OBJECTIVE To examine whether providing thermal clothing improved the health of patients with heart failure during winter. DESIGN Parallel group randomised controlled trial. SETTING Large public hospital in Brisbane during winter 2016. PARTICIPANTS 91 patients with systolic or diastolic heart failure who were over 50 years old. INTERVENTION 47 patients were randomised to receive thermal ...

The continuing transformation in a single market has created a need for exploring common consumer attitudes for clothing brands in Europe. This paper responds to this need to develop marketing strategies for a single European market. The purpose of this study is to analyze clothing brands consumption in Mediterranean countries. Specifically, the study aims to explore Greek and Portuguese young ...

The UC Berkeley Comfort Model is a helpful simulation tool for the assessment of thermal comfort in non-uniform environments. A major element of the model is the implementation of a clothing node, which considers both heat and moisture capacitance of clothing. Heat capacity of the clothing has been demonstrated to be important when considering transient effects. Moisture capacitance is importan...

The effect of clothing openings on thermoregulatory responses of wearers during a treadmill exercise in controlled laboratory conditions has been studied. Nine short sleeved T-shirts with varying design of clothing openings at neck and hem have been designed, and the test is performed on six males, considering 10min of standing rest, 30min of running at 55% of VO2max followed by 10min of rest. ...

Fishing is one of the most dangerous occupations, and as many as 24,000 fishermen around the world suffer fatal injuries or drowning at sea every year. Although fishermen in the European fishing fleet work in harsh and dangerous environments, many fishermen do not use personal protective clothing and buoyancy aids due to reduced work comfort and poor functionality. This emphasizes the importanc...

AIM To investigate anxiety levels in two groups of children exposed to nurses with white vs. coloured clothing in a university hospital in Iran. BACKGROUND Hospitalisation causes anxiety in children and it is documented that nurses have an important role in alleviating children's distress and anxiety. Nurses characteristics, including their clothing is a factor that affects quality of care th...

The need for high-performance protective clothing systems in space, polar, and underwater operations and in industrial environments has stimulated research in clothing physiology. New, sophisticated measurement methods, some of which are going to be international standards, have facilitated this research. Measurements with subjects have validated manikin data, but have also provided information...

In a real sense, all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.—Martin Lu...

As a fundamental technique that concerns several vision tasks such as image parsing, action recognition and clothing retrieval, human pose estimation (HPE) has been extensively investigated in recent years. To achieve accurate and reliable estimation of the human pose, it is well-recognized that the clothing attributes are useful and should be utilized properly. Most previous approaches, howeve...

This paper mainly analyzes the influences of product characteristics and service on consumer satisfaction with online clothing purchasing and hopes to provide some references for online clothing retailers to improve consumer satisfaction. In this paper, divide service into two parts: online clothing retailer’s service and logistics service and put forward related sixteen hypotheses. Then design...