BACKGROUND Considering the controversial results of previous reports on awareness of bill of patients' rights in different regions, as well as the fact that no report is available on the awareness of patients of their rights in teaching hospitals of Sari, we conducted the present study. MATERIALS & METHODS This is a cross-sectional Study conducted in teaching hospitals of Sari in 2011. The st...

Introduction The principles of design are essential to the development and production of clothing used by individuals and families around the world. Each principle has a specific role in creating an aesthetically pleasing garment or ensemble. The principles of design consist of: balance, proportion (also referred to as scale), emphasis, and rhythm. When a garment or ensemble uses the elements a...

Currently, most of the nation's 34,000 commercial drycleaners use perchloroethylene (PCE or perc) as a solvent to clean garments. Since 1992, in response to growing health and environmental concerns about perc, EPA has been working in a voluntary partnership with the drycleaning industry to reduce exposures to perc. EPA's DfE Garment and Textile Care Program (GTCP) encourages professional cloth...

This chapter focuses on the surface of a smart garment as a dynamic interface. The use of the garment’s surface as an interactive display opens up an array of new applications. Novel developments in interactive and wearable textile surfaces for garments display data from input sources like sensors and cell phones. The integration of these surfaces into the garments is evaluated regarding wearab...

Much has been said about the importance of “job creators,” mainly small and medium-sized businesses, as engines of economic growth. Far less has been said about the thinking styles of the entrepreneurs who start and run these businesses, and about whether those styles actually help to grow jobs. Who are more successful: the intuitive, go-with-the-gut types or the coolheaded analysts who don’t m...

This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from childhood to adulthood through early marriage and childbearing. Employment creates a period of transit...

Observations: A young woman was observed to have clinical lightening of her garment nevus and satellite nevi during 2 sequential pregnancies. Postpartum, the patient experienced darkening and repigmentation in her large garment nevus, with continued lightening of nearby satellite lesions. In addition to photographic documentation of these changes, biopsy samples taken during pregnant and nonpre...

Measuring supply chain performance is very necessary for a company, however, it is more important to identify the proper indicators based on which the performance can be evaluated. The paper benchmarks the performance measurement metrics which has been further validated by measuring the performance of garment companies in India. The analysis provides the importance of inventory turnover (ITR) a...

A wearable computing has been proposed as an alternative of the best mobile computing interfaces and devices. A digital garment acts as a key element of wearable computing. We will apply digital yarn link as material of data communications on purpose to take advantage of a digital garment. This paper proposes the link buffering architecture and the transmission processes for peer-to-peer (P2P) ...

Afrequent problem encountered by stroke victims and olhers with a nonfunctional upper extremity or hand is managing the cuff button of the sleeve covering the nonimpaired extremity. Compensation techniques include purchasing short-sleeved garments, rolling up long sleeves, or sewing buttons with elastic thread so that the extremity can slip through the sleeve ,,,ithout un buttoning the cuff. An...