175 research outputs found
Sustainable Mass-Customisation Business Model by Incorporating Virtual Fitting Room Marketing Tools in Fashion E-Commerce:A Study of the Luxury Unstitched Market
No full textThis chapter is centred around the luxury unstitched apparel market of Pakistan and interactive virtual fitting room tools of fashion e-commerce such as 3D mobile app scanners, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Interactive virtual fitting room tools have been developed extensively for the advantage of both consumers and fashion retailers to improve online shopping experience (Idrees et al., International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering 14:318–333, 2020b). Thus, the chapter discusses the Pakistani luxury unstitched apparel market (Faust & Carrier, Textile Research Journal 79:1446–1458, 2009), for the enhancement of Pakistani fashion e-commerce interfaces by utilising interactive virtual fitting room tools. The discussion of luxury unstitched apparel products demonstrates that the products are loved across the borders because of their garment customisation, talent, and craftsmanship, and this demand is flourishing and expanding rapidly due to exquisite quality and design uniqueness (Rehman, A cross-border fashion jaunt, 2014). Unstitched apparel products are sold in separate garment pieces normally declared as 2-piece and 3-piece suits. For instance, the upper garment includes separate fabric pieces or one full piece of fabric offering the front, back, and sleeves along with separate one piece of fabric for the lower garment, which is adorned with various options such as printed and embroidered fabric pieces. Nevertheless, Pakistani fashion e-commerce platforms lacks= the web 3.0 technology virtual fitting room tools. Therefore, there is a need to incorporate virtual size and fit prediction, customisation, and virtual fashion viewing interactive tools. The virtual fitting room tools discussed in the chapter provide customisation approaches along with size recommendations and virtual trying on with 3D product visualisation (in 360-degree rotation), which generate beneficial competition amongst online retailers. The Lemon and Verhoef (Journal of Marketing 80:69, 2016) model is employed to present a sustainable mass-customisation e-commerce business model by combining virtual fitting room tools and luxury unstitched apparel products. The luxury unstitched apparel products are sustainable because they are customised according to personalised body dimensions which adds the benefit of reducing wastage of fabric due to mass production. Moreover, such demonstrations intersecting luxury unstitched apparel product with interactive virtual e-commerce tools would be beneficial for worldwide markets to employ in mass-customisation business approaches
Enhancing Apparel Size and Fit Prediction for E-Commerce: A Mixed Methods Approach with 3D Body Scanning
No full textHigh-resolution spatial and temporal evolution of two-dimensional flow structure at a small stream confluence
No full textConfluences are recognized as locations within rivers where interaction between incoming flows produces complex hydrodynamic conditions characterized by distinct spatial patterns of mean or turbulent flow. Despite recognition of this hydrodynamic complexity, few studies have mapped in detail spatial patterns of flow at confluences and variation in these patterns over time. Recent developments in Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) have created novel opportunities to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of flow patterns at confluences. This study uses LSPIV to map two-dimensional flow structure at the water surface and to examine variation in this structure over time. Results show that flow within the confluence is characterized by a large region of flow stagnation develops at the junction apex, a region of low velocities at the downstream junction corner, and a region of merging of the two flow along a mixing interface within the center of the confluence. Interaction between the incoming flows varies over time in the form of episodic pulsing in which one of the two tributaries flows first decelerates and then subsequently accelerates into the confluence. The cause of this pulsing remains uncertain, but it seems to reflect changes in the water-surface pressure-gradient field as the two flows compete for space within the confluence. No large-scale vortices are evident within the mixing interface for the particular flow conditions documented in this study, but such vortices do occur along the margins of the stagnation zone where shearing action between fast-moving and slow-moving fluid is strong. The results of the study provide insight into the time-dependent dynamics of the spatial structure of flow at stream confluences.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Sadia Sabrina, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-08 at 11:35.The student, Sadia Sabrina, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-12-08 at 11:38.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-12-09 at 13:43.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16083 on 2021-03-04 at 16:33:50Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:47:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Accounting for the contribution of foreign direct investment in population health: A case study of Pakistan
No full textThis paper examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on life expectancy and infant
mortality rate under-5 using time series data over the period of 1980–2017. We have applied unit
root as well as co-integration tests to examine integrating properties of the variables and cointegration among the variables. Moreover, we apply the ARDL approach to measure the longrun and short-run impact of FDI on life expectancy and the infant mortality rate under-5. The empirical evidence confirms the presence of co-integration amid the variables. FDI increase population health measured by life expectancy and to reduce the infant mortality rate under-5 in
the long-run
RETRACTED ARTICLE: In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility study of polyacrylate TiO2@Ag coated nanoparticles for the radiation dose enhancement
No full textWe, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, have retracted the following article:Ateeque Ur Rehman, Muhammad Hassan, Sadia Bano, Khizir Farooq, Aun Raza & Muhammad Naeem Anjum (2021) In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility study of polyacrylate TiO2@Ag coated nanoparticles for the radiation dose enhancement. Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 49(1), 185–193, DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2021.1889574Since publication, concerns were raised about the methods and some images in this article. Specifically, some images in Figure 7 have been duplicated and rotated. When approached for an explanation, the authors were unable to provide a satisfactory explanation for this. The corresponding author has been informed of our decision to retract.We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”
Mobile 3D body scanning applications: a review of contact-free AI body measuring solutions for apparel
No full textThis paper reviews current mobile body scanning applications, exploring strengths and weaknesses and proposals to develop product development and selection approaches. Body scanning delivers a greater depth of data to support product development and advancements in mobile technology, bringing body scanning into the hands of the consumer. Detailed analysis of the human body is possible with mobile scanners; distances, girths, heights, width, surface area, body fat percentage and circumferences can be obtained on a personal smartphone. 3D body scanning apps offer contactless full-body scanning, while some scan body parts individually by identifying landmarking points required to extract body dimensions for product selection and development. The key application themes such as features, benefits, proposed solutions and mechanisms were identified and analysed comparatively after content analysis of eighteen 3D mobile scanner apps. Consequently, it is determined that the mobile scanning process is fast (maximum 5 min and minimum 30 sec), and image capture requirements for scanning use a front and side view image. However, for some applications, the scanning requirement is a back and side scan; front, back and side scan; multiple front and side scans and some apps require a 360-degree scan to generate a 3D personalised avatar and a list of measurements. The applications provide not only digital measurements for customisation but also offer advanced features of virtual try-on, virtual dressing room, body tracking (body fat monitoring/body surface area/BMI), size and fit visualisation and recommendation (Body fit, regular and loose fit preference in garment selection) for personalised online shopping. Therefore, the enhanced opportunities of mobile body scanning applications permit users to enjoy personalising, empowering the consumer to select or produce products to wear and enhance online shopping
3D Body Scanning with Mobile Application: An Introduction to Globalise Mass-Customisation with Pakistani Fashion E-Commerce Unstitched Apparel Industry
No full textForeign Direct Investment and Social Sectors Development: A Review
No full textVarious studies in the past have examined the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth, the key basic assumption common to these papers is that economic growth is a good proxy for welfare of both developed and developing countries. However, research on the influence of foreign direct investment on an expanded conception of socio-economic progress such as human development (measured by the human development index) is absent. This research paper presents the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) and social sectors (health & education) development in the context of developing economies
Interactive Marketing with Virtual Commerce Tools:Purchasing Right Size and Fitted Garment in Fashion Metaverse
No full textTechnological advancements have changed the traditional e-commerce marketing environment to an interactive v-commerce metaverse marketing environment. The chapter outlines the recent v-commerce tools for interactive marketing in fashion metaverse. To enhance interactive marketing in terms of size and fitting in v-commerce, mobile 3D body scanning has a substantial influence on consumers. This empowers them to view fitting and size prior to any kind of purchase. This helps reduce the hassle of online product returns. In fashion metaverse, fashion buyers use mobile device for scanning to acquire personalised, highly detailed 3D body avatar and body dimensions along with interactive features of augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. This provides rich visual information of product in fashion metaverse along with right size and fit viewing with sensory interaction. Consumers can experience in online shopping environment, realistic and engaging distinct features with enhanced functionality, interactivity, convenience, and time efficient. Moreover, the chapter concluded the practicability of v-commerce tools (mobile body scanners, VR, AR, and MR) with four main elements such as immersive technology, interactivity, attractiveness, and accuracy that have the potential to enhance the virtual interactive marketing. Further, v-commerce tools and metaverse environment have been evaluated with AIDA marketing framework to outline the effectiveness of interactive marketing strategy for consumers’ and retailers’ benefit. Thus, the v-commerce has a potential in benefiting retailers with mass customisation, virtual size recommendation, efficient inventory management, and designing of interactive marketing and retailing strategies
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