The Benslimane's Artistic Model for Females' Gaze Beauty: An Original Assessment Tool.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper is to analyze the aesthetic characteristics of the human females' gaze using anthropometry and to present an artistic model to represent it: "The Frame Concept." In this model, the eye fissure represents a painting, and the most peripheral shadows around it represent the frame of this painting. The narrower the frame, the more aesthetically pleasing and youthful the gaze appears. MATERIALS AND METHOD: This study included a literature review of the features that make the gaze appear attractive. Photographs of models with attractive gazes were examined, and old photographs of patients were compared to recent photographs. The frame ratio was defined by anthropometric measurements of modern portraits of twenty consecutive Miss World winners. The concept was then validated for age and attractiveness across centuries by analysis of modern female photographs and works of art acknowledged for portraying beautiful young and older women in classical paintings. RESULTS: The frame height inversely correlated with attractiveness in modern female portrait photographs. The eye fissure frame ratio of modern idealized female portraits was similar to that of beautiful female portraits idealized by classical artists. In contrast, the eye fissure frames of classical artists' mothers' portraits were significantly wider than those of beautiful younger women. CONCLUSION: The Frame Concept is a valid artistic tool that provides an understanding of both the aesthetic and aging characteristics of the female periorbital region, enabling the practitioner to plan appropriate aesthetic interventions. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the A3 online Instructions to Authors. www.springer.com/00266 .

Returning home: a new chapter in Semahat Demir's career.

Having spent the majority of her professional career in the United States, Semahat Demir now embarks on a new adventure-a return to the country she left 23 years ago to lead Istanbul Kültür University (IKU), Turkey. She has built legacies in academia, industry, government, and science diplomacy through more than 130 journal publications in computational bioengineering, her work building a multiscale modeling funding program and directing US$290 million in annual grant funding for 200 projects at the National Science Foundation (NSF), her career-long dedication to providing opportunities for women engineers, and most recently her efforts to foster collaborative research efforts between the United States and Turkey. With her return home, she completes a circle, reverses her diaspora, and at the same time becomes a larger part of an effort to bring science to the global community.

Prophets, saints, and matriarchs: portraits of old women in early modern Italy.

This essay examines portraits of old women that were produced for the households of the professional and elite classes in Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and the Veneto during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious and social reform, women's lives came under increasing scrutiny. By interpreting the portraits within the context of prescriptive texts on the stages of women's lives, this study argues that the portraits provide evidence for the pivotal role of old women within the moral and symbolic order of the family, as well as in the wider community beyond the home.

[Medical and dental digital photography. Choosing a cheap and user-friendly camera]. / Photographie numérique médicale et dentaire. Le choix d'un appareil photo simple et économique.

INTRODUCTION: Digital photography is more and more important in our everyday medical practice. Patient data, medico-legal proof, remote diagnosis, forums, and medical publications are some of the applications of digital photography in medical and dental fields. A lot of small, light, and cheap cameras are on the market. The main issue is to obtain good, reproducible, cheap, and easy-to-shoot pictures. TECHNICAL NOTE: Every medical situation, portrait in esthetic surgery, skin photography in dermatology, X-ray pictures or intra-oral pictures, for example, has its own requirements. For these reasons, we have tried to find an "ideal" compact digital camera. The Sony DSC-T90 (and its T900 counterpart with a wider screen) seems a good choice. Its small size makes it usable in every situation and its price is low. An external light source and a free photo software (XnView((R))) can be useful complementary tools. The main adjustments and expected results are discussed.