Leather shoes

Survey and health assessment (sensitiation only) of chromium in leather shoes

State and Trends of Test Technology on Hygienic Properties for Leather Shoes

Hygiene properties of leather shoes, which has great influence on health and comfort, mainly contains air permeability, water vapor permeability, hygroscopicity, heat preservation and antimicrobial ability. The developing situation of test technology on hygiene properties of leather shoes is summarized. Natural leather has excellent hygiene properties for its collagen fibers, each hygiene prope...

Leather

Leather is derived from the hides of skins of animals. It is a remarkably durable, strong and versatile material, which in its various forms has been made into objects ranging from African shields and drums to European saddles and kinky underwear. From as early as 2700 BC until fairly recently leather was also in the forefront of information technology with its use (as skins, vellum and parchme...

Mass customization of shoes by automatically finding best-fitting shoes

How to meet the technological challenges of designing customized products? Typical customer products, such as shoes, seem to have a simple product structure and a quite low level of complexity. At least if one considers products, such as cars or airplanes. Modern truck factories customize and manufacture trucks, just in time and without being one truck similar to the other. How about shoes? Sho...

Misstepping Into Others’ Shoes

The ability to intuit another person’s thoughts, feelings, and inner mental states is surely among the most impressive of human mental faculties. Adopting another’s perspective requires the ability to represent the self as distinct from others, the development of a theory of mind to realize that others have mental states in the first place (see also Saxe, Chapter 17, this volume) and the explic...