This is the summary talk for the theoretical part of ICFP03. The contents of the talk are reviewed, and a general outlook is given. It is a special pleasure for me to give the Summary Talk on Theory at the conference on flavor physics, held in Seoul (Korea) in 2003. Not far from here, in China, one talks about philosophers like Konfuzius or Laotse. The physics of flavor is certainly not the wor...

Online social media is a social vehicle in which people share various moments of their lives with their friends, such as playing sports, cooking dinner or just taking a selfie for fun, via visual means, i.e., photographs. Our study takes a closer look at the popular visual concepts illustrating various cultural lifestyles from aggregated, de-identified photographs. We perform analysis both at m...

Environmental degradation is a direct result of our actions based on the current paradigm of having infinite resources to support infinite consumption. The paradigm penetrates our everyday lives; one of its expressions is our diet that is a direct cause of environmental issues. Although animal agriculture is an environmentally devastating industry, it is an industry with the most potential to c...

Plastics have been used extensively in both food and water packaging because of their inherent properties such as low bulk densities and inertness that make them convenient carrier materials and low risk contaminants. Plastic bottles and sachets used to package iced water that is sold to people in transit points and in moving vehicles have become widespread in the sub-region. However, the packa...