Worn out or worn in? How cosmetic wear affects semantic appraisals of materials by Debra Lilley, Alan Manley, Ben Bridgens, Karl Hurn, Vicky Lofthouse

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Jewelery can be worn too by Roberta Bernabei

“…Jewellery endures a dual existence in that despite being made to wear, it can spend much of its life not being worn. …”
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Compliance of adolescent girls to repeated deployments of wrist-worn accelerometers by Alex V. Rowlands, Deirdre M. Harrington, Danielle H. Bodicoat, Melanie J. Davies, Lauren Sherar, Trish Gorely, Kamlesh Khunti, Charlotte L. Edwardson

“…RESULTS: Seven valid days (≥16 hours) of accelerometer wear were obtained from 83%, 77% and 68% of girls at baseline (n = 1734), 7-months (n = 1381) and 14-months (n = 1326), respectively. 68% provided 7-valid days for both baseline and 7-months, 59% for baseline and 14-months and 52% for all three deployment points. …”
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Accuracy of posture allocation algorithms for thigh- and waist-worn accelerometers by Charlotte L. Edwardson, Alex V. Rowlands, Sarah Bunnewell, James P. Sanders, Dale Esliger, Trish Gorely, Sophie O'Connell, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Thomas E. Yates

“…Participants consisted of 14 males and 20 females (mean age 27.2±5.9 years; mean body mass index of 23.8±3.7kg/m). …”
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Do worn-in tactical boots affect lower extremity kinematics during running? by Tanner A. Thorsen, Paul T. Donahue, Scott G. Piland

“…Engineering of Sport 15 - Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport (ISEA 2024) Footwear is one of the most influential factors for lower extremity non-combative musculoskeletal injuries (MSKIs) in service members and tactical athletes. …”
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Recognizing human activity in free-living using multiple body-worn accelerometers by Elliott Fullerton, Ben Heller, Mario Munoz-Organero

“…Ten participants (Age = 23.1 ± 1.7 years, height =171.0 ± 4.7 cm, and mass = 78.2 ± 12.5 Kg) wore nine body-worn accelerometers for a day of free living. …”
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Assessing patho-physiological responses to physical activity from body-worn sensors: an application of machine learning by Samuel Adema

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Activity intensity, volume, and norms: Utility and interpretation of accelerometer metrics by Alex V. Rowlands, Stuart J. Fairclough, Tom Yates, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Melanie Davies, Fehmidah Munir, Kamlesh Khunti, Vicky H. Stiles

“…Open-source software (GGIR) was used to generate ACC and IG. Health markers were (a) zBMI (children), (b) út (adolescent girls and adults), (c) bone health (pre- and postmenopausal women), and (d) physical function (adults with type 2 diabetes). …”
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Transient elastohydrodynamic lubrication of rough new or worn piston compression ring conjunction with an out-of-round cylinder bore by Ramin Rahmani, Stephanos Theodossiades, Homer Rahnejat, Brian Fitzsimons

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A study of head worn jewellery, mobile phone RF energy and the effect of differing issue types on rates of absorption by William Whittow, Chinthana Panagamuwa, Robert Edwards, J. C. Vardaxoglou, Patrick McEvoy

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A study on the effect of a metallic ring worn on human fingers using a simple scannable block hand phantom by Noor A. Samsuri, James Flint

“…A simple geometrical representation of a human hand has been constructed which allow a metallic ring to be placed on the finger. …”
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A study on the effect of loop-like jewellery items worn on human hand on specific absorption rate (SAR) at 1900 MHz by Noor A. Samsuri, James Flint

“…The results obtained indicated that: (i) by using a monopole antenna, the peak and average 1g SAR in the head are slightly decreased by the introduction of the ring and bangle, (ii) by using a PIFA, the peak and average 1g SAR in the head are increase by more than 12% and 11% respectively by the metallic rings.…”
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Validity of a wrist-worn consumer-grade wearable for estimating energy expenditure, sedentary behaviour and physical activity in manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury by Daniel P Bailey, Imran Ahmed, Daniel L Cooper, Katherine Finlay, Hannah M Froome, Tom E Nightingale, Lee M Romer, Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey, Louise Ferrandino

“…Materials and methods Fifteen manual wheelchair users with SCI (C5-L1, four female) completed activities of daily living and wheelchair propulsion (2–8 km·h−1). …”
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A data-driven, meaningful, easy to interpret, standardised accelerometer outcome variable for global surveillance by Alex V. Rowlands, Lauren Sherar, Stuart J. Fairclough, Thomas E. Yates, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Deirdre M. Harrington, Melanie J. Davies, Fehmidah Munir, Kamlesh Khunti, Victoria H. Stiles

“…Results: The proportion of participants with M60ACC (children) and M30ACC (adults) values higher than accelerations representative of brisk walking (i.e., moderate-to-vigorous physical activity) ranged from 17 to 68% in children and 15 to 81% in adults, tending to decline with age. …”
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Enhanced ocean deoxygenation in the Bering Sea during MIS 11c by Xuguang Feng, Jianjun Zou, Xuefa Shi, Savannah Worne, Zhengquan Yao, Yi Zhong, Hualong Jin, Jiang Dong, Zhi Dong, Han Feng, Xinqing Zou

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Surface improvement of laser clad Ti-6Al-4V using plain waterjet and pulsed electron beam irradiation by P.K. Farayibi, T.E. Abioye, J.W. Murray, Peter Kinnell, A.T. Clare

“…Initially the surface was characterised by large recesses with peak-trough heights of 200 ± 18 μm and waviness of 49 μm. Upon processing employing water head pressure of 345 MPa impinging the clad surface at an angle 90°, 250 mm/min jet traverse speed, 3 mm stand-off distance and 0.25 mm milling overlap with 2 passes, it was possible to eliminate the peak-trough profile by milling to a depth of 480 ± 10 μm. …”
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Effectiveness of the Stand More AT (SMArT) Work intervention: cluster randomised controlled trial by Charlotte L. Edwardson, Thomas E. Yates, Stuart J.H. Biddle, Melanie J. Davies, David W. Dunstan, Dale Esliger, L.J. Gray, Ben Jackson, Sophie O'Connell, Ghazala Waheed, Fehmidah Munir

“…Data were analysed using generalised estimating equation models, accounting for clustering. RESULTS: A significant difference between groups (in favour of the intervention group) was found in occupational sitting time at 12 months (-83.28 min/workday, 95% confidence interval -116.57 to -49.98, P=0.001). …”
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Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe-harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents by J Steene-Johannessen, BH Hansen, KE Dalene, E Kolle, K Northstone, NC Møller, A Grøntved, N Wedderkopp, S Kriemler, AS Page, JJ Puder, JJ Reilly, LB Sardinha, EMF Van Sluijs, LB Andersen, H Van Der Ploeg, W Ahrens, C Flexeder, M Standl, H Shculz, LA Moreno, S De Henauw, N Michels, G Cardon, FB Ortega, J Ruiz, S Aznar, M Fogelholm, A Decelis, LG Olesen, MF Hjorth, R Santos, S Vale, LB Christiansen, R Jago, L Basterfield, CG Owen, CM Nightingale, G Eiben, A Polito, F Lauria, J Vanhelst, C Hadjigeorgiou, K Konstabel, D Molnár, O Sprengeler, Y Manios, J Harro, A Kafatos, SA Anderssen, U Ekelund, S Anderssen, AJ Atkin, R Davey, Dale Esliger, P Hallal, KF Janz, N Møller, R Pate, J Reilly, J Salmon, Lauren Sherar

“…Results: Overall, a maximum of 29% (95% CI: 25, 33) of children and 29% (95% CI: 25, 32) of adolescents were categorized as sufficiently physically active. …”
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A novel laser machining strategy for cutting tool repair by Kafayat Hazzan, Manuela Pacella

“…The size of wear and tool shape are then used to produce a customised laser repair strategy. The proposed method is demonstrated successfully on a worn tungsten carbide (WC) turning insert.…”
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Modelling the metabolic effects of protective clothing by Lucy E. Dorman, George Havenith, Peter Broede, Victor Candas, Emiel A. den Hartog, Ingvar Holmer, Harriet Meinander, Wolfgang Nocker, Mark Richards

“…Increases in the metabolic rate of up to 20% above control conditions (lightweight tracksuit and trainers worn) were seen. …”
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Effects of simulated clothing weight distribution on metabolic rate by Lucy E. Dorman, George Havenith

“…In the previous chapter a plot of the percentage increases in metabolic rate in relation to the garment weight, fitted with a linear regression line resulted in a 2.7 % increase in metabolic rate per kg of clothing weight, which is considerably higher than would be predicted for carrying load.…”
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The influence of clothing weight and bulk on metabolic rate when wearing protective clothing by Lucy E. Dorman, George Havenith

“…Eleven weight configurations were tested for the first part of the study, with weights of 2 to 10 kg carried around the waist. Weights of 2 and 4 kg were also carried around the ankles or wrists (1 or 2 kg on each limb) and weights of 4 and 8 kg carried around the ankles and wrists (1 or 2 kg on each limb). …”
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A systematic review on the effectiveness of eyewear in reducing the incidence and severity of eye injuries in racket sports by James Mazarelo, Sam Winter, Daniel Fong

“…Design: Systematic Review following the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” (PRISMA) and the “implementing Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and SporTs science” (PERSiST) guidelines. Methods: PubMed, SportDiscus and Web of Science were searched on 22nd February 2023. …”
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Effect of drill quality on biological damage in bone drilling by Khurshid Alam, Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Muhammad Iqbal, Sujan Piya, Mahmood Al-Kindi, Asim Qureshi, Ahmed Al-Ghaithi, Badar Al-Sumri, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…Wear of the cutting edges of a drill bit (worn drill) is detrimental for bone tissues and can seriously affect its performance. …”
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Sweat-induced skin wetness perception can be significantly manipulated independently of the level of physical skin wetness [Abstract] by Davide Filingeri, Damien Fournet, Simon Hodder, George Havenith

“…Exercise induced sweat production and physical skin wetness increased significantly (SC: 3.1±0.3 to 18.8±1.3µS, p…”
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The effect of jewellery and the human hand on SAR and antenna performance by Noor A. Samsuri

“…The field excitation is provided by means of a A./4 monopole antenna on top of a metal box to emulate a simple handset. …”
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Scan to knit circular seamless compression garment designed for athletes by Zeeshan Azam, Kristina Brubacher, Simeon Gill, Anura Fernando

“…Engineering of Sport 15 - Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport (ISEA 2024) Sports compression garments (SCGs) are tight-fitting clothes designed with negative ease to apply pressure to the body parts which is response to the mechanical force applied on SCGs during wearing, worn by athletes, particularly for post-activity benefits. …”
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Influence of tool material on forces, temperature, and surface quality of Ti-15333 alloy in CT and UAT by R Muhammad, N Ahmed, Shahid Maqsood, K Alam, Muftooh Ur Rehman, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…This paper conducts an experimental analysis of the effect of a worn tool in UAT and Conventional-Turning (CT) of β-Ti-15V-3Al-3Cr-3Sn (Ti-15333) alloy on the surface quality of a machined surface, temperature of the process zone, and cutting forces using KC5510 (PVD TiAIN) and CP500 (PVD (Ti,Al)N-TiN) cutting inserts. …”
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Interchangeability of research and commercial wearable device data for assessing associations with cardiometabolic risk markers by Andrew Kingsnorth, Elena Moltchanova, Jonah Thomas, Maxine Whelan, Mark Orme, Dale Esliger, Matthew Hobbs

“…Methods: Forty-five adults concurrently wore a wrist-worn Fitbit Charge 2 and a waist-worn ActiGraph wGT3X-BT during waking hours over 7 consecutive days. …”
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Metabolic rate and clothing insulation data of children and adolescents during various school activities by George Havenith

“…Data on metabolic rates (n=81) and clothing insulation (n=96) of school children and adolescents (A, primary school: age 9-10; B, primary school: age 10-11 year; C, junior vocational (technical) education: age 13-16 (lower level); D, same as C but at advanced level; and E, senior vocational (technical) education, advanced level: age 16-18) were collected (Diaferometer, Oxylog, Heart Rate derivation) during theory-, practical- and physical education- lessons. …”
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Validation of the GENEA accelerometer by Dale Esliger, Ann V. Rowlands, Tina L. Hurst, Michael Catt, Peter Murray, Roger G. Eston

“…The GENEA demonstrated excellent concurrent validity compared with the ActiGraph (r = 0.92) and the RT3 (r = 0.97). The waist-worn GENEA had the greatest classification accuracy (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) = 0.95), followed by the left (AUC = 0.93) and then the right wrist (AUC = 0.90). …”
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Sleep duration and sleep efficiency in UK long distance heavy goods vehicle drivers by Aron Sherry, Stacy Clemes, Yu-Ling Chen, Charlotte Edwardson, Laura Gray, Amber Guest, James King, Alex Rowlands, Katharina Ruettger, Mohsen Sayyah, Veronica Varela-Mato, Iuliana Hartescu

“…Methods Cross-sectional analyses were carried out on 329 HGV drivers (98.5% males) recruited across an international logistics company within the midland’s region, UK. …”
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The effect of vehicle motion (cab vibration) on accelerometer-cut-point determined MVPA in Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) drivers by Mohsen Sayyah, Stacy Clemes, Benjamin Maylor, Charlotte Edwardson, Aron Sherry, Katharina Ruettger, Yu-Ling Chen, Veronica Varela-Mato, Amber Guest, Nicola Paine, James King, Alex Rowlands

“…CAB NOISE: A GENEActiv accelerometer was located beneath the seat in six HGVs for 8-days. …”
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The influence of inter-ring pressures on piston-ring/liner tribological conjunction by W.W.F. Chong, S.J. Howell-Smith, M. Teodorescu, M.D. Vaughan

“…The article proposes a mathematical model, which predicts the frictional performance of an internal combustion engine compression ring in the vicinity of the top dead center region. …”
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The effect of wind and radiation on heat strain in black and reflective clothing - human wear trial results (Work package 1, Question 1.5) by George Havenith, Alison Fogarty, Rebecca Bartlett, Network Thermprotect

“…In the present experiment a number of issues will be studied relating to the above: • For Black versus Reflective Clothing, how is the heat strain affected by the garment material • Is the effect of radiation studied in the manikin test significant when tested on humans • Is the effect of wind studied in the manikin test significant when tested on humans • Is the combined effect of radiation and wind studied in the manikin test significant when tested on humans For this purpose, Black and Reflective outer garments are tested in a number of combinations of wind and radiation while worn by human subjects. …”
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Threads, old and new by Kavitha Ravikumar

“…What are the functions of clothes? What relation do clothes have with the body? What do we express through clothing? …”
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Physical activity, sedentary time, and pericardial fat in healthy older adults by Mark Hamer, Shreenidhi M. Venuraju, Livia Urbanova, Avijit Lahiri, Andrew Steptoe

“…Physical activity was objectively measured using accelerometers (Actigraph GT3X) worn around the hip during waking hours for 7 consecutive days (average daily wear time = 889 ± 68 min/day), and was classified as sedentary (…”
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Thermal insulation and clothing area factors of typical Arabian Gulf clothing ensembles for males and females: measurements using thermal manikins by Farraj F. Al-Ajmi, Dennis Loveday, K.H. Bedwell, George Havenith

“…The analysis showed that for these non-Western clothing designs, the most widely-used regression calculation of cl f is not valid. However, despite the very large errors in cl f made with the regression method, the errors this causes in the intrinsic clothing insulation value, cl I, are limited.…”
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Heat generation and transfer in automotive dry clutch engagement by Theofilos Gkinis, Ramin Rahmani, Homer Rahnejat, M. O'Mahony

“…The generated heat is removed less efficiently from worn lining. This might be affected by different factors observed such as the reduced lining thickness and the reduction of density of the material but mainly because of poorer thermal conductivity due to the depletion of copper particles in its microstructure as the result of wear. …”
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Physical activity and respiratory health (PhARaoH): Data from a cross-sectional study by Mark W. Orme, Dale W. Esliger, Andrew Kingsnorth, Michael Steiner, Sally Singh, Dominic Malcolm, Mike Morgan, Lauren B. Sherar

“…Data were collected at Glenfield Hospital on 436 individuals (139 COPD patients and 297 apparently healthy adults) aged 40–75 years, residing in Leicestershire and Rutland, United Kingdom. …”
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Occupational heat stress and practical cooling solutions for healthcare and industry workers during the COVID-19 pandemic by Josh Foster, Simon Hodder, James Goodwin, George Havenith

“…Treatment and management of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), requires increased adoption of personal protective equipment (PPE) to be worn by workers in healthcare and industry. …”
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Healthy obesity and objective physical activity by Joshua A. Bell, Mark Hamer, Vincent T. van Hees, Archana Singh-Manoux, Mika Kivimaki, Severine Sabia

“…Design: Cross-sectional analyses were based on 3457 adults aged 60–82 y (77% male) participating in the British Whitehall II cohort study in 2012–2013. …”
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Personal factors in thermal comfort assessment: clothing properties and metabolic heat production by George Havenith, Ingvar Holmer, Ken Parsons

“…In order to improve metabolic rate estimation based on ISO 8996, more data and detail is needed for activities with a metabolic rate below 2 MET. Finally, it was shown that the methods for determining metabolic rate provided in ISO 8996 (typically used in comfort assessment and evaluations) do not provide sufficient accuracy to allow determination of comfort (expressed as PMV) in sufficient precision to classify buildings to within 0.3 PMV units as proposed in the upcoming revision of ISO 7730.…”
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Weekday and weekend patterns of objectively measured sitting, standing, and stepping in a sample of office-based workers: the active buildings study by Lee Smith, Mark Hamer, Marcella Ucci, Alexi Marmot, Benjamin Gardner, Alexia Sawyer, Jane Wardle, Abigail Fisher

“…Results: Total sitting/standing time was similar on weekdays (10.6/4.1 hrs) and weekends (10.6/4.3 hrs). Total step count was also similar over weekdays (9682 ± 3872) and weekends (9518 ± 4615). …”
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Conception and evaluation of an internet-of-things-based approach to enable future task-specific adaptive personal protective equipment: a cricket batting case study by Pubudu Dias

“…The proposed framework uses information collected from the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in cricket and demonstrates its future potential in improving player safety. …”
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Analysis of a cross groove constant velocity joint mechanism designed for high performance racing conditions by Matthew Simpson, Nader Dolatabadi, Nick Morris, Ramin Rahmani, David Jones, Craig Christopher

“…The developed model is validated against a published data set from literature. Surface topography of worn raceways are experimentally measured and the results from the developed model are corroborated with the measured surface parameters. …”
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A test battery related to ergonomics of protective clothing by George Havenith, Ronald Heus

“…Specialised protective clothing, such as that worn by firefighters, is usually tested only to standards which give requirements for the materials used (e.g. …”
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Bending and crumpling deformation study of the resonant characteristic and SAR for a 2.4 GHZ textile antenna by Norfatin Akma Elias, Noor A. Samsuri, Mohamad Kamal A. Rahim, Chinthana Panagamuwa, William Whittow

“…In this paper, two types of deformations; bending and crumpling are analyzed by means of CST Microwave Studio. The peak SAR10g demonstrates increment up to 65.7% and 48.7% under bending and crumpling deformation respectively. …”
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Benchmarking functionality of historical cold weather clothing: Robert F. Scott, Roald Amundsen, George Mallory by George Havenith

“…Its insulation would have been sufficient down to -30°C in low wind. …”
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Opportunities and challenges for configurable sensor networks for enabling effective fire-in-tunnel response by Andrew May, Val Mitchell, John Piper, Lesley Hanna, Stephen Hailes, Konstantinos Koumpis

“…This reconfiguration can include: switching between wired and wireless links to mitigate physical network damage; repurposing of sensor nodes to change what they sense or how quickly they report; introduction of new mobile gateways for self repair of network damage; and the integration of multiple mobile sensor networks (eg personal sensors worn by emergency crew, or those introduced by autonomous robots).…”
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