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1 Introduction
Video-based classification plays a key role in human motion analysis fields such as action and gesture recognition. Both fields have shown promising applications in many areas, including security and surveillance, content-based video analysis, human-computer interaction and animation. According to a recent survey on recognition of human activities [28], the focus has shifted to methods that do not rely on human body models, where the information is extracted directly from the images and hence being less dependent on reliable segmentation and tracking algorithms. Such image representation methods can be categorised into global and local based approaches [22].
Methods with global image representation encode visual information as a whole. Ali and Shah [1]
extract a series of kinematic features based on optical flow. A group of kinematic modes is found using principal component analysis. Guo[6] encode the same kinematic features using sparse representation of covariance matrices. Several methods first divide the region of interest into a fixed spatial or temporal grid, extract features inside each cell and then combine them into a global representation. For example, this can be achieved using local binary patterns (LBP) [11], or histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) [27]. Global representations are sensitive to viewpoint, noise and occlusions which may lead to unreliable classification. Furthermore, global representations depend on reliable localisation of the region of interest [22].
Local representations are designed to deal with the abovementioned issues by describing the visual information as a collection of patches, usually at the cost of increased computation. Laptev and Lindeberg [14] extract interest points using a 3D Harris corner detector and use the points for modelling the actions. One of the major drawbacks is the low number of interest points that are able to remain stable across an image sequence. A common solution is to work with windowed data, extracting salient regions which can be represented using Gabor filtering [4].
Wang [31] showed that dense sampling approaches tend to perform better compared to interest point based approaches. Dense sampling is typically done for a set of patches inside the region of interest. Features are extracted from each patch to form a descriptor. These descriptor representations differ from grid-based global representations in that they can have an arbitrary position and size, and that the patches are not combined to form a single representation but form a set of multiple representations. Examples are HOG and HOF (histogram of oriented flow) descriptors [15], SIFT descriptors [17], and their respective spatio-temporal versions, HOG3D [31] and 3D SIFT [26]. Because of the likely large number of descriptors and/or their high dimensionality, comparing sets of descriptors is often not straightforward. This has led to compressed representations such as formulating sets of descriptors as bags-of-words [21].
In this paper we propose the use of spatio-temporal covariance descriptors for action and gesture recognition tasks. Flat region covariance descriptors were first proposed for the task of object detection and classification in images [29]. Each covariance descriptor represents the features inside an image region as a normalised covariance matrix. They have led to improved results over related descriptors such as HOG, in terms of detection performance as well as robustness to translation and scale [29]. Furthermore, covariance matrices provide a low dimensional representation which enables efficient comparison between sets of covariance descriptors.
The proposed spatio-temporal descriptors, which we name Cov3D, belong to the group of symmetric positive definite matrices which do not form a vector space. They can be formulated as a connected Riemannian manifold, and taking into account the non-linear nature of the space of the descriptors may lead to improved classification results. The most common approach for classification on manifolds is to first map the points into an appropriate Euclidean representation[16]
and then use traditional machine learning methods. A recent example of mapping is the Riemannian locality preserving projection (RLPP) technique[8].
The Cov3D descriptors are extracted from spatio-temporal windows inside sample videos, with the number of possible windows being very large. As such, we use a boosting approach to search the windows to find a subset which is the most useful for classification. We propose to extend RLPP by weighting (WRLPP), in order to take into account the weights of the training samples. This weighted projection leads to a better representation of the neighbourhoods around the most critical training samples during each boosting iteration. The proposed Cov3D descriptors, in conjunction with the classification approach based on WRLPP boosting, lead to a state-of-the-art method for action and gesture recognition.
We continue the paper as follows. In Section 2 we describe the spatio-temporal covariance descriptors, and use the concept of integral video to enable fast calculation inside any spatio-temporal window. In Section 3, we first overview the concept of Riemannian manifolds formulated in the context of positive definite symmetric matrices, and then detail the proposed boosting classification approach based on weighted Riemannian locality preserving projection. In Section 4, we compare the performance of the proposed method against several recent state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark datasets. Concluding remarks and possible future directions are given in Section 5.
2 Cov3D Descriptors
In this section we first present the general form of the proposed spatio-temporal covariance descriptors (Cov3D), an algorithm for their fast calculation, and finally how they can be specialised for action and gesture recognition. For convenience, we follow the notation in [29].
Let be the sequence of images and be the dimensional feature video extracted from :
where the function can be any mapping such as intensity, colour, gradients, or optical flow. For a given spatio-temporal window , let be the -dimensional feature vectors inside . The region is represented with the covariance matrix of the feature vectors:
where is the mean of the points. Fig. 1 shows the construction of a covariance descriptor inside a spatio-temporal window. Examples of feature vectors specific for action and gesture recognition are given in Section 2.2.
Representing a spatio-temporal window with a covariance matrix has several advantages: (i) it is a low-dimensional representation which is independent on the size of the window, (ii) the impact of noisy samples is reduced through the averaging during covariance computation, (iii) it is a straightforward method of fusing correlated features.
2.1 Fast computation
Integral images are an intermediate image representation used for the fast calculation of region sums [30]. The concept has been extended to image sequences [10], where the integral images are stacked to form an integral video, and can be used to compute spatio-temporal region sums in constant time. For a video , its integral video is defined as:
Tuzel [29] used the integral image representations for fast calculation of flat region covariances. Here we extend the idea for fast calculation of covariance matrices inside a spatio-temporal window using the integral video representation. The -th element of the covariance matrix defined in (2) can be expressed as:
where refers to the -th element of the -th vector. To find the covariance in a given spatio-temporal window , we have to compute the sum of each feature dimension, , as well as the sum of the multiplication of any two feature dimensions, . With representing the number of dimensions, the covariance of any spatio-temporal window can be computed in time, as follows.
We need to compute a total of integral videos. Let be the tensor of the integral videos:
where is the -th element of vector . Furthermore, let be the tensor of the second-order integral videos:
for . The complexity of calculating the tensors is . The -dimensional feature vector and the dimensional matrix can be obtained from the above tensors using:
Let be the spatio-temporal window of points , as shown in Fig. 2. The covariance of the spatio-temporal window bounded by and is:
where . Similarly, after a few rearrangements, the covariance of the region can be computed as:
and .
2.2 Features and regions
Commonly used features for action and gesture recognition include intensity gradients and optical flow. Previous studies have shown the benefit of combining both types of features [4, 31]. We define the feature mapping , present in (1
), as the following combination of gradient and optical-flow based features, extracted from pixel location:
The first four gradient based features in (14) represent the first and second order intensity gradients at pixel location . The last two gradient based features correspond to the gradient magnitude and gradient orientation. The optical-flow based features in (15) represent, in order: the horizontal and vertical components of the flow vector, the first order derivatives of the flow components with respect to , and the spatial divergence and vorticity of the flow field as defined in [1]. Each descriptor is hence a matrix, as has dimensions.
For reliable recognition, several regions (and hence several descriptors) are typically used. Fig. 3 shows the spatio-temporal windows of two descriptors which can be used for recognition of face expressions. With the defined mapping, the input video is mapped to , a -dimensional feature video. Since the cardinality of the set of spatio-temporal windows is very large, we only consider windows of a minimum size and increment their location and size by a minimum interval value. Further specifics on the windows used in the experiments are given in Section 4.
Following [29], each covariance descriptor , is normalised with respect to the covariance descriptor of the region containing the full feature video, , to improve the robustness against illumination variations:
where is equal to at the diagonal entries and the rest is set to zero.
3 Classification of Actions and Gestures
The Cov3D descriptors are symmetric positive definite matrices of size , which can be formulated as a connected Riemannian manifold () [7]. In this section we first briefly overview Riemannian manifolds, followed by describing the proposed weighted Riemannian locality preserving projection (WRLPP) that allows mapping from Riemannian manifolds to Euclidean spaces. We then describe a classification algorithm that uses WRLPP.
3.1 Riemannian manifolds
A manifold can be considered as a continuous surface lying in a higher dimensional Euclidean space. Formally, a manifold is a topological space which is locally similar to an Euclidean space [29]. Intuitively, the tangent space is the plane tangent to the surface of the manifold at point .
A point on the manifold can be mapped to a vector in the tangent space using the logarithm map operator . For the logarithm map is defined as:
is the matrix logarithm operator. Given the eigenvalue decomposition of a symmetric matrix,, the matrix logarithm can be computed via:
where is a diagonal matrix, with each diagonal element equal to the logarithm of the corresponding element in .
The minimum length curve connecting two points on the manifold is called the geodesic, and the distance between two points is given by the length of this curve. Geodesics are related to the tangents in the tangent space. For , the distance between two points on the manifold can be found via:
3.2 Weighted RLPP
The usual approach for classification on manifolds is to first map the points into an appropriate Euclidean representation [29] and then use traditional machine learning methods. Points in the manifold can be mapped into a fixed tangent space (such as where
is the identity matrix)[6]. Since distances in the manifold are only locally preserved in the tangent space, better results can be achieved by considering the tangent space at the Karcher mean, the point which minimises the distances among the samples, as shown in [29]. Improved results have been obtained by considering multiple tangent spaces [19, 25]. A more complex approach involves using training data to create a mapping that tries to preserve the relations between points, such as the RLPP approach [8].
RLPP is based on Laplacian eigenmaps [2]. Given training points from the underlying Riemannian manifold , the local geometrical structure of can be modelled by building an adjacency graph . The simplest form of is a binary graph obtained based on the nearest neighbour properties of Riemannian points: two nodes are connected by an edge if one node is among the nearest neighbours of the other node. From the adjacency graph we can find the degree and Laplacian matrices, respectively:
where the degree matrix is a diagonal matrix of size , with diagonal entries indicating the the number of edges of each node in the adjacency graph.
RLPP also uses a heat pseudo-kernel matrix , with the -th element constructed via:
where is the geodesic distance defined in (19).
The final mapping can be found through the following generalised eigenvalue problem [8]:
where the eigenvectors with thesmallest eigenvalues form the projection matrix .
The number of possible Cov3D descriptors inside a sample video is very large. As such, we elected to use boosting to search for a subset of the best descriptors for classification. We could use the original RLPP mapping approach to map the matrices as vectors at each boosting iteration. However, as shown in [29], the sample weights can be used to generate a mapping which is more appropriate for the critical training samples. Therefore, we propose a modified projection, specifically designed to be used during boosting, which uses sample weights to generate the final mapping. We refer to this approach as weighted Riemannian locality preserving projection (WRLPP).
In the modified projection, the adjacency graph is replaced with a weighted adjacency graph , defined as:
where is a diagonal matrix with diagonal values that correspond to the vector of sample weights . Using the weighted adjacency graph, edges involving critical samples (ie. samples with higher weights) become more important and their geometrical structure is better preserved. The modified projection approach is detailed in Algorithm 1.
Once the the projection matrix has been obtained, a given point (a Cov3D matrix) on the manifold can then be mapped to Euclidean space via:
where , with defined in (22), and representing the training points.
3.3 Classification
As mentioned in the preceding section, we have chosen to use boosting to find a subset of the best descriptors for classification, as the number of possible Cov3D descriptors inside a sample video is large. For simplicity, we used a combination of one-vs-one LogitBoost classifiers[5] to achieve multiclass classification.
We start with a brief description of binary LogitBoost classification, with class labels
. The probability of samplebelonging to class is represented by:
where , with representing a weak learner.
The LogitBoost algorithm learns a set of weak learners by minimising the negative binomial log likelihood of the data. A weighted least squares regression of training points is fitted to response values , with weights , where
As we are using Cov3D descriptors (covariance matrices) as input data, we adapt the weak learners to use the projected descriptors. In other words, is replaced with , with representing a covariance matrix.
For every unique pair of classes, we train a one-vs-one LogitBoost classifier as follows. Only the samples belonging to the pair of classes are used for training the binary classifier. One class is selected to be the positive class and the other as the negative class. For each boosting iteration, we search for the region whose Cov3D descriptor best separates positive from negative samples. The descriptor is calculated for all the training samples and mapped to vector space with WRLPP, using the sample weights calculated for the current boosting iteration. Once in vector space, we fit a linear regression and use it as the weak LogitBoost classifier.
To prevent overfitting, the number of weak classifiers on each one-vs-one classifier is controlled by a probability margin between the last accepted positive and the last rejected negative. Both margin samples are determined by the target detection rate () and the target false positive rejection rate (). The final multiclass classifier is a set of one-vs-one classifiers. Each one-vs-one classifier , where and are the labels of its two classes, has a positive class and a threshold . The positive class is the label of the class deemed to be positive and the threshold is found via boosting. Algorithm 2 summarises the training process.
A sample video is classified as follows. Given a one-vs-one classifier , the probability of a sample video belonging to the positive class is evaluated using:
After evaluating with all the one-vs-one classifiers in the set, the sample is labelled as the class which maximises:
where is if is the positive class , or otherwise. In other words, is labelled as the class with greater probability sum, selecting all the one-vs-one classifiers that evaluate to that class.
4 Experiments
We compared the performance of the proposed algorithm against baseline approaches as well as several state-of-the-art methods. We used three benchmark datasets, with an overview of the datasets shown in Table 1.
In the following subsections, we first present an evaluation of several Riemannian to Euclidean space mapping approaches, justifying the use of the weighted RLPP. We then follow with experiments showing the performance on sport actions, facial expressions and hand gestures.
Unless otherwise stated, no pre-processing was performed in the input sequences and all the recognition results were obtained using 5-fold cross validation to divide the samples into training and testing sets.
In all cases we used the following parameters: 0.95 detection rate, 0.95 false positive rejection rate, 0.5 margin. Furthermore, since the search space of spatio-temporal windows is very large, we restricted the minimum size of the windows, as well as the minimum increment on location and size of the windows, to of the frame size.
|Cambridge [12]
|facial expressions
|hand gestures
|Video samples
4.1 Comparison of mapping approaches
In Fig. 4, we compare the following six Riemannian to Euclidean space mapping () approaches which can be used during boosting: (i) no mapping (ie., using a vectorised representation of the upper-triangle of the covariance matrix), (ii) projection to a fixed tangent space [6], (iii) projection to the weighted Karcher mean of the samples [29], (iv) projection using k-tangent spaces [25], (v) mapping the points with the original RLPP method [8], and (vi) mapping the points with the proposed WRLPP approach.
Since the mapping approach affects individual binary classifiers, we show results per classifier with detection error trade-off curves. We chose the one-vs-one classifiers between conflicting class pairs (where samples of one class are misclassified as the other class) on the Cambridge hand gesture recognition dataset (which is described in Section 4.4). Each point on the curve represents the average of all the chosen classifiers. The curves were obtained by varying the classification threshold in Algorithm 2.
With the exception of the original RLPP method, incrementally better results are obtained by using the mapping approaches in the mentioned order, as they provide increasingly better vector representations of the manifold space. Although RLPP is designed to provide a better representation compared to tangent-based approaches, it appears not to be appropriate for boosting as it does not take into account the sample weights of critical training points. The proposed WRLPP method addresses this problem, resulting in the best overall performance.
4.2 UCF sport dataset
The UCF sport action dataset [24] consists of ten categories of human actions, containing videos with non-uniform backgrounds where both the camera and the subject might be moving. We use the regions of interest provided with the dataset.
We compared the Cov3D approach against the following methods: HOG3D [31], hierarchy of discriminative space-time neighbourhood features (HDN) [13], and augmented features in conjunction with multiple kernel learning (AFMKL) [32]. HOG3D is the extension of histogram of oriented gradient descriptor [15] to the spatio-temporal case. HDN learns shapes of space-time feature neighbourhoods that are most discriminative for a given action category. The idea is to form new features composed of the neighbourhoods around the interest points in a video. AFMKL exploits appearance distribution features and spatio-temporal context features in a learning scheme for action recognition. As shown in Table 2, the proposed Cov3D-based approach achieves the highest accuracy.
4.3 CK+ facial expression dataset
The extended Cohn-Kanade (CK+) facial expression database [18] contains 593 sequences from 123 subjects. We used the sequences with validated emotion labels, among 7 possible emotions. The image sequences vary in duration (i.e. 10 to 60 frames) and incorporate the onset (which is also the neutral frame) to peak formation of the facial expressions.
We compared the Cov3D approach against active appearance models (AAM), constrained local models (CLM) [3], and temporal modelling of shapes (TMS) [9]
. AAM is the baseline approach included with the dataset. It uses active appearance models to track the faces and extract the features, and then uses support vector machines (SVM) to classify the facial expressions. The CLM approach is an improvement on AAM, designed for better generalisation to unseen objects. The TMS approach uses latent-dynamic conditional random fields to model temporal variations within shapes.
We show the performance per emotion in Table 3, in line with existing literature. The proposed Cov3D approach achieves the highest average recognition accuracy of (averaged over the 7 classes). The next best method (TMS) obtained an average accuracy of .
4.4 Cambridge hand gesture dataset
The Cambridge hand-gesture dataset [12] consists of 900 image sequences of 9 gesture classes. Each class has 100 image sequences performed by 2 subjects, captured under 5 illuminations and 10 arbitrary motions. The 9 classes are defined by three primitive hand shapes and three primitive motions. Each sequence was recorded with a fixed camera having roughly isolated gestures in space and time. We followed the test protocol defined in [12]. Sequences with normal illumination were considered for training while tests were performed on the remaining sequences.
The proposed method was compared against tensor canonical correlation analysis (TCCA) [12], product manifolds (PM) [20] and tangent bundles (TB) [19]
. TCCA is the extension of canonical correlation analysis to multiway data arrays or tensors. Canonical correlation analysis and principal angles are standard methods for measuring the similarity between subspaces. In the PM method a tensor is characterised as a point on a product manifold and classification is performed on this space. The product manifold is created by applying a modified high order singular value decomposition on the tensors and interpreting each factorised space as a Grassmann manifold. In the TB method, video data is represented as a third order tensor and factorised using high order singular value decomposition, where each factor is projected onto a tangent space and the intrinsic distance is computed from a tangent bundle for action classification.
We report the recognition rates for the four test sets in Table 4, where the proposed Cov3D-based approach obtains the highest performance.
5 Conclusion
In this paper, we first extended the flat covariance descriptors proposed in [29] to spatio-temporal covariance descriptors termed Cov3D, and then showed how they can be computed quickly through the use of integral video representations.
The proposed Cov3D descriptors belong to the group of symmetric positive definite matrices, which can be formulated as a connected Riemannian manifold. Prior to classification, points on a manifold are generally mapped to an Euclidean space, through a technique such as Riemannian locality preserving projection (RLPP) [8].
The Cov3D descriptors are extracted from spatio-temporal windows inside sample videos, with the number of possible windows being very large. We used a boosting approach to find a subset which is the most useful for classification. In order to take into account the weights of the training samples, we further proposed to extend RLPP by incorporating weighting during the projection. The weighted projection (termed WRLPP) leads to a better representation of the neighbourhoods around the most critical training samples during each boosting iteration.
Combining the proposed Cov3D descriptors with the classification approach based on WRLPP boosting leads to a state-of-the-art method for action and gesture recognition. The proposed Cov3D-based method performs better than several recent approaches on three benchmark datasets for action and gesture recognition. The method is robust and does not require additional processing of the videos, such as foreground detection, interest-point detection or tracking. To our knowledge, this is the first approach proving to be equally suitable (ie., recognition accuracy) for both action and gesture recognition.
Further avenues of research include adapting the method for related tasks, such as anomaly detection in surveillance videos[23], where there is often a shortage of positive examples.
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You're Making Your Pimple Worse By Picking Your Face
Its tempting in the moment, but its never a good idea to play dermatologist because its nearly impossible to pick your own pimple and not make a red mark that could turn into a scar. Even worse, when you try to press the blackhead or pus out of your pore, you run the risk of pushing the bacteria deeper and making the problem worse. Oh, yeah, and you know when you rest your chin in your palm while youre sitting at your desk? That action of touching your skin also can transfer bacteria from your hand onto your face, Dr. Downie adds.
The zit fix:
Challenge yourself not to pick or even touch your face for unnecessary reasons. If you need to physically put something over your pimple to keep your hands off of it , try a pimple patch, which is a flat, flexible, drug-free patch that protects your spot and allows it to heal faster.
And when all else failsor ideally, before all else beginshead to your dermatologist to find out which of the acne causes is wreaking havoc on your skin. Its almost like they went to school to fix this kind of thing. Weird.
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Try These Stress Acne Skincare Products
There are a lot of skincare products for stress acne that people use in their everyday life, that aren't strong and harmful for your skin. If you aren't sure what to use, you should consult a dermatologist or someone that used some kind of products. These products aren't hard to find and buy, and some of the most high-rated products on Amazon are:
Follow An Acne Diet Plan
There is no acne diet per se. But research suggests there are some foods that cause acne, or at least foods that make breakouts more likely in certain people. And they are some of the same foods we tend to stress eat.
When people are stressed, they tend to eat more processed and sugary foods, which can increase inflammation and oil production, said Dr. Minni. Studies suggest that swapping high-glycemic foods for low-glycemic ones can make acne less severe.
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How Severe Can Acne Get
Dermatologists rank acne by severity:
- Grade 1 : mostly whiteheads and blackheads, with a few papules and pustules.
- Grade 2 : multiple papules and pustules, mostly on your face.
- Grade 3 : numerous papules and pustules, along with occasionally inflamed nodules. Your back and chest may also be affected.
- Grade 4 : numerous large, painful and inflamed pustules and nodules.
Taking Steps To Reduce Your Stress
Managing stress is priority number one when it comes to overall health, and is essential for achieving clear skin.
A study posted by the US National Library of Medicine found that as of today there is no proven medical treatment that can either prevent or treat stress-induced or exacerbated skin conditions or skin aging. So what can you do? Try practicing stress relief habits on a regular basis. While stress doesn't cause acne, it can make it worse. The National Institute of Health has posted additional tips to alleviate stress as a means to reduce the frequency and severity of acne outbreaks on Medlineplus.gov
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Does Stress Cause Acne
So here's the thing: Technically, stress doesn't directly cause acne, but it absolutely plays a role in it, as well as other skin conditions. "We know that stress has a negative impact on our skin," says Joshua Zeichner, M.D., director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. "It interferes with proper skin barrier function, impairs wound healing, and causes skin conditions like eczema and rosacea to worsen."
Like all types of acne, stress acne is caused by a mix of bacteria, oil, inflammation, and hormones. "To prepare ourselves for a stressful environment, our bodies overproduce certain hormones like cortisol," says Zeichner. These hormones stimulate your oil glands and put them into overdrive. This overproduction of oil then clogs pores, which is what's actually causing you to break out, not the stress itself.
A Final Word On Identifying The Cause Of Your Acne And Zapping Zits For Good
Even though its possible to get acne well into your twenties, thirties, forties, and beyond, pesky pimples dont have to take over your face.
Take note of when pimples occur to help you identify a pattern. Recognizing the underlying causes of your adult acne is the first step to getting blemishes under control.
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Your Diet Could Be Causing Acne Breakouts
According to Dr. Downie, tomatoes and peppers, two common ingredients in spicy foods, contain acidic lycopenea somewhat common irritant that can throw off the skins pH levels and trigger breakouts around the mouth. But it isnt just spicy foods that are acne causes. Some people have a reaction to dairy, gluten, or other types of foods. How diet affects the skin is totally dependent on the person.
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Talk to your dermatologist or make an appointment with a gastroenterologist to see if the food youre eating is the source of your problem or if something more serious is going on in your gastrointestinal tract. And while you're at it, you could always try incorporating a few healthy foods for clear skin into your diet.
Does Stress Cause Acne Or Does Acne Cause Stress
While we do not know for sure whether stress causes acne or not, we do know that the reverse can be true: acne can cause psychological stress.
According to a 2011 article in Gut Pathogens, cne vulgaris is a common dermatological disorder frequently associated with depression, anxiety and other psychological . The mental health impairment scores among acne patients are higher vs. a number of other chronic, non-psychiatric medical conditions, including epilepsy and diabetes.4
From what we can tell, stress most likely does make acne worse. But, worrying about stress is of course counterproductive and will just cause more stress. The best bet is to exercise, get outside, and try meditation or deep breathing to handle your stress a bit better.
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What Can Trigger Pimples
Certain things may trigger or worsen acne: Hormonal changes. Androgens are hormones that increase in boys and girls during puberty and cause the sebaceous glands to enlarge and make more sebum. Certain medications. Examples include drugs containing corticosteroids, testosterone or lithium. Diet. Stress.
What Are The Different Types Of Acne
Acne can take several forms. They include:
- Blackheads: Open bumps on the skin that fill with excess oil and dead skin. They look as if dirt has deposited in the bump, but the dark spots are actually caused by an irregular light reflection off the clogged follicle.
- Whiteheads: Bumps that remain closed by oil and dead skin.
- Papules: Small red or pink bumps that become inflamed.
- Pustules: Pimples containing pus. They look like whiteheads surrounded by red rings. They can cause scarring if picked or scratched.
- Fungal acne : This type occurs when an excess of yeast develops in the hair follicles. They can become itchy and inflamed.
- Nodules: Solid pimples that are deep in your skin. They are large and painful.
- Cysts: Pus-filled pimples. These can cause scars.
All of these forms of acne can affect your self-esteem. Its best to seek help from your healthcare provider early so they can help determine the best treatment option for you.
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How To Prevent Stress Acne
"First and foremost, get plenty of sleep. When sleep deprived, the body makes more of the stress hormone, cortisol," says Dr. Shamban. "Increased cortisol causes inflammation and stress on the body and can worsen skin conditions such as acne, eczema, and psoriasis, as well as cause an increased breakdown of collagen and hyaluronic acid ."
As for when you're awake and not drinking water? Run, do yoga, read, mediditate. Partake in any solo activity that helps take your mind off of the news.
Stress Is Accompanied By Hormonal Changes That Increase Your Risk For Acne
Are you worrying about that deadline for a big project? Relationship troubles keeping you up at night? While stress alone cant spark breakouts, it can exacerbate them.
Stress can worsen acne by leading to a release of inflammatory chemicals called neuropeptides and hormonal changes, Fried says.
Even good stress, like getting ready for a big event, might trigger breakouts. Thats why a huge pimple pops up on your wedding day or before a big date.
Zit zapper Use acne products with ingredients like salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide to clear up stress-induced breakouts. To prevent future flareups, find a way to calm your nerves, whether its yoga, deep-breathing, or watching a chick flick.
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What Causes Stress Acne
Well, yes, stress. It's been long established by researchers, like those from a study published nearly two decades ago in JAMA Dermatology, that there is a connection between increased stress and increased acne severity. But why does stress cause acne to flare or worsen? It's an answer that researchers are still trying to pin down.
There are a variety of factors that might have an effect, but an increase in specific hormones is one of the most widely agreed upon causes. The Cleveland Clinic reports that one of those hormones is cortisolthe "fight-or-flight" hormone. Other hormones that our bodies increase production of in response to stress are androgens. "These hormones stimulate the oil glands and hair follicles in the skin, which can lead to acne," according to the AAD. "This explains why acne can be an ongoing problem when we find ourselves under constant stress."
How Do I Know What's Stressing Me
As with any problem, the first step to solving it is to identify the cause. The mental health charity Mind helpfully identifies many major causes of stress in your life, including but not limited to:
- Illness
- Having or adopting a child
- Coordinating a complex event, like a family gathering
Even some events that we consider to be happy, such as getting married, can be both enjoyable and stressful at the same time. This is known as eustress.
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How Stress Affects Skin
Stress causes a chemical response in your body that makes skin more sensitive and reactive. It can also make it harder for skin problems to heal.
Have you ever noticed that you break out more when youre stressed? This is because stress causes your body to make hormones like cortisol, which tells glands in your skin to make more oil. Oily skin is more prone to acne and other skin problems.
Stress can also:
Make skin problems worse. For example, stress can aggravate psoriasis, rosacea, and eczema. It can also cause hives and other types of skin rashes and trigger a flare-up of fever blisters.
Interfere with daily skin care. If youre stressed, you might skimp on this part of your routine, which can aggravate skin issues.
It can also be stressful to have problems with your skin. Some people feel so bad about how it looks that they keep to themselves, which adds more stress.
If you have an issue that doesn't heal or keeps coming back, rethink how you handle stress.
How Can I Prevent Breakouts
Like most things in life, acne is not always completely in ones control. There are, however, some key tips we offer to help prevent breakouts:
- Never go to bed with makeup on.
- Check labels: when purchasing cosmetic and skincare products, always look for the terms "non-comedogenic," "oil-free," or "wont clog pores."
- Avoid facial oils and hair products that contain oil.
- Some acne spots are not actually acne but are post-inflammatory pigment changes from previous acne lesions or from picking at acne or pimples. Wear sunscreen with SPF 30+ daily, rain or shine, to prevent darkening of these spots.
There is some evidence that specific dietary changes may help reduce the risk of acne. For example, one meta-analysis of 14 observational studies that included nearly 80,000 children, adolescents, and young adults showed a link between dairy products and increased risk of acne. And some studies have linked high-glycemic-index foods and acne.
With that said, its important to be wary of misinformation about nutrition and skin. As physicians, we seek scientifically sound and data-driven information the evidence on the relationship between diet and acne is just starting to bloom. In the future, the effect of diet on acne may be better understood.
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What to do if my auto insurer says that the audio shop was negligent in the installation of a radar detection system so they're not responsible for damage that was caused?
A little over a year ago, I had a professional car audio shop install a permanent
radar detection system. Then, 2 weeks ago, my car was having issues starting and was towed to a dealership. The dealer immediately that I had an aftermarket radar system and they were not responsible for any damage. They called several days later and said the audio shop did not use the proper grommet when running
wires through the firewall from the engine bay to inside the car. This caused
major water damage close to $14,000. My insurer viewed the car and said since
the shop did not seal the firewall correctly they were negligent and I am not
covered by insurance. What options might I have?
Asked on October 12, 2018 under Business Law, New York
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
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Your option is to sue the shop: when someone, including a contractor, vendor, store/shop, etc. is unreasonably careless and causes damage to your property through that carelessness (called "negligence" in the law), they are liable for the damage. To prove your case, you would need some appropriate auto expert (e.g. someone else with experience doing these installations) to examine your car and testify in court that it is his/her opinon, based on his/her professional training and experience, that the shop did the following thing(s) wrong, thereby causing the damage.
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The end of global economic integration
The story of the post-Soviet era has been one of constant economic integration. But that's now over, says Merryn Somerset Webb. And it's going to cost us dear.
Russia is a poor country. Its GDP is just 10% that of the European Union, and there is much speculation about how its low levels of economic activity are translating into the various logistical failures of its war with Ukraine. So you'd think that deglobalising Russia using sanctions wouldn't really matter. Poor Russians aren't big consumers and the world's factories aren't in Russia.
The problem here is twofold. First, we have clearly been mispricing the things Russia is rich in – metals, grains and fossil fuels. These may have all been so cheap for so long that we have taken them for granted. But without them none of us has much of an economy at all. Who is richer, the countries that control the building blocks of modern life, or those that need those building blocks to run their seemingly superior economies? And if those countries are no longer economically linked, how much poorer will we all be?
The story of the post-Soviet era has been one of constant economic integration – from the opening of the (now-closed) first McDonald's in Moscow in 1990 to the expansion of the EU and the admission of China to the World Trade Organisation. It's had its downsides (such as the shift in the balance of power from labour to capital, and the hollowing out of UK manufacturing). But overall it is hard to argue that it hasn't felt pretty good.
The concerns were already there
Well, it's over. There was already concern brewing pre-Covid-19 as firms – worried about their environmental, social and governance (ESG) profiles – wanted more transparency over supply lines. That got much worse during the pandemic as it became clear that the "just in time" supply line was horribly vulnerable. This war takes all this another step forward (or backwards) – the world may soon be made up of two blocs. Where it had been just manufacturers wondering about whether to make things closer to home, we now have governments everywhere realising that they shouldn't – can't – rely on other countries for energy, food, or, for that matter, peace.
The result? There will now be a sharp shift on the part of governments to boost defence spending and to work towards both food and energy security (public opinion has already shifted towards both nuclear and fracking in the UK). There is protectionism and inefficiency ahead – and you are going to notice it.
That's partly because your taxes will rise (defence is not cheap) and partly because inflation will stay high (food and energy security are no longer cheap either). The latter might not stay at 8%-9%, but it won't return to reliably knocking around 1%-2% either. Pre-war we liked to think inflation wouldn't be all bad – more "boomflation" than "stagflation". We aren't so sure any more, particularly given data from the Office for National Statistics suggesting that 35% of UK households already spend more than they have in disposable income.
Either way, it's going to be tough for markets. Costs are rising. That will push margins down. Rates are likely to rise – central banks can't ignore inflation over 6%. That will push valuations down. There isn't much positive to say, I'm afraid. But there are still opportunities for the proactive: defence stocks, energy as a hedge, pet care, and commodity-rich emerging markets.


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Stimulus Check money is requested by the people of America. The demands have now been around for a long time. People have been pushing the claims for almost two months now.
The Stimulus Check provided a huge monetary relief to the citizens of America. It was first announced by the federal government in March.
The common people of America do not seem to be satisfied with the government. Despite demands & requests, the federal government seemed to turn a deaf ear.
Several petitions have also been launched. The petition by Stephanie Bonin has gained significant momentum. The bill proposes a recurring payment of $2000 per month. But the federal government does not seem to entertain the claims.
America has witnessed a huge surge in the covid cases recently. They have recorded an alarming rate of infections. This has instilled a sense of fear in the minds of the people.
Despite all the concerns, the stimulus check possibilities seem bleak. The government does not seem to sanction any more money. However, residents must be aware of fake news doing the rounds.
Stimulus Check: News Of Fourth Checks Are False
The residents of America are very much vulnerable at the moment. Fraudsters have taken this opportunity to exploit the situation.
A large amount of false news is doing the rounds in America. A recently published news stated that the federal government has announced a new check.
Residents were immediately interested and clicked the link. The video was uploaded on YouTube on the 28th of January. Till now, the video has garnered a whopping 20000 views.
Unfortunately, all this news of stimulus checks is fake. The IRS confirmed that no new payments have been announced.
The government also asked the citizens to be aware of these scams. These false articles might contain phishing links that might lead to serious financial damages.
The only stimulus checks that are available are the pending plus-up payments.


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Sapura Energy appoints Prolintas CEO Azlan Abdullah as director
Sapura Energy Bhd has appointed Datuk Mohammad Azlan Abdullah as its new non-independent director effective today. In a filing exchange yesterday, Sapura noted Azlan is currently the CEO of Prolintas. Prior to joining Prolintas, he was the CEO of The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd. He was involved in the pre- and post-construction of the North-South Expressways privatisation project when he was working with PLUS from 1992 to 1999.
MGB Bhd secures RM53m infrastructure project
MGB Bhd has received a RM53 million contract for the development of a flyover in Kuala Langat, Selangor.The construction company told Bursa Malaysia yesterday the construction period will take 24 months to complete and it is scheduled to commence this month and be completed by September 2021. MGB now has an orderbook of RM1.5 billion.
CIMB allocates RM100m for renewable energy financing for SMEs
CIMB Bank Bhd has allocated RM100 million to the CIMB SME Renewable Energy Financing programme, as part of its RM15 billion SME allocation for 2019 – 2020 and its sustainability commitment. The first initiatives under this programme is to provide smaller SMEs with 100% financing to cover the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and installation on their rooftops. The financing initiative offers packages from as low as RM20,000 and up to RM1 million, in support of the government's Net Energy Metering (NEM) scheme, whereby excess energy can be exported to the national grid, the bank stated. It also provides a practical solution to enable even the smaller and micro SMEs to purchase solar PV systems to save on their electricity bills, and contribute to planet earth's well-being.
Tadmax to acquire 3.24 acres leasehold land for RM37m
Tadmax Resources Bhd is acquiring 3.24 acres of leasehold land in Kuala Lumpur from Syarikat Perumahan Pegawai Kerajaan Sdn Bhd for RM36.65 million. In an exchange filing yesterday, Tadmax noted the deal was priced at RM260 per square foot via closed tender submission and will be developed with two serviced apartment blocks. Tadmax stated the deal would be funded with internally generated funds and bank borrowings and be completed within six months of the sale and purchase agreement execution date. Tadmax said the proposed acquisition will allow its unit to replenish its land bank and the location offer potential growth to strengthen its property development and construction activities.
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Small business owners can sometimes be perplexed or annoyed by younger staffers, whom they see as demanding or entitled in asking for time off or to know when they'll get a promotion. But owners who take time to understand, train and mentor staffers say younger workers bring perspectives that can help a company, and that lumping an entire age group into a stereotype is detrimental to everyone.
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Our prime-pitched noises turned out to be so deafening that pieces of the trunk shattered alongside the skies around it. The place was far more challenging there, but Noah was pus.h.i.+ng the Cursed Sword toward limits that perhaps the classic-appearing cultivator didn't experience.
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Depending on Sepunia's ideas, the shrub was one of the kinds delivered mainly because of the flaws that Heaven and Entire world naturally allowed the planet to produce. These folks were planning to get, so a plant efficient at giving on the chaotic guidelines came out.
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"We'll separate those evenly," Ruler Elbas exclaimed.
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Anemonastrum canadense facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsAnemonastrum canadense
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Anemonastrum canadense, synonym Anemone canadensis, the Canada anemone, round-headed anemone, round-leaf thimbleweed, meadow anemone, windflower, or crowfoot, is a herbaceous perennial native to moist meadows, thickets, streambanks, and lakeshores in North America, spreading rapidly by underground rhizomes, valued for its white flowers.
The Canada anemone has shoots with deeply divided and toothed basal leaves on 8–22 cm (3 1⁄4–8 3⁄4 inches). They grow from ascending caudices on long, thin rhizomes. The shoots are 20–80 cm (8–31 inches) tall, and leaves are 4–10 cm (1 1⁄2–4 inches) by 5–15 cm (2–6 inches).
Flowers with about 5 white, petal-like sepals and 80-100 yellow stamens bloom from late spring to summer on stems above a cluster of leaves. The sepals are obovate (with the base slightly tapered) and 10–20 mm (1⁄2–3⁄4 inch) by 5–15 mm (1⁄4–5⁄8 inch).
When they are pollinated, the green pistils in the middle of the flower become a rounded to slightly lengthened seed head. The seeds are achenes, with an almost round body and a beak.
The species was first described in 1768 by Carl Linnaeus, as Anemone canadensis. As traditionally and broadly circumscribed, the genus Anemone has repeatedly been shown not to be monophyletic, with genera such as Clematis and Pulsatilla embedded within it. As part of creating monophyletic genera, Sergei Mosyakin expanded the genus Anemonastrum to include Anemone canadensis as Anemonastrum canadense.
Anemonastrum canadense is native to Canada and the west central and eastern United States.
In former times it was used medically by North American Indigenous peoples as an astringent and as a styptic for wounds, sores, nosebleeds, and as an eyewash. The root was respected by Plains tribes and used for many ailments.
It is likely that most anemones contain the caustic irritants of the family Ranunculaceae.
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During a presentation at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week in San Francisco, Greg Lucier said that the company's PCR patent portfolio generated around $10 million more than expected in 2009, and that the company "has been able to mitigate totally any erosion of that patent estate in 2010 by new licensing strategies."
Lucier disclosed last fall that Life Technologies had formed a licensing team with the goal of offsetting declining PCR royalty revenues. He said at the time that the team comprised the "best licensing people" from the company's Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen businesses.
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He said that prior to the acquisition one area of "concern" for some observers was ABI's PCR patent estate, which at one time was generating as much as $100 million per year but by 2008 had fallen by half. Life Technologies had initially predicted PCR royalties to decline by $30 million in 2009 and by a total of $15 million in 2010.
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Lucier said the licensing team's efforts could also accelerate Life Tech's efforts to pull royalty revenue from its acquisition last year of Cytonix, a privately held microfluidics firm. He said that purchase, made for an undisclosed amount, gave the firm "all the intellectual property for digital PCR, so that will be part of the portfolio of patents that we go out and license from here."
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Tesla can continue with the production ramp-up at Giga Berlin as planned. According to media reports, the Strausberg-Erkner Water Association (WSE) will not terminate the supply contract as threatened in the meantime.
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As the Berliner Zeitung writes, there was a meeting on Wednesday afternoon between WSE boss André Bähler and the head of water at the Brandenburg Ministry of the Environment, Anke Herrmann. At the "crisis meeting in the Potsdam state chancellery", they apparently agreed that the utility would be allowed to pump 1.3 million cubic metres more than previously tolerated in the event of a water shortage.
Tesla had received the final environmental permit for the factory in Grünheide on 4 March. On the same day, the Administrative Court of Frankfurt (Oder) ruled that the water law permit issued in 2020 was "unlawful and unenforceable". The procedure had to be repeated with the involvement of the public. The WSE demanded that the state tolerate water pumping until the procedure was made up for. The toleration from last week, however, only covered 2.5 million cubic metres – now it is 3.8 million cubic metres.
As Henry Pilz, the chairman of the association's assembly indicated after the meeting, the WSE will withdraw the resolution requesting the contract termination. With this commitment, the WSE will not only be able to supply Tesla with water, but also other new customers. In other words, the 16 municipalities between Strausberg and Erkner can once again build flats and attract new businesses. "The development freeze will be lifted by the WSE," says Pilz. "But it must be clear to everyone that there can't be one in the future."
Tesla plans to open Giga Berlin next Tuesday in the presence of Elon Musk, at which time it will also hand over the first 30 Model Y Performance units to customers. According to the Twitter user SawyerMerritt, who is usually well-informed about Tesla, the 30 vehicles were already produced in Grünheide on Tuesday.
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The Strausberg-Erkner Water Association (WSE) has now confirmed in a press release what had already been leaked in advance: Since the State Office for the Environment tolerates a higher water extraction, the supply of the region – including the Tesla factory – is secured for the time being. "With the toleration issued by the State Office for the Environment on the evening of 16 March 2022, the consequences of the ruling of 4 March 2022 for the Eggersdorf water intake have now been averted for the time being and the basis for supplying the Tesla factory has thus been restored. […] Thanks to the mediation of the State Chancellery and the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics, an acquiescence amounting to around 3.8 million m³/a was agreed with the State Office for the Environment, enabling the association to provide drinking water for the population and the first expansion stage of Tesla for the year 2022," the statement reads.
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In May 2016 Anthony succeeded with RB Leipzig the leap right into the Bundesliga, in the 2nd effort. One year earlier, the 2nd department had actually ended up being only 5th — the planned march from the 4th to the first league lasted a year longer. If his teammates are in the picture at the SV Welder Bremen, Anthony young is not rather certain: I can not claim if they have looked in my Vita. Perhaps, he says, have actually listened to some of them. If the coworkers on the topic of increase would certainly have any kind of questions, they can put simply them.
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