background: the ultrasonography probes are cleaned by absorbent soft, dry cloth. this question arose whether linear and convex ultrasound probes coupling with gel could perform as a means for nosocomial infections transmission, and which method is economical and more efficient for cleaning the probes. this study was conducted to answer these questions. methods: one hundred – ninety two patients...

In this paper, we first describe the State-of-the-Art in cloth modeling and animation, followed by a survey of the evolution of our work on the cloth generation and animation process toward evolving requirements. We then describe a more general system able to create autonomous clothes which may be worn by any synthetic human. We explain the method for creating both the clothes and the virtual h...

This paper previews a new approach being developed for modeling the dynamic behavior of cloth. This work extends the cloth-particle static draping model of Breen and House to include dynamics, and extends constrained dynamics simulation techniques developed by Witkin, Gleicher and Welch to yield performance enhancements. Fundamental to this approach is a new hierarchical approximation algorithm...

Four cases are described in which totally cloth-covered Starr-Edwards valves (model 2300) had to be removed. All were causing significant haemolysis, two in the absence of a peripheral leak. The principal operative finding was destruction of the Dacron covering the struts. Following replacement of these prostheses there was complete resolution of signs and symptoms. The possible causes of haemo...

Computer simulation of cloth is often plagued by springs being over-stretched. The evaluation of impulses to prevent over-stretching is explained step-by-step. Our impulse approach controls the length of springs by a nonlinear system and then a novel linearization of it into a symmetric positive definite system. The cloth/solid collision handling is integrated into the linearized system seamles...

This paper describes about a method of state observation of clothes. The method assumes to be applied as a visual function of daily assistive robots tidying up clothes in daily environment. A set of gabor filters are applied to an input image by changing its frequency and direction. Combination and selection of these parameters provide adequate information to know where wrinkles or cloth-overla...

The powering requirement of a land yacht is one of the most important aspects of its design. In this respect the wind tunnel testing is an effective design tool. In fact, changing the parameters of the vehicle and testing the changes in the wind tunnel will give us a better understanding of the most efficient vehicle, and yet it is time consuming, expensive, and has inherent scaling errors. Ano...

We present a system that allows the user to virtually try on new clothes. It uses a single commodity depth camera to capture the user in 3D. Both the pose and the shape of the user are estimated with a novel real-time template-based approach that performs tracking and shape adaptation jointly. The result is then used to drive realistic cloth simulation, in which the synthesized clothes are over...

The Information Society An International Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713669588 The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, by AnnaLee Saxenian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 432 pp. $18.95 paper. $27.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-674-02566-0 paper/978-0-674-02...

or centuries people have admired the flowF ing robes in works by such artists as Raphael and Michelangelo. The sculpted or painted folds of cloth not only demonstrate the artist’s technical skill but also reinforce the illusion of reality. The draping of virtual cloth is a challenge not only in art, but also in the generation of virtual worlds in computer science. Engineers, mathematicians, and...