In the last few years, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been increasingly employed in different application domains. Among them, the retail market presents the opportunity to allow people to check the appearan...
With increasing global demand for seafood, seafood byproducts (SB) utilization can contribute to a more sustainable food supply chain through waste-to-value food product development. However, consumer perceptions of SB (e.g., fish skin and bones) are...
Despite the convenience offered by e-commerce, online apparel shopping presents various product-related risks, as consumers can neither physically see nor try products on themselves. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies have b...
The virtual try-on technology based on 2D images aims to seamlessly transfer provided garments onto target person images. Prior methods mainly concentrated on warping garments and generating images, overlooking the influence of feature alignment on t...
With the development of deep learning technology, virtual try-on technology has developed important application value in the fields of e-commerce, fashion, and entertainment. The recently proposed Leffa technology has addressed the texture distortion...
Virtual Try-on is the ability to realistically superimpose clothing onto a target person. Due to its importance to the multi-billion dollar e-commerce industry, the problem has received significant attention in recent years. To date, most virtual try...
Virtual 3D fashion fitting, commonly referred to as 2D virtual try-on, has garnered significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize the way consumers interact with fashion items online. This paper presents a novel approach to virtual try-...
The application of virtual try-on (VTO) technologies in the fashion industry is garnering increasing attention and is regarded as a significant innovation in enhancing the consumer experience for fashion shoppers. This study conducts a systematic rev...
Diffusion-based approaches have recently emerged as powerful alternatives to GAN-based virtual try-on methods, offering improved detail preservation and visual realism. Despite their advantages, the substantial number of parameters and intensive comp...
This in vitro study assessed the efficacy of three cleaning methods on lithium disilicate ceramic after the application of different try-in pastes through SEM analysis. Ten rectangular specimens of IPS e.max CAD were prepared using a diamond disc, cr...
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of try-in paste contamination on the bond strength of lithium disilicate glass–ceramic to dentin treated with immediate (IDS) or delayed (DDS) dentin sealing techniques. Occlusal halves of 33 molars were...
Within the global wave of manufacturing intelligence, AI technologies are revolutionizing industrial frameworks through deep integration. As a resource-intensive sector, fashion has become a pivotal arena for assessing AI’s role in sustainable...
Virtual try-on services, which significantly reduce return rates and enhance user shopping experiences, pose a crucial question: how can user willingness to use these services be increased? Additionally, “Generation Z” consumers, known fo...
Sex differences have been a rarely addressed aspect in digital game-based learning (DGBL). Likewise, mixed results have been presented regarding the effects according to sex and the conditions that generate these effects. The present work studied the...
We explored the adoption of virtual try-on (VTO) technology in Taiwan’s fashion retail sector, which has gained prominence as consumer behavior online has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an extended unified theory of acceptance and u...
As Virtual Try-On (VTON) technology matures, 2D VTON methods based on diffusion models can now rapidly generate diverse and high-quality try-on results. However, with rising user demands for realism and immersion, many applications are shifting towar...
Mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) have a peculiar feeding habit of only accepting live fish prey and refusing dead prey and artificial diets. However, previous research has shown that some individuals accept dead prey after gradual domestication. Dig...
Waterpipe (Wp) use is associated with most devastating diseases and particularly popular among adolescents. Vascular endothelium growth factor (VEGF) is essential for generating new vessels. The effect of smoking tobacco on VEGF is controversial and...
We propose a novel clothing application technique designed for story visualization framework where various characters appear wearing a wide range of outfits. To achieve our goal, we extend a Virtual Try-On framework for synthetic garment fitting. Con...
In response to the rapid growth of mobile Internet, online retailers have created better shopping experiences through new technologies. These shopping experiences are the product of the new interaction methods created by new technologies and the intr...
Recently, fashion industries have introduced artificial intelligence to provide new services, and research to combine fashion design and artificial intelligence has been continuously conducted. Among them, generative adversarial networks that synthes...
The number of attempts to provide students is a key instructional characteristic in computer-based learning (CBL). However, it has not been covered extensively, and there is a need to delve deeper into the factors affecting multiple-try performance a...
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E-cigarettes are commonly used tobacco products among youth populations, including Appalachian youth. However, knowledge of the extent to which tobacco use status relates to temptation to try e-cigarettes is limited. Data from the Youth Appalachian T...
This pilot study examined the influence of cultural immersion on willingness to try fruits and vegetables (FV) among children 3–12 years old in three summer camps in Guam with different cultural exposure levels: cultural immersion camp (CIC), h...
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the applicability of a novel Print and Try technique in the presence of aberrant endodontic anatomies and to achieve a predictable treatment with improved outcome. According to guidelines, cone beam computed...
Seafood processing byproducts (SB) such as bones and skin can be safely used as food ingredients to increase profitability for the seafood sector and provide nutritional value. An online survey of 716 US adult seafood consumers was conducted to explo...
Children’s fussy eating is associated with a reduced vegetable intake. This quasi-experimental study evaluated “Big Chef Little Chef” (BCLC), a nursery-based cooking skills programme aimed at reducing food fussiness and increasing w...
Early childhood interventions have the potential to promote long-term healthy eating and physical activity habits to prevent obesity. However, research studies including indigenous young children are lacking. This study examined the effectiveness of...
The interest for artificial meat has recently expanded. However, from the literature, perception of artificial meat in China is not well known. A survey was thus carried out to investigate Chinese attitudes toward artificial meat. The answers of 4666...
Mycoprotein is a fungal-based meat alternative sold in food retail in various countries around the world. The present study builds on a multi-national sample and uses partial least square structural equation modeling. The proposed conceptual model id...
Background: The Transformative, Resilient, and Youth-Led/Driven (TRY) Gym, a school-based co-creative mental health training programme, is grounded in the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach. It seeks to improve adolescents’ mental health...
Leishmaniasis remains a neglected tropical disease with treatment limitations driven by toxicity, cost, and emerging resistance. Trypanothione reductase (TryR) and glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) are essential Leishmania enzymes supporting...
Objectives: Limited variety in children’s diets impairs lifelong nutrition and health. Head Start is a federal program serving expectant families and children in the United States living at or below the poverty line to the age of five. Head Sta...
Insects as an alternative protein source has gained traction for its advantageous environmental impact. Despite being part of many traditional food cultures, insects remain a novelty in Western cultures and a challenging concept for many. Even though...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized interactive marketing, creating dynamic and personalized customer experiences. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have ventured into how firms in the luxury sector can leverage AI marketing activi...
Insects have been proposed as a sustainable protein alternative to conventional meat sources. However, consumer acceptance of edible insects is still low in the Western Hemisphere. This study examined how product characteristics and consumer beliefs...
We propose a linear regression model for the estimation of human body measurements. The input to the model only consists of the information that a person can self-estimate, such as height and weight. We evaluate our model against the state-of-the-art...
Food preferences begin in early childhood, and a child’s willingness to try (WTT) new vegetables is an important determinant of vegetable intake. Young children living in rural communities are at increased risk for food insecurity, which may li...
The key to model-based Bayesian geoacoustic inversion is to solve the posterior probability distributions (PPDs) of parameters. In order to obtain PPDs more efficiently and accurately, the state-of-the-art Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, mult...
One of the key arguments in favor of digitally produced complete dentures (CDs) is the requirement for less patient visits in comparison to the conventional workflow. However, it is not yet clear if this argument is accurate; nor, if indeed the inser...
With the recent advancement of virtual try-on (VTO) technology, it is being applied to various fields. Although advancements in VTO technology have enabled not only 2D but also 3D visualization, applying style transfer to hyper-local regions remains...
This paper is concerned with the state estimation problem based on non-fragile set-membership filtering for a class of measurement-saturated memristive neural networks (MNNs) with unknown but bounded (UBB) noises, mixed time delays and missing measur...
The convergence of fashion and technology has created new opportunities for creativity, convenience, and sustainability through the integration of computer vision and artificial intelligence. This systematic review, following PRISMA guidelines, exami...
The standard model of elementary interactions has long qualified as a theory of matter, in which the postulated conservation laws (one baryonic and three leptonic) acquire theoretical meaning. However, recent observations of lepton number violations—...
During the coronavirus pandemic, buying and consumption patterns of US consumers shifted towards contactless buying. While the topic of online buying is well explored within the existing literature on this topic, purchasing fruit from a vending machi...
The development of sustainable food production requires reducing the strain from present production systems on the environment using novel/disruptive technologies, one of which is to use grass as an abundantly available raw material, either minimally...
Plant-based milk alternatives are important beverages in US consumer markets. Sustainability, consumer awareness, lifestyle changes, and other value-based reasons are why these beverages are increasing in popularity. The present study is focused on p...
Accurate standard meteorological data sets for each city are essential elements to assess and analyze high-performance buildings quantitatively in order to ensure that they comply with energy saving policies of the nation. ECO2, which is an assessmen...
Fluctuations in oxygen (O2) availability occur as a result of flooding, which is periodically encountered by terrestrial plants. Plant respiration and mitochondrial energy generation rely on O2 availability. Therefore, decreased O2 concentrations sev...
The problem of late recurrence in breast cancer has recently gained attention and was also addressed in an international workshop held in Toronto (ON, Canada), in which several aspects of the question were examined. This Commentary offers a few consi...
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