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Body Odours Sampled at Different Body Sites in Infants and Mothers—A Comparison of Olfactory Perception

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Body odours and their importance for human chemical communication, e.g., in the mother–child relationship, are an increasing focus of recent research.
Katharina Hierl   +2 more
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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2014
Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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Task-Specific Recognition Signals Are Located on the Legs in a Social Insect

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Task allocation ensures a high level of organization within social insect colonies. Workers reveal their task assignment through cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) signals. The source and chemical composition of these signals are largely unknown. We ask whether
Qike Wang   +5 more
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Bodies and their parts [PDF]

open access: yesMemory & Cognition, 2005
How do we think about the space of bodies? Several accounts of mental representations of bodies were addressed in body part verification tasks. An imagery account predicts shorter times to larger parts (e.g., back < hand). A part distinctiveness account predicts shorter times to more discontinuous parts (e.g., arm < chest).
Julie Bauer, Morrison, Barbara, Tversky
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Inter-hemispheric integration of tactile-motor responses across body parts

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
In simple detection tasks, reaction times are faster when stimuli are presented to the visual field or side of the body ipsilateral to the body part used to respond.
Luigi eTamè, Matthew R Longo
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Variation in Measurements of Some Body Parts of Laodelphax striatella (Fallén, 1826) (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Delphacidae) due to Altitude

open access: yesCumhuriyet Science Journal, 2023
The small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatella (Fallén, 1826), which belongs to Delphacidae family, is widespread in Palearctic. It is one of the important pests of agricultural crops such as rice, maize, oat, wheat etc.
Murat Karavin, Ünal Zeybekoğlu
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A Computationally Efficient Finite Element Pedestrian Model for Head Safety: Development and Validation

open access: yesApplied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2019
Head injuries are often fatal or of sufficient severity to pedestrians in vehicle crashes. Finite element (FE) simulation provides an effective approach to understand pedestrian head injury mechanisms in vehicle crashes.
Guibing Li   +3 more
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Evaluation of Residual Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Concentrations of Processed and Unprocessed Fish Body Parts: a Human Health Risk Assessment

open access: yesPakistan Journal of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, 2021
Concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from a dry extract of fresh and smoked body parts of Clarias gariepinus were examined to determine associated potential human health risks.
Emmanuel, I. Adeyeye   +6 more
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Some conceptual and grammatical properties of body part metonymies in English and Bosnian

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2015
The paper deals with metonymies having body parts as source domains in English and Bosnian. According to Cognitive Linguistics standpoint, human cognition is based on bodily functioning.
Imamović Adisa   +1 more
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A COGNITIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY ON BODY PART TERMS IN ENGLISH AND TURKISH COLOUR IDIOMS [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2018
This study aims to reveal and compare the embodied cognition of English and Turkish speakers through their use of body part terms in basic colour term idioms.
Gökçen Hastürkoğlu
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