Smart sensing systems for in-home health status and emotional well-being monitoring during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has restricted the mobility of the population. The experts propose several solutions in order to decrease the number of patients infected with this new virus by treating and monitoring them within the comfort of their own home. A new direction for the research has been identified including healthcare smart sensing systems which can provide medical diagnoses, surveillance, and treatment partially or totally remotely. The field of wearable, smart sensing solutions is becoming nowadays a widely accepted solution characterized also by the increased level of acceptance with regard to home health status monitoring. Pervasive computing and wearable solutions are frequently a topic included in current projects and are expected in new future developments, particularly in the pandemic context which forces people to remain mostly at home. As part of wearable devices the design of textiles, computer science, and smart materials are the three major development directions. The latest developments associated with the monitoring of health status and emotional well-being are presented and discussed in this chapter.info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersio

SPINNING STRAW INTO GOLD: TURNING ACADEMIC PAPERS INTO COMMERCIAL FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR SOLUTIONS

This paper presents an example of academic work that has been applied in industry. A case is presented of a solution to a serious operational problem involving fluidization phenomena threatening to cause structural damage to an operating chemical reactor. The process used to analyze the problem and arrive at a probable cause and design solutions are presented

Towards a multimodal ethnohistorical approach: a case study of bookplates

This study uses four examples of bookplates printed in Edwardian Britain (1901–1914) to demonstrate how the adoption of an ethnohistorical approach to social semiotics can vastly strengthen multimodal analysis. It argues that situating choices of image, colour, typography and materiality in archival research and the broader sociohistorical context of the Edwardian period can help to uncover the external motivations for a bookplate’s structure. The case study reveals that bookplate designs were primarily influenced by the social status and wealth of owners, as well as the specific, well-established norms of the bookplate genre. It also highlights the significance of connecting semiotic choices to the traditions of Edwardian society and the ways in which meanings can shift over time. The findings demonstrate the importance of grounding hypotheses concerning the function and form of artefacts in concrete historical documents, in addition to the vast potential of this methodology for exploring other texts within a particular historical period

The advertising and marketing of the Edwardian prize book: Gender for sale

This article uses the prize book catalogues of six major British religious and secular publishers of the Edwardian era to explore the advertisement and marketing of gender in the early twentieth century. In particular, it is concerned with how boys and girls were framed by advertisements and whether differences existed according to the beliefs of each publishing house. It also investigates attitudes towards books and their context of use, as well as their strategy of appeal and the values invoked by phrasing. It demonstrates that through their linguistic choices, stereotyping and ideologies, both secular and religious publishers played a key role in the development of a distinct boys’ culture and girls’ culture in Edwardian Britain. While girls were cast into submissive roles based on righteousness and respectability, boys were marketed as the superior sex who had a moral responsibility to advocate Britishness, imperialism and heroism. The analysis shows how mail-order catalogues acted as a precursor to modern mass media, suggesting continuity rather than change in the world of advertisin