Sanctity, sacrifice, Image and Festivity: Basic Beliefs and Rites of Afro-Brazilian Tradition by Roberto Motta

“…Holiness is very much conceived as a physical reality installed in both human heads and stone altars, which must be “fed” by sacrifices, presided over by priests and priestesses who are the heads of terreiros, where most ceremonies take place. …”
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The Role of Personnel Competencies in the Enterprise Innovative Activity by Shulgina Liudmila M., Barchik Rishard, Klishinski Janush

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Parameterization-driven neural surface reconstruction for object-oriented editing in neural rendering by Xu, Baixin, Hu, Jiangbei, Hou, Fei, Lin, Kwan-Yee, Wu, Wayne, Qian, Chen, He, Ying

“…We demonstrate the method's effectiveness on images of human heads and man-made objects.…”
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Anatomic variation of cranial parasympathetic ganglia by Selma Siéssere, Mathias Vitti, Luiz Gustavo de Sousa, Marisa Semprini, Mamie Mizusaki Iyomasa, Simone Cecílio Hallak Regalo

“…The proximity of the ganglia and associated nerves were also analyzed, as well as the number and volume of fibers connected to them. Human heads were dissected by planes, partially removing the adjacent structures to the point we could reach the parasympathetic ganglia. …”
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Analysis of craniocerebral injury in facial collision accidents. by Jie Tian, Chuntao Zhang, Qun Wang

“…Second, the finite element model of human heads with a detailed facial structure is established and verified. …”
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Putative native South Amerindian origin of head lice clade F: evidence from head lice nits infesting human shrunken heads by Nadia Amanzougaghene, Philippe Charlier, Florence Fenollar, Didier Raoult, Oleg Mediannikov

“…Here, 17 ancient head lice nits were recovered from six shrunken human heads (known as tsantsas) of individuals from the Shuar/Jivaro tribe, a native Amazonian population from Ecuador, South America. …”
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Flow parsing and heading perception show similar dependence on quality and quantity of optic flow by Andrew J Foulkes, Simon K. Rushton, Paul A Warren

“…In a companion study we have investigated the pattern of dependence of human heading estimation on the quantity (amount of dots per frame) and quality (amount of directional noise) of motion information in an optic flow field. …”
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Head lice as vectors of pathogenic microorganisms by Hermann Feldmeier

“…Abstract Body lice and head lice are the most common ectoparasites of humans. Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) occur worldwide in children and their caretakers, irrespective of their social status. …”
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A Study on usage and Properties of the Combination “Man-calligraphy” in the Metalwork of Seljuk period by Alireza Taheri, Sahar Sadeghi

“…These designs are a combination of calligraphy during the same period and stylized human heads or bust beauty of human connections and with inner concepts and meaning but evident. …”
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Modeling Heading and Path Perception from Optic Flow in the Case of Independently Moving Objects by Florian eRaudies, Florian eRaudies, Heiko eNeumann, Heiko eNeumann

“…Our analysis suggests that various cues available from optic flow help to segment IMOs and, thus, make humans’ heading and path perception robust in the presence of such IMOs.…”
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Endoscopic Bilateral Optic Nerve Decompression for Treatment of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension by Ethem Göksu, Baran Bozkurt, Deniz İlhan, Ahmet Özak, Musa Çırak, Kaan Yağmurlu

“…We also demonstrated our surgical technique recipe on postmortem human heads in a stepwise manner. Results: There were 9 patients (7 females and 2 males) between the ages of 21 and 72 included in this study, and the mean age was 40.8. …”
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Use of Neuroanatomic Knowledge and Neuronavigation System for a Safe Anterior Petrosectomy by Ana Flores-Justa, Sabino Luzzi, Alice Giotta Lucifero, Juan F. Villalonga, Amparo Saenz, José María Santin-Amo, Matias Baldoncini, Alvaro Campero

“…Methods: Three adult cadaveric human heads were formalin-fixed and injected with colored silicone. …”
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Human hair genealogies and stem cell latency by Tavaré Simon, Kim Jung, Shibata Darryl

“…Epigenetic molecular clocks imply similar mitotic ages for hairs on young and old human heads, consistent with a restart with each new hair, and with genealogies surreptitiously written within somatic cell genomes.…”
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Orienting towards social features in naturalistic scenes is reflexive. by Lara Rösler, Albert End, Matthias Gamer

“…To investigate the early stages of social attention in more detail, participants viewed photographs of naturalistic scenes with and without social features (i.e., human heads or bodies) for 200 ms while their eye movements were being recorded. …”
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Earliest directly-dated human skull-cups. by Silvia M Bello, Simon A Parfitt, Chris B Stringer

“…<h4>Principal findings</h4>Here we describe the post-mortem processing of human heads at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Gough's Cave (Somerset, England) and identify a range of modifications associated with the production of skull-cups. …”
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Direction specific biases in human visual and vestibular heading perception. by Benjamin T Crane

“…The current experiments measure human heading estimation in the horizontal plane to vestibular, visual, and spoken stimuli. …”
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Becoming immortal: future wellness and medical tourism markets by Daniel William Mackenzie Wright, Santa Zascerinska

“…Purpose – Is humanity heading to immortal living? If so, what areas of society are playing an active role in achieving this? …”
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SMCA-CNN: Learning a Semantic Mask and Cross-Scale Adaptive Feature for Robust Crowd Counting by Guoshuai Wang, Yue Zou, Zirui Li, Dongming Yang

“…Experimental results showed that the performance of these methods suffers from two problems: 1) Background interference problem: there are some estimated spurious density values in the background regions which degrade the counting accuracy. 2) Cross-scale problem: the scale of human heads varies greatly in crowd images which lead to poorer quality of the density maps. …”
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TISSUE PLASTIC OF HEAD AND NECK DEFECTS WITH ARTERIALIZED TRANSPLANT ON THE BASE OF LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE by V.M. Sokolov, D.S. Avetikov, O.S. Ivanytska, V.V. Bondarenko

“…Restoration of deformed tissues and organs of the human body has always been relevant to the wide range of medical and social problems of humanity. Head and neck damage are especially difficult for functional and cosmetic restoration. …”
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Minimal Camera Networks for 3D Image Based Modeling of Cultural Heritage Objects by Bashar Alsadik, Markus Gerke, George Vosselman, Afrah Daham, Luma Jasim

“…The developed method is tested on the Iraqi famous statue “Lamassu”. Lamassu is a human-headed winged bull of over 4.25 m in height from the era of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC). …”
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