596 research outputs found
Finding the sweet spot: a sustainability strategy and holistically sustainable packaging designs for Bertolli
No full textFood packaging serves many functions, from product protection to extending product shelf life to enabling convenient or effective usage (i.e., portability, resealability) to communicating relevant information or brand image to consumers. However, packaging has various negative impacts on the environment throughout its life cycle. While consumers are aware of the detrimental environmental impact of packaging, there is a mismatch between consumers’ perception of packaging sustainability and the scientifically-measured impact (Otto et al., 2021). This thesis explored the intersection of the consumer, governmental, and scientific perspectives on packaging sustainability, while also balancing other important aspects (i.e., quality perception, feasibility, etc.) to realise a holistically sustainable packaging strategy. The client company for this project was Enrico Food, the brand owner of Bertolli. Bertolli is a key player in the Mediterranean foods category in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. This project aimed to contribute to two of Enrico’s business objectives: a successful launch of the Bertolli pasta sauce product line in the UK and improving the environmental sustainability of the pasta sauce packaging. This thesis resulted in a suitable sustainability strategy and holistically sustainable packaging concepts for the UK launch and beyond.First, background research into the system surrounding (Bertolli’s) food packaging was conducted via stakeholder interviews and desk research. Literature research into sustainable packaging design strategies, consumer behaviour, and brand sustainability strategy was carried out. A framework integrating various stakeholders’ perspectives was developed to aid in the creation of a suitable and meaningful sustainability strategy for Bertolli. Various tools and methods identified in the literature review were employed to evaluate the current packaging formats and develop new packaging concepts. The strategy and concepts were refined based on internal and external stakeholder feedback, expert feedback, and consumer studies.This process resulted in the proposal of a comprehensive sustainability strategy that addresses relevant material issues in an authentic way. Concerning packaging design, a revamped design of Bertolli’s pouch pack format was proposed. The pouch was identified as the most suitable pack format for Bertolli to focus its efforts on in the short-term and medium-term due to its current and forecasted environmental performance, ease of implementation, and high consumer acceptance. Various sustainability cues (i.e., naturalistic graphic design style, claims, and sustainability information) were embedded to improve consumer sustainability perception. For the long-term time horizon, two main strategies were proposed: direct-to-consumer models and reusable packaging models. Roadmaps were developed to guide Bertolli in implementing the proposed sustainability strategy and packaging sustainability improvements. This thesis provides insights into sustainability strategy development, UK consumers’ packaging preferences, and techniques to design and evaluate sustainable packaging concepts.Integrated Product Desig
Pornochanchando: em nome da moral, do deboche e do prazer (C. Bertolli Filho & M. Pessoa do Amaral)
No full textPornochanchando: em nome da moral, do deboche e do prazerOrganizadores: Cláudio Bertolli Filho e Muriel Emidio Pessoa do AmaralEditorial: Editora Cultura AcadêmicaAno: 2016Páginas: 312ISBN: 978-85-7983-796-
Pornochanchando: em nome da moral, do deboche e do prazer (C. Bertolli Filho & M. Pessoa do Amaral)
No full textPornochanchando: em nome da moral, do deboche e do prazerOrganizadores: Cláudio Bertolli Filho e Muriel Emidio Pessoa do AmaralEditorial: Editora Cultura AcadêmicaAno: 2016Páginas: 312ISBN: 978-85-7983-796-
Influence of severe thermal preconditioning on the bond between carbon FRCM and masonry substrate: Effect of textile pre-impregnation
No full textFabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) composites often include polymer-impregnated bundles to improve the exploitation of the textile mechanical properties. However, organic components may degrade when exposed to elevated temperature. In this paper, the bond behavior of a carbon FRCM applied to a masonry substrate and exposed to a thermal preconditioning up to 300 °C for 250 min is investigated. Tensile tests on the textile and flexural and compression tests on the mortar matrix, as well as single-lap direct shear tests of FRCM-masonry joints with bare and impregnated textiles, are performed. Results show that the polymeric impregnation improves the mechanical properties of the FRCM even after thermal preconditioning
Fault tolerance for data parallel programs
No full textThe main issues when supporting fault tolerance based on checkpointing and rollback recovery for
High-Performance applications are related to the scalability of the introduced support, the possibility of
analyzing the induced overhead and, in more general terms, the optimization of the trade-off between
failure-free and recovery performances. In this paper we describe our contribution in fault tolerance for
high-level structured parallelism models. We take a different viewpoint w.r.t. existing contributions, by
introducing a methodology to derive interesting properties to support fault tolerance. We show how to
apply this methodology to a general data parallel model, deriving useful properties to introduce a class
of checkpointing protocols. Thanks to this methodology, this class of protocols is not affected by the
described issues. We exemplify two checkpointing protocols and the related rollback recovery techniques.
For each protocol we also derive cost models statically describing the failure-free performance, which can
be used for performance tuning or to target some Quality of Service parameter. To assess the innovation
of the results we analytically and experimentally compare the introduced protocols with two literature
protocols. Results show that while the protocols introduced in this paper permit the definition of cost
models and have a good scalability, the literature protocols do not always have these properties
Pornochanchando: em nome da moral, do deboche e do prazer (C. Bertolli Filho & M. Pessoa do Amaral)
No full textPornochanchando: em nome da moral, do deboche e do prazer
Organizadores: Cláudio Bertolli Filho e Muriel Emidio Pessoa do Amaral
Editorial: Editora Cultura Acadêmica
Ano: 2016
Páginas: 312
ISBN: 978-85-7983-796-
A cost model for autonomic reconfigurations in high-performance pervasive applications
No full textIn the last years we have seen the diffusion of platforms
including high- performance nodes (e.g. multicores) and
powerful mobile devices (e.g. smartphones) interconnected
by heterogeneous networks. Relevant examples of applications
targeting these kinds of platforms are Emergency Management
and Homeland Protection which provide computing/
communication activities characterized by user-defined
Quality of Service constraints. In this paper we introduce
the ASSISTANT programming model for adaptive parallel
applications. ASSISTANT components are specified in multiple
versions, each one dynamically selected according to an
adaptation strategy aimed to target the required QoS levels.
For these applications a key-issue is a well-defined adaptation
semantics featuring a cost model which describes the
overhead for reconfiguring a component (e.g. when switching
between versions). In this paper we introduce our approach
and we evaluate this cost on a flood management application.
Author Keywords
High-Performance Computing, Adaptivity, Autonomic Computing,
Application Reconfigurations
An integrated communication-computing solution in emergency management
No full textIn the last years an even more attention has been focused on emergency and crisis management systems. Both communication and computing aspects are of primary importance for a fast and reliable response in these particular scenarios. Differently from other approaches, in this paper we consider an integrated communication and computing solution, by proposing a joint approach, where a distributed computing platform and a heterogeneous meshed communication system interoperate in order to enhance the system reliability and readiness
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