Empowering Hispanic Multiunit Housing Residents to Advocate for Smokefree Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Culturally Tailored Fotonovela Intervention

Purpose: Hispanic residents of multiunit housing (MUH) are disproportionately exposed to secondhand (SHS) and thirdhand tobacco smoke (THS) from neighboring apartment units and common areas.Comprehensive legislation and voluntary policies are needed to protect residents from smoke.We developed a culturally tailored bilingual fotonovela to educate H

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Understanding the Perceptual Spectrum of Commercial Perfumes as a Basis for a Standard Sensory Wheel of Fragrances

Given the enormous number of perfumes available on the market, it is of interest to guide consumers in their purchase of a new fragrance.One approach is to project the multidimensional perceptual space of scents on a two-dimensional sensory map based on meaningful dimensions.One of the pioneering studies on this issue mapped 94 commercial perfumes

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Optic nerve hypoplasia

Optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) is a congenital anomaly of the optic disc that might result in moderate to severe vision loss in children.With a vast number of cases now being reported, the rarity of ONH is obviously now refuted.The major aspects of ophthalmic evaluation of an infant with possible ONH are visual assessment, fundus examination, and vis

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