The paper describes the development of a comprehensive decision logic for selection and use of biological and chemical protective clothing (BCPC). The decision logic recognizes the separate areas of BCPC use among emergency, biological, and chemical hazards. The proposed decision logic provides a system for type classifying BCPC in terms of its compliance with existing standards (for emergency ...

The role of contaminated clothing in the transmission of influenza A virus during an epidemic period was investigated by examining the recovery of infectious influenza virus from experimentally virus-contaminated clothing, which had been subejected to routine wearing and washing for several months or years. The amount of infectious virus recovered from the nine types of clothing decreased with ...

Abstract Introduction Pediatric psychiatric inpatients are among the most vulnerable individuals in society. While use of seclusion and restraint is well chronicled field research this population, there limited literature describing effects, meaning, attitudes mandating wear clothing hospital settings. This explores phenomenon practice mandatory hospital-issued its meaning to patients awareness...

this article is aimed at investigating the cultural-artistic exchange and its influence on female costumes in the most critical part of the history; that is during the formation of the parthian kingdom in the great achaemenid’s realm after the invasion of foreigners such as alexandra and the greek. this paper also examines the causes that have lead to transformations in the type of woman's...

This master thesis contributes to tasks aiming at perceiving soft objects as textiles or pieces of clothing and manipulating with them using robots. We used a towel and a T-shirt in our experiments. We started from Miller’s (University of California, Berkeley) parameterized model, which represents the piece of clothing. It creates a skeletal model for a given class clothing manually, e.g. for a...

The protection provided by three clothing assemblies against the cold shock response was investigated. Nine healthy male volunteers each undertook three two minute head-out immersions into stirred water at 10 degrees C. The subjects wore a different clothing assembly for each immersion, these were: a) Swimming trunks only; b) Conventional clothing (equivalent to RN No 8s); c) Conventional cloth...

Five protective garments (light summer clothing L, high visibility clothing HV, military clothing MIL, climber coverall CLM and firefighting clothing FIRE) were assessed on eight unacclimated male subjects at two environments: moderate warm environment with high humidity (MWH, 20.0°C, 86% relative humidity) and warm environment with moderate humidity (WMH, 30.0°C, 47% relative humidity). The th...

In this paper, a novel algorithm for estimating clothing insulation is proposed to assess thermal comfort, based on the non-contact and real-time measurements of the face and clothing temperatures by an infrared camera. The proposed method can accurately measure the clothing insulation of various garments under different clothing fit and sitting postures. The proposed estimation method is inves...