BACKGROUND: Determining how effective a product is to repel mosquitoes or other flying insects is a difficult task. One approach is using a bioassay with textile fabric. We investigated the role of the textile substrate in the bioassay with a numerical model, and compared with known results for DEET. We next apply the model to determine the effectiveness of textile slow-release formulations bas...

Industrial development worldwide has led to an increase in the amount of wastewater production leading to a considerable decrease in levels and quality of the natural water in the ecosystem. Textile dyes are an important class of pollutants in natural water ecosystem. Textile dyes are molecules designed to impart a permanent colour to textile fabrics. Effluent from textile dyeing units contain ...

Textile forms of solar cells possess special advantages over other types of solar cells, including their light weight, high flexibility, and mechanical robustness. Recent demand for wearable devices has promoted interest in the development of high-efficiency textile-based solar cells for energy suppliers. However, the weaving process occurs under high-friction, high-tension conditions that are ...

Natural ageing process occurs throughout the life cycle of textile products, which may possess influences on the release behavior of additives such as silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs). In this study, we assessed the releasability of Ag NPs from a Ag NPs functionalized textile in five different exposure scenarios (i.e. tap water (TW), pond water (PW), rain water (RW), artificial sweat (AS), and det...

Thousands of workers are employed in textile industries under different job categories including dyeing, printing, finishing, cutting, weaving and spinning. The textile industry workers are exposed to a number of chemicals including dyes, solvents, optical brighteners, finishing agents and numerous types of natural and synthetic fibre dusts which affect their health. In this paper an attempt ha...

Textile plot is a parallel coordinate plot on which the whole location and scales of the axes are simultaneously chosen so that all connecting lines, each of which signifies an observation, are aligned as horizontally as possible. Textile plot can visualise not only numerical data but also ordered or unordered categorical data or the mix of those. Textile plot makes easier for user to understan...

In a Least Developed Country (LDC) like Bangladesh where the textile is the main core of our economy; still there is a major drawback in this sector which is the defect detection of the fabric. In the manual fault detection system with highly trained inspectors, very less percentage of the defects are being detected in upon fabrics in the textile industries. But a real time automatic system can...

1.1 Textile industry Textile industry is the largest industrial employer in the country, contributing to 6% GDP (Gross domestic product), 16% of export and about 18% of industrial production. The textile industry plays an important role in Indian economy. It contributes to 9% of excise collection, 30% of export revenue and 18% of employment in industrial sector. Since global trade in textile an...

Coloured wastewaters are a consequence of batch processes in both dye-manufacturing and dye-consuming industries. Dyes are widely used in a number of industries, such as textile and leather dyeing, food, cosmetics, paper printing, gasoline, with the textile in‐ dustry as the largest consumer. Dyeing as a fundamental operation during textile fibre processing causes the production of more or less...

The objective was to examine whether the observed excess mortality from anaemia in textile and clothing workers was associated with any specific anaemia type or occupational activity. The design was a death certificate based case-control study of textile and clothing workers who died in England and Wales in the years surrounding the decennial censuses of 1961, 1971, and 1981. The main outcome m...