News tagged with facial
First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful
More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Improving security with face recognition technology
A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Internet search process affects cognition, emotion
Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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First impressions count when making personality judgments, new research shows
First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Robots primed for 'are you being served' role in Arabic
A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls.
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Sights and sounds of emotion trigger big brain responses
Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2009 |
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AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Angry faces: Research suggests link between facial structure and aggression
Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a quick glance at som ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2009 |
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For gay and straight men, gauging facial attraction appears to operate similarly
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Did India invent the nose job?
An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Intelligent system to help autistic children recognize emotions
Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Being a standout has its benefits, study shows
Standing out in a crowd is better than blending in, at least if you're a paper wasp in a colony where fights between nest-mates determine social status.
Oct 15, 2009 |
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FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives
(AP) -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Researchers identify better laser for treating facial spider veins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have concluded that the 940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins (telangiectasias) as compared to the 532nm wavelength ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Brazilians judge facial beauty differently than North Americans
Standard ideals of facial beauty and harmony may differ depending on geographic location, with a specific difference between North American beauty ideals and those of Brazilians.
Oct 04, 2009 |
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