Projects of the ZHAW Departement Life Sciences and Facility Management
In the project database you will find all current projects in chronological order in descending order of time. Specific projects of the ZHAW can also be found via the search engine.
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BREADMOD – Set-up of a Collection of bakery relevant moulds
In this project, ca. 300 moulds will be isolated in the bakery environment (air, bread) and identified aming at representative strains for screening and challenge test. The selected fungal strains will support selecting antifungal protective cultures with specific and broad spectrum of activity agains moulds from ...
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Calcium carbonate based active packaging
The aim of this project is to develop antimicrobial and oxygen scavenging materials for food packaging applications. Both antimicrobial and oxygen scavenging functions will be developed using ground or modified calcium carbonate which has a very high potential to incorporate active ingredients into packaging and to ...
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EuroBioTox – European programme for the establishment of validated procedures for the detection and identification of biological toxins
Recent incidents in Europe and worldwide have threatened civil society by the attempted use of different biological toxins and have thereby shown that increased vigilance and adequate preparation is of increasing importance in a world facing growing risks of man-made disasters. Previous studies which the consortium ...
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What does the Swiss population eat?
MenuCH data will be analysed in order to assess cultural differences between language regions of Switzerland with respect to consumption, dietary patterns, and associated lifestyle factors. Differences in consumption of meat and meat products; milk and dairy; and beverages, will be compared to nutritional ...
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Wind energy potential in close proximity to the rail network of the Rhaetian Railway RhB
This applied research project aims to identify and prioritise suitable areas for wind energy production in close proximity to the railway network of the Rhaetian Railway AG. The study refers to the vertical wind turbine A32 of the Vertical Sky series (Agile Windpower AG). Wind conditions, topographical restrictions ...
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Workplace strategy for public administration
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Conditioning of Green Coffee Prior to Roasting
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Integrating Cyber Physical Systems - Service Robotic
The integration of "cyber-physical systems" into the service ecosystems and processes of facility services and facility management "FM" represents a future challenge that we are already dealing with today at the research level. In this project we want to investigate how far the first generation of humanoid service ...
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Multimodal Porous Particles
Ordered silicate-based porous materials have been at the forefront of research efforts in various fields, including heterogeneous catalysis, drug delivery, adsorption and separation, environmental remediation, photonics, optoelectronics, and sensing. Conventional ordered porous materials, such as zeolites or ...
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Longitudinal progression of White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH)
According to the latest figures from Alzheimer Switzerland, there are currently 48,242 women and 15,711 men aged 85 years and older living with dementia in Switzerland. So-called White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH), which can be measured in MRI images of the brains white matter, are distinct biomarkers of dementia ...
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Advanced Bayesian inference with stochastic hydrological models
With advanced numerical techniques, including Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) and Machine Learning (ML), we want to push the limits of Bayesian inference with stochastic models. The focus of the application will be on the hydrological sciences.
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Automated Airborne Pest Monitoring AAPM of Drosophila suzukii in Crops and Natural Habitats
Drosophila suzukii has become a serious pest in Europe since its spread in 2008 to Spain and Italy, attacking many soft-skinned crops such as several berry species, cherry and grapevines. Pest monitoring is the basis of its control. Therefore, an efficient and accurate monitoring system is essential in order to ...
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Bio-SODA – Enabling Complex, Semantic Queries to Bioinformatics Databases through Intuitive Searching over Data (SNSF NRP 75 "Big Data")
One of the major promises of Big Data lies in the simultaneous mining of multiple sources of data. This is particularly important in life sciences, where different and complementary data are scattered across multiple resources. To overcome this issue, the use of RDF/semantic web technology is emerging, but querying ...
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Nanofiber-based aerogels for a filtration system in biotechnological Downstream processes
The processing of fermentation solutions and cell homogenates is one of the most important steps in biotechnological downstream processing. Constantly optimized fermentation processes lead to dramatically higher cell densities, which can no longer be separated in an economical way with the existing standard ...
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Pearls of Sustainability
Sustainability can be experienced directly on Campus Grüental. Here you can discover "the Pearls of Sustainability" and learn more about our research Projects. Study our treasure map and track down the individual pearls. With a little luck, you will not only learn a lot about the 17 sustainability goals of the ...
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Characterization of nitrogen dynamics in an aquaponic system
An aquaponic (AP) system combines a recirculating aquaculture system (production of aquatic animals, mostly fish) with a hydroponic system (production of plants) and recycles water and nutrients between these two main components. Nutrient-rich water from the aquaculture component is directed to the hydroponic ...
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Teamspaces: Workplace Concept for agile Software-Teams
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Infectiology++ - Germ Tracking
In this project, we develop a system for the detection and analysis of germ transmission chains in the University Hospital Zurich. The system is based on an expert system solution in combination with machine learning (reinforcement learning).
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Agriculture and more
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Exploring the silent fitness landscape
Since Darwin, natural selection has been recognized as one of major biological forces shaping genetic patterns in molecular data. Detecting selection on proteins has become an indispensible part of genome studies. Remarkably selection can act not only on proteins, but also on synonymous codons translating into the ...