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Applied Sciences, 2023 The distinctive and visually striking wooden masks associated with the Bwa culture in Burkina Faso, West Africa, are carved from a soft wood into different shapes and display various geometrical patterns and symbols according to their purpose.
Clara Granzotto, Ken Sutherland
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Effectiveness and Adverse Effects of Over-the-Counter Whitening Products on Dental Tissues
Frontiers in Dental Medicine, 2021 The role of bleaching agents (e.g., hydrogen peroxide) in tooth bleaching is quite well-described in a few literature studies and considered as the option choice for those desiring brighter teeth, but alternative methods have emerged to fulfill the ...
Maiara Rodrigues de Freitas +5 more
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Pigments, dyes, and black enamel—the colorants of reverse paintings on glass [PDF]
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2009 Nondestructive analyses of medieval reverse paintings on glass revealed the same dyes and pigments customarily used in panel paintings. However, there is one exception: the black colorant is not a carbon-based pigment, but black enamel. In this respect, the stylistic as well as the technical influence of stained glass artwork can clearly be seen on ...
Carola Hagnau +4 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1983 Idealizou-se uma técnica de marcação de insetos adultos, visando principalmente à identificação individual de triatomineos, que consiste na elaboração de códigos correspondentes a números, através de cinco cores basicas (vermelho, branco, azul, verde e ...
José Roberto Mac Cord +2 more
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Gallia, 2021 The oppidum of Châteaumeillant (Cher) belongs to the civitas of the Bituriges, whose boundaries correspond approximately to those of the current departments of Cher, Indre, and to which portions of Allier and Loir-et-Cher must be added.
Sophie Krausz +3 more
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Wishing for the Watch Face in Jonathan Swift’s “The Progress of Beauty”
ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2018 This article illuminates the technological underpinnings of Jonathan Swift’s satire, “The Progress of Beauty” (1719), by exploring how eighteenth-century poetics of beauty and scientific progress pit human against automaton.
Jantina Ellens
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Leaded Paint in Cambodia—Pilot-scale Assessment
Journal of Health and Pollution, 2015 Background. Lead is a heavy metal that is well known to pose a threat to human health. Although the sale and use of lead paint has been banned in much of the developed world, lead is still commonly used in enamel paints in the developing world, including
Sereyrath Lim +3 more
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Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2011 Kwashiorkor é um tipo de desnutrição proteico-energética em que há deficiência dietética de proteína, embora a ingestão de calorias se mantenha adequada. As manifestações cutâneas incluem pele xerótica, com aspecto de esmalte descascado, típica coloração
Danielle Mann +4 more
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016 Prefabricated solar collector panels is a kind of new permeability structure of collector panels. For this test, we adopt a certain proportion of copper oxide, magnesium oxide and iron oxide to enamel paint as absorbed panel coating and make two kinds of
Wang Qi, Yang Liquan, Yu Miao, Li Song
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Use of beeswax for repair of damaged dry human bones in anatomy
National Journal of Clinical Anatomy, 2013 Background : Beehives are made up of wax, which are the natural glandular secretions of honeybees. One such huge beehive was incidentally noticed on the wall behind the Department of Anatomy, K.V.G. Medical College Sullia in 2012.
Shruthi Bhat +3 more
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