Hair Style Research Articles

Hair Recognition Based on Multi-task Convolution Network

Aiming at the problem that the prior art is difficult to utilize the mutual relationship between labels to achieve efficient classification of hair style multi-labels, a hair styling classification method based on multi-task convolutional neural network is proposed., a multi-task joint learning model was constructed to try to realize the simultaneous recognition of hair shape and color. First, all the labels are jointly learned through the shared network layer, and the correlation between labels is automatically mined and utilized from the perspective of feature extraction. Then complete specific categories of learning tasks at different sub-network layers, thereby eliminating ambiguity in multi-label classifications. Finally, multiple classifiers are trained to achieve parallel prediction of all labels. The research shows that the proposed method can extract multiple features of the hair at the same time and directly classify and identify it. Compared with the single task network, the precision has obvious advantages.

Dansinkran Hairstyle Fashion and Its Socio-Cultural Significance in Akan Traditional Ruling

The value of hair to women seems to be succinctly expressed in the words of Martin Luther that ‘hair is the richest ornament of women’. For many women of African descent, hair is emotive, symbolic and an inseparable part of our identity. The objective of the study was to examine socio-cultural significance of Dansinkran in Akan traditional ruling. For this study, the researcher used personal interviews with some Akan Queen mothers on their Dansinkran hair styles and utilized qualitative research methods, with heavy emphasis on literature review. The researcher employed a case study design in the research. The study unravelled that; Dansinkran hair style enhances thinking capacity of the Akan Queen mothers as they used charcoal, it detoxify every chemical in the hair and allow the brain to function with its full capacity. The researcher recommends that in writing of our country history as a means to preserve and conserve it, the inclusion of history of hairdressing would make it richer and also add to the existing repository of knowledge. Keywords: Dansinkran, Culture, Hairstyles, Identity, Symbolic. DOI : 10.7176/JCSD/49-05 Publication date :June 30 th 2019

필리핀 10~20대 여성의 헤어관리행동과 피부관리행동 요인 간의 차이

This study was conducted to analyze the appearance management behavior of women in their teens to their 20s, in Cebu, The Philippines, from 5 January 2015 for 50 days. For this, this researcher visited the place in person, handed out 600 copies of the questionnaire, and collected 561; of the collected copies, 512 were used as the final analytical data, while 49 were unable to be used due to incomplete responses. The SPSS 23.0 for Windows program was used as the analytical method. The results are as follows: 1. result of analyzing differences in the appearance management behavior factors by demographic characteristic (age, job, father’s job), 2. result of analyzing differences in appearance management behavior factors by general appearance management behavior. The group that was usually greatly interested in appearance management was found to be greatly invested in hair styling, face washing, cleansing and cosmetic surgery. The group that regarded cosmetic surgery as most important was found to be most invested in hair styling, makeup foundation, color makeup techniques and plastic surgery. The group that regarded skin management to be most important was most invested in visiting skin care salons while the group that regarded nail management behavior to be most important was most invested in using nail salons and nail care attention.

Transidiomaticity and transperformances in Brazilian queer rap: toward an abject aesthetics

Queer rap has been shining in the homophobic world of hip-hop lately, especially in the contemporary New York music scene. Considered by many as the new kids on the block, queer rappers have been breaking down mainstream ways of composing, delivering and enacting rap tunes by working on more outwardly feminine performances characterized by ambivalence, hybridity and defiance. In this paper, we focus on how Rico Dalasam, a contemporary Brazilian rap performer, radicalizes this type of rupture, engaging in what we have termed ‘abject aesthetics’. The latter constitutes a spectacular semiotic landscape, in which mixed sexualities, genders, races, ethnicities, clothing styles, hair styles, rhythms, languages and registers interact. In fact, transperformances and transidiomaticity dominate his work, which we approach through a scalar sensitive lens (CARR; LEMPERT, 2016) and metapragmatic indexicality (SILVERSTEIN, 1993) as we analyze the artist’s lyrics, performances and their reception by different audiences. In doing so, we shed light on the smuggling of semiotic resources which subverts the usual circulation of linguistic and non-linguistic goods across borders. In particular, we discuss how Dalasam’s deterritorializing-multisemiotic enactments confront modernist epistemological and linguistic regimes by subverting logocentrism. The analysis focuses on the transit between the so-called margin and center and on the enigmatic meanings generated by the mixture of languages and performances. As a whole, these aspects leave interactants in a state of uncertainty since the assembled resources are not directly intelligible in a conventional sense, most often preventing straightforward object-designation associations. However, this sense of indetermination does not necessarily prevent communication from taking place. We therefore argue that Rico Dalasam, by forging faltering ways with signs, orients to constant movement as a way of inhabiting the border and formulating alternative rules for re-existence.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------TRANSISIOMATICIDADE E TRANSPERFORMANCES NO RAP QUEER BRASILEIRO: POR UMA ESTÉTICA ABJETAO rap queer tem tido grande repercussão no mundo homofóbico do hip-hop nos últimos tempos, especialmente no cenário contemporâneo musical de Nova York. Considerado por muitos como a nova sensação, os rappers queer têm desconstruído os modos considerados tradicionais de compor, falar e apresentar o rap ao fazerem uso mais abertamente de performances femininas, caracterizadas por ambivalência, hibridismo e resistência. Neste artigo, focalizamos como Rico Dalasam, um performer brasileiro contemporâneo, radicaliza esse tipo de ruptura, ao se engajar no que chamamos de “estética abjeta” Ela compõe uma paisagem semiótica espetacular, na qual sexualidades, gêneros, raças, etnias, estilos de roupa, cortes de cabelos, ritmos, línguas e registros se entrecruzam. Na verdade, transperformances e transidiomaticidade dominam seu trabalho, o qual abordamos por meio das noções de escala (CARR; LEMPERT, 2016) e indexicalidade metapragmática (SILVERSTEIN,1993) ao analisarmos as letras do rap, suas performances e sua recepção por audiências diferentes. O movimento analítico gera visibilidade para o atravessamento de recursos semióticos que subvertem a circulação de artefatos linguísticos e nãolinguísticos pelas fronteiras. Em particular, discutimos como o desempenho multissemiótico-desterritorializador de Dalasam confronta regimes epistemológicos e linguísticos modernistas, subvertendo o logocentrismo. O foco do estudo está no trânsito entre os chamados centro e periferia e nos significados enigmáticos gerados pela mistura de línguas e performances. Em sua totalidade, esses aspectos deixam os interactantes em um estado de incerteza, uma vez que os recursos reunidos não são diretamente inteligíveis em um sentido convencional, já que, muito frequentemente, evitam associações referenciais diretas a objetos. Contudo, esse sentido de indeterminação não necessariamente prejudica a comunicação. Argumentamos que Rico Dalasam, ao forjar modos vacilantes de usar signos, se coloca em movimentação constante como um modo de habitar a fronteira e de formular regras alternativas de reexistência.---Original em inglês.

Non-traditional melanoma prevention strategies in the young adult and adolescent population.

Non-traditional melanoma prevention strategies in the young adult and adolescent population.

An Analysis on Formative Characteristics in the Hair style and Hair ornaments of Gisaeng in the Late Joseon Dynasty and Geisha in the Edo Period

This study comparatively analyzed the formality of hairstyles and hair accessories in the cosmetology culture of the Gisaeng (Korean equivalent of geisha) who led the cultural trends during the late Joseon and Edo periods. For this, it was assumed that the late Joseon and Edoperiods were the time when the grounds for the history of cosmetology culture were established. Specifically, the late Joseon era refers to the period from the reign of King Gwanghaegun (1608, 15th king of Joseon Dynasty) after the imjinwaeran (Japanese invasion of Korea in 1952) and byeongjahoran (Chinese invasion of Korea in 1636) to the reign of the 25th king Cheoljong (1863), while the Edo period was limited to the period from the reign of the 1st shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1600) to the 15th shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. According to an analysis of hairstyles and hair accessories during the late Joseon and Edo periods based on formality theory, oval-vertical and symmetric-asymmetric styles were found during the late Joseon era while triangular, oval, round and symmetric styles were observed during the Tokugawa period. In terms of texture, both rough and smooth textures were adopted during the late Joseon period while smooth texture only was expressed during the Edo period. From a color perspective, ‘natural black’ was observed in both countries. In terms of hair accessories, symmetric items were found during both the late Joseon and Edo periods. In terms of texture, hair accessories from the two countries showed different texture depending on material type. However, they were mostly smooth in the body with diverse textures in the ornamented parts such as jewels, intaglio and silver workmanship. Regarding the color of hair accessories, gold and silver were common with elaborate color in the ornamented part during the late Joseon period. During the Edo period, in contrast, a wide variety of colors including black, red, dark colors, metal and jewels were observed.

Perception and Deception: Human Beauty and the Brain.

Human physical characteristics and their perception by the brain are under pressure by natural selection to optimize reproductive success. Men and women have different strategies to appear attractive and have different interests in identifying beauty in people. Nevertheless, men and women from all cultures agree on who is and who is not attractive, and throughout the world attractive people show greater acquisition of resources and greater reproductive success than others. The brain employs at least three modules, composed of interconnected brain regions, to judge facial attractiveness: one for identification, one for interpretation and one for valuing. Key elements that go into the judgment are age and health, as well as symmetry, averageness, face and body proportions, facial color and texture. These elements are all Costly Signals of reproductive fitness because they are difficult to fake. However, people deceive others using tricks such as coloring hair, cosmetics and clothing styles, while at the same time they also focus on detecting fakes. People may also deceive themselves, especially about their own attractiveness, and use self-signally actions to demonstrate to themselves their own true value. The neuroscience of beauty is best understood by considering the evolutionary pressures to maximize reproductive fitness.

Trump: A Semiotic Analysis

AbstractThis analysis discusses the various culture codes that are found in societies and the work of Clotaire Rapaille and Marcel Danesi on this topic. It then offers a semiotic analysis of Trump’s candidacy and presidency and deals with topics such as his hair style, rhetorical style, use of metaphors and metonymy, facial expression and body language, jokes about Trump, and his use of humor.

Female Librarians Stereotype in the 2000s Indonesian Film

This paper discusses about the research that had examined the female librarian stereotype in Indonesian films, particularly release during the 2000s. Using the paradigm of cultural and media studies, this research examined six Indonesian films portraying female librarian. The units of analysis in this study are those film scenes that were either set in a library or that portrayed female librarians. The method used to analyze the data source is the Critical Discourse Analysis. The results of this study showed that the female librarians were stereotyped in Indonesian films, such as age, dress and hair style. Librarians were depicted as an old woman with the old-fashioned dress and outdated hairstyle. The film’s portrayal of the female librarians were representative of the stereotype in general, i.e. passive, stuffy, and orderly. But on the other hand they were depicted as a friendly, smart, helpful person, and sometimes breaking the rules. Library profession was portrayed traditionally as “library-keeper”, not as someone who plays a role in information and knowledge dissemination.

SCGAN: Disentangled Representation Learning by Adding Similarity Constraint on Generative Adversarial Nets

We proposed a novel generative adversarial net called similarity constraint generative adversarial network (SCGAN), which is capable of learning the disentangled representation in a completely unsupervised manner. Inspired by the smoothness assumption and our assumption on the content and the representation of images, we design an effective similarity constraint. SCGAN can disentangle interpretable representations by adding this similarity constraint between conditions and synthetic images. In fact, similarity constraint works as a tutor to instruct generator network to comprehend the difference of representations based on conditions. SCGAN successfully distinguishes different representations on a number of datasets. Specifically, SCGAN captures digit type on MNIST, clothing type on Fashion-MNIST, lighting on SVHN, and object size on CIFAR10. On the CelebA dataset, SCGAN captures more semantic representations, e.g., poses, emotions, and hair styles. Experiments show that SCGAN is comparable with InfoGAN (another generative adversarial net disentangles interpretable representations on these datasets unsupervisedly) on disentangled representation learning. Code is available at https://github.com/gauss-clb/SCGAN.

Cultural appropriation and the intimacy of groups

What could ground normative restrictions concerning cultural appropriation in cases where they are not grounded by independent considerations such as property rights or harm? We propose that such restrictions can be grounded by considerations of intimacy. Consider the familiar phenomenon of interpersonal intimacy. Certain aspects of personal life and interpersonal relationships are afforded various protections in virtue of being intimate. We argue that an analogous phenomenon exists at the level of large groups. In many cases, members of a group engage in shared practices that contribute to a sense of common identity, such as wearing certain hair or clothing styles or performing a certain style of music. Participation in such practices can generate relations of group intimacy, which can ground certain prerogatives in much the same way that interpersonal intimacy can. One such prerogative is making what we call an appropriation claim. An appropriation claim is a request from a group member that non-members refrain from appropriating a given element of the group’s culture. Ignoring appropriation claims can constitute a breach of intimacy. But, we argue, just as for the prerogatives of interpersonal intimacy, in many cases there is no prior fact of the matter about whether the appropriation of a given cultural practice would consitute a breach of intimacy. It depends on what the group decides together.

Poetic Verticalities: Ice-Skating, Nightstands by the Curb, Hair A-Z, The Highline

These poems attempt to capture our experiences of verticality in the city, as a daily practice. “Ice-skating” attempts to capture what it means to glide on the ice rink in the city and connect to things beyond the immediate present; “Nightstands by the Curb” records seeing two discarded nightstands by the side of the road and how in their loneliness they stand tall and significant despite the fact that their owner found them useless. In “Hair A-Z,” I list all possible variations of hair styles and accessories, as a way of seeing how hair makes us distinct, unique, tall in the city. “An Urban Riddle,” written in the voice of the elevated park, the High Line, in Manhattan, investigates what it may mean to have such an unusual green “presence” in the city. Each of these poems is paired with a photograph: some were taken on the occasion of the poem, like the ice-skating one, others, like the photographs by my friend Nikola Bradonjic—not, but we decided that they went well with the poems (the “Nightstands by the Curb” and “Hair A-Z” poems). The photograph accompanying “an Urban Riddle” is of a site-specific artwork, Broken Bridge II, by El Anatsui, which graced the High Line park from November 2012 until October 2013.

Analysis of the Makeup, Hair styles, and Costumes in The Hunger Games: Focusing on Katniss Everdeen and Effie Trinket

Analysis of the Makeup, Hair styles, and Costumes in The Hunger Games: Focusing on Katniss Everdeen and Effie Trinket

Middle School Students’ Perceptions about the Scientists

This study aimed at in-depth examination of middle school students’ perceptions about the scientists. The study was carried out with survey model. The data of the study were gathered via “Questionnaire for Evaluation of Scientists (QES)” and focus group interviews. The data were analysed quantitatively and the quantitative data were qualitatively supported with quotations and interviews’ data. . The study group is consisted of 1011 middle school students from different cities in Turkey. According to the studies, students’ perceptions about the scientists were mostly similar to the results. 1011 middle school students in different grades have similar perceptions but their image of the scientists’ scores low. The students’ images of a scientist had positive features such as intelligent and imaginative but they had also negative images like boring. Students think that a scientist was not very religious or did not believe in God. The students had positive views when they evaluated themselves as a scientist. It was observed that the physical features of the students’ image of scientists were males, in their 30s, with strange hair style and an ordinary look, and wearing glasses, beard/moustache, and a lab coat. They thought that the scientists were interested in invention, research and experiment and worked in a laboratory. As the source of their images, they stated scientists’ life stories, the internet, course books, science journals, and films.

‘He's got Jheri curls and Tims on’: Humour and indexicality as resources for authentication in young men's talk about hair and fashion style

This paper examines humour and indexicality as resources for identity construction in a group of young South London men, with a particular focus on the ideological meanings which are ringfenced by the young men's conversational humour about hair and fashion style. The young men's self-recorded, playful talk includes instances of joking as well as of high risk teasing which, as the paper shows, in many ways conforms to rules of ritual insulting. The references to hair and fashion choices throughout the playful competition constitute indices of group membership at various levels, from hip hop culture to aspects of what Silverstein (2004) calls the ‘macrosociological order’, in particular with respect to race. The paper argues that by considering both the style and the substance of conversational humour, we gain a fuller picture of the range of indexical meanings which are invoked on micro and macro social-levels, and therefore of the multi-layered authenticating practices at the core of the young men's identity construction.

Screen Circuits: Fear and Paranoia in the Sprawl (circa 1995)

The 1990s was a strange time to be alive: a saxophone playing U.S. president waltzed into a Cold War vacuum left behind by the crumbling of the Soviet Eastern Bloc, while Gulf War 1.0 was the first mediated war, yet one lacking any meaningful optics - Baudrillard's so-called weak event. Meanwhile, technology, culture and information was rapidly beginning to coalesce in unexpected ways. The 1990s was more of a feeling than a knowing, there was certainly change afoot and the clock was ticking on a century of acceleration and shrinking horizons. Zygmunt Bauman (Liquid Modernity, 2000) and Paul Virilio (Open Sky, 1997) capture this time from the perspective of the machine's lens and big data's gathering torrents. We were only just beginning to stockpile our algorithmic future. There is of course a strong human element to all of this as well, as domesticity was about to be transformed in ways not seen since the automation of white goods in the 1950s. Installing a telephone line in a new rental was a priority as this was not just a communication device but a gateway to a new digital epoch (chat rooms, conspiracy theories, gaming mods and a seemingly limitless archive of music). Australians, who would become the new suitors of the boom in computer peripherals and digital gadgetry, turned the latent ability to send short text messages from their mobile phones into a new form of digital dialectics. Meanwhile, the cinema was signalling a grave warning of what all of this might mean if we could indeed become virtual, if the machine was in fact alive and information networks consciousness itself. From James Bond confronting a Rupert Murdock/Conrad Black-type media demigod in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), to the digital psychedelics of the millennial rush in Strange Days (1995) to Henry Rollins raging against reality in the William Gibson penned Johnny Mnemonic (1995). These mid-nineties films tapped a rich vein of paranoia around the new vanguard of networked information and computer-generated image making while also expressing - in often garish terms - a deep anxiety about a not-to-distant future crackling into view beyond the millennial divide.

Shaved hair style scalp medical tattooing technique for treatment of advanced male pattern baldness patients.

BackgroundThe most infallible approach to male pattern baldness (MPB) is hair transplantation in the thinning area in parallel to medical treatment to prevent further alopecia progression. For an individual with advanced stage hair loss, a megasession surgery is recommended to meet the high donor hair requirement. Yet a most effective therapeutic regimen for alopecia, hair transplantation inevitably has its advantages and disadvantages for it is done with the expense of donor hair sacrifice, intraoperative and postoperative pain, and unavoidable scars. Also, with poor donor condition, surgery may not even be an option. Nowadays, more patients with such limitations are undergoing shaved style scalp medical tattoo (SMT).ObjectiveTo assess the effectiveness of SMT technique for shaved hair style.Methods and materialsA total of 80 patients who were included in the study underwent SMT for shaved hair style between June 2014 and June 2017 and were followed for at least 6 months afterward. Patients and the surgeon completed a survey about donor and recipient site surgical results using a 5‐point Likert scale.ResultsThe average satisfaction scores of patients and surgeon were 4.8 and 4.9, respectively.ConclusionShaved style SMT can be considered one of the most effective treatment methods for patients with advanced stage hair loss.Level of evidence IV.

Indoor air quality and reported health symptoms among hair dressers in salons in Ibadan, Nigeria

IntroductionHairdressers are exposed to potentially hazardous chemical emissions during hair styling, cutting, coloring and washing; exposures potentially result in adverse health effects. Limited information on indoor air and environmental quality (IEQ) in salons in less developed countries exists, especially outside of Asia. This study assessed IEQ of hair salons in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Nigeria.MethodsThe study was a comparative cross-sectional design. Multi-stage sampling methods were used in selecting the study population in four study areas – Agbowo, Mokola, Yemetu and Bashorun – for two months between August–October 2015. Temperature, relative humidity (RH) and coarse respirable particulate matter (PM10) concentrations in 65 salons within Ibadan were monitored between 9:00–14:00, Monday–Saturday, using pDR-1500 particulate monitor. Total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) and carbon dioxide concentrations in parts per million (ppm) were determined using SPF-2000 TVOC meter, also between 9:00–14:00, Monday–Saturday. Values obtained were compared with available guideline limits. Information on workplace hazards, accidents and current illnesses was elicited from 260 consenting hairdressers using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using analysis of variance, T-test and Spearman correlation coefficients at p < 0.05.ResultsMean indoor temperature, RH and TVOC concentrations across sampling locations (28.5 ± 2.2 °C, 70.8 ± 6.9%, 20.1 ± 5.9 ppm; 28.2 ± 1.5 °C, 71.8 ± 5.7%, 17.3 ± 3.2 ppm; 28.3 ± 2.3 °C, 71.5 ± 8.1%, 14.6 ± 5.9 ppm; 28.7 ± 1.2 °C, 69.4 ± 3.5%, 15.5 ± 3.4 ppm) exceeded American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) indoor environmental guidelines of 25.5 °C, 65% and 3 ppm, respectively. It should also be noted hairdressing activities were reported being associated with respiratory symptoms and back, leg and shoulder pains.ConclusionIn hair salons in Ibadan, Nigeria, IEQ appeared compromised. Mechanical ventilation systems in beauty salons should be improved with respect to operation, filtration and maintenance to better maintain thermal comfort parameters and reduce levels of chemical pollutants emitted by occupants and product use during services.

3.5 Prepubertal Gender Diverse Children: Using Evidence and Experience to Understand the Pros and Cons of Social Transition

An increasing number of children are socially transitioning to live as members of a gender that does not align with their sex at birth by changing their first names, pronouns, hair styles, and wardrobes. Yet little scientific research has been published tracking this cohort to understand the impact of these transitions on their development and well-being. Historical longitudinal data indicate that some children with gender dysphoria will no longer remain so in adolescence, adding to the complexity of the decision. Predicting a child’s future identity remains a complex area for debate in the field.

Ariadne's Threads: The Construction and Significance of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age

Ariadne's Threads: The Construction and Significance of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age