(Abstracted from BMC Womens Health 2022;22(1):19) Previous studies indicate that lesbian and bisexual (LB) females are more likely to be obese than straight females. Little is known, however, about whether provider diagnosis recommendation for weight management vary across these populations.

A widely-known painting currently in the Wellcome Library (Iconographic 574912i) depicts an anatomical view of the male human body according to the tenets of classical Indian medicine, or ayurveda. The painting is surrounded by text passages in the Sanskrit language on medical and anatomical topics. In this paper, the Sanskrit texts are identified, edited, translated and assessed. I establish a...

To test quantitatively whether there are systematic chromosome-chromosome associations within human interphase nuclei, interchanges between all possible heterologous pairs of chromosomes were measured with 24-color whole-chromosome painting (multiplex FISH), after damage to interphase lymphocytes by sparsely ionizing radiation in vitro. An excess of interchanges for a specific chromosome pair w...

We introduce roboPix, a robot, which is able to paint action paintings from a user’s thoughts using a Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI). The BCI provides signals, which encompass the user’s recognized thoughts and the user’s level of excitement. These signals command the movement of the robot’s arm, which spreads the paint on the canvas. Our system combines explicit and implicit signals to persona...

muhammad baqir is probably the most important of a group of post safawid painters, who practiced a highly eclectic style. decorative floral compositions which were widly used for lacquer- work from the later safawid period onwards, also become a popular genre in 12th century h. persian painting. muhammad baqir also has produced floral design and composition. owing to the building programs conne...

The Transfiguration scene depicted in a Byzantine church at Shivta, Israel, is one of two figurative examples of the scene from the early Christian period. The use of Egyptian blue pigment in the wall painting was investigated with various analytical methods. Visible Induced Luminescence (VIL) imaging was used in-situ in order to map the distribution of the Egyptian blue pigment in the painting...

Background In Ecuador, access to maternity services remains significantly lower amongst indigenous women compared with non-indigenous women partly due to cultural barriers [1]. A hospital in Ecuador where the indigenous rights movement is particularly strong implemented the Vertical Birth (VB) policy to increase indigenous womens’ access to maternity services by adapting services to the local c...

the correspondence between the elements of a story and its illustration has been eminent in the history of persian painting, achieved by the painter in both explicit and implicit manners. in fact, the painter painted the harmonious illustration by utilizing the essence and dominant element of the story. to do so, the painter confined himself to the most influential scenes of the story to be dep...

This paper presents a fast and viable method of painting image retrieval. The painting is first isolated using edge detection and region counting. We use perspective transform and eigenimage analysis to select the desired image.