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The Toxicity of Beauty Standards: Body Image Perception Among Women Acne Fighters

Bulletin of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Beauty is often closely linked with physical appearance in the current digital era. Prevailing beauty standards in society presuppose certain criteria for beauty, making adherence to these standards the primary basis for assessing one's body image. This
Najwa Salma Aqilah, Dewi Trihandayani
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Transtornos alimentares: o papel dos aspectos culturais no mundo contemporâneo Transtornos alimentarios: el papel de los aspectos culturales en el mundo contemporáneo Eating disorders: the role of cultural aspects in the contemporary world

Psicologia em Estudo, 2010
Os transtornos alimentares são patologias caracterizadas primordialmente pelo medo mórbido de engordar. Vários são os fatores envolvidos tanto na etiologia quanto na manutenção e na gravidade dessas doenças, principalmente fatores individuais, familiares
Leticia Langlois Oliveira, Claúdio Simon Hutz   +1 more
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A Discourse of Beauty Standards in Japanese Beauty Product Advertise-ment (Japanese Women Perspective)

International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research, 2023
This study uses a Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze advertisements' textual and visual elements and discursive and sociocultural analysis of beauty product advertisements in Japan. Data were taken and studied from several examples of beauty product advertisements and interviews with seven Japanese women as informants about the discourse
Paramita, Ni Made Savitri, Lestari, Eka Marthanty Indah   +1 more
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa, Shinya Sugimoto, Toshiro Sato   +2 more
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Women’s Body Objectification Under Capitalist Ideas of Beauty in Japanese Society Portrayed in The Novel Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

Humanis
Capitalistic ideas of beauty in Japanese society are found in how beauty is perceived as social demand and necessity. This study attempts to reveal how the perception of women’s body and beauty in Breasts and Eggs is heavily influenced by the patriarchal
Yoshinta Nur Prihatina, Imas Istiani
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Modelling stem cell differentiation related processes—A practical overview for biologists

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Stem cell differentiation is complex and difficult to control experimentally. This review introduces suitable computational modelling approaches that can support stem cell research, from mechanistic ODE and abstract models to multiscale and deep learning methods.
Ricco Zeegelaar, Xinqi Yan, Lucas F. Jansen Klomp, Stefano Schivo, Janine N. Post   +4 more
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The dual nature of paraphenylenediamine: beauty product or suicidal weapon?

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Dear editor, Paraphenylenediamine (PPD), referred to as "Black Stone" in Arabic-speaking regions and "Kala Pathar" in South Asia, is a derivative of para-nitroaniline that is produced industrially synthesised(1).
Maheen Sheraz, Rabia Amir, Laiba Amir Shaikh   +2 more
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An epithelial GPR35 isoform supports tumor‐associated transcriptional and metabolic phenotypes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
GPR35 generates two functionally distinct isoforms with previously unresolved roles. GPR35‐short mediates immune‐cell chemotaxis, while GPR35‐long is enriched in colorectal cancer epithelium, where it supports increased metabolism, proliferation, and tumor‐associated transcriptional programs.
Jørgen D. Rønneberg, Martine Hjeltnes, Josephine Krieger, Joshua E. Elias, Maria Stensland, Kristian Holm, Xiaojun Jiang, Chuki Khangsar, Tuula A. Nyman, Arthur Kaser, Johannes R. Hov, Tom H. Karlsen, Nicole C. Kaneider, Frode L. Jahnsen, Georg Schneditz   +14 more
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Beyond Dystopian Tragedy: Louise O’Neill’s Dystopian Martyrs as Models of Resistance to the Beauty Myth [PDF]

Uirtus
Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours is received as a young adult dystopian novel which, through its fatalistic depiction of women’s oppression, functions as a cautionary tale about the normative beauty discourses conveyed by contemporary popular media ...
Djili Soura, André Kaboré, Moussa Kambiré   +2 more
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Peripheral lysosomes recruit PLEKHG3 to focal adhesions and restrain protrusion dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Proximity‐dependent labeling at the LAMTOR complex revealed the Rho GEF PLEKHG3 as a lysosome‐proximal protein directing the study toward the influence of lysosome positioning on actin dynamics and cell motility. We show that PLEKHG3 colocalizes with lysosomes at focal adhesion sites and observe that forced peripheral dispersion of lysosomes hinders ...
Rainer Ettelt, Ana‐Maria Sandru, Georg Vucak, Sebastian Didusch, Biljana Riemelmoser, Karin Ehrenreiter, Markus Hartl, Lukas A. Huber, Manuela Baccarini   +8 more
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