Six subjects wearing either nonreflective or reflective outer garments of equal insulative value (I clo) and unventilated were exposed in 96 experiments to heat pulses of 930, 1210, 1490, and 1770 C for 15, 12, 9, and 2 minutes, respectively. The experiments were designed to simulate a range of re-entry heat exposures produced by malfunction or failure of the air-conditioning system of the vehi...

Garment retailing is a sunrise industry in India. However, the industrial competitiveness has posed many challenges for the organized garment retailers in this sector. In this paper an attempt has been made to identify the challenges based on strong literature support in consultation of practitioners and consultants in this industry. This study has classified the retail challenges for organizin...

This paper describes a technique for accelerating the computations on a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) using parallel computing on a multicore CPU. The paper addresses a particular example of a mass-spring cloth model for garment simulation. The simulation starts from flat garment pattern meshes positioned around a 3D human body, then seaming forces are applied on the edges of the panels ...

A case study approach was used to explore the adoption of an RFID-based garment manufacturing information system in a garment factory in China. The findings indicate that both the technology push factors and need pull factors influence the intention of the garment factory to adopt RFID technology. Technology push factors include relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, extendibility, and ...

Garment information tracking is required for clean room garment management. In this paper, we present a camera-based robust system with implementation of Optical Character Reconition (OCR) techniques to fulfill garment label recognition. In the system, a camera is used for image capturing; an adaptive thresholding algorithm is employed to generate binary images; Connected Component Labelling (C...

The ‘fit’ of a garment is often considered to be a subjective measure of garment quality. However, some experts attest that a complaint of poor garment fit is a symptom of inadequate or excessive ease, the space between the garment and the wearer. Fit has traditionally been hard to quantify, and space suits are an extreme example, where fit is difficult to measure but crucial for safety and ope...

Amlodipine, a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker, is commonly prescribed for the treatment of hypertension. Ingestion of an overdose leads to severe hypotension; if the hypotension is not treated, death may be imminent. Conventional and unconventional interventions were used to treat an adolescent who ingested a life-threatening dose of amlodipine. Severe hypotension resistant to conventio...

Thermal protective performance tests have been conducted and improved over the years to assess safety provided by firefighters’ outer thermal garments. Existing evaluation criteria based on empirical relations require an iterative process estimate skin burn injuries. In this work, concept of critical time – maximum exposure before physical failure, is proposed, utilized abate process. The relat...

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of garment exports on male-female wage inequality in Sri Lanka. A general equilibrium model is used treating female and male labor as specific factors of production in garment sector and rest of the economy respectively. Returns to specific factors are assessed under two scenarios: lower garment price and higher tariffs on textiles. Model is c...

Segmenting garments from humanoid meshes or point clouds is a challenging problem with applications in the textile industry and in model based motion capturing. In this work we present a physically based template-matching technique for the automatic extraction of garment dimensions from 3D meshes or point clouds of dressed humans. The successfull identification of garment dimensions also allows...