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World Food Day 2022; no one should be left behind
Economic crises, conflict, inequality and subsequent food price rises make difficult to access adequate food and the lack of availability creates even more inequality. All these situations are affecting food security and preventing a path towards ending hunger and...
New challenges in plant-based food
Environmental concern and awareness linked to the expected population growth, and with it the increase in demand for food and the need to ensure the sustainability of resources through more efficient processes has led to a change in the consumption trends. Consumers,...
Energy & Environment
Central Asia, from its history marked by the silk route, to its present and promising future as a sources of renewable energy sources
If any of us were asked what we know of Central Asia, perhaps we could say it’s a geographical region located in the heart of the Asian continent made up of several countries that emerged from the disintegration of the USSR. We might even be able to name some of them...
We ran out of light
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a meeting of companies working in the field of information and communication technologies applied to the energy sector. Among the participants were representatives of companies that develop solutions based on artificial...
Environment
(Bio)hydrogen: a sustainable energy source for the future
Over the past decades, hydrogen has been identified as a potential clean fuel, although its mass adoption has been hampered by the abundance of oil and low relative prices of fossil fuels, as well as, in recent years, by the advance of the battery electric vehicle....
Fermentation, travel partner
Fermentation is perhaps one of the oldest technologies that has accompanied humanity for thousand of years. Throughout history, numerous evidences and traces have been found that demonstrate the use of fermentation by several cultures and civilisations, as a common...
Industry
Artificial Intelligence, an intelligence that needs non-artificial data
The common denominator of artificial intelligence is the need of available, good qualilty and real data to advance in the different procedures needed to create and train the models. Practical research in AI often lacks available and reliable datasets so the...
Robust solutions with simple ideas
Machine vision is one of the enablers of Industry 4.0 with increased integration in production lines, especially in the quality control of products and processes. In recent years, a real revolution is taking place in this field with the integration of Artificial...
Health & Quality of life
Spanish Food Industry: forced to improve the food composition
Food is a trending topic. It is known that a good diet is that which nutrients and food are properly combined, which allows a good state of health. However, disorders in the diet are currently a real challenge for public health. The growing figures of obesity and...
RoboCup: the world’s largest robotic competition
The main interest of this event "Robocup" is the advances in development of service robots, whose goal is to help humans in their daily life At the end of July it took place in Nagoya Japan RoboCup 2017, and for the first time, I had the great opportunity to...
Construction and Heritage
Heritage and Cultural Tourism: A marriage of convenience?
Cultural heritage, in the broad sense, is the legacy received from our ancestors, which becomes the testimony of their worldview, their ways of life and their way of being, having to be passed down to future generations. Knowing the cultural heritage is to know the...
Why do we like some landscapes more than others?
Each landscape makes specific, different, unique feelings. When contemplating a meadow dotted with trees, we do feel something totally different from what we feel looking at a desert area. This also happens when facing cultural landscapes1. A Romanesque church does...
Digitalization
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