Several factors limit the energy savings potential and increase the costs of energyefficient technologies to consumers. These factors may usefully be placed into two categories; one category is what economists would define as market failures and the other is related to consumer preferences. This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding the roles of these factors, and develops a m...

Clothes and accessories function as communication signs. The functions of relevant phenomena appearing in our daily life are classified according to their meanings as communication signs. The makeup, body painting, artificial deformation, modification (for example, tattoo or cut) and such kinds of decoration on the bodies are included in accessories. While the clothes and accessories have other...

Th e aim of this paper is to analyse Croatian adolescents’ clothing buying motives and their retail store selection criteria. Th e paper examined their preferences, attitudes and behaviours when buying clothes whether adolescents with diff erent primary clothing motives would have similar or diff erent store selection criteria. Also, the paper determined how today’s adolescents spend money on c...

BACKGROUND Hypersensitivity of the central nervous system is widely present in pain patients and recognized as one of the determinants of chronic pain and disability. Electronic pressure algometry is often used to explore aspects of central hypersensitivity. We hypothesized that a simple pain provocation test with a clothes peg provides information on pain sensitivity that compares meaningfully...

Cloth parsing involves locating and describing all the clothes (e.g., T-shirt, shorts) and accessories (e.g, bag) that the person is wearing. The main challenges in solving this include the large variety of clothing patterns that have been developed across the globe by different cultures. Occlusions from other humans or objects, viewing angle and heavy clutter in the background further complica...