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Anti-Makeup: Learning A Bi-Level Adversarial Network for Makeup-Invariant Face Verification
, 2017 Makeup is widely used to improve facial attractiveness and is well accepted by the public. However, different makeup styles will result in significant facial appearance changes. It remains a challenging problem to match makeup and non-makeup face images.
He, Ran +4 more
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The role of permanent makeup in visual correction of facial asymmetry
World Journal of Advanced Research and ReviewsPermanent makeup (PMU) is examined as a non-surgical instrument for perceptual rebalancing of mild facial asymmetry in brows and lips. The review synthesizes technical primitives of micropigmentation—hair-stroke microblading, line work, soft shading—with anthropometric targets derived from orbital–eyebrow morphometrics and perceptual thresholds for ...
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Advanced Integrated Power and Attitude Control System (IPACS) study [PDF]
Integrated Power and Attitude Control System (IPACS) studies performed over a decade ago established the feasibility of simultaneously satisfying the demands of energy storage and attitude control through the use of rotating flywheels.
Eisenhaure, D. B., Oglevie, R. E.
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Iflaviruses in arthropods: when small is mighty
Insect Science, EarlyView.Many arthropod species harbor iflaviruses, which often cause covert (asymptomatic) infections, but may still affect host fitness. We review the impact of iflaviruses on arthropod fitness, immunity, behaviour as well as the iflavirus’ host range, transmission, tissue tropism and the interactions with other microorganisms within arthropods.
Annamaria Mattia +3 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Discourse around drug policy presents a stark contrast between policing and harm reduction models, sparking debates on the state's regulatory versus protective role. Canada is an ideal case to study drug policy models due to its global recognition as a leader in harm reduction alongside continued reliance on policing of drugs.
Taylor Domingos
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Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 189-249, March 2025.ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
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When Piece Rates Work: More Lessons from the Cotton Mills [PDF]
Workers paid by the piece should in principle cooperate with new techniques that increase their output. In practice, however, firms seem unable to keep piece rates fixed, and when they cut rates workers often respond by restricting output.
Michael Huberman
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Sailing Through Setbacks—What Makes Personal Financial Resilience?
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate financial adaptation by young adults (18 to 40 years old) during a recent cost‐of‐living crisis in a developed economy. Interview, financial, demographic and psychographic data are brought together to shed new light on personal financial resilience, or the capacity to adapt to financial shocks.
Syed Shah +2 more
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Assessing Reconstruction: Did the South Undergo Revolutionary Change?
, 2015 With the end of the Civil War, came a number of unanswered questions Reconstruction would attempt to answer for the South. While the South underwent economic, political and social changes for a short period, old traditions continued to persist resulting ...
Sobotka, Lauren H.
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