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smell, etc ; discriminant analysis; sourness; temperature; umami; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In this study, a material of pseudoplastic fluid was obtained by dealing with the original material of Pixian Douban (PXDB). The multi-scale temperature and flow fields (MTFF) were established, and a PXDB product fermented in the MTFF (PFM) was obtained. Meanwhile, the material of pseudoplastic fluid and the original material was also fermented into PXDB products named MPTF and OMP, respectively, ...
smell, etc ; appetite; taste; vegetable consumption; vegetables; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Vegetable consumption falls well below recommended levels for children in the UK. Previous research has found that repeated non-taste sensory exposure over the course of several days increases young children's willingness to touch and taste vegetables. The current study examined the impact of a one-off multisensory non-taste exposure intervention that took place on a single day on children's willi ...
smell, etc ; behavior change; food safety; markets; Nigeria; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This paper uses detailed data from in-depth interviews with consumers (n = 47) and vendors (n = 37) in three traditional markets in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. We used observations from those markets to examine how consumers and vendors identify and avoid or manage food safety risks and whom they hold responsible and trust when it comes to ensuring food safety. At the level of the vendor, consumers men ...
smell, etc ; olfactory disorders; quality of life; weight loss; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Olfactory dysfunction often has severe consequences on patients’ quality of life. The most common complaint in these patients is their reduced enjoyment of food in both patients with olfactory loss and parosmia. How the different types of olfactory dysfunction differ in relation to food and cooking habits, sensory awareness, and food-related quality of life has not yet received much attention. By ...
smell, etc ; color; electronic nose; olfactory perception; people; texture; Show all 6 Subjects
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... When designing multisensorial experiences, robustly predicting the crossmodal perception of olfactory stimuli is a critical factor. We investigate the possibility of predicting olfactory crossmodal correspondences using the underlying physicochemical features. An electronic nose was tuned to the crossmodal perceptual axis of olfaction and was used to foretell people's crossmodal correspondences be ...
smell, etc ; food quality; mucosa; odors; olfactory disorders; taste; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Orthonasal and retronasal olfaction are intimately connected. Still, they exhibit differences. The present study aimed to compare orthonasal and retronasal olfaction at both suprathreshold and threshold levels in a healthy population considering age. A total of 171 participants with subjective normal olfactory function were divided into 2 groups (Young = 98 participants, mean age = 25.8 ± 5.3 vs. ...
smell, etc ; bitterness; body mass index; metabolism; obesity; taste; underweight; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Chemosensory (gustatory and olfactory) dysfunction contributes to obesity, but the association between body mass index (BMI) and chemosensory dysfunction are inconsistently reported. The present study included 4,390 subjects at a Smell and Taste Clinic. Results suggested that both the obesity class II group (BMI ≥ 35) and underweight group (BMI < 18.5) exhibited impaired taste function compared wi ...
smell, etc ; Nobel Prize; chromatography; genes; ligands; nose; sorption; vertebrates; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Herein, I discuss the enduring mystery of the receptor layout in the vertebrate olfactory system. Since the awarding of the 2004 Nobel Prize to Axel and Buck for their discovery of the gene family that encodes olfactory receptors, our field has enjoyed a golden era. Despite this Renaissance, an answer to one of the most fundamental questions for any sensory system—what is the anatomical logic of i ...
smell, etc ; COVID-19 infection; anxiety; flavor; lifestyle; pandemic; women; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The COVID-19 pandemic led to several lifestyle changes, including eating behavior. Herein, we aimed to evaluate how pandemic-related sanitary cues presented in food videos impact food appraisal and desire to eat, and their priming after-effects on subsequent food pictures presented without such cues. In two online sessions, separated by 4 to 7 days, participants watched either a Non-Pandemic or a ...
smell, etc ; Elasmobranchii; animal behavior; attractants; energy; habituation; squid; tourism; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Learning is a process that allows animals to develop adaptive behavioural responses to novel situations within an individual's lifetime. The simplest form of learning, habituation, acts a fundamental filter mechanism, which allows animals to ignore irrelevant recurring stimuli, thereby freeing up fitness-related resources, such as time and energy, as well as neural capacity. Although earlier studi ...
smell, etc ; deodorization; evolution; odors; soybean oil; steam; taste; vegetable oil; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Conventional deodorization for refining vegetable oil involves evaporating volatile molecules by applying high temperatures (240–260 °C) for 2–3 h. It inevitably leads to a degradation of the refined oil quality. The chief volatile compounds from the conventional deodorization process were hydrocarbons, which are not the odor source of the oil. Particularly in the case of crude soybean oil, the ma ...
smell, etc ; Lasiopodomys; cryptic species; reproductive isolation; sequence analysis; transcriptome; voles; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The narrow-headed vole complex includes two cryptic species, Lasiopodomys raddei and L. gregalis, and three allopatrically-distributed lineages with obscure taxonomic ranks within the latter. Based on the RNA-seq data of 12 specimens, the current study aims to find the molecular mechanisms of intraspecies differentiation and, in particular, reproductive isolation between analyzed groups. According ...
smell, etc ; cognition; females; humans; nose; odors; questionnaires; social behavior; taste; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Olfaction plays an important role in social interaction. This study examined the influence of chemosensory and cognitive abilities on conscious odor sniffing behaviors in humans. Participants (N = 349) were surveyed using a questionnaire for the frequency of behaviors in terms of odor exploration from intrinsic and external sources. Chemosensory functions (e.g., odor identification, trigeminal sen ...
smell, etc ; acoustics; carbon dioxide; exposure duration; nasal cavity; odors; surface area; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The standard olfactory training (OT) protocol involves briefly sniffing four different odors, twice per day, for 12 weeks and significantly increases olfactory function. The current study's aim was to explore the effectiveness of enhancing olfactory function using a new OT methodology, specifically, presenting odors over a longer exposure period. Participants were 50 patients with smell loss (25 i ...
smell, etc ; brain; food chemistry; haplotypes; humans; odor compounds; odorant receptors; odors; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Mammals perceive a multitude of odorants by their chemical sense of olfaction, a high-dimensional stimulus-detection system, with hundreds of narrowly or broadly tuned receptors, enabling pattern recognition by the brain. Cognate receptor-agonist information, however, is sparse, and the role of broadly tuned odorant receptors for encoding odor quality remains elusive. Here, we screened IL-6-HaloTa ...
smell, etc ; Chrysopogon zizanioides; constructed wetlands; detergents; phosphates; rhizosphere; wastewater; wastewater treatment; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The car wash wastewater has a proportion of detergent and it can cause considerable impacts to pollute the environment and health if they are not processed in well. SSVF CW is one of an alternative wastewater treatment, because it has the advantage such as wastewater flowing below the surface of the media so it reduces the smell of wastewater. The objective of this study was to determine the remov ...
smell, etc ; cryo-electron microscopy; insects; ion channels; odor compounds; olfactory receptors; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In a landmark paper, del Mármol et al. describe cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of an insect olfactory receptor (OR) ion channel, detailing the mechanism by which odorants can directly gate ion flow and providing insights into how this incredibly diverse family of receptors have evolved to support insects navigating complex olfactory landscapes. ...
smell, etc ; Chenopodium; Willdenowia; flowers; growth habit; leaves; lectotypes; new species; Algeria; Chad; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Chenopodium hoggarense Uotila & C. Chatel., a new species of the family Amaranthaceae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae s.str.) from the Hoggar and Tibesti mountains of the Sahara, in Algeria and Chad, is described and illustrated. The species was found in quantities from the Hoggar (Ahaggar) mountains in 2019. It had been observed there earlier several times, but it was confused with C. vulvaria L. because of ...
smell, etc ; Lorisidae; chemical communication; conspecificity; grooming (animal behavior); olfactory perception; urine; zoos; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Studies on primate sense of smell are scarce, even though odours represent the main communicative channel for many nocturnal primates such as gray slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus). Here, we investigate the influence of natural odours on communicative and social behaviours on a group of slender lorises housed at the Frankfurt Zoo. Previously collected chemical marks from unknown conspecifics, ...
smell, etc ; Bayesian theory; dental health; gender; quality of life; sensory disorders; taste; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Taste and smell function decline with age, with robust impairment in the very old. Much less is known about taste and smell function in young and middle aged. We investigated taste and smell sensitivity via thresholds in a sub-sample of the NutriAct Family Study (NFS), the NFS Examinations cohort (NFSE; N = 251, age M = 62.5 years). We examined different aspects relating to taste and smell functio ...