The article explores the significance of dress in the embodied experience of dementia, exploring questions of identity, memory and relationship. It suggests that clothing and dress are important in the analysis of the day-to-day experiences of people with dementia, giving access to dimensions of selfhood often ignored in over-cognitive accounts of being. As a result clothing and dress can be si...

The need for high-performance protective clothing systems in space, polar, and underwater operations and in industrial environments has stimulated research in clothing physiology. New, sophisticated measurement methods, some of which are going to be international standards, have facilitated this research. Measurements with subjects have validated manikin data, but have also provided information...

As a fundamental technique that concerns several vision tasks such as image parsing, action recognition and clothing retrieval, human pose estimation (HPE) has been extensively investigated in recent years. To achieve accurate and reliable estimation of the human pose, it is well-recognized that the clothing attributes are useful and should be utilized properly. Most previous approaches, howeve...

3) Key Laboratory of Clothing Design & Technology, Ministry of Education, China Abstract Considering a clothing system consists of the human body, an air gap layer under the clothing as well as a fabric layer and boundary layer adjacent to the fabric, heat transfer from the skin to the environment is influenced by human body thermoregulation, the air gap, the fabric and environmental conditions...

Evaporative resistance has been widely used to describe the evaporative heat transfer property of clothing. It is also a critical variable in heat stress models for predicting human physiological responses in various environmental conditions. At present, sweating thermal manikins provide a fast and cost-effective way to determine clothing evaporative resistance. Unfortunately, the measurement r...

decision making is the essence of managers activities and is of great importance in all of their responsibilities. the main purpose of this study is to investigate general decision making styles of n.i.o.p.d.c ‘s managers in order to study the construction validity of g.d.m.s questionnaire. a collection of 55 managers were selected as statistical sample and rational, intuitive, dependant, spont...

Clothing segmentation is a challenging issue of research, which is gaining more and more attention. This paper presents an interactive clothing segmentation method based on JSEG and GrabCut. Firstly, we pre-process the image from pixels to regions using JSEG algorithm for the purposes of lessening computer loads and reducing the noise of image, and then build a graph using regions as nodes, and...

The physiological properties of clothing designed to provide protection against cold, windy and damp conditions affect comfort. The weight, thickness, stiffness of the fabrics and friction between the clothing layers affect physical performance. The comfort and perception of performance associated with 3 military winter combat clothing systems from different decades (the new M05 system, the pre...

Soft biometrics continues to attract research interest. Traditional body and face soft biometrics have been the main research focus and have been proven, by many researchers, to be usable for identification and retrieval. Also, soft biometrics have been shown to provide several advantages over classic biometrics, such as invariance to illumination and contrast. Other than body and face, little ...

the main purpose of this research was to identify differences in the ferdowsi university of mashhad managers' leadership styles based on their philosophical mindedness. the research method was quantitative, non-experimental, explanatory, cross-sectional. 88 university managers completed and returned two questionnaires assessing their leadership styles and philosophical mindedness. the results s...