M edical practitioners have traditionally measured the body’s size and shape by hand to assess health status and guide treatment. More recently, computed-tomography (CT) scanners have been able to produce 3D internal images of a patient’s body. Now, 3D body-surface scanners are transforming the ability to accurately measure a person’s body size, shape, and skin-surface area. Although developed ...

This paper aims at becoming a first effort for the development of a structured methodology for the evaluation of alternative Electronic Business technologies to be introduced into SME everyday business practices. The main tools used in the evaluation process are Discrete Event Simulation and Activity Based Costing. The business process modelling is carried out using the GRAI methodology support...

Omnichannel retailing and sustainability are two important challenges for the fast fashion industry. However, sustainable behavior of consumers in an omnichannel environment has not received much attention from researchers. This paper aims to examine factors that determine consumers’ willingness participate brands’ used clothes recycling plans retail environment. In particular, we impact indivi...

The dynamic, social and political nature of actors’ information system use has been under explored and under appreciated within studies of organisational learning. In this paper, we use ideographic case study data of collaborative merchandising practices in the UK clothing retail industry to explore how actors learned to use ICT-based data representations to their advantage. Our findings cast d...

In this paper, the shift into international franchising from other forms of operation, rather than the typical home market franchising base, is explored. The focus is international retail franchising, based on a study of the Danish clothing and footwear industry. In this study it was found that Danish companies were moving into international franchising as an outcome of a more general shift fro...

Technologically-friendly and user-friendly textile products, which can make daily life more convenient and comfortable, are progressively popular in modern society. Going along with the advanced development of innovative technology, textile clothing is no longer only used as body shielding for protection, warmth keeping at cold weather and aesthetic enhancing for fashion design. Furthermore, it...

The heavy environmental effect of the fashion industry, along with growing interest consumers in sustainability issues, is driving this industry towards greater ecological integrity through development sustainable clothing. This study investigates which factors influence green consumer behavioral intention clothing a survey 2.694 Italian consumers. We consumer's concern, perceived value product...

Fire-fighters’ personal protective clothing is the only source of protection for fire-fighters during fire-fighting. The protective clothing should provide adequate protection as well as should be comfortable to wear. The protection and comfort requirements are always the contradicting fact in several protective clothing including fire-fighters’. Appropriate material selection, clothing design ...

We propose a virtual try-on method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). By considering clothing regions, this method enables us to reflect the pattern of clothes better than Conditional Analogy GAN (CAGAN), an existing virtual try-on method based on GANs. Our method first obtains the clothing region on a person by using a human parsing model learned with a large-scale dataset. Next,...

This issue of the Annals of Occupational Hygiene is dedicated to the topic of heat stress evaluation. For this evaluation, several evaluation programs and international standards are available. In order to understand the reasoning and underlying theory behind these programs and standards, a basic knowledge of heat exchange processes between workers and their environment is needed. This paper pr...