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‘If you look the part you’ll get the job’: should career professionals help clients to enhance their career image? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article presents a critical exploration of the role of career professionals in supporting people to reflect on and enhance their appearance, attractiveness and self-presentation (career image).
Barnard M.   +18 more
core   +3 more sources

Relevant aesthetic choices for dysphoric times in contemporary Brazil

open access: yesRevista Videre, 2021
This paper analyzes two films, the fiction feature Bacurau by Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho and the documentary Democracia em Vertigem by Petra Costa, as well as two essays (“Suspeito que estamos” and “Gente frouxa”) by Nuno Ramos. These are examples of successful cultural productions articulating a clear critical voice with a high level ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Decoding Tattoo and Permanent Makeup Pigments: Linking Physicochemical Properties to Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Elimination Profiles Using Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR)‐Based New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This study applies QSAR‐based new approach methodologies to 90 synthetic tattoo and permanent makeup pigments, revealing systemic links between their physicochemical properties and absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination profiles. The correlation‐driven analysis using SwissADME, ChemBCPP, and principal component analysis uncovers insights
Girija Bansod   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2006
This essay introduces an Upcountry South Carolina family’s remarkable collection of quilts. At the heart of the story is Mary Louisa Snoddy Black (1860–1927) who acquired sixteen quilts made by women in her family between 1850 and 1917.
Laurel Horton
doaj   +1 more source

Autonomous AI‐Driven Design for Skin Product Formulations

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This review presents a comprehensive closed‐loop framework for autonomous skin product formulation design. By integrating artificial intelligence‐driven experiment selection with automated multi‐tiered assays, the approach shifts development from trial‐and‐error to intelligent optimisation.
Yu Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing Through the Face: Robust Facial Diagnosis Enhanced by Landmark Detection and Pose Normalization

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study proposes a robust, generalizable new approach for facial type diagnosis. Based on landmark detection and pose normalization, a 94.7% diagnostic accuracy is achieved by Combined Heatmap Regression and Coordinate Regression network. This research makes the AI‐generated preliminary diagnosis more interpretable and reducing the impact of ...
Qianyang Xie   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: leather in archaeology, between material properties, materiality and technological choices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The study of leather is a specialist field in archaeology, yet focuses on one of the major materials in the past, the use of which continues into the present.
Harris, Susanna
core   +1 more source

Surgery-for-life:Aging, sexual fitness and self-management in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on plastic surgery to explore tensions in aging norms and ideals for women in Brazil.  I situate my analysis in relation to debates about a “de-chronologized life course.”  Some scholars argue that the life ...
Edmonds, Alexander
core   +3 more sources

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mandibular incisor extraction for management of class I malocclusion- A case report.

open access: yesUpdate Dental College Journal, 2014
Extraction of premolar teeth to manage class I malocclusion is conventionally the management approach of choices. However class I malocclusion with tooth tissue discrepancy could be manage with the extraction of a lower incisor tooth with a more ...
Md Nazmul Hasan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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