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The double bind of beauty work

Consumer Psychology Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 65-84, January 2026.
Abstract Despite marketing's influence on beauty standards, beauty work, defined as practices performed to enhance physical appearance, is underexplored in marketing. We review existing research and introduce a conceptual framework around a central tension: Consumers are pressured to alter their bodies to meet societally enforced beauty standards, yet ...
Rosanna K. Smith, Linyun W. Yang, Adriana Samper   +2 more
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Body fat MRS [PDF]

, 2015
The increasing levels of obesity, and its associated comorbidities, have prompted a reassessment of the techniques used for assessing body fat, including content, distribution, and composition.
Banerjee, Barac-Nieto, Beckmann, Borenstein, Bredella, Bredella, Bredella, Calderan, Canioni, Cavallini, Chen, Devlin, Dimand, Fan, Fazeli, Hamilton, Hu, Hwang, Kamba, Kamba, Lirette, Lundbom, Lundbom, Machann, Mitchell, Moonen, Mystkowski, Patel, Peng, Querleux, Schafer, Scheller, Schellinger, Schellinger, Schick, Sheu, Stein, Strobel, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Walling, Weis, Wood, Wood, Zancanaro   +48 more
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Bioactive Compounds From Agri‐Food By‐Products: Advancements in Environmental Sustainability and Bioeconomic Progress

Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2026.
Agri‐food by‐products are sustainably transformed into high‐value bioactive compounds through advanced green extraction technologies. This valorization supports circular economy goals and promotes environmental and bioeconomic progress. ABSTRACT The rapid growth of agri‐food industries has led to an alarming increase in waste generation, posing ...
Payel Dhar, B. Jose Ravindra Raj, Amayappanallur Kannan Dasarathy, Priyadarshi Das, Sandeep Singhe, Eshanthini Palanivelu, Aashna Sinha, Ramya Puppala, Lema Abate   +8 more
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Training the "clinical eye". Rubens' Three Graces: how many pathologies? [PDF]

, 2017
Art can serve as a powerful resource for medical students to both train the so called “clinical eye” and to better understand disease [1]. Herein a paleopathological analysis is performed on one of Ruben’s final artworks, “The Three Graces” (1630 ...
Giuseppe Familiari, Patrizia Cosenza, Rosemarie Heyn, Vassilios Papaspyropoulos   +3 more
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Crénelage, capiton et métadiscours (où l’image numérique résiste à la ressemblance) [PDF]

, 2004
L’auteure observe différentes utilisations du crénelage dans l’image. Loin d’être une défaillance technique, celui-ci témoigne en effet d’une activité métadiscursive signalant la modernité de l’image.
Beyaert-Geslin, Anne
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A French maritime pine bark extract alleviates cellulite: A double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical study

Phytomedicine Plus
Aims and objectives of the research: Cellulite presents with dimpling and denting of the skin surface. It mainly affects women, for whom it often poses a cosmetically unfavorable skin condition. Etiopathological knowledge is scarce, under discussion are,
Qi Liu, Jinhao Wu, Nan Wang, Carolina Burki, Susanne Grether-Beck, Jean Krutmann   +5 more
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Effect of Tecar Therapy in the Treatment of Skin Flaccidity and Localized Abdominal Fat—Clinical and Controlled Study

Dermatology Research and Practice, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
It is known that when an electrical stimulus is greater than 10 kHz, our body converts this electrical energy into thermal energy, and due to this fact, one of the therapies that has been showing good results is therapeutic, capacitive, and resistive energy transfer (tecar therapy), but there is still little evidence about its action on area of ...
Stephani de Almeida, Isabella Benatti Santiago, Cintia Cristina Santi Martignago, Michele Akemi Nishioka, Patricia Brassolatti, Jéssica Helena Franco Dorigatti, Fabiele Chieregato, Ana Carolina Araruna Alves, Stephany Luanna Queiroga Farias, Patricia Froes Meyer, José Ricardo de Souza, Tulika Banerjee   +11 more
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Anti-cellulite and slimming effect of vacuum massage - a case study

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017
Cellulite - local metabolic disease that begins deep in the subcutaneous tissue, refers to fat cells and microcirculation mainly in the hips, thighs and abdomen area.
Anna Baryluk, Magdalena Łuniewska, Wojciech Garczyński, Magdalena Gębska, Katarzyna Weber-Nowakowska   +4 more
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Cellulite in menopause [PDF]

Menopausal Review, 2014
Menopause is a physiological process related to the increasing insufficiency of the hypothalamic-hypophyseal-ovarian axis. The pool of ovarian follicles capable of synthesizing female sex hormones becomes gradually depleted. In response to the sequence of endocrine changes of premenopause, perimenopause, and postmenopause, systemic somatic and ...
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Evaluation of Combined Treatment With Picosecond Laser and Acoustic Shock Wave Therapy for Tattoo Removal: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

JEADV Clinical Practice, Volume 4, Issue 5, Page 1020-1024, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Laser tattoo removal traditionally employs q‐switched and picosecond lasers, which require multiple sessions. Besides the selective photothermolysis that laser devices offer, the photoacoustic effect by acoustic pulse devices may provide further benefits.
Dimitra Kiritsi, Aikaterini Bakirtzi, Ioannis Athanasiou, Giovanni Damiani, Grzegorz Stanislawski, Hans Bayer   +5 more
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