Clothing use is an important modern behavior that contributed to the successful expansion of humans into higher latitudes and cold climates. Previous research suggests that clothing use originated anywhere between 40,000 and 3 Ma, though there is little direct archaeological, fossil, or genetic evidence to support more specific estimates. Since clothing lice evolved from head louse ancestors on...

Purpose Extending the active lifetimes of garments by producing better quality is a widely discussed strategy for reducing environmental impacts garment industry. While an important aspect clothing, concept ambiguous, and, moreover, consumers may perceive in individual ways. Therefore, it to deepen general understanding regarding clothing. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents integra...

BACKGROUND Clothing has been proposed as an additional source of exposure to mite and cat allergens. Dispersal of allergen into public places has also been attributed to clothing. OBJECTIVES We sought to study the contribution of various types of clothing on mite and cat exposure in a domestic environment. Also, we studied the ability of clothing to transfer allergen in a workplace. METHODS...

The fashion, textile, and clothing industry is a main constituent in Hong Kong. In this industry, handling a large amount of images is an important task in various phases, for example, the designing, sourcing, and merchandising phase. We develop an image database system called, Montage for managing and retrieving these visual information e ciently and e ectively. Montage is an image database su...

A perfect-competition model is developed to analyze duality in specialization and technology such as in the men’s clothing industry, an industry with highly seasonal nature of the business cycle. We show that when the market fluctuation is large enough, some firms will specialize in one good with the advantage of static efficiency, while other firms will generalize in multi-variety production a...

A translation lattice packing of k polygons P1; P2; P3; : : : ; Pk is a (non-overlapping) packing of the k polygons which is replicated without overlap at each point of a lattice i0v0 + i1v1, where v0 and v1 are vectors generating the lattice and i0 and i1 range over all integers. A densest translational lattice packing is one which minimizes the area jv0 v1j of the fundamental parallelogram. A...