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A Face Recognition System through Somatology

open access: yes, 2011
Normally facial recognition algorithms identify faces by extracting landmarks or features from an image of the subject’s face and then algorithm may analyze the relative size, shape of the eyes, nose, cheekbones, and jaw. These features are then used to search for other image with matching features.
openaire   +2 more sources

Somaesthetics in Baumgarten? The Founding of Aesthetics and the Body

open access: yesEstetika, 2022
In the presentation of his project about ‘somaesthetics’, Richard Shusterman claimed that the recurring neglect of the body in aesthetics was disastrously introduced by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) in his first formulation of aesthetics as a
Alessandro Nannini
doaj   +1 more source

Medicinal Plants for Dermatological Diseases: Ethnopharmacological Significance of Botanicals from West Africa in Skin Care

open access: yesCosmetics, 2023
Skin disease is a severe health issue that affects a lot of people in Africa and is vastly underreported. Because of their availability, affordability, and safety, medicinal plants represent a major source of treatment for various skin diseases in West ...
Mokgadi Ursula Makgobole   +2 more
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The Discriminative Efficacy of Retinal Characteristics on Two Traditional Chinese Syndromes in Association with Ischemic Stroke

open access: yesEvidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
We aimed to investigate the efficacy of an objective method using AI‐based retinal characteristic analysis to automatically differentiate between two traditional Chinese syndromes that are associated with ischemic stroke. Inpatient clinical and retinal data were retrospectively retrieved from the archive of our hospital.
Y. Y. Zhuo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crystallographic and Colorimetric Analysis of Dental Enamel

open access: yesDental Anthropology, 1997
Tooth color and the correlation of the composition of dental enamel with color were investigated in samples of teeth from two medieval Serb cemeteries. Differences in the composition of apatite crystals in the dental enamel of the two samples were found.
Ljiljana Tihaček-Šojić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heart Rate Variability in Insulo-Opercular Epilepsy

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Background: We aimed to evaluate heart rate variability (HRV) changes in insulo-opercular epilepsy (IOE) and after insulo-opercular surgery. Methods: We analyzed 5-min resting HRV of IOE patients before and after surgery. Patients’ SUDEP-7 risk inventory
Thi Phuoc Yen Tran   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Somatology Practices in Non-medical Aesthetic Treatments: Towards Development of Good Practice Guidelines for Somatology in South Africa: a Scoping Review Protocol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract Background: The medical aesthetics industry is a very profitable and rapidly growing branch of medicine. Currently, somatologists or beauty therapists who either independently perform or assist medical directors in these aesthetic procedures, are not regulated by a professional body in most countries including South Africa. The absence
Dorinda Raphine Borg   +4 more
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The prevalence of osteoarthritic symptoms of the hands amongst female massage therapists

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2017
Background: Numerous occupations increase one's risk of developing osteoarthritis. Massage therapists rely heavily on their hands and cumulative hand strain injuries that occur whilst performing a massage may lead to the development of osteoarthritic ...
Heinmari Kruger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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