Previous studies have shown that weight stigma and bullying can have detrimental effects on a person’s psychological well-being. Depression, self-esteem, loneliness, and perceived stress were measured as a result of personal experiences with bullying, specifically concerning weight stigma and weight based bullying, in comparison to other forms of bullying (e.g., being shy, having freckles). Uni...

This study was aimed to investigate the effects of cream containing Ficus carica L. fruit (Fig) extract on various skin parameters such as skin melanin, erythema, moisture content, trans-epidermal water loss and sebum. For this purpose, formulation with 4% concentrated extract of F. carica fruit and base without extract were developed. Base served as a control. Both base and formulation were ap...

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common cancer, presenting low mortality but high morbidity, and it has as risk factor exposure to sunlight, especially UVB spectrum. The most important constitutional risk factors for basal cell carcinoma development are clear phototypes (I and II, Fitzpatrick classification), family history of basal cell carcinoma (30-60%), freckles in childhood, eyes and light...

BACKGROUND We sought by use of an adult twin study to investigate the relative contribution of genetic and environmental effects on the expression of nevi and freckles, which are known risk factors for melanoma, and to determine if age and sun exposure influence the heritability of nevi. DESIGN AND METHODS Total nevus and freckle counts were conducted on 127 monozygotic twin pairs and 323 diz...

Tyrosinase (EC 1.14.18.1) plays an indispensable role in the rate-limiting steps of melanin biosynthesis, and its uncontrolled activity may result various diseases, such as albinism, melanoma, freckles, etc. The inhibition tyrosinase provide a useful efficient strategy to treat hyperpigmentation disorders. However, widely used inhibitors, like ?-arbutin, hydroquinone, kojic acid, have many shor...

Iris recognition is a biometric technique that reliably and quickly recognizes person by their iris based on unique biological characteristics. has an exceptional structure it provides very rich feature spaces as freckles, stripes, coronas, zigzag collarette area, etc. It many features where its growing interest in lies. This paper proposes improved method for identification Convolutional Neura...