3D garment capture is an important component for various applications such as free-view point video, virtual avatars, online shopping, and virtual cloth fitting. Due to the complexity of the deformations, capturing 3D garment shapes requires controlled and specialized setups. A viable alternative is image-based garment capture. Capturing 3D garment shapes from a single image, however, is a chal...

the street garment vendors are playing a significant role in the fields of the economic development through protecting resources (garment products) from such a position where they are treated as wastes; very much less valued products and creating the opportunity for self-employment. this study aimed at showing the economic contribution and the impact of the street vendors to the local community...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an important part of worker protection during filovirus outbreaks. The need to protect against a highly virulent fluid-borne pathogen in the tropical environment imposes a heat stress on the wearer that is itself a safety risk. No evidence supports the choice of PPE employed in recent outbreaks, and standard testing procedures employed by the protective ga...

In 1951 a report was published about a project in which 5,001 Dutch women were measured to provide information for the garment industry (Sittig and Freudenthal, 1951). To provide an opportunity for comparison of these results with the results of a factor analysis by Heath (1952) of some of the measures on American women obtained by O'Brien and Shelton (1941), I factor analyzed the Dutch measure...

OBJECTIVE This study provides a descriptive analysis of the factors affecting pressure garment adherence from the perspective of adult patients with burn injuries and occupational therapy clinicians. METHOD Questionnaires were administered to 23 adult patients with burn injuries and 10 occupational therapy clinicians selected from six provincial hospitals in a large metropolitan area in South...