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From:Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Balakrishnan. Nirmal Dear Editor, Surgical intervention in stable vitiligo is classified broadly as tissue grafting and cellular grafting. [sup][1] Split-thickness skin grafting, mini punch grafting,...
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From:Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (Vol. 9, Issue 6 SE) Peer-ReviewedDiagnosing human faces under dynamic situations with the high accuracy has formed the base of several applications of computer vision such as human computer interaction, video surveillances, criminal identification etc....
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From:Trial (Vol. 39, Issue 10)The flurry of national press that followed the settlement of a recent Georgia "color bias" case illustrated how obscure such claims have been--until now. Unlike traditional race discrimination claims, color-bias cases...
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From:Science Scope (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor many teachers of life science, one of the favorite parts of the curriculum is the unit on heredity. Students love to discover how and from whom they've inherited certain traits such as tongue rolling, earlobe shape,...
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From:Pediatric Nursing (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLegislation exists regulating adolescents' use of tanning beds; however, the rate at which adolescents use these devices has not been reduced. The purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of indoor tanning bed...
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From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 112, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century...
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From:Science (Vol. 310, Issue 5755) Peer-ReviewedPeople come in many different hues, from black to brown to white and shades in between. The chief determinant of skin color is the pigment melanin, which protects against ultraviolet rays and is found in cellular...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground To treat skin color disorders, such as vitiligo or burns, melanocytes are transplanted for tissue regeneration. However, melanocyte distribution in the human body varies with age and location, making it...
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From:Nature (Vol. 562, Issue 7727) Peer-ReviewedPigmented cells in the skin of cuttlefish can contract or relax to produce different skin-colour patterns. Tracking the dynamics of these cells reveals how this display system develops, and how it is controlled....
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 42, Issue 11)NEW YORK -- All patients, regardless of their skin color, need to be screened for skin cancer and receive sun protection education, according to Dr. Brooke A. Jackson. "We have done a pretty good job of relaying the...
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From:Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Skin is the outer-most tissue of the human body. As a result, people are very aware of, and very sensitive to, the appearance of their skin. Consequently, skin appearance has been a subject of great interest...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 28, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper I explore the practice of skin-bleaching whereby women (and some men) use highly dangerous chemical agents on their skin in order to achieve a lighter skin tone. Using medical literature from medical and...
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From:Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology (Vol. 80, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedByline: Amit. Pandya Witness the grand quest for perfect complexion. We see it in advertisements for beauty products promising healthy, even skin with a lustrous glow noticed by all. The success of these efforts is...
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From:Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction. Facial diagnosis is a major component of the diagnostic method in traditional East Asian medicine. We investigated the association of quantitative facial color features with cold pattern using a fully...
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From:Annual Review of Genetics (Vol. 37) Peer-ReviewedKey Words melanin, melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R), eumelanin, pheomelanin, red hair Abstract Differences in skin and hair color are principally genetically determined and are due to variation in the amount, type, and...
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From:Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (Vol. 9, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThis paper presents a new methodology for filtering objectionable content by blocking nude images using Bayesian color classification on eleven color spaces and a comparative analysis is made. The proposed algorithm is...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 75, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen humans began to migrate out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, their skin color gradually changed to adapt to their new environments. About 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, marine ancestors of...
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From:Indian Journal of Dermatology (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Gajanan. Pise, T. Vetrichevvel, Devinder. Thappa Various patterns of pigmentation are known to occur with chemotherapy. The linear or streaked pigmentation which has been described as "flagellate"...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn an internet-based, forced-choice, test of the 'face race lightness illusion', the majority of respondents, regardless of their ethnicity, reported perceiving the African face as darker in skin tone than the European...