Color Face Research Articles

The CDC’s Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey – Using Intersectionality and School Connectedness to Understand Health Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The CDC’s Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey – Using Intersectionality and School Connectedness to Understand Health Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Unsung Heroes on Campus: Minority Veterans’ Transition Experiences by Race

ABSTRACT This study explored the impact of race on the higher education transition experiences of three groups of male student veterans: Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Asian. Grounded in the premise of Critical Race Theory, especially Cabrera’s Hegemonic Whiteness and Yosso’s Cultural Capital, we collected and analyzed 17 student veterans’ in-depth interviews centering the voices of the participants marginalized due to race, age, and veteran status. Findings confirm that student veterans of color face acute cultural alienation and racism on college campuses and enact various cultural capitals and strands of resiliency to cope, while also ascribing to beliefs of meritocracy and colorblindness inherited from their military service. Future research on student veterans should continue to examine the heterogeneity among student veterans, especially those located at the intersection of multiple marginalities, to provide an anti-racist portrayal of student veterans as a diverse population.

Creating a visualization system for changes in facial shape and color

Creating a visualization system for changes in facial shape and color

Efficient color face recognition based on quaternion discrete orthogonal moments neural networks

Efficient color face recognition based on quaternion discrete orthogonal moments neural networks

Facial Recognition Method Based on Thin-Film Solar Cells

In this study, we developed a new facial recognition system using thin-film solar cells as sensors. When the face of a user is illuminated by LED lights on the left and right sides of the system and the reflected light enters the cells at the corresponding positions, differences in facial skin colors and 3D contours lead to different output voltages and currents of the thin-film solar cells. This is the basis of facial feature identification. We found that the accuracy of thin-film-solar-cell-based facial recognition can be improved by precisely controlling changes in LED light intensity. The facial features of six different users were successfully distinguished by this method, thus verifying that thin-film solar cells can be used for green power generation, as well as for facial recognition.

Effective of a novel technique for sensitive skin treatment with optimal pulse technology: A clinical study.

Photomodulation is a non-photothermal effect that mobilizes energy and regulates cell activity at the mitochondrial level, and has been used to treat sensitive skin (SS) in recent years. Based on the photomodulated effect of optimal pulse technology (OPT), we developed a novel treatment mode (advanced OPT with low energy, three pulses, long pulse width, AOPT-LTL) for the treatment of facial SS and evaluated its effectiveness. A total of thirty Chinese women with SS were included in this study. Patients were received different times of AOPT-LTL treatment with an interval of 2 to 4weeks depending on the severity. Clinical improvement was evaluated by comparing baseline and post-treatment photographs. In addition, the skin objective signs and subjective symptoms, as well as adverse events and patient satisfaction were also analyzed and tabulated. All included patients completed the treatment and follow-up period. After one course of treatment, 76.7% of patients had a Symptom Score Reducing Index (SSRI) >20%, suggesting that the treatment was effective. Within two courses of treatment, all patients had SSRI >20%, demonstrating significant improvement in skin sensitivity. The analysis of clinical photographs showed that facial dryness, desquamation, flushing, and skin color significantly improved, capillary density decreased, the dilated capillaries were retracted. During the treatment period, no obvious adverse reactions occurred in any patients, and the patients' satisfaction was high. This novel technique of AOPT-LTL might be an effective and safe modality for the treatment of SS.

Racially Informed Care: A Treatment Approach and Exploration of the Implications of Race Related Barriers in the United States

Social factors surrounding race and ethnicity often create barriers to meaningful occupation and keep people of color from achieving a greater quality of life (Pooremamali et al., 2016). These barriers often result in occupational deprivation and feelings of alienation in society. Research has shown that these barriers created by systematic racism exist for individuals across different environments and persist over their lifetime (Pooremamali et al., 2016). Because of these barriers and the prolonged stress responses caused by racism, people of color, especially black and brown, have significantly higher rates of chronic illness than White Americans. People of color, specifically African Americans, experience increased levels of stress from discrimination, criminal victimization, and financial stress, compared to others, while also being disproportionately burdened by chronic disease (Geronimus et al., 2006). These facts make it clear that people of color face difficulties that significantly decrease quality of life. This article aims to describe the unique barriers facing people of color and investigate the many areas of a person’s life affected by racism, which directly or indirectly influence occupational performance. In addition, it will explore occupational therapy interventions that use Racially Informed Care (RIC), a practice model that supports people of color in coping with racism to promote the fullness of life through successful engagement in meaningful occupations to which all human beings are entitled.

Examining raciolinguistic struggles in institutional settings: A duoethnography

In this duoethnography, we draw on the zone of (non)being (Fanon, 2010) and linguistic citizenship (Stroud & Kerfoot, 2020) to examine the struggles that we—a high school teacher and a doctoral fellow/teacher educator of color—face in our institutional contexts. We illustrate the ways our language practices become excluded and the ways we are misrepresented as Latinos. Our analysis sheds light on how we engage with the raciolinguistic ideologies at the heart of these exclusions and misrepresentations. Our findings add to the existing literature on raciolinguistic ideologies by centering our struggles within institutional structures of inequity and marginalization, and illuminating the ways contextual factors shape our critical engagement with these structures.

Maternidad Fronteriza Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Testimonios of MamiScholars’ Resistance

Recognizing that the burdens of Women of Color and mothers were augmented by the global pandemic and by the failure of institutions of higher education to equitably accommodate the needs of these populations, we shed light on the specific struggles experienced by MamiScholars in the era of COVID-19 in this article. We share our testimonios through the documentations of our MamiScholar realities to contest dominant narratives that would otherwise continue to undermine the legitimacy of our needs and demands during COVID-19. We further coin and define the concept of maternidad fronteriza, exploring the balance of being mothers of littles ones on the tenure clock. This article advances our understandings of challenges MotherScholars of Color face in institutions of higher education while providing recommendations about specific changes universities can make to produce equitable outcomes that address their specific needs.

Linear Regression Classification in the Quaternion and Reduced Biquaternion Domains

Linear regression classification (LRC) has proven to be a successful recognition tool in recent years. LRC depends on using the least square algorithm to get the solution of the linear regression equation. To improve the performance of the LRC algorithm, in this paper, we extend the LRC strategy to both quaternion and reduced biquaternion domains to consider image color information. We derive closed-form solutions from the properties of both domains<i>.</i> We also improve on the accuracy of the closed-form solutions using nonlinear optimization. Our experiments on three benchmark color face recognition databases demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods for recognizing color faces.

A Review of Facial Thermography Assessment for Vital Signs Estimation

Estimated vital signs might include a variety of measurements that can be used in detecting any abnormal conditions by analyzing facial images from continuous monitoring with a thermal video camera. To overcome the limitless human visual perceptions, thermal infrared has proven to be the most effective technique for visualizing facial colour changes that could have been reflected by changes in oxygenation levels and blood volume in facial arteries. This study investigated the possibility of vital signs estimation using physiological function images converted from the thermal infrared images in the same ways that visible images are used, with a need for an efficient extractor method as correction procedures that have used datasets that include images with and without wearing glasses or protective face masks. This paper, summarize thermal images using advanced machine learning and deep learning methods with satisfactory performance. Also, we presented the evaluation matrices that were included in the assessment based on statistical analysis, accuracy measures and error measures. Finally, to discuss future gaps and directions for further evaluations.

Health Equity Needs Teeth.

People who are poor or members of communities of color face inequitable oral disease burden. Continued separation of dental and oral health from general medical care exacerbates inequity and forces members of underserved communities to seek nontraumatic dental emergency care in hospital emergency departments. This trend is unnecessarily costly and results in antibiotic prescriptions and pain management that are neither restorative nor responsive to patients' primary complaints. Value-based approaches to health care need to unify mouth care with general medical care, motivate medical-dental interprofessional practice, promote oral disease prevention, and support restorative dental care. Value-based approaches to health care must also innovate fiscal structures (eg, payment models, data sharing) to improve health outcomes for everyone.

4 Contested Space: Higher Education Programming in Prisons

Abstract: While academic freedom is considered a birthright in higher education, the current hysteria surrounding teaching critical race theory in K–12 schools and at universities demonstrates an ongoing resistance to teaching theories that deconstruct and challenge white dominant norms. In prison education spaces, where censorship is common, tailoring education to the needs of those in power in prisons is wrought with ethical grievances. As federal funding for incarcerated students increases, how should higher education institutions navigate topics such as race and racism, when this content is challenged by prison officials? This article explores conceptually the role that higher education programming should have in prison spaces and discusses what is at stake when censorship of race and racism are not actively challenged. A framework is employed, through Ladson-Billings work, that names the ways in which an accrued educational debt is owed to incarcerated students of color that can begin to be repaid through student-centered higher education in prison programming. Additionally, the response of a college in prison organization when faced with prison censorship is highlighted as a path forward to engaging and responding to a growing anti-CRT movement, intended to obscure history and the inequity that people of color face in the United States. Without interrogating the role of college in prison programs, universities without careful consideration of how to address these racialized censorship issues can become a part of the repressive institution that is our current carceral state.

"I just want us to be heard": A qualitative study of perinatal experiences among women of color.

Objectives:Long-standing racial disparities, particularly between White and Black women, in maternal and birth outcomes necessitate an examination of the factors influencing these disparities. This study aimed to understand the experiences of women of color as they relate to pregnancy and/or birth complications to inform policy and strategy to decrease racial and ethnic health disparities.Methods:Six focus groups were conducted with women (n = 31) who were identified as a woman of color, were 18 years or older, self-identified as having experienced pregnancy or birth complications after 2016, and who spoke English. A focus group guide co-created with the research team, community partners, and peer researchers from the local community was utilized to elicit discussions related to barriers, successes, and existing opportunities to provide equitable care and services to families throughout the perinatal period. An inductive and iterative approach to qualitative analyses of the focus group transcripts was used to identify key themes.Results:The seven themes identified include: lack of knowledge, mental health, communication with providers, support systems, representation, social determinants of health, and discrimination and stigma. Women shared a variety of experiences related to their health care from before pregnancy into their post-partum period, revealing many areas for improvement to extant systems.Conclusion:The inclusion of voices of the populations most deeply affected by health disparities is crucial to understanding how care and services provided can be improved. This analysis suggests the need for change at multiple levels of the health care and social services systems. These experiences provide valuable insight into some of the many struggles and barriers that women of color face during pregnancy and beyond.

Leaning On Our Academic Shields of Gendered Support

Intersectionality reminds us that women of color face a particular kind of marginalization due to both gendered and racial oppression and underrepresentation. As such, they are more often “presumed incompetent” and may not feel as innately supported in social and professional structures as their white male and female counterparts. Additionally, the silencing effect of being one of very few women of color in academic departments puts us at risk for further marginalization, requiring that we engage in significant invisible labor that is neither recognized nor compensated. Grounded on our intersectionalities, we discuss our respective trajectories within our own fields and research, beginning with research that emphatically perpetuates the cycle of gender inequity in the academy. The discussion is then supported by analyzing the theoretical research on the salience of race, gender, and other axes of identity for the experiences of women of color. As authors, we present these narratives in an attempt to engage with ways of reflexivity that are, especially for women of color in academia, not usually discussed.

Color Affects Recognition of Emoticon Expressions.

In computer-mediated communication, emoticons are conventionally rendered in yellow. Previous studies demonstrated that colors evoke certain affective meanings, and face color modulates perceived emotion. We investigated whether color variation affects the recognition of emoticon expressions. Japanese participants were presented with emoticons depicting four basic emotions (Happy, Sad, Angry, Surprised) and a Neutral expression, each rendered in eight colors. Four conditions (E1–E4) were employed in the lab-based experiment; E5, with an additional participant sample, was an online replication of the critical E4. In E1, colored emoticons were categorized in a 5AFC task. In E2–E5, stimulus affective meaning was assessed using visual scales with anchors corresponding to each emotion. The conditions varied in stimulus arrays: E2: light gray emoticons; E3: colored circles; E4 and E5: colored emoticons. The affective meaning of Angry and Sad emoticons was found to be stronger when conferred in warm and cool colors, respectively, the pattern highly consistent between E4 and E5. The affective meaning of colored emoticons is regressed to that of achromatic expression counterparts and decontextualized color. The findings provide evidence that affective congruency of the emoticon expression and the color it is rendered in facilitates recognition of the depicted emotion, augmenting the conveyed emotional message.

КАКИМ БЫВАЕТ "ЦВЕТ ЛИЦА": ВЗГЛЯД ЛИНГВИСТА

The anthropocentric approach assumes the idea of an absolute observer in relation to a person, in particular, his or her face, which, along with others, has a sign of color. It is the complexion that can serve as the basis for the nickname of a person. The results of the discourse analysis of the materials of the National Corpus of the Russian language for the period of 1772–2016 allow us to distinguish three positions of observation of face color, in which it is perceived as an object 1) exotic, 2) diagnostic and 3) aesthetic. The possibilities of combining these positions are noted. A color thesaurus of adjectives denoting complexion (more than 70 units) and naming primary colors and their shades, as well as complex colors, has been compiled. Changes in complexion can be more or less prolonged, natural or artificial, caused by external conditions or the inner state of a person. The relationship between complexion and emotional state, conceptualized in language and recorded in fiction, has been confirmed by modern experimental studies in the field of biology and medicine. In conclusion, the sociocultural reasons for the transformation of the positions of the observer of the complexion have been revealed: the processes of globalization and the principle of political correctness cause the reduction of the exotic look; commercialization and the development of the “beauty industry” actualize the aesthetic, although the aesthetic ideal changes, while the intersection of the positions of the doctor and the artist continues.

Euclidean Distance Versus Manhattan Distance for New Representative SFA Skin Samples for Human Skin Segmentation

The human color skin image database called SFA, specifically designed to assist research in the area of face recognition, constitutes a very important means particularly for the challenging task of skin detection. It has showed high performances comparing to other existing databases. SFA database provides multiple skin and non-skin samples, which in various combinations with each other allow creating new samples that could be useful and more effective. This particular aspect will be investigated, in the present paper, by creating four new representative skin samples according to the four rules of minimum, maximum, mean and median. The obtained samples will be exploited for the purpose of skin segmentation on the basis of the well-known Euclidean and Manhattan distance metrics. Thereafter, performances of the new representative skin samples versus performances of those skin samples, originally provided by SFA, will be illustrated. Simulation results in both SFA and UTD (University of Texas at Dallas) color face databases indicate that detection rates higher than 92% can be achieved with either measure.

Reconstruction of a massive facial defect with the pre-expanded free anterolateral thigh flap: A case report.

Introduction and importanceMassive facial defects remain a reconstructive challenge because of the region's unique character and the limitation of a well-matched donor site. Pre-expanded free anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap provides a good alternative for reconstructing massive skin and soft tissue defects.Case presentationA 21-year-old male patient presented to our department with a massive right facial degloving wound caused by a sharp edged-weapon attack. The patient left the hospital after 3 weeks of wound care, and only came back to us after 2 months with large defects at the nasal, cheek, and upper and lower right lip regions. The procedure of ALT flap expansion surgery was performed for 2 months. The pre-expanded ALT flap was used for reconstruction of the patient's facial defects. Two-year follow-up showed that the flap at the reconstructed area resembled the contour of the nasal tip, facial skin color similarities in the cheeks and lips, and the patient's mouth had normal function.Clinical discussionThe combined pre-expanded and composite ALT free flap techniques allow simultaneous reconstruction of many different anatomic units. Flap debulking helps to improve the nasal contour from the original defect. The lip separation technique and flap debulking procedure help enhance aesthetic reconstructive outcomes of the skin flap.ConclusionThe surgical reconstruction using a pre-expanded ALT free flap for the patient with a massive facial defect was safe. In particular, sufficient skin and soft tissue ensured facial aesthetics and oral function for the patient when using this method.

Skin Color Match in Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgery.

To quantify the degree of color match achieved during microvascular facial reconstruction, and to describe a novel technique for improving reconstructive skin color match. We hypothesize that split-thickness skin grafts (STSG) placed atop de-epithelialized free tissue produces better facial skin color match than free tissue with intact epithelium. Cross sectional photographic study of reconstructed facial skin color match. Sixty-eight adults, who underwent head and neck reconstructive surgery, were divided into six categories based on cutaneous reconstructive technique: cervicofacial flap, radial forearm free flap (RFFF), fibula free flap, anterolateral thigh free flap (ALT), STSG over adiopofascial flap (STAFF), and STSG over myogenous flap (STMF). Averaged color samplings of the reconstructed defect and adjacent normal skin were taken from digital photographs. The color difference was calculated using the delta-E calculation. Blinded expert observers also rated the degree of color match. Nonparametric cohort contrast and correlation statistical analyses were performed. The mean delta-E's and 10-point Likert ratings for the ALT, fibula, RFFF, STAFF, STMF, and cervicofacial flaps were 11.6, 10.0, 7.7, 6.3, 8.8, and 4.7, and 5.1, 6.4, 2.4, 3.2, 2.7, and 1.1, respectively. Likert scale inter-rater correlation was strong, with coefficient=0.80. On average, STSG over de-epithelialized myogenous and adipofascial free tissue transfers produced a better color match than the skin paddles of donor sites, with the exception of the radial forearm donor site. Delta-E values obtained from photos correlated well with expert ratings of color match. This reliable technique for quantifying color match may be used in future studies. 3 Laryngoscope, 132:1753-1759, 2022.