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2021-03-31

Jain, Ayesha

Repairing clothing is an important aspect of clothing care routines that can have a positive impact on the environment. This is because through repair the useful life of a garment is extended which can lead to a reduction of clothing waste. In this paper, I will present survey research of...

2023-01-01

Munevar-Ortiz L., Batcheller J., Dolez P.I.

Tear strength is an important fabric characteristic used to evaluate the serviceability of textile materials and their suitability for particular end uses such as protective clothing. In this study, the effect of test specimen size on tear strength was analyzed. The aim was to determine...

2023-01-01

Cho C., Nam S.L., de la Mata P.A., Harynuk J.J., Elias A., Chung H-J, Dolez P.I.

Fire-protective clothing are manufactured using heat and flame resistant fibers that are made of high-performance polymers. These polymers exhibit a gradual reduction in their performance after long-term exposure under various aging conditions. This study investigates the thermal aging behavior...

2013-01-01

Schramm, David G., Futris, Ted, G., Galovan, Adam M., Allen, Kimberly

Child welfare professionals (CWPs) have historically been ignored as a potential delivery system of relationship and marriage education (RME). Based on a sample of 1015 CWPs from two states, the current study shows that CWPs believe promoting healthy couple and marital relationships is relevant...

2017-01-01

Johnson, Matthew D., Galovan, Adam M., Horne, Rebecca M., Min, Joohong, Walper, Sabine

Drawing on 5 waves of multiple-informant data gathered from focal participants and their parents and intimate partners (n = 360 families) who completed annual surveys in the German Family Panel (pairfam) study, the present investigation examined bidirectional associations between the development...

2022-01-01

Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo, Md. Saiful Hoque, Lovely K. M. Khandakar

The study aims in applying two statistical tools to analyze the retting behavior of plant stems for extracting bast fibers for industrial applications. At first, a mediation model is employed to investigate the first hypothesis of this work that involves studying the color response of the retted...

2022-01-01

McQueen, Rachel H, Vaezafshar, Sara

During use, textile items can develop unpleasant odors that arise from many different sources, both internal and external to the human body. Laundering is not always effective at removing odors, with odor potentially building up over time, due to incomplete removal of soils and odorous compounds,...

2022-08-10

Partha Sikdar, Tanvir Mahady Dip, Avik K. Dhar, Maitry Bhattacharjee, Md. Saiful Hoque, Solaiman Bin Ali

The advances in polymer chemistry research have revolutionized the field of smart materials and biomedical. Polyurethanes (PUs) are a versatile polymer class with diverse structure, morphology, and behavior under various conditions deemed suitable for many functional and intelligent responses....

2021-05-11

Partha Sikdar, Md. Mazbah Uddin, Tanvir Mahady Dip, Shafiqul Islam, Md. Saiful Hoque, Avik K. Dar, Shuangyan Wu

Understanding the surrounding atmosphere and reacting accordingly with a precise action are always fascinating features of a material. Materials that pose such responsiveness are called smart materials. Currently, research studies on smart materials are being accelerated exponentially around the...

2022-01-01

Abdul-Bari, M Mukhtar, McQueen, Rachel H, de la Mata, A Paulina, Batcheller, Jane C, Harynuk, James J

Odorous clothing can be an annoying and unpleasant problem particularly when odorants are not effectively removed via laundering. Cotton and polyester knit fabrics were soiled with three selected odorants, representing different polarities and lipophilicities (i.e. octanoic acid, 2-nonenal,...