In this paper, regular band is presented to detect defects on patterned fabrics. Patterned fabrics are firstly disposed by fabric average to form object images mixed with positive and negative pixels in this proposed method. Distance matching function is computed to determine the periodic distance of patterned fabrics. The obtained periodic distance would be the length and width of regular band...

Oak wilt, caused by Ceratocystzsfagacearum (T.W. Bretz) J. Hunt, is probably the most destructive disease of oak trees (Quercus species) in the United States, and is currently causing high mortality at epiphytotic proportions in central Texas. The serious potential for damage prompted an increase in federal funding within the past fifteen years for new oak wilt research. New research developmen...

abstract in recent years, the old urban fabrics identification has become a challenging issue in urban planning society in iran. the insufficiency of triple indices which had been introduced by the high council on urban planning and architecture has been criticized by experts several times. in this paper we reconsider the existing urban fabrics identification method and introduce a suitable mod...

A characteristic of urban sensing is that applications need to compose the operations and fuse information from sensing fabrics extant in the environment, to meet requirements for which the fabrics were not designed a priori. We propose an architecture, WEAVE, that allows tailoring of applications across one or more urban sensing fabrics. Key to the architecture is use of standard application p...

Madder is considered the queen of the reds which is one of the oldest used natural dyes. In this study, madder was applied to cotton and silk fabrics by using mordants in various ways to investigate the coloring effects. Alum and copper sulphate were used as mordants not only before and after dyeing process but also during the process. The aqueous extract of the dye was applied on the scoured c...

Water absorption and transport property of textiles is important since it affects wear comfort, efficiency of treatment and functionality of product. This paper introduces an accurate and reliable measurement tester, which is based on gravimetric and image analysis technique, for characterising the transplanar and in-plane wicking property of fabrics. The uniqueness of this instrument is that i...

The increasing incidence of skin cancer in the populations of Australia and North America provided the impetus for developing educational programs about the risks of sun exposure and for developing sunscreens and sun protective clothing. In an effort to develop better fabrics for sun protective clothing, scientists have completed many studies investigating various factors influencing ultraviole...

BACKGROUND The use of clothing as a means of sun protection has been recommended in recent education campaigns. Contrary to popular opinion, however, some fabrics provide insufficient ultraviolet (UV) protection. MATERIAL AND METHODS We investigated 236 apparel textiles of the spring/summer collections 2000 and 2001. In accordance with the forthcoming European standard the UV protection facto...

Extensive use of pressurized steam in the oil and gas sectors has led to incidents where workers were seriously injured. In this study a test device and procedure to measure heat transfer through fabrics during steam exposure were developed and evaluated. Several factors were considered while designing the test device to simulate work site conditions. Fabrics were exposed to steam at 2 distance...

A novel and universal procedure has been developed for producing nanosized stable silver particles on cotton fabrics in a simple and cost-effective manner with complete control of the silver loading level on the fabrics; the antibacterial effect of Ag-nanocoated fabrics on various bacteria was evaluated by growth inhibition; for biomedical applications, skin irritation tests on guinea pigs were...