This study aims to assess the carbon footprint associated with vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous menus for primary school lunches in Italy. For this purpose, healthy and acceptable menus with minimal greenhouse gas emissions have been designed by a binary linear programming model. The results show...
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School is considered a privileged environment for health education and school feeding represents an opportunity for promoting sustainable foods to young generations. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that is possible to select, from existing school menus, recipes that combine healthy...
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In this work, a set of diet plans that are nutritionally adequate and healthy, affordable, and environmentally friendly is analyzed. They refer to two-week full-board menus for nursing homes and are designed using a multi-objective optimization model in which different conflicting goals, such as...
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Objective: The aim of this study is to define a healthy and sustainable diet model with low GHGE, fulfilling dietary requirements, and considering current Italian food consumption patterns. Design: A duly designed database was developed, linking food nutritional composition and GHGE based on 921...
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Background: Food consumption is one of the most important drivers of the relation between human well-being and Earth's ecosystems. The current production level is difficult to sustain without compromising environmental integrity or public health. This calls for a decisive change in food consumption...
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Sustainability of food consumption concerns both environmental and economic issues. In fact, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization defines as sustainable diets those that are protective and respectful of ecosystems, culturally acceptable, economically affordable, besides ensuring an...
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Food consumption patterns and lifestyles heavily affect the environmental sustainability of food production at least in terms of water consumption and greenhouse gases emission. In this paper, a systematic procedure based on an operation research approach is presented in order to define menus with...
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The knowledge of the environmental depth is essential in multiple robotics and computer vision tasks for both terrestrial and underwater scenarios. Moreover, the hardware on which this technology runs, generally IoT and embedded devices, are limited in terms of power consumption, and therefore...
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On the impact of stale information on distributed online load balancing protocols for edge computingThe distributed nature of edge computing infrastructures requires a significant effort to avoid overload conditions due to uneven distribution of incoming load from sensors placed over a wide area. While optimisation algorithms operating offline can address this issue in the medium to long term,...