The smart glove presented in this paper consists of an integrated textile bending sensor in the finger; functional sequins, called LED-FSDsTM, on the back of the hand; an attachable cuff with a microcontroller and an energy source. The glove and the cuff
Ramona Nolden +2 more
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Electromagnetic radiation can cause serious harm to the human body, such as the rise in body temperature and the decrease in immune function. In this study, the carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/Fe3O4 nonwovens were used to prepare wearable flexible absorbing ...
Rong Zhan +6 more
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Sustainable clothing: challenges, barriers and interventions for encouraging more sustainable consumer behaviour [PDF]
Research with consumers has revealed limited awareness of the sustainability impact of clothing (Goworek et al., 2012). Semi-structured interviews conducted with a range of experts in sustainable clothing to increase understanding of the challenges for ...
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A comparison of penetration and damage caused by different types of arrowheads on loose and tight fit clothing [PDF]
Bows and arrows are used more for recreation, sport and hunting in the Western world and tend not to be as popular a weapon as firearms or knives. Yet there are still injuries and fatalities caused by these low-velocity weapons due to their availability ...
Beattie, Eilidh +5 more
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Aluminium materials and applications for functional textile products [PDF]
Aluminum and aluminum containing compounds are versatile materials for the development of functional textiles. Especially aluminum as light metal exhibits beneficial properties, such as low density, corrosion resistance, high thermal and electrical ...
Mahltig Boris +8 more
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The aesthetic factor as a formative element in industrial design, from the aspect of industrial aesthetics in the fashion industry [PDF]
Formative elements of industrial design, i.e. design factors, represent components of its content, where together with the form of the design, they form an indivisible whole.
Efremov Jordan +2 more
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Electrospun chitosan nanofibers for wound healing application
Electrospun nanofibers have been considered as relatively ideal material system for the design and construction of surgical wound dressings in the past few decades.
Congjing Cui +5 more
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Re-dressing the balance: Winckelmann, Greek costume and the Ideal [PDF]
The paper explores the overlooked attention Johann Joachim Winckelmann gave to clothing and clothed statues. It engages with Winckelmann’s self-fashioning, the costume-based analysis through which he traced the cultural trajectory of antique peoples, and
Fiona K. A. Gatty
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Dressing and addressing the mental patient: the uses of clothing in the admission, care and employment of residents in English provincial mental hospitals, c. 1860–1960 [PDF]
Scholars of insanity and its historical antecedents have paid very little attention to personal and institutional clothing. Such dress, distributed to patients in mental institutions, has always been inscribed with the conflicting narratives of the ...
Baur, Nicole, Melling, Joseph
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