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Next-generation vision testing: the quick CSF

open access: yesCurrent Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2015
The Contrast Sensitivity Function relates the spatial frequency and contrast of a spatial pattern to its visibility and thus provides a fundamental description of visual function.
Dorr Michael   +6 more
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Sensory adaptation [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology, 2007
Adaptation occurs in a variety of forms in all sensory systems, motivating the question: what is its purpose? A productive approach has been to hypothesize that adaptation helps neural systems to efficiently encode stimuli whose statistics vary in time.
Barry, Wark   +2 more
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A gut-brain neural circuit for nutrient sensory transduction

open access: yesScience, 2018
Dissecting the gut-brain axis It is generally believed that cells in the gut transduce sensory information through the paracrine action of hormones. Kaelberer et al.
M. M. Kaelberer   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Motivations for Food Consumption during Specific Eating Occasions in Turkey

open access: yesFoods, 2016
Several studies in different countries have been conducted to investigate factors affecting food choices. The objective of this study was to understand the motivations of specific food and beverage choices for different eating occasions in a typical diet
Delores Chambers   +10 more
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First reported CABP2‐related non‐syndromic hearing loss in Northern Europe

open access: yesMolecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2021
Background CABP2‐related non‐syndromic hearing loss have only been reported in a few families worldwide (Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Italy). The hearing loss was in these cases described as prelingual, symmetrical, and moderate to severe.
Inger Norlyk Sheyanth   +5 more
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Direct Electrophysiological Mapping of Shape-Induced Affective Perception

open access: yesNeural Plasticity, 2018
Visual information may convey different affective valences and induce our brain into different affective perceptions. Many studies have found that unpleasant stimuli could produce stronger emotional effects than pleasant stimuli could. Although there has
Yingli Li   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A case of auditory neuropathy revealed by OTOF gene mutation analysis in a junior high school girl

open access: yesJournal of Otology, 2017
Objective: Congenital auditory neuropathy (AN) affects hearing and speech development. The degree of hearing difficulty in congenital AN varies as a function of pathology at the inner ear hair cell (IHC) synapses or the auditory nerve.
Ying Cheng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electronic Tongue for Brand Uniformity Control: A Case Study of Apulian Red Wines Recognition and Defects Evaluation †

open access: yesSensors, 2018
The potentiometric electronic tongue system has been tested as a potential analytical tool for brand uniformity control of monoculture Apulian red wines (Primitivo and Negroamaro).
Larisa Lvova   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Easily-Deployable Acoustic Local Positioning System Based on Auto-Calibrated Wireless Beacons

open access: yesSensors, 2019
Self-calibrated Acoustic Local Positioning Systems (ALPS) generally require a high consumption of hardware and software resources to obtain the user’s position at an acceptable update rate.
José A. Moreno   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Divergence in chondrogenic potential between in vitro and in vivo of adipose- and synovial-stem cells from mouse and human

open access: yesStem Cell Research & Therapy, 2021
Background Somatic stem cell transplantation has been performed for cartilage injury, but the reparative mechanisms are still conflicting. The chondrogenic potential of stem cells are thought as promising features for cartilage therapy; however, the ...
Chijimatsu Ryota   +17 more
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