introduction: intense pulsed light (ipl) has long been used for skin rejuvenation. photo rejuvenation with red light (with or without photo sensitizer) is a newer noninvasive way for this purpose; but, until now few comparative studies between these modalities have been performed . the aim of this study was to compare efficacy, adverse effects, and compliance of intense pulsed light rejuvenatio...

This collection translates some of the work influential Black Brazilian thinker and activist Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) for first time into English, in collaboration with her only daughter, Bethânia Gomes. Historian, poet, theorist organiser, was a key figure Brazil’s Movement until untimely death 1995. She dangerously wrote at height Military Dictatorship (1964–1985), theorised extensively...

The article is the introduction to special issue of Theoretical Practice which dedicated “the communes and other mobile commons”. editors explain how we could conceptualize various attempts create in terms commons commoning. Since exemplary case Paris Commune many social movements – urban, rural, indigenous, feminist, or migrant experimented with as alternatives state capitalism redefined this ...

1. The language and its speakers 1.1. Sociohistorical background Saramaccan is an Atlantic creole spoken primarily in Suriname, though there are also speakers in French Guiana as well as a substantial diaspora population in the Netherlands. The fifteenth edition of the Ethnologue estimates that there are about 26,000 speakers of the languages. It is a maroon creole—that is, a creole spoken by d...

We present a color thesaurus with over 9000 color names in ten different languages. Instead of using conventional psychophysical experiments, we use a statistical framework that is based on search results from Google Image Search. For each color name we compute a significance distribution in CIELAB space whose maximum indicates the location of the color name in CIELAB. A first analysis discusse...

objective: very recent studies have reported positive effects of dietary nitrate on the oxygen consumption during exercise. this research aimed to study the effect of moderate dose of high-nitrate vegetables, watercress (nasturtium officinale) and red radish (raphanus sativus) compared with a control group on the incremental treadmill exercise test following a standard bruce protocol controlled...

amyloidosis cutis dyschromica (acd) is a rare form of macular amyloidosis characterized by hypo and hyperpigmented macules. here we described a 20 year old girl with diffuse hypo and hyperpigmentation since she was four years old. five other members of her family are also involved. biopsy of hyperpigmented lesions revealed increase of melanin in the basal layer, pigment incontinence and amorpho...