Smell in the Renaissance: Natural Philosophy and Medicine in Italy (ca 1450-1600)
… medieval Islamicate literature on the sense of smell in order to build a solid and sophisticated theory of olfaction to be applied to the field of medicine. It begins by surveying the relevant theories on the sense of smell put forward by classical Greek and premodern Islamicate authors. Then, …
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