After a total laryngectomy the upper and lower airways are disconnected resulting in a wide range of adverse effects, e.g. deterioration of nasal functions in breathing, loss or decrease of normal sense of smell and taste, as well as loss of normal voice. Recently, a new method that can restore the sense of smell in laryngectomized patients has been developed, the Nasal Airflow-Inducing Maneuve...

Investigating the influence of plastein reaction on reducing the bitterness and offending smell of protein hydrolysates from yellowfin tuna offal. Protein hydrolysates of yellowfin tuna offal was prepared firstly, then the factors including pH value, kinds of enzymes, temperature and substrate concentration on influencing the nitrogen recovery and bitterness were separately evaluated and the co...

Compared to the other senses, smell is linguistically challenged. Colors and shapes; tastes and textures, each have their armory. A tomato is ‘red’ and ‘round’. A lemon is ‘smooth’ to touch and has a ‘sour’ taste. Each sensory domain has its own lexical field: a set of words codifying the distinctions in that modality. Smell stands apart. When asked to name familiar, everyday scents English spe...

The aims of this paper are to describe the rules of the cortical processing of taste and smell, how the pleasantness or affective value of taste and smell are represented in the brain, and to relate this to the brain mechanisms underlying emotion. Much of the fundamental evidence comes from studies in non-human primates, and this is being complemented by functional neuroimaging studies in humans.

(2013) Smell-driven performance analysis for end-user programmers, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. The current paper expands on the earlier paper by providing (1) an enhanced detection method called smell-driven profiling that also incorporates runtime analysis in addition to the static analysis presented in the earlier work, and (2) a new study assessing how acc...

Colorimetric array detection of a wide range of odorants has been achieved using a family of metalloporphyrins and other chemo-responsive dyes as immobilized on reverse phase silica gel. Color change patterns obtained from the array with an ordinary flat-bed scanner give striking visual identification of a range of ligating vapors (including alcohols, amines, ethers, phosphines, phosphites, thi...