1. School of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 2. Faculty of Pharmacia, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 3. Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 4. Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Addre...

In this short paper we focus on the fast simulation of hair and fur on animated characters. While it is common in films to simulate single hair strands on virtual humans and on furry animals, those features are either not present on characters in computer games or modeled with simplified textured meshes. The main difficulty of simulating hair in real time applications is the sheer number of hai...

CME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: 1.Identify the clinical features of loose anagen syndrome.2.Distinguish between loose anagen syndrome and other types of alopecia in a young child.3.Understand the natural history of loose anagen syndrome. A healthy 3-year-old white girl presented to the pediatric dermatology clinic for evaluation of thin hair. She was born with little hair and slowly grew thin blond...

In many humans, head hair can grow to a much greater length than hair elsewhere on the body. This is a “derived” form that evolved outside Africa and probably in northern Eurasia. The ancestral form, which is frizzier and much shorter, survives in sub-Saharan Africans and in other groups whose ancestors never left the tropics. This original hair form is nonetheless relatively straight and silky...

Monilethrix is an autosomal dominant hair shaft disorder characterized by intermittent constrictions result in short and fragility hair. We present here two afghan siblings girl, 5 and 3 years, born of consanguineous marriage, come to our department of dermatology with complains of hair loss and inability to growth long hair of the scalp since birth. When the hairs reached a certain length, the...

The aim of the study was to investigate how the biological binding between different facial dimensions, and their social and communicative relevance, may impact updating processes in working memory (WM). We focused on WM updating because it plays a key role in ongoing processing. Gaze direction and facial expression are crucial and changeable components of face processing. Direct gaze enhances ...

Fig 1. Patient 1. Dermascopic image of the occipital scalp shows numerous broken hairs. Beaded hairs pathognomic of monilethrix can be seen. INTRODUCTION Monilethrix is an autosomal dominant genodermatosis characterized by hair fragility, keratosis pilaris, and pathognomonic beading of the hair shaft. Hair fragility may lead to hair breakage and the appearance of generalized hair loss. The gene...

BACKGROUND Dermoscopy devices can overcome the refractive properties of stratum corneum by interface medium or cross polarization such that the lesion can be easily seen. AIM To examine the dermoscopic feature in alopecia areata and correlate the severity of disease with dermoscopic features. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective analysis of 72 patients suffering from alopecia areata (AA), ir...