Exploring the Concept of a Book & Claim Based Carbon Insetting System for the Maritime Shipping Industry at the port of Rotterdam

Alternative fuels can help the maritime shipping industry to lower its emissions. However, there are commercial risks that surround the adoption of these cleaner fuels. A book & claim based carbon insetting initiative could reduce these commercial risks and accelerate the decarbonization of the maritime shipping industry. Carbon insetting is...

Milk, mylk or drink: Do packaging cues affect consumers’ understanding of plant-based products?

The market growth of plant-based alternatives to animal food products pushes agencies around the world to discuss specific regulations regarding their communication, terminology, and packaging design. We created and tested 18 packages of plant-based milk and plant-based chicken meat varying the “animalness” of terminology, container, image,...

An exploratory study using graphic design to communicate consumer benefits on food packaging

Commercial food packages may contain multiple messages. Packaging designers try to integrate all messages into a coherent design. Designers may use text, images or stylistic features, but these mediums may differ in their suitability to communicate specific product benefits. To evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of these three mediums,...

Challenges in preparing for Environmental Technology Verification in a demonstration project: A case study of three innovative water treatment technologies

The European Union's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program aims to foster innovative environmental technologies to reach the market and reassure potential users. This paper presents an investigation of using ETV for three technologies, being developed within the EU Zero Brine research and innovation project. The technologies...

Conveying information through food packaging: A literature review comparing legislation with consumer perception

Although governments have implemented regulations to inform consumers on important product properties and protect consumers from deceptive information, empirical research on how consumers perceive, interpret and experience food packages have shown frequently that consumers may be misled by how information is presented and packages are...

Sustainable Societal Infrastructures: A Resilient Approach to Prevent Conflicting Claims of Drinking Water and Other Infrastructures

Societal infrastructures are the lifeblood of societies, and the sustainability of<br/>infrastructures is very important. Societal infrastructures can experience conflicting spatial claims with other societal infrastructures, disturbing the sustainable situation. The objective of this paper is to design large infrastructures, with a focus on the...

Risk premium pricing methods in Non-Life Insurance for accurate estimation and uncertainty quantification

Free competition in the insurance markets increases the competitiveness and lowers the premiums. If insurers lower their premiums without having a model that accurately quantifies the expected claim size, they can be in serious trouble. This research aims to accurately model the premiums and quantify the uncertainty involved using historic...

Adopting Argumentation Mining for Claim Extraction from TED Talks

Engagement is critical for academic learning. It's commonly believed that motivating students to learn is crucial in education. We think that by providing students some interesting content based on what they are learning is a good idea. Since TED Talks share attractive new ideas, we are planning to motivate students by recommending TED Talks...

On rainstorm damage to building structure and content

The political struggle on and at Kizilay square with respect to perceived, conceived and lived public space before and after 1980

Workshop 3. Politics of public space Abstract: Since the time it was conceived as a socio-spatial project of new established Republic of Turkey, K?z?lay Square in Ankara has been reproduced within its (historical) meaning, (urban) function and (spatial) form, through changing contradictions and actors within political, social and economic...