The explosive growth in wireless networks over the last few years resembles the rapid growth of the Internet within the last decade. During the beginning of the commercialization of the Internet, organizations and individuals connected without concern for the security of their system or network. Over time, it became apparent that some form of security was required to prevent outsiders from expl...

Several cloth modeling techniques have been proposed. Their main purpose is the realistic simulation of the garments of virtual actors for entertainment and advertising. In these areas, the main concern is to construct fast algorithms, able to produce impressive and qualitatively satisfactory draping of clothes. Other applications, as designing, manufacturing and selling real garments, call for...

Recently, many wearing simulation systems, which do not need samples of clothes or actual trying on them, have been developed to improve the productivity clothes. However, in case knitted clothes, conventional systems only offer a looking based mechanical consideration at stitch level because such leads significant increase computational cost. In this paper, we propose shape prediction method f...

BACKGROUND The common causes of textile dermatitis are formaldehyde resins and disperse dyes. There are various methods to detect the presence of formaldehyde in clothing. AIM To detect the presence of formaldehyde in various types of textiles by the chromotropic acid method and to assess the effect of washing on the formaldehyde content. METHODS Twenty randomly selected textiles from a loc...

[email protected] ntributed equally Abstract A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on the contact-separation mode between a patterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film and an Al foil was fabricated between clothes for harvesting body motion energy. Under the generally walking, the maximum output of voltage and current density are up to 17 V and 0.02 μA/cm, respectively. The TENG with a singl...

Humans represent and discriminate the objects in the same category using their properties, and an intelligent robot should be able to do the same. In this paper, we build a robot system that can autonomously perceive the object properties through touch. We work on the common object category of clothing. The robot moves under the guidance of an external Kinect sensor, and squeezes the clothes wi...

Venezuelans are to vote on December 2 on major constitutional reform proposals of president Hugo Chávez. If they are approved, Chávez will have consolidated his hold on power and will have substantially diminished the chances of success of any future challenges to his leadership. They will also bring about a number of significant changes that are intended to pave the way for a wholesale restruc...

The goals of this research were to estimate the phenotypic relationship among various breat meat quality traits, blood parameters and tonic immobility from a broiler and to describe the relation among these variables. Broiler chicks were devided into different groups: (1) colour clothing groups represented four different colours as red, blue, green, and gray and (2) the chicks that were subject...

BACKGROUND The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship between housework and health of retired older adults, and to provide new evidences and clues for the effects of housework on health. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The data came from the baseline survey of the Tongji-Dongfeng Cohort Study with 25,501 participants. The independent variable was housework including child car...