constituted the most dynamic social units of the Teotihuacan society. These neighborhoods had coordination centers, and were probably headed and managed by the intermediate elite, an entrepreneurial class who competed to bring to the city the most exotic and strange ornaments and garments for public display [4,5]. We have counted ca. 22 of these neighborhood centers in the city [6]. Numerous ap...

Garment size system is an important factor for both the adult population and the population of children and adolescents when choosing a suitable and fitting clothing. To develop the size system anthropometric measurements of selected population should be carried out. For this purpose a sample of girls aged 6 to 12 years in Croatia were measured (4002 respondents distributed proportionately to t...

*Department of Urology, Central Railway Hospital, ul. Bursztynowa 2, 04-749 Warsaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Materials used to manufacture surgical clothing ensembles are characterised by high barrierproperties protecting surgeons and patients against germs. However, medical clothing made of those materials should not induce thermal stress. Such an uncomfortable sensation experienc...

Background Clothing coverage has been reported for NZ adults during high summer UVR, but not for nonsummer months, although both erythema and endogenous vitamin D production are possible, particularly during summer 'shoulder' months. Clothing coverage in non-summer months is, therefore, relevant for skin cancer risk reduction and maintenance of vitamin D levels. Study objectives were to: descri...

In this work an experimental study about the capability of the LBP, HOG descriptors and color for clothing attribute classification is presented. Two different variants of the LBP descriptor are considered, the original LBP and the uniform LBP. Two classifiers, Linear SVM and Random Forest, have been included in the comparison because they have been frequently used in clothing attributes classi...

In clothing and footwear business sector, consumer needs and expectations of specific target groups such as elderly, obese, disabled, or diabetic persons are arising as challenging opportunities for European companies that are asked to supply small series of innovative and fashionable goods of high quality, affordable price and eco-compatible. This paper aims at propose a three level (strategic...

Scholars of insanity and its historical antecedents have paid very little attention to personal and institutional clothing. Such dress, distributed to patients in mental institutions, has always been inscribed with the conflicting narratives of the period in which it was made and worn. The language of civil and medical authority is more evident than personal choice in the shape and address of t...

This study investigates impulse buying behaviors in both traditional store and online shopping contexts. The results show that impulsive buying tendency and involvement with clothing products is positively associated with impulse buying behavior of clothing in traditional store shopping, but not online. For computer peripherals, on the other hand, higher impulsive buying tendency and higher pro...

A general hybrid geometric-physical method that is useful for animating characters with skin, clothing and a MPEG-4 compatible face is presented. This method uses an approximation to the underlying musculo-skeletal structure of the body and face to generate a distance field, used for collision detection purposes, and skin/clothing consisting of a particle-spring mesh. The results obtained deliv...