The purpose of this study is to apply the Human Security Index (HSI) as a tool to detect social and economic cumulative risk burden at a county-level in the state of Texas. The HSI is an index comprising a network of three sub-components or "fabrics"; the Economic, Environmental, and Social Fabrics. We hypothesized that the HSI will be a useful instrument for identifying and analyzing socioecon...

Humans can often estimate tactile properties of objects from vision alone. For example, during online shopping, we can often infer material properties of clothing from images and judge how the material would feel against our skin. What visual information is important for tactile perception? Previous studies in material perception have focused on measuring surface appearance, such as gloss and r...

The results of the study on the survival of gram-positive bacteria on hospital fabrics (2) are certainly not to be taken lightly. However, the manner in which the materials were prepared for testing warrant clarification. First is the chemical formulation used in laundering the fabrics. In addition to their having been subjected to a cycle with a proven disinfectant of sodium hypochlorite (chlo...

The aerosol penetration efficiency and quality factor for three Chemical Biological Radiological protective fabrics were evaluated using a particle counting technique. Both parameters characterise aerosol penetration through tested material; the latter accounts for the effect of fabrics air permeability. The overall and size dependent penetrations of 0.03–3 μm sized Sodium Chloride (NaCl) and D...

The penetration behavior of Kevlar fabric intercalated with dry particles and shear thickening fluids (STF), highly concentrated fluid-particle suspensions, is presented. In particular, the role of particle hardness is explored by comparing fabric treatments containing SiO(2) particles, which are significantly harder than Kevlar, to treatments containing softer poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) ...

The Indian textile industry has a major impact on the world economy through millenniums. At present all the textile industries aim to produce competitive fabrics. The competition depends mainly on productivity and quality of the fabrics produced by industry. In the textile sector, there are huge losses due to faulty fabrics. Fault identification in the manufactured fabric is the most complicate...

The multi-plane banyan-type switching fabric is a very promising architecture for building nonblocking optical switches. To avoid blocking states many copies of planes, i.e. log2N switching fabrics are connected in parallel, so we call this structure multi-plane. In this paper, repackably nonblocking multi-plane banyan-type switching fabrics are considered. Two repacking algorithms for multi-pl...

UNLABELLED The main post-polio syndrome (PPS) symptoms are new-onset weakness, new-onset atrophy, fatigue, cold intolerance, and pain associated with sleep disturbances. The polysomnographic study is the gold pattern to analyze sleep disorders. OBJECTIVE To assess pain, intolerance to cold and periodic limb movements (PLM) index before and after the use of MIG3 bioceramic fabrics over 4 weeks...

We have examined the fabric-to-metal surface and fabric-to-fabric frictional characteristics (in both warp and weft directions) of a series of fabrics containing 100% polyester, 100% viscose, and P/C & P/V blends with different blend proportions. It has been observed that the normal load and the frictional force follow a logarithmic relationship for all the fabrics. The nature of fabric frictio...

Natural dyes are gaining interest due their expected low risk to human health and to the environment. In this study, the wash fastness of a natural coloring matter from the liquid waste produced in the steam treatment of eucalyptus wood in textile fabrics was investigated. Specifically, eucalyptus wood extract was used to dye cotton, nylon and wool in an exhaust dyeing process without the addit...