Cashless payment at the unmanned gas station, automatic check-in at the airport, ordering on the computer – today, many transactions are possible without personal contact. This makes it all the more important to ensure that the person in question is who they say they are. Preventing acts of terrorism, secure online banking…. Security and the … Biometrics: Show Me your Eyes?
In this method, differently colored artificial hair made of synthetic fibers is inserted into the scalp by means of a special needle. But within a year, one must expect about ten percent or more of the artificial hair to break off. In addition, the risk of bacterial infection is increased, and a foreign body rejection … Hair Loss: Artificial Hair and Treatment
If the hair is slowly thinning, bald patches can be made to disappear by hair transplantation. Nevertheless, one should be aware that with a hair transplant one cannot restore the hair splendor of youth. A pronounced baldness surrounded by a smaller crown of hair can never be covered again with the hair density of an … Hair Loss: Hair Transplants
There are a number of aspects that need to be illuminated in order to evaluate biometric methods. They concern not only the methods themselves, but legal and economic aspects are also important. No biometric method offers absolute recognition security. On the one hand, this is due to the method per se – the matching of … Biometric Methods: Discussion Points
In order for procedures to be used for personal identification, various requirements must be met: The characteristics may only occur in one person (uniqueness), should occur in as many people as possible (universality), should not change or change only slightly over a period of time (constancy), should be as technically simple as possible (measurability), should … Biometrics: License Plate and Identification
“I can’t help it that I’m so fat. That is disposition.” So or similarly many overweight excuse their excess weight and pull themselves so from the responsibility. But they are not even that wrong. In fact, some people have a genetic predisposition that virtually preprograms obesity. Nevertheless, this predisposition can be counteracted with a little … Fat or Slim By Disposition?
The expression at the breakfast table speaks volumes: a grim face, sleepy eyes, drooping shoulders. The mouth, on the other hand, doesn’t speak at all. Only some grumbling can be elicited from it, at best a “yes” or “no.” A morning grouch. Roused from sleep far too early, he starts the day in a bad … Morning Grumpiness: Start the Day with Momentum
Genetic fingerprinting is based on the fact that certain regions on the DNA differ in every human being (except in identical twins) and are thus unmistakable. To determine them, the smallest amounts of genetic material (in principle already one cell), which can be found e.g. in hair, saliva, sperm or blood, are sufficient. In order … Discussion Points on Genetic Diagnostics
Definition – What is Löfgren’s Syndrome? Löfgren’s syndrome is a term for the acute form of the multisystemic disease sarcoidosis. Löfgren’s syndrome is common in women between the ages of twenty and forty. Those affected suffer from characteristic triad of symptoms, including polyarthritis, erythema nodosum (inflammation of the subcutaneous fatty tissue) and bihilary lymphadenopathy (swelling … Löfgren’s Syndrome
Course and duration of Löfgren’s syndrome The course of the disease is extremely favorable in Löfgren’s syndrome. In approximately 95% of patients, the disease subsides completely after several months and then heals spontaneously, even without treatment. The severe initial symptoms, erythema nodosum, arthritis and swelling of the lymph nodes, usually subside and slowly subside within … Course and duration of Löfgren’s syndrome | Löfgren’s Syndrome
Is it okay to exercise if I have Löfgren’s syndrome? In acute Löfgren’s syndrome, those affected often suffer from fatigue, high fever and painful joints. These are symptoms that severely restrict sporting activity. An acute inflammation is present. This means that sport should be avoided. Especially in the presence of fever, one should avoid sports … Is it okay to exercise if I have Löfgren’s syndrome? | Löfgren’s Syndrome
Small helpers, so-called microorganisms such as bacteria, yeasts or fungi, are involved in many food technology processes. They are involved, for example, in beer brewing, yogurt production and cheese ripening. Since they are needed on a large scale nowadays, many of these microorganisms come from the genetic workshop. They are modified using genetic engineering processes … Genfood: Genetic Engineering Helpers
