clothing

..a novel textile surface modification technique to impart a reactive barrier necessary for their use in protective clothing for healthcare workers...

..a novel textile surface modification technique to impart a reactive barrier necessary for their use in protective clothing for healthcare workers...

..by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop breathable, lightweight and disposable chemical protective clothing for use by personnel associated with law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, medical/triage ..

..modification technique of textiles to impart properties to the fabric necessary for their use in protective clothing. The increase in disease transmission, the widespread use of pesticides in agriculture, and the increased ..

..The rate of sun protection reported by adolescents is poor. Only about 20% and 30% of adolescents use protective clothing and sunscreen, while over 75% of them experience at least one sunburn a year...

..is to create and test new materials that would be useful in the production of protective clothing. During routine chemical use, it is not always apparent when exposure occurs...

..developing antimicrobial materials that can be used to create medical textiles that will provide advanced clothing items that prevent infections from microorganisms have significant advantages and great commercial potential...

..The rate of sun protection reported by adolescents is poor. Only about 20% and 30% of adolescents use protective clothing and sunscreen, while over 75% of them experience at least one sunburn a year...

..Photographic assessments of protective clothing at the ski areas will be used to validate self-report measures...

..Based on these results, a system will be designed for pediatric monitoring applications. The culmination of Phase II will be a 50-subject clinical trial of the technology on infants and children...

..Despite the protective chemical clothing (PCC) normally used to prevent skin contact with toxic chemicals, thousands of workers each year suffer from ..

..Skin and clothing of caretakers will be sampled for Staphylococcus aureus upon entry into mouse rooms through air or wet showers ..

..We will also examine whether environmental conditions or variations in clothing impact the accuracy or performance of the KAL-X Sensor...

..Commercial partners have been identified. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: The market size for the protective clothing for civilians, police, medical personnel and fire fighters for domestic preparedness is expected to be 2 billion ..

..its ability to increase children's sun protection attitudes and behaviors (limit time in sun and use protective clothing, sunscreen, and shade), produce a sun safety norm, and decrease tanning norms in a community trial in public ..

..Traumatic Injury Team as firefighters (FF) routinely performing physically strenuous work in heavy, constricting clothing and often in hot and hostile environments...

..by applicant): Work in a warm or hot environment coupled with high metabolic loads and/or work in protective clothing can bring about considerable heat strain (e.g. increased heart rate and core body temperature)...

..Not only must the pressing exigent questions of food, clothing and shelter be addressed, s/he must also re- integrate into family and social networks...

..Preventive behaviors include reducing peak sun exposure, wearing sunscreen, seeking shade, wearing protective clothing, and avoiding sunburn...

..Traumatic Injury Team as firefighters (FF) routinely performing physically strenuous work in heavy, constricting clothing and often in hot and hostile environments...

..seem to "just know" whether a person is "safe" or "risky" by relying on formally irrelevant information such as clothing style. Such decisions may result in negative consequences such as the acquisition of HIV and other STDs...

..include imported crayons, imported non-glossy vinyl miniblinds, playground equipment, children's jewelry and clothing. There are regulatory limits to the content of lead used in consumer products...

..g., occupations & clothing)...

..Level II, educational component using Environmental Health Promoters; and Level III, personal protective clothing, and hand washing with warm water. Planning and development will be conducted in the first year...

..Short-term exposures and protective clothing greatly limit the current WBGT method to the point that it is often not applicable...

..frequency of key sun protective behaviors over the past week, unobtrusive observations of carriers' protective clothing as they deliver mail, and changes in skin color that are indicative of tanning measured with a calorimeter...

..is a global increase in skin cancer as humans have more and more leisure time and alter both their lifestyles and clothing choices...

..Paint can be sprayed onto surfaces of clothing or equipment resulting in a lower capacitance or ability to build up charge on the material...

..On-site observations of sun protection policies, environmental features, and employee clothing will validate principal reports. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.

..clothes are stored, being able to reach them, being able to get them off/out of the storage location, managing clothing in preparation for donning, donning and readjusting...

..In addition, the system has potential for coatings for drug delivery, environmental decontamination, and protective clothing.

..On-site observations of sun protection policies, environmental features, and employee clothing will validate principal reports.

..with very poor outcomes, who are unable to care for themselves or obtain basic necessities of life such as food, clothing, and shelter...

..The patch "Smart Band-Aid" platform would enable continuous monitoring and be worn under the patient's clothing to detect the onset/progression of pulmonary edema by utilizing multifrequency bioelectric impedance spectroscopy ..

..This technology has been applied to through-clothing measurement of ECG, with successful preliminary measurements for EEG and ERP...

..First, the information it yields can guide responders to the correct degree of protective clothing required. It will also provide data that will help to determine the correct treatment for an exposed individual.

..The performance of fabric electrodes has been investigated and compared with standard clinical electrodes...

..The system can also help professional workers who are subject to considerable physical and psychological stress and/or environmental and professional health risks...

..In particular, this work focuses on the optimization of sensors performances in term of sensing properties with the final objective to go towards a mass production...

..Furthermore, a possible perspective for the developments of organic sensors based on this structure are described...

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Novel textile electrodes that can be embedded into sports clothing to measure averaged rectified electromyography (EMG) have been developed for easy use in field tests and in clinical settings...

..Sensorized shirts for vital signs monitoring and wearable systems for gesture and posture recognition are specifically illustrated, resulting from the EU funded project my heart...

..Here we propose a hardware and computational solution to overcome this limitation...

..To validate the realized device, a function that relates glove sensor values to hand motion has been realized and tested...

..The paper describes a prototype Smart Vest system used for remote monitoring of physiological parameters and the clinical validation of the data are also presented...

..The positive results obtained in this study support the routine use of the system in a clinical setting, experimental environments, daily life conditions and sport...

..The monofilament yarn (C) had high electrode impedance and varying mean polarization potentials due to its conductive material and small contact area with the skin...

..In addition, we introduce our recent research project on the e-textile-based health shirt (h-shirt), which can measure arterial blood pressure noninvasively, continuously and cufflessly...

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..The possible applications are manifold, ranging from alarm systems to intelligent guidance systems, passenger recognition in car seats, air conditioning control in interior lining and smart wallpaper with software-defined light switches...

..We will discuss ongoing research in the areas of sensors, sensor interfacing, interconnection and packaging, hardware platforms, infrastructure and power delivery for ambient systems with applications in the p-health domain...

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..A "societal health education" has to be provided to physicians and to patients to get all the benefits of this new context...

..VDC has extensive experience in providing multi-client and proprietary analysis in the electronic components, advanced materials, and mobile computing markets...

..Supervised learning techniques were employed to analyse the strain measures in order to reconstruct upper-limb posture and provide real-time feedback on exercise progress...

..in which the microcontroller and circuits monitor the ECG, heart rate and respiration data. The data are transmitted through the serial communication to a PC, and then are received and displayed with Visual Basic program...

..Wearable monitoring technology is a hot spot in biomedical engineering and military medical devices. This paper reviews the research progress about the wearable life-sign monitoring system for a single soldier...

..Results from this study will be employed to develop a software platform for the wireless system, to efficiently process on-board data...

..The device is powered by two AAA batteries. The design, laboratory, and field testing of the wearable monitors are described...

..Results obtained by simulation show that this design meets all the requirements in terms of shape, size, antenna performance and cost-efficiency, validating the followed approach...

..Recent developments of new smart materials consent the realization of a new generation of garments with distributed sensors. What we present here is a sensing glove able to detect the posture and movements of the hand...

..of sensor and telecommunication technologies has created completely new possibilities also for the textile and clothing field...

..The developed smart fabrics will be discussed and samples of the results will be presented...

..Preliminary results are given to demonstrate the promise of the proposed system...

..b>Clothing is like a second skin to us: intelligent biomedical clothes may make everyday life easier for people in poor ..

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..Several new algorithms devoted to the device operation are presented and tested. Data derived from the sensing garment are analyzed and compared with the data derived from a traditional movement tracking system...

..The potential of wearable sensing is discussed using these examples to illustrate the relevant concerns...

..Moreover, wearable devices or smart homes with exosensors are also potential solutions. All these systems can provide a safe and comfortable environment for home healthcare, illness prevention, and citizen medicine...

..Design issues include the implementation of the MIB standards on microcontroller-driven embedded devices, low power consumption, wireless data exchange, and data storage and transmission in a reconfigurable body-area network...

..It has the potential for use in combat casualty care, such as for remote triage, and by first responders, such as firefighters...

..In contrast with the existing monitors, skin irritations are avoided, redundancy of respiratory signals is provided and user-friendliness of the system is reached...

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..It will be shown how natural raising and lowering of the arm replaces the need for bulky actuators. Additionally, a dual-accelerometer height sensor that is tetherless is proposed and supported by experimental results...

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..93, p<0.05). This method appears promising as a non-contact method for monitoring the heart and respiratory rates of patients under biochemically hazardous conditions...

..The signal fidelity for bioelectric measurements using QUASAR's biosensors is comparable to that for wet electrodes...

..This paper intends to call to attention the need for a common understanding in the community for a method of addressing this area objectively, and proposes next steps toward this goal...

..We also propose a new index designated the Sleep Quality Score (SQS). Finally, we performed long-term measurement and compared SQS in healthy people and patients with major depression disorder...

..In this paper, we introduce nonwoven fabric active electrodes that provide the comfort required for clothing while robustly recording physiological data in the presence of body movement...

..These contactless electrodes do not require direct contact with the skin and thus they can be suitable for prolonged monitoring of the muscle activity...

..In order to prove the feasibility of complex biomedical systems like inner body implants or wearable systems, a variety of stretchable systems has been designed from sensor to power source systems...

..We are working for improving the autonomy of the ambulatory version up to several days. This wearable biomedical sensor (WBS) can be used for circadian assessment for chronobiology studies and in medical therapies...

..However, advancements in the Intelligent Knee Sleeve design would produce a more robust system leading to more effective biofeedback for the athlete...

..buying patterns, gender differences, regional differences, their receptivity to health benefits delivered via clothing and what they want from technology enhanced clothing...

..Using wireless mobile computing devices, it will be possible to record, analyze and respond to changes in the wearers' physiological signals in real time using these sensors...

..The combination of TextileNet system and EMG measurement device will implement the cable-free, battery-free wearable EMG measurement system...

..to the measurement of this physiologic parameter by the use of datalogger iButtons affixed to the foot and outer clothing, the latter serving as an approximate measure of ambient temperature, in conjunction with the measurement of foot ..