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    An examination of the product development process for fashion remanufacturing
    (Elsevier, 2015) Dissanayake, G; Sinha, P
    Fast changing fashion trends have led to high consumption rates of clothing, shortening of life-spans formany fashion products and increasing amounts of textile waste. Addressing the problems caused by theunsustainable landscape of the fashion industry requires alternative solutions, new business models orwhole systems rethink. Fashion remanufacturing is one such strategy that supports material recirculationand thus reduces land filling of fashion waste. This paper examines the concept of fashion remanufac-turing, the requirements for a reverse supply chain and the barriers and opportunities that exist forfuture growth of this sustainable business. The investigation reveals that although collaboration amongkey players along the reverse supply chain is essential for business growth, the extent of this growthis dependent on the commitment and involvement of large fashion retailers and the fashion consumer.We conclude the paper by considering the implications for the fashion industry if fashion remanufacturewere to become a more mainstream business model.
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    Improved state estimation in quadrotor MAVs: A novel drift-free velocity estimator
    (IEEE, 2013) Abeywardena, D; Kodagoda, S; Dissanayake, G; Munasinghe, R
    quadrotor microaerial vehicles (MAVs) are simple robotic platforms with regard to their construction. In their basic form, they are no more than two counterrotating propeller pairs attached symmetrically to a rigid crosslike frame, along with the means to control the speed of each individual propeller. This symmetric design has enabled the quadrotor to become a simple but powerful vertical takeoff and landing aerial platform popular among the robotics community.
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    Measuring the heart pulse rate of a human body using a smart textile panel
    (2010) Athauda, T; Amarasinghe, A; Dissanayake, G; Samaravvickrama, N; Thaasan, S; Fernando, S; Jayavvardena, TSS; Niles, SN
    In today's world people have been using a large number of portable electronic devices in medical diagnosis. Of particular note are the portable heart measuring meters, insulin measuring units etc. But today the world is moving towards (he path of integration of portable sophisticated devices with clothing to achieve simultaneous multi tasking approaches. The concept of electronics collaboration with textiles. called Electronic Clothing , has come to play in many areas. This paper explores this phenomenon from a textile point of view. H hat are the possibilities of integrating electronics into wearable clothing? How can the functionalities of clothing be improved with the presence of health related issues? These questions are being addressed here and the ways of integrating electronics into textile structures are also discussed. Necessary steps to textile research and the current trends of clothing will be taken into consideration with possible future trends and challenges