Commonly used as flame retardants, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are routinely detected in the environment, animals, and humans. Although these persistent organic pollutants are increasingly recognized as having serious health implications, particularly for children, this is the first study, to our knowledge, to investigate an intervention for human elimination of bioaccumulated PBDEs....

For the ambulatory person with lower-limb amputation, insufficient management of perspiration can result in inadequate prosthesis adherence, reduced mobility, and discomfort. This study compared a dynamic air exchange (DAE) prosthesis designed to expel accumulated perspiration with a total surface bearing suction socket (Suction) that cannot. Five people with unilateral transtibial amputation p...

A nhidrosis is defined as a condition where perspiration does not occur despite adequate and sufficient impulse. 1 This condition may be encountered as localized or diffuse through the whole body. The amount of perspiration caused by temperature, pharmacological agents, and other factors may differ inter-personally. Generalized anhidrosis may be as a result of blockage of the canals of the pers...

Vulnerabilities in biometric systems including spoofing has emerged as an important issue. The focus of this work is on characterization of ‘perspiration pattern’ in a time-series of fingerprint images for liveness detection. By using information in the high pass bands of the images the similarity score for the two images is calculated to determine the uniqueness of the perspiration pattern. In...

For many design problems, the requirements and/or the available technology change quickly relative to the design cycle. As a result each new artifact designed involves some degree of innovation, and there is much that the designer must learn in the process of doing the design. The Computer Aided Productivity (CAP) Project at Rutgers has been carrying out a retrospective study of just such a tas...

Bioinspired Perspiration Wicking Inspired by the active liquid transport phenomenon in nature, article number 2200961, Hao Wu, Zhuo Li, and co-workers develop a biomimetic Au/TPU/CM based e-skin with dual porosity surface energy gradient to unidirectionally drain sweat away from skin, preventing signal degradation wearing discomfort caused perspiration accumulation.

Under non-sweating conditions there is a loss of nitrogen and minerals from the skin in the so called “insensible perspiration.” Since “insensible perspiration” occurs in all animals, regardless of the presence or absence of sweat glands, the term is not a good one. In man, insensible perspiration is evident to a normal extent in the rare condition known as congenital ectodermal defect (l), in ...