Blockchain technology has been rising in popularity since its introduction in 2008. Especially in the food industry and in food supply chains, blockchain could provide a guaranteed safe and reliable traceability system with as few errors as possible. This paper is written for everyone interested in blockchain …

Online food shopping has been a business model on the rise for some time. However, significant increased growth in consumers using e-commerce to purchase food has never been so high as that recorded in 2020. During this year, the world was hit by the pandemic. Governments from countries around the world …

The rise of financial technology (fintech) driven business models in banking poses a challenge for financial regulators. While the positive effects on the banking sector in terms of greater diversity and competition are generally recognized and encouraged by regulators, the nature of fintech business …

This study aimed to evaluate technological (acidification, proteolysis, lipolysis, resistance to low pH, NaCl, and bile salts) and biopreservation (antimicrobial activity against foodborne pathogens) features of 1002 LAB by high throughput screening (HTS) methods. The LAB was isolated from 11 types of …

The objective of this research paper is to identify how the experience of character customization can be improved for trans and gender diverse individuals. Diversity and inclusion has become an important topic in today 's digital games. Though, games containing character customization often only offer …

Autonomous robots require high degrees of cognitive and motoric intelligence to come into our everyday life. In non-structured environments and in the presence of uncertainties, such degrees of intelligence are not easy to obtain. Reinforcement learning algorithms have proven to be capable of solving …

Ever since lake Volkerak got its status as a partially closed-off lake in the late ‘80s, excessive (cyanobacterial) algae blooms in the summer period have been a consistently occurring problem. This research aims to investigate the location-specific effectiveness of wetlands and floodplains in nutrient …

Sense City is based on a study of environmental factors that could benefit people in the autistic spectrum to live on their own, in their own house or neighborhood, with their family or partner, individually or in a group. The project features several case studies houses, in different configurations, …

Over the period of this project, a lot of time was spent on refactoring and combining the code of different teams that have worked on it, mostly changing REST API to adhere to the best web development practices. Another big part of the project was developing an import system where club trainers can import …

Many of the Virtual Fitting Rooms, which are currently available, are built on various methods. Those are mostly virtual avatar or a machine that uses Microsoft Kinect camera, mainly enhancing the experience of in-store shops. The main drawbacks are the high cost of the facility or the inaccurate capturing …