One of the features present time is increased interest young people in tattoos on body. Tattoo a cultural phenomenon that has long history since its inception.
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A 34 year old railway engineer of south Indian descent was under the care of the ophthalmology team. He was being treated for bilateral anterior uveitis with topical steroids and mydriatics after a one month history of decreasing visual acuity, photophobia, and ocular pain. He also had a four month history of irritation over his tattoo sites that his general practitioner had suspected was derma...

Tattooing has been shown to be very efficient at inducing immunity by vaccination with DNA vaccines. In this study, we examined the usability of tattooing for delivery of peptide vaccines. We compared tattooing with subcutaneous (s.c.) needle injection using peptides derived from human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) proteins. We observed that higher peptide-specific immune responses were elicit...

BACKGROUND  The increase in popularity of tattoos has coincided with an increase in reports of cutaneous inoculation of nontuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria (NTM) during the tattooing process. We report 3 NTM infections in otherwise healthy persons who received tattoos, which prompted a multiagency epidemiologic investigation. METHODS  Tattoo artists involved were contacted and interviewed ...

In this work a comparison of the SURF and MUSURF feature descriptor vectors is made. First, the descriptors’ performance is evaluated using a standard data set of general transformed images. This evaluation consists in counting correspondences and correct matches between ten image pairs. Image pairs have different transformations (rotation, scale change, viewpoint change, blur, JPEG compression...

and sheds light on attempts by traditional tattooists to retain a vital presence in the modern-to-postmodern transitional periods. Explaining the values, beliefs and practices associated with tattooing during the pre-modern period, it discusses how these are shaped and modified by modern cultural practices, and how they are being impacted by globalization. While drawing on historical and cross-...