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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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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Implementing circular economy in the textile and clothing industry
This research reveals the current state of the circular economy (CE), challenges and opportunities of implementing CE and interventions that could facilitate effective implementation of CE in the textile and clothing (TC) industry.
Krish Saha, P. Dey, Eleni Papagiannaki
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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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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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Regulating Clothing Outwork: A Sceptic's View [PDF]
By applying the strategies of international anti-sweatshop campaigns to the Australian context, recent regulations governing home-based clothing production hold retailers responsible for policing the wages and employment conditions of clothing ...
Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission +31 more
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Learning to Reconstruct People in Clothing From a Single RGB Camera [PDF]
We present Octopus, a learning-based model to infer the personalized 3D shape of people from a few frames (1-8) of a monocular video in which the person is moving with a reconstruction accuracy of 4 to 5mm, while being orders of magnitude faster than ...
Thiemo Alldieck +4 more
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Biofilms: The Microbial “Protective Clothing” in Extreme Environments
Microbial biofilms are communities of aggregated microbial cells embedded in a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Biofilms are recalcitrant to extreme environments, and can protect microorganisms from ultraviolet (UV ...
Wen Yin, Yiting Wang, Lu Liu, Jin He
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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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