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I Like a Girl Who Can Eat

open access: yesBarnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2022
In mainstream discourse on the genre, the contemporary young adult (YA) supernatural romance is frequently dismissed as one-dimensional and low quality; literature that reproduces traditional and conservative ideologies of gender and sexuality for an ...
Nicola Welsh-Burke
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Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Among mammals, scent has long been known to encode oestrus, however in many species detecting pregnancy may also be important in terms of both competition and mate-choice.
Clutton-Brock TH   +3 more
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PFAS Toxicity and Female Reproductive Health: A Review of the Evidence and Current State of Knowledge

open access: yesSubstantia
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) constitute a class of synthetic chemicals extensively utilized in various consumer products and industrial applications.
Maryjane Nnabuchi, Chidi Duru
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Horse odor exploration behavior is influenced by pregnancy and age

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022
In spite of a highly developed olfactory apparatus of horses, implying a high adaptive value, research on equine olfaction is sparse. Our limited knowledge on equine olfaction poses a risk that horse behavior does not match human expectations, as horses ...
Maria Vilain Rørvang   +2 more
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Aromachology Related to Foods, Scientific Lines of Evidence: A Review

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Smell is the second-most used sense in marketing strategies in the food industry. Sensory marketing appeals to the senses with the aim of creating sensory experiences and converting them into specific emotions associated with a specific product. There is
Dámaris Girona-Ruíz   +4 more
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Induction of chronic migraine phenotypes in a rat model after environmental irritant exposure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Air pollution is linked to increased emergency department visits for headache and migraine patients frequently cite chemicals or odors as headache triggers, but the association between air pollutants and headache is not well understood.
Hurley, Joyce Harts   +4 more
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SCENT

open access: yesACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2011
We propose SCENT, an innovative, scalable spectral analysis framework for internet scale monitoring of multirelational social media data, encoded in the form of tensor streams. In particular, a significant challenge is to detect key changes in the social media data, which could reflect important events in the real world, sufficiently quickly.
Lin, Yuru   +3 more
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O AROMA AMBIENTAL E SUA RELAÇÃO COM AS AVALIAÇÕES E INTENÇÕES DO CONSUMIDOR NO VAREJO [PDF]

open access: yesRAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas, 2011
The atmosphere of a store can be used to produce specific emotions that enhance purchase probability, and the ambient scent,artificially added, is among its dimensions.
André Luiz Carvalho Nunes da Costa   +1 more
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Floral Scents of a Deceptive Plant Are Hyperdiverse and Under Population-Specific Phenotypic Selection

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Floral scent is a key mediator in plant-pollinator interactions. However, little is known to what extent intraspecific scent variation is shaped by phenotypic selection, with no information yet in deceptive plants.
Eva Gfrerer   +9 more
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Sensing and decision-making in random search [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
While microscopic organisms can use gradient-based search to locate resources, this strategy can be poorly suited to the sensory signals available to macroscopic organisms.
Hein, Andrew M., McKinley, Scott A.
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