Ricerc@Sapienza

Given the food challenges that society is facing, we draw upon recent developments in the study of how food reputation affects food preferences and food choices, providing here a starting standard point for measuring every aspect of food reputation in different cultural contexts across the world. Specifically, while previous attempts focused either on specific aspects of food or on measures of food features validated in one language only, the present research validates the Food Reputation Map (FRM) in Italian, English and Chinese over 2,250 participants worldwide.

This paper talks about an original hardware project of a measuring instrument dedicated to microbial fuel cells (MFCs) electrical characterization and valorizations. MFC is a promising energy harvesting technology with zero carbon emission[1], which can produce suitable energy for low power electronic devices for application like wireless sensor network (WSN)[2] for ambient monitoring or precision agriculture.