Imagining the future at the global and national scale: a comparative study of British and Dutch press coverage of Rio 1992 and Rio 2012

Climate change and imagined futures are intricately linked, discussed by policymakers and reported in the media. In this article we focus on the construction of future expectation in the press coverage of the 1992 and 2012 United Nations conferences in Rio de Janeiro in British and Dutch national newspapers. We use a novel combination of methods, semantic co-word networks and metaphor analysis to analyse imagined futures. Our findings show that between 1992 and 2012 there was a switch from future-oriented hope to past-oriented disappointment regarding implementing international agreements on climate change policy. While the UK focused on global issues, the Netherlands focused on national (including colonial) and local ones, reflecting different views and expectations about the future of climate change adaptation and mitigation

Food industry by-products valorization and new ingredients: cases of study

The concern about food and beverages is gaining importance for the general public in terms of health and more environmentally sustainable food products. Healthy foods imply the awareness on their safety, nutritional characteristics, and the potential inclusion of nutritive complements such as antioxidants, vitamins, and proteins, which promote a benefit to the consumer's health. Also, organic foods, with less added chemicals such as pesticides, are more demanded recently. The environmentally sustainable food production has to reconsider the wastes as by-products that can be transformed to provide valuable compounds (antioxidants, fiber, fuels, etc.) that could be used as new products or raw materials in the food industry or even applied in other sectors such as pharmaceutical, polymer, and energy industries. In this chapter, selected successful case studies in which food wastes are transformed into new products by using different separation and purification technologies will be shown. Furthermore, the use of different wild vegetables from natural environments as a source of valuable compounds and new ingredients will be described.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

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Dataset for "Sweating the Details: Emotion Recognition and the Influence of Physical Exertion in Virtual Reality Exergaming" and EmoSense SDK

All the raw participant data that was used for the EmoSense SDK and the CHI 2024 paper "Sweating the Details: Emotion Recognition and the Influence of Physical Exertion in Virtual Reality Exergaming". There is data for 72 participants. Each participant has 10 csv files: 2 aggregated calibration, 2 raw calibration, 3 raw study - These files contain sensor measures under different conditions - and 3 affect response files - participant ground truth measures of affect. Questionnaire_Data contains post exercise-bout measures of intrinsic motivation and flow. Baseline_Affect_Data is prestudy participant ground truth affect measures. Aggregated_Data contains an aggregate file of all participant data that was used for the analysis described in the CHI paper