An Innovative Sensorized Face Mask for Early Detection of Physiological Changes Associated with Viral Infection.

A sensorized face mask could be a useful tool in the case of a viral pandemic event, as well as the Covid-19 emergency. In the context of the proposed project "RESPIRE", we have developed a "Smart-Mask" able to collect the signal patterns of body temperature, respiration, and symptoms such as cough, through a set of textile sensors. The signals have been analyzed by Artificial Intelligence algorithms in order to compare them with gold standard measurements, and to recognize the physiological changes associated with a viral infection. This low-cost prototype of a smart face mask is a reliable tool for the estimation of the individual physiological parameters. Moreover, it enables both personal protection and the early and rapid identification and tracking of potentially infected individuals.

INTRODUCTION: SOME PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR INTEGRATING DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND MUSIC PEDAGOGY

"1 Further down in the thread, like a good student of race and gender theory, she expertly deploys a familiar kind of trope when she claims that she "[doesn't] usually like music by men, but there's something different about [this white man's] music!"2 What is jarring, and consequently funny about her social media post relates to a problem music catalogers are well aware of, and which Sanford Berman described fifty years ago.3 Our ways of referring to people, creators especially, tend to reflect the dominant Western, white, Christian, heterosexual, abled male order. Truthfully, digital humanities (DH) has as much of a diversity and discrimination problem as any other field of scholarly inquiry, but recent shifts in the field have led to an increased focus on structural power dynamics, advocacy, community engagement, recovery, and remediation. The usual caveats apply that not all relevant sources may be found in JSTOR and Google Books, particularly when purchasing access to all JSTOR collections is not within reach for many research libraries, and that both the data and the inner workings of these tools are somewhat opaque. [...]many independent scholars discovered that their access to information resources was significantly curtailed while libraries were providing services exclusively to current affiliates as a way to manage workloads with limited onsite staff. Peter Shirts's position paper calling for an open access, digital music encyclopedia highlights one of many areas of weakness in the scholarly publishing ecosystem: the runaway costs of electronic resources and, for those who have access