solid rectangles were yellow and in the debris were found yellow cylinders much smaller than the rectangles. The smell was suggestivje of bile salts. The fortifying effect of the sample on Jhe alcoholic heart extract, in the Wassermann reaction, was appreciably reduced. For the removal of the colour and smell the sample was submitted to four processes : (i) one gramme was subjected to negative ...

The 40-item University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) is the most widely used smell test in the world. Presently, culturally modified versions of this test are available in multiple languages. A traditional Chinese version of the UPSIT (UPSIT-TC) has been developed for administration in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the U...

OBJECTIVE 22q11 deletion syndrome, a common human interstitial deletion syndrome (1:5000), is associated with a heterogeneous physical phenotype, including several factors that markedly increase the risk for olfactory disorder. Despite its potential consequences, pediatric studies of impaired olfaction are rare, and odor detection in children with 22q11 deletion syndrome has not yet been examin...

The ability to identify smells was tested in nine males and six females with motor neuron disease (MND) of varying severity, using the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT). The olfactory impairment found in MND patients compared with age and sex matched controls is statistically significant at the 0.005 level. The relationship with Parkinson's disease, with Alzheimer's d...

Refused bequest is a code smell that originates from introduction of inappropriate class hierarchies where subclasses do not specialize or use the functionalities provided by the parent class. The existing refused bequest code smell identification algorithms use either static analysis or a combination of static and dynamic analysis based technique. However, those algorithms do not consider vers...

Olfactory perception appears to be linked to personality traits. This study aimed to determine whether personality traits influence human attitudes toward sense of smell. Two-hundred participants' attitudes toward their senses of smell and their personality traits were measured using two self-administered questionnaires: the Importance of Olfaction Questionnaire and the Eysenck Personality Ques...

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