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 ...

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...

Smell has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Despite its importance, smell has been crucially overlooked by urban planners and scientists alike, not least because it is difficult to record and analyze at scale. One of the authors of this paper has ventured out in the urban world and conducted “smellwalks” in a variety of cities: participants were exposed to a range of different smell...

This paper aims to identify the represented objects of olfactory experiences, i.e., what it is that olfactory experiences represent as being “smelly”. I argue that there are two types of olfactory experiences: attached smell experiences, in which smells are experienced as qualifying particular everyday objects, like roses, garbage bins, and cakes baking in the oven, and lone smell experiences, ...

BACKGROUND The neurobiology of social dysfunction in schizophrenia is unknown, but smell identification deficits (SIDs) exist in schizophrenia, and olfaction is related to social affiliation in other mammals. The SIDs have been linked with negative symptoms and the deficit syndrome, but any specificity of SIDs for social dysfunction is unstudied. Low intelligence might explain this relationship...

BACKGROUND A positive effect of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (ESS) as sole treatment on olfactory thresholds and sense of smell in patients with nasal polyposis has been questioned. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that ESS has a positive effect on sense of smell and olfactory threshold in nasal polyposis. METHODS Uncontrolled post-hoc analysis of a prospective study of 160 patien...

Self-reported abnormal sensitivity, qualitative distortions and phantom sensations with respect to smell and taste was assessed with a longitudinal design, based on questions referring to gestational weeks 13-16 and 31-34 of pregnancy in comparison with 9-12 weeks post partum and with non-pregnant women with corresponding time durations and intervals. The results show that abnormal smell and/or...

One of the oldest beliefs about human perception is that we have a poor sense of smell. Not only is this a general belief among the public, but it appears to have a scientifi c basis. Recent genetic studies show a decline in the number of functional olfactory receptor genes through primate evolution to humans. Human evolution was characterized by the gradual ascendance of vision and reduction o...