By textile science incorporating with electronic industry, developed textile products start to take part in different areas such as industry, military, space, medical etc. for health, protection, defense, communication and automation. Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are fabrics that contain electronics and interconnections with them. In this study, two types of base yarns (cotton and acrylic) ...

The floriculture industry faces many challenges including increasing energy and input prices, seasonality of its products and international competition. To analyze floriculture demand, we estimate and use simulation analysis to decompose it into market penetration and buying frequency. Understanding what are the factors that influence non-buyers of floral products to become buyers, and the fact...

Skin cancer incidence in Croatia is steadily increasing in spite of public and governmental permanently measurements. It is clear that will soon become a major public health problem. The primary cause of skin cancer is believed to be a long exposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The future designers of UV protective materials should be able to block totally the ultraviolet radiation. The...

This article focuses on authoritative and representative texts by doctors on female bodies in sport and physical education from 1890 until 1950. These sources do not tell us directly about the actual practice of these professionals, but they do illuminate dominant gendered ideas and ideologies. These works focused on females’ bodies’ lack of ability—a deficit in relation to the “original” male ...

The basic objective of this paper is to measure and compare the profitability of investments made by the small and marginal farmers of the state of West Bengal in floriculture shifting from the traditional cultivation of paddy. A comparison of IRR is made to establish the fact that cultivation of flowers yield higher returns farmers whose land size is so small that viability of paddy cultivatio...

The “Star Phloxes” .,. 191 Discussion ............................................................... 200 The funnel-shaped phloxes ................................................ 204 Genetics of flower color ...................................................... zog Factor differences involved when type with completely white flowers (A) was crossed with type having dark-eyed white-bladed flow...

Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti , Farbod Alimohammadi, Guowen Song, Amir Kiumarsi 1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland 2 Young Researchers Club, Textile Department, Islamic Azad UniversitySouth Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, Canada 4 Department of Organic Colorants, Institute for C...

There is a growing production and application of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) (e.g., in cosmetics products, food technology, textiles and fabrics, and medical products and devices). The rapid growth in the commercial use of AgNPs will inevitably increase exposure to silver in the environment and among the general population. Compared to the vast application of silver, information on the fate, t...

This chapter presents an overview of methods for cellulose fibres functionalization in order to introduce antimicrobial activity. In view the need for ecologically friendly textiles antimicrobial finishing is introduced, together with some strategies for the functionalization of fibres using biodegradable polysaccharides such as the use of chitosan. Additionally, the methods used for the microb...

Flowers for Algernon is a novel written in 1966 by Daniel Keyes. Since its publication, it has received significant critical acclaim, earning a Nebula science-fiction award, and was also adapted into a feature film. Set in the 1960s, the novel follows the story of Charlie Gordon, an intellectually disabled man who lives a simple but happy life working a cleaning job at a local bakery. Charlie's...