Face cloning and animation considering wrinkle formation and aging are an aspiring goal and a challenging task. This paper describes a cloning method and an aging simulation in a family. We reconstruct a father, mother, son and daughter of one family and mix their shapes and textures in 3D to get virtual persons with some variation. The idea of reconstruction of a head is to detect features fro...

Men who father their first child at a very young age are convicted of significantly fewer crimes in the years after birth if is son rather than daughter. This leads to behavioral spillovers that reduce criminal convictions among other men living same neighborhood, with resulting crime multipliers affecting peers’ even primary impact on focal individual has dissipated. Through social multipliers...

There has been much recent interest in the role for genetic conflicts to drive the evolution of genetic systems. Here we consider the evolution of hermaphroditism in the scale insect tribe Iceryini and the suggestion that this has been driven by conflict between a female and an infectious male tissue derived from her father. We perform an inclusive-fitness analysis to show that, owing to geneti...

Context The maternal heritability of bone microarchitecture according to the sex of the offspring is not known. Objective To explore sex difference and influence of mother's menopausal status on the heritability of bone microarchitecture between mothers and their offspring. Subjects and Methods In 102 mother-daughter and 161 mother-son pairs, volumetric bone mineral density (BMD) and bone m...

Pregnant and postpartum women frequently complain about the limited involvement of their partners with their children, beginning in pregnancy. The current study thus aimed to understand men's feelings towards fatherhood during this period of their lives. The research adopted a qualitative approach and a gender-theory focus. The universe included men whose children were being treated at a pediat...

Polygamy is a risk factor for incest. This case report of incest and polygamy portrays the dynamics that dominated this family's identity. The father indoctrinated and groomed his biological daughter and stepdaughter for sexual gratification in a cult-like atmosphere, and secretly married both of them. He justified his acts to the family members under the guise of religion, but he later denied ...

The syndrome of bilateral aplasia of the tibia, polydactyly with or without syndactyly, and absence of the thumbs, was first reported in 1915 by Werner in a twenty-year-old woman in her sixth month of pregnancy who requested an abortion because the pregnancy was causing her difficulties. The patient had no thumbs and six fingers, each with a metacarpal bone. There were eight toes on the left fo...

On August 19, 2015, the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) was notified by the Florida Poison Information Center Network and a local hospital of possible sulfuryl fluoride poisonings affecting a family in Martin County, in southeastern Florida. Sulfuryl fluoride is a highly toxic (toxicity category I) gas fumigant used for termite control of homes and buildings.* FDOH personnel in Martin Count...

Retrospective data were entered anonymously by 1,521 adult women using a computer-assisted self-interview. Thirty-one participants were victims of sister-sister incest, 40 were victims of brother-sister incest, 19 were victims of father-daughter incest, 8 were victims of sexual abuse by an adult female (including one mother), and 232 were victims of sexual abuse by an adult male other than thei...

Kabuki make-up syndrome (KS), also called Niikawa-Kuroki syndrome, is a rare congenital disorder of unknown etiology. Most KS cases occur sporadically and familial KS had never been reported in Taiwan. I describe four individuals in one family with KS. Significant intrafamilial variability in the clinical expression of this syndrome is evident. In addition to the typical craniofacial dysmorphis...