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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"denim"”.
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133kgs of Denim: Investigating and challenging symptomatic solutions to textile waste in Aotearoa New Zealand with an educational lens
133kgs of denim waste, collected from a local op shop to use in my design studio made me realise, whilst my upcycling initiatives of circular children’s clothing and later denim faux fur were new and innovative in my local market, I was only temporarily diverting the problem of textile waste to …
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Venom Expenditure by Viperid and Elapid Snakes: Mechanisms, Adaptation, and Application
… fourth experiment, I explored the potential of denim cloth (i.e., blue jeans) to interfere with and reduce the amount of venom injected during a defensive bite to a human. When Southern Pacific rattlesnakes <em>(Crotalus ore ganus hellen)</em> were provoked to bite bare and denim-covered human …
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Fashion: Hedonic vs. utilitarian: A study of fit issues of women’s ready to wear and an examination of the technology acceptance model for consumer adoption of 3D body scanning for improved fit of denim
… ill-fitting apparel for consumers, in this case denim pants (jeans). In order to investigate why consumers have not yet adopted this technology, a survey was conducted using principles from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to understand the motivations of females aged 18-35 towards adopting …
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Characterization of Resistance Change in Stretchable Silver Ink Screen Printed on TPU-Laminated Fabrics Under Cyclic Tensile Loading
… of the TPU, both bare and laminated to cotton, Denim and spandex fabric, were subjected to 1000 cycles of 20% uniaxial strain. In-situ resistance measurements of printed traces were processed to generate datasets of maximum and minimum resistance per cycle. A mechanistic fit model was used to …
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Microwave Hydration Monitoring Using Wearable Antennas
… over a wide frequency range, is developed on denim fabric, and its performance is analyzed both in air and in contact with lossy dielectrics. Due to mismatches at the air-tissue interface and unstable radiation behavior in the target frequency band, enhancement approaches are studied, …
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White Memory and the (Counter)Stories We Might Tell
… held in March 2022. Then, I explored Denim Day Do-Over, a 2019 event in which White memory obscured queer protests. Through juxtaposition, I discovered and highlighted narratives in tension. These tensions make clear the struggle for equity at a PWI and challenge the notion that …
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Pollution prevention studies in the textile wet processing industry
… were located in Virginia and included: a denim and soft wash laundry- a fiberglass yam processing plant; a plant dyeing and printing cotton fabric; and a nylon yam dyeing and finishing plant. Each company was visited several times. Information about the operations, consumption of water, …
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Evaluation of direct PCR for forensic DNA profiling and the development of a direct PCR multiplex
… fabrics, which were white cotton, light blue denim, nylon and brown cotton, were used to deposit DNA and the resulting DNA profiles were evaluated. Of the non-porous substrates tested, the highest recovery of DNA was observed with plastic while the lowest was observed with stainless steel. DNA …
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Behavioural and Neuroimaging Studies of the Influence of Semantic Context on the Perception of Speech in Noise
… (e.g. coherent: “Her new skirt was made of denim”, anomalous: “Her good slope was done in carrot”). Sentences were mixed with signal-correlated noise, at 10 signal-to-noise ratios (-6 to +2 dB and clear speech). Percentage scores were converted to rationalized arcsine units and subjected to …
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The effect of clothing and carrion biomass load on decomposition and scavenging in a forensically significant thicketed habitat in Cape Town, South Africa
… so during winter. Scavenging was hindered by the denim trousers, altering feeding patterns and causing preferential scavenging on unclothed carcasses. Single carcasses received more, longer mongoose visits and decomposed quicker than multi-carcass deployments. These results suggest that clothing …
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Investigating the Effect of Ageing and Substrate Variation on the Raman Spectrum of Equine Blood
… a ceramic tile, laminate flooring and blue denim. These substrates were chosen to represent similar substrates which blood may come into contact with at the crime scene. 3 droplets on each substrate were then analysed via Raman spectroscopy over a period of three months at time periods of: …
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Forensic Application of Chemometric Analysis to Visible Absorption Spectra Collected from Dyed Textile Fibers
… available blue yarns (100% acrylic), and denims fabrics (100% cotton). Custom dyed swatches were each dyed uniformly with a single dye whereas the dye formulation for both the yarns and denims is unknown. As a point for study, spectral comparisons were performed according to the guidelines …
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Making Museums Fashion Forward and Forward Thinking: A Proposal for a Rotating Exhibit Program at the Levi Strauss & Co. Museum
<p>This capstone project is a theoretical proposal for a rotating exhibit program that was developed for the Levi Strauss & Co. museum in San Francisco, California. It was conceived with the intent to help eradicate some of the stigmas associated with museum fashion exhibitions. This capstone …