Young children's footwear taxonomy: An international Delphi survey of parents, health and footwear industry professionals. [PDF]
ObjectiveThere is little consistency between commercial grade footwear brands for determining shoe sizing, and no universally accepted descriptors of common types or features of footwear.
Cylie M Williams +7 more
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Enhanced mechanical, thermal, and reprocessing properties of dynamically vulcanized BIIR/TPU blends with carbonized collagen nanoparticles [PDF]
A new class of green, sustainable and environmentally friendly bromo-isobutylene-isoprene rubber/thermoplastic polyurethane vulcanizates (BIIR/TPU TPVs) with various rubber contents were successfully developed via dynamic vulcanization.
Naiqun Yao +4 more
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Footwear Design Strategies for the Thai Footwear Industry to Be Excellent in the World Market
The potential of Thai industrial product design is still inferior to that of the leading competitors in the world market, which gives more importance to design during the product development to increase Thailand’s competitive edge on a commercial ...
Adul Adulyanukosol, Thanin Silpcharu
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Product Design Trends within the Footwear Industry: A Review
Computer technology influences the capability to enhance the functionality of manufacturing and product design technologies. Innovations in computational design and digital manufacturing empower designers and manufacturers to create novel representations
Lazaros Firtikiadis +3 more
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The Italian Footwear Industry: An Empirical Analysis
This paper aims to provide readers with a deep empirical analysis on the Italian footwear industry in order to investigate the evolution of its structure (trends in sales and production, number of firms and employees, main markets, etc.), together with ...
Luca Pirolo +2 more
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Design optimisation of TPU modular footwear for sustainable fashion: a South African Fashion Week case study, 2023 [PDF]
The fashion industry is continuously evolving, and Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) produced modular footwear is emerging as a trend for sustainability. This study aims to optimise the design of TPU modular fashion footwear for the South African fashion ...
Havenga Sarel, van der Walt Philip
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Preparation of aerogel and its application progress in coatings: a mini overview
Aerogels are predominantly mesoporous, extremely lightweight, low density (∼ 0.003 g/cm3) and thermally insulating materials. Over the years, aerogels have gained increasing attention due to their extraordinary properties (light, heat, sound, electricity
Berhanu Telay Mekonnen +6 more
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has an impact not only on the health sector but also on the industrial sector, especially the footwear industry in various countries such as France, Germany, England, Japan, and also Indonesia.
Genta Mahardhika Rozalinna +1 more
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Background A small but building pool of evidence of the impact of footwear on children's function means understanding the different beliefs of stakeholders about footwear key features and flexibility is critical for translation into recommendations and ...
Cylie M. Williams +7 more
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THE HUNGARIAN FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY IN GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS: THE CASE STUDY OF BERKEMANN HUNGARY [PDF]
The highly internationalized, labour-intensive footwear industry showed two spectacular declines and significant restructuring in Hungary after the change of regime. In accordance with the approach the authors investigate, this phenomenon is associated
ERNŐ MOLNÁR, ISTVÁN MÁTÉ LENGYEL
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