of “Virtual Human Bodies with Clothing and Hair: From Images to Animation” by Peng Guan, Ph.D, Brown University, May 2013 Realistic clothing and hair animation are necessary for many applications such as special effects, gaming, and on-line fashion. Thanks to the advances in computer graphics, highly realistic clothing and hair animation is common in recent animated movies by use of Physics Bas...

Protection against harmful chemical materials is compulsory in many aspects of everyday life. Proper and adequate protective clothing is desirable during household chores and in industrial, agricultural, and medical work, during military operations; and in response to incidents of terrorism. Different types of materials and garment designs are used in these clothing items, and protection levels...

It has long been recognised that heat transfer through clothing is a main constraint to the comfort properties of clothing. The present work relates to the development of a mathematical model for the prediction of heat transmission through multilayer clothing with air in between two successive layers of fabric in a multilayered clothing assembly. A mathematical model was developed using general...

The purpose of this study is to reflect on safety requirements for children's clothing, based on the standardization proposed by the ABNT (Technical Standardization Brazilian Association). Bibliographic research and case studies were considered on writing this work. We also discuss the importance of adding other safety requirements to the current standardization, as well as the increasing of th...

One of the most important problems for the bilateral upper limb deficient patient is the inability to manage toileting activities. Dependence in this area precludes schooling or work. This paper surveys available clothing types and adaptations to facilitate doffing and donning clothing and devices for genital cleansing and menstrual care. The devices are analyzed for suitability for different t...

By means of a computer-aided fashion design system, a fashion designer can easily make changes to the various colors, textures and pattern prints of clothing design, and thus need not draw on paper a great number of drafts. One of the most difficult tasks in a computer-aided fashion design system is to separate the clothing of interest on a model from the background, so that changes can be appl...

INTRODUCTION Tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and ehrlichiosis are a significant concern for many thousands of workers who have frequent and unavoidable exposure to tick-infested habitats. Many North Carolina state employees with outdoor occupations report multiple tick bites each year, indicating that existing tick preventive strategies may be underutiliz...