Perioperative Patient Experience in Office-Based Wide-Awake Hand Surgery.

Purpose: Office-based surgery, is a safe, well-tolerated option associated with high patient satisfaction. However, some patients remain hesitant due to concerns of being awake during surgery. Preoperative anxiety may be linked to poorer postoperative outcomes.

Re-engineer apparel manufacturing processes with 3D weaving technology for efficient single-step garment production.

Traditional apparel assembly technology-cut and sewn process-requires labor-intensive pre- and post-production. While conventional weaving technology has made efforts to streamline the garment-making process, additional assembly processes are still required-sewing or joining after removing the woven samples from the loom. This challenge in the garment-making process discloses the need for a novel type of advanced textile technology and manufacturing techniques incorporating shaping and assembly capabilities.

A model for assessing the efficacy of colour vision aids.

Optical filter aids are marketed which claim to improve colour discrimination in red-green colour vision defectives. An earlier model has been revised and used to assess 9 currently available aids. Spectral reflectances (400-700 nm) for 80 colours equally spaced in hue angle at four equally spaced saturations were synthesised from chromatically adjacent Munsell colours.

Hunger mediates the relationship between food insecurity and binge eating among bariatric surgery candidates.

Background: The food insecurity-obesity paradox suggests that people lacking access to adequately nutritious foods are more susceptible to disordered eating. However, the mechanisms underlying the relationship between food insecurity and binge eating are not well understood.

Objectives: This study sought to assess the role of eating behaviors (i.

Colour schemes to reduce stress response in the hygiene area of a space station: A Delphi study.

This paper aims to explore colour schemes to reduce stress response in the hygiene area of a space station. We conducted a two-stage exploratory Delphi-study with 30 international experts. It was found that the overall environment, stool-urine collection device, garbage collection interface and negative pressure package interface of the hygiene area most affected astronauts' experience.

The impact of age and body mass index on a bra sizing system formed by anthropometric measurements of Sichuan Chinese females.

Existing bra sizing systems are based only on bust and underbust girths, which do not guarantee an accurate fit or comfort for consumers. This study presents a comprehensive investigation of the impact of age and body mass index (BMI) on bra sizing systems, and the distributions of band and cup sizes based on anthropometric measurement data. The first four principal components were extracted by principal component analysis, and the factor loadings of age and BMI were found to be significant determinants of bra size along with 12 other variables.

Evaluation of a model to predict anomalous-observer performance with the 100-hue test.

Two subjects, protanomalous and deuteranomalous, performed the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test with and without prescribed ColorView spectacle aids under simulated D65 lighting. Errors were greater with aids than without. Using spectral measurements of test reflectance, aid transmittance and lighting, chromaticities of the 100-hue caps were calculated with and without aids in the uniform chromaticity diagrams for protanomaly and protanomaly [Ophthalmol.

Quantitative assessment of commercial filter 'aids' for red-green colour defectives.

The claims made for 43 commercial filter 'aids', that they improve the colour discrimination of red-green colour defectives, are assessed for protanomaly and deuteranomaly by changes in the colour spacing of traffic signals (European Standard EN 1836:2005) and of the Farnsworth D15 test. Spectral transmittances of the 'aids' are measured and tristimulus values with and without 'aids' are computed using cone fundamentals and the spectral power distributions of either the D15 chips illuminated by CIE Illuminant C or of traffic signals. Chromaticities (l,s) are presented in cone excitation diagrams for protanomaly and deuteranomaly in terms of the relative excitation of their long (L), medium (M) and short (S) wavelength-sensitive cones.

Development of a whiteness index for dentistry.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to develop a new whiteness index which correlates to perception of tooth whiteness.

Methods: Psychophysical experiments were conducted by a panel of observers under a standard viewing condition as well as under typical clinical viewing conditions. Various existing whiteness and yellowness indices were compared with regard to their ability to measure the perceived whiteness of human teeth.

Characterization of trichromatic color cameras by using a new multispectral imaging technique.

We investigate methods for the recovery of reflectance spectra from the responses of trichromatic camera systems and the application of these methods to the problem of camera characterization. The recovery of reflectance from colorimetric data is an ill-posed problem, and a unique solution requires additional constraints. We introduce a novel method for reflectance recovery that finds the smoothest spectrum consistent with both the colorimetric data and a linear model of reflectance.