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Some human remains at Buchenwald, [1] including a lampshade made of human skin. [2]There are two notable reported instances of lampshades made from human skin.After World War II it was claimed that Nazis had made at least one lampshade from murdered concentration camp inmates: a human skin lampshade was displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch ...
Fingerprint identification, known as dactyloscopy, [30] ridgeology, [31] or hand print identification, is the process of comparing two instances of friction ridge skin impressions (see minutiae), from human fingers or toes, or even the palm of the hand or sole of the foot, to determine whether these impressions could have come from the same ...
skin: sebum acinar - branched 35 Skene's gland, lesser vestibular gland, paraurethral gland vestibule of the vulva, around the lower end of the urethra: serous tubulo-alveolar 36 Sublingual gland, Rivini's gland mouth: mucus (primarily) tubulo-alveolar 37 Submandibular gland: mouth: mixed (M+S) tubulo-alveolar 38 Sudoriparous glands, Boerhaave ...
Proof of personhood (PoP) is a means of resisting malicious attacks on peer to peer networks, particularly, attacks that utilize multiple fake identities, otherwise known as a Sybil attack. Decentralized online platforms are particularly vulnerable to such attacks by their very nature, as notionally democratic and responsive to large voting blocks.
Human presence detection. Human presence detection is a range of technologies and methods [ 1] for detecting the presence of a human body in an area of interest (AOI), or verification that computer, smartphone (or other device controlled by software) is operated by human. Software and hardware technologies are used for human presence detection.
Despite much research and development, no vaccine for S. aureus has been approved. An estimated 21% to 30% of the human population are long-term carriers of S. aureus, [2] [3] which can be found as part of the normal skin microbiota, in the nostrils, [2] [4] and as a normal inhabitant of the lower reproductive tract of females.
The stratum corneum ( Latin for 'horny layer') is the outermost layer of the epidermis. Consisting of dead tissue, it protects underlying tissue from infection, dehydration, chemicals and mechanical stress. It is composed of 15–20 layers of flattened cells with no nuclei and cell organelles. Among its properties are mechanical shear, impact ...
Freediving. Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear . Besides the limits of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological ...