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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"donning"”.
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Maiden’s Fashion As Eternal Becomings: Victorian Maidens and Sugar Sweet Cuties Donning Japanese Street Fashion in Japan and North America
Lolita fashion is a youth street style originating from Japan that draws on Victorian-era children’s clothing, Rococo aesthetics, and Western Punk and Gothic subculture. It is worn by teenage girls and women of a wide range of ages, and through the flow of related media and clothing aided by the …
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Evaluation of Training Technique as a Means of Influencing Safety Knowledge, Risk Perception and Proper Respirator Donning Ability Among Respiratory Protection Users
… the respirator fits the worker's face. Improper donning can lead to serious health consequences and may even be fatal. Training methods are effective if they facilitate workers' progress towards health promoting goals. In this case, proper respirator donning ability is the final exam in …
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Influence of insertion/donning instruction on frequency-specific sound attenuation achieved with ear canal caps and earmuffs with implications for industrial noise application
… by Epps, 1984) to changes in user insertion/donning instruction technique and also not as dependent on user gender. The main effect of gender was not significant, and in general, any instruction was better than no instruction at all but the effects of those instructions did not differ …
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Using magneto-inertial-measurement-units to track upper-limb movement during rehabilitation
… therapy, the need is for simple and fast donning and calibration, whilst achieving acceptable accuracy and repeatability with regards to the calculated joint kinematics. Therefore, the main objective of the PhD research was to undertake such a comparison and make recommendations for …
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An investigation and examination of the levels and types of bacterial contamination on the surface of clean room operators' garments.
… gamma sterilisation, immediately following their donning with operators dressing wearing either no gloves, non “ sterile gloves or sterile clean room gloves, and following their wear within the clean room environment, with respect to gender. The aforementioned method, with its recovery efficiency …
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Addressing design challenges in mechanical counterpressure spacesuit design and space-inspired informal education policy
… tubes is proposed as a solution to the donning problem. When pressurized, the tubes expand to become rigid, opening the MCP garment in the process. The system was modeled and a functional prototype was developed using a novel construction process. The model can be used as a design tool …
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Vieques, Puerto Rico : from devastation to conservation, and back again
The donning of camouflage gear by military forces is uniformly understood to be an attempt to dissolve into a background matrix in order to deceive an enemy in combat, or in a combat simulation. This thesis examines the landscape of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to disprove such notion and move towards …
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Hospital Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection Prevention
… hand washing standard work and PPE doffing and donning posters that are currently displayed by all the patient’s doors on all units. In addition, the quality nursing boards are updated with information of the progress of the work of infection prevention of the HAI workgroup. Moreover, management …
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Development of a mechanical counter pressure Bio-Suit System for planetary exploration
… greater mobility, comfort and ease of donning than previous MCP garments. After refining the bindings design to improve the uniformity of its pressure distribution, five subjects donned bindings on one calf and exposed the suited calf to -30kPa (-225mmHg, -0.3atm) for up to an hour - a …
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Design, Characterization, and Validation of the OpenWrist Exoskeleton
… mechanism has been engineered to facilitate donning and doffing for impaired subjects and to insure compatibility with the hand module in virtual and assisted grasping tasks. Several other practical requirements have also been addressed, including device ergonomics, clinician-friendliness, …
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The Etruscan Aphrodite
… who shows considerable Etruscanization in her donning of Etruscan clothing and adoption of Etruscan attributes. These indicate Etruscan mythological and artistic traditions and reflect Etruscan culture, especially the world of Etruscan women. In Etruscan vase painting, images of Turan are found …
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Development, Analysis, and Comparison of Electromechanical Properties and Electrode Morphology of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites
… progressively, the smart composites are donning a predominant role as indispensable structures. Among these, the Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMC), with their large bending deformation and relaxation characteristics at very low voltages are attractive as transducers in many areas of …
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Assessment and preliminary model development of shape memory polymers mechanical counter pressure space suits
… mobility range, and ease of garment donning and doffing. Guided by these criteria, a SMP biaxial tubular braid applying MCP through active compression was designed and the prototype manufacturing processes were outlined. To predict the pressure production of this garment, the …
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Female Equestrian Culture in France, 1600-1715
… of corporeal freedom. First, it examines the donning of riding breeches and the fashion for a particular ‘Amazonian’ feather headdress in the mid-seventeenth century. It then traces the emergence of a recognisable tailored outfit that represented the first sporting uniform for women. The …
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A border of cloth: Ecological systems and critical spatial perspectives on the Islamic hijab
… of lived or social space, however, the donning of the black ?ij?b has metaphoric implications. Each Muslim woman donning the ?ij?b becomes the embodiment of the holy Ka?ba, demarcating her body as sacred space in space in contemporary society. The combination of two theoretical …
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3D Upper-extremity ExoNET: Improved Passive Exoskeleton for Gravity Compensation and Motor Rehabilitation
… laboratory settings. Min imal setup, easy donning and doffing, and low maintenance allow both patients and clinicians to operate on them with little supervision, promoting wider adoption in home and community environments. Furthermore, by lowering logistical and technical barriers, passive …
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Increasing Compliance of Personal Protective Equipment S election and Use for Isolation Precautions Among RNs & NAs on a Med-Surg Unit
… (PPE), and the use in technique when putting on (donning) and removing (doffing) PPE based on the level of isolation precautions required for the patient being cared for.</p> <p><strong>Project Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this project is to determine whether assessing the knowledge and actual …
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Civil War Camps of Instruction in Illinois: Exploring the Transition from Civilian to Soldier
… physical transition through activities including donning uniforms, drilling, and meals. Some of the areas associated with the physical transition were part of the mental transition. As part of the mental transition, the soldiers expressed fear, pride, and sadness in their writings from camp. …
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Characterization of inertial measurement unit placement on the human body upon repeated donnings
… Accurate estimations of variability in multiple donnings of sensor suites may aid algorithm development for wearable motion capture systems that make use of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). The accuracy of any algorithm incorporating these sensors is limited by the accuracy of the sensor to …
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Mechanical counter-pressure space suit design using active materials
… exploration have not yet been demonstrated, and donning and dong of such a suit remains a signicant challenge. This research effort focuses on the novel use of active material technologies to produce a garment with controllable compression capabilities to address these problems. We the describe …
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