Thermal processing is the major processing technology in the food industry and its purpose is to extend the shelf life of food products without compromising food safety. Apart from the positive effect of food treatments, such ...

The fast technological evolution of our world requests the necessity to make this development sustainable. In order to achieve this goal more relevance has been given to the energy consumption and environmental impact of ...

This research work has been produced with the aim of performing gender recognition in real-time on face images extracted from real video sequences. The task may appear easy for a human, but it is not so simple for a computer ...

How the brain controls movement is a question that has fascinated researchers from different areas as neuroscience, robotics and psychology. To understand how we move is not only an intellectual challenge, but it is ...

The theme of the recovery of historical buildings is current, especially in a period in which, for known economic, financial, social and political reasons, interventions of new constructions and investment have declined ...

In the last decade, the application of microparticles, nanoparticles and composite microparticles involved several industrial fields. Conventional micronization techniques, such as jet milling, spray drying, liquid ...

Collapse mechanism control is universally recognized as one of the primary goals of the structural design process. The aim is to avoid partial collapse mechanisms, such as soft storey mechanisms, which are unsatisfactory ...

A cryptographic protocol is defined by the behaviour of the involved parties and the messages that those parties send to each other. Beside the functionality and the security that a cryptographic protocol provides, it ...

Sustainable building is one area where innovation is constantly being challenged. Innovation means offering something new or changing what exists in order to achieve new results. At present the hardest goal is transforming ...

One of the mega trends over the past century has been humanity’s move towards cities. Public Administration and Municipalities are facing a challenging task, to harmonize a sustainable urban development offering to people ...