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Skin Color, Cultural Capital, and Beauty Products: An Investigation of the Use of Skin Fairness Products in Mumbai, India

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2018
The use of skin fairness products that frequently contain toxic ingredients is associated with significant adverse health side effects. Due to the high prevalence of use in Asian and African countries, skin fairness product use is recognized as a growing
Hemal Shroff   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Possible tau appearance experiment with atmospheric neutrinos [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
We suggest an experimental measurement that could detect the appearance of the tau neutrinos in muon to tau neutrino oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos by measuring the energy spectra of neutrino induced showers. Tau neutrinos deposit a large fraction
Stanev, Todor
core   +2 more sources

Saliency Changes Appearance

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Numerous studies have suggested that the deployment of attention is linked to saliency. In contrast, very little is known about how salient objects are perceived. To probe the perception of salient elements, observers compared two horizontally aligned stimuli in an array of eight elements. One of them was salient because of its orientation or direction
Kerzel, Dirk   +4 more
openaire   +7 more sources

Psychosocial adjustment to skin conditions resulting in visible difference (disfigurement): What do we know? Why don’t we know more? How shall we move forward?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2018
This article offers an overview of the current understanding of the psychological factors and processes that play a part in the continuum of distress and positive adjustment in people who are affected by dermatological conditions that affect appearance ...
N. Rumsey, PhD
doaj   +1 more source

An intuitive control space for material appearance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many different techniques for measuring material appearance have been proposed in the last few years. These have produced large public datasets, which have been used for accurate, data-driven appearance modeling.
Gutierrez, Diego   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Personification of empire and Israel and the role of appearance and speech in the Judith story

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article analyses how the Assyrian Empire and Israel in the Book of Judith are configured through the personification of both: the Assyrian empire is personified by King Nabouchodonosor and his commander Holofernes and the Israelite or Jewish nation ...
Jan W. van Henten
doaj   +1 more source

A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: a multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017
Background Increasingly, women elect breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, their expectations of surgery are often not met, and dissatisfaction with outcome and ongoing psychosocial concerns and distress are common.
Diana Harcourt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Physics with Beam Tau-Neutrino Appearance at DUNE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We explore the capabilities of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to measure $\nu_\tau$ charged-current interactions and the associated oscillation probability $P(\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau)$ at its far detector, concentrating on how such
de Gouvêa, André   +3 more
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Black Bunchuk (Sulde) of Galdan Boshoktu-khan

open access: yesМонголоведение, 2020
The article is devoted to the study of the black bunchuk (sulde) of the Oirat Galdan Boshoktu-khan. It is known that in the culture of nomadic peoples the bunchuk from ancient times served as a symbol of power, or rather was perceived as a symbol of ...
Zhaorigetu
doaj   +1 more source

Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Physical appearance perfectionism is a domain-specific form of perfectionism comprising two components: hope for perfection and worry about imperfection (Yang & Stoeber, 2012).
Bardone-Cone   +47 more
core   +1 more source

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