All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Acceptance of an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 in the Swiss population
The survey of 1929 adults in Switzerland in the period from 17 - 26 April 2020 suggests that a large majority of the population in any case or probably intends to a) install an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2, b) report infections in the app and c) comply with the app's request for contact reduction or ...
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Anaerobic Treatment of Industrial Wastewater (Siegfried AG)
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CV plus: more power of «Corporate Volunteering» in Swiss Parks
This study analyses the practical experience of the programm of corporate volunteering in Swiss Parks during the last eight years. It focuses the different regional impacts and benefits for a better understanding of the sustainable effects for the development in rural areas. Main interests are the impacts for the ...
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EXTRA - Extreme weather events in agriculture
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Homeworking during COVID-19 lockdown: Relationships between physical and social environments at home, work fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and future teleworking inclinations
Background This study examines the impact on workers of the rapid migration to homeworking during the COVID-19 pandemic. During lockdown many workers have worked from home while managing additional demands (e.g. childcare, shared homeworking spaces) and often in the absence of adequate ergonomic equipment, such as ...
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Cleaning Isolation rooms used by Covid-19 patients
The Institute for Facility Management (IFM), together with stakeholders from the healthcare and cleaning sectors has produced a series of training videos on cleaning the isolation rooms used by COVID-19 patients. To train cleaners on how to clean isolation rooms with COVID-19 patients and ensure their safety. This ...
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Alpine Farming and Tourism Canton Schwyz (AWUT SZ)
With around 400 farms, alpine farming in the Canton Schwyz is an important part of agricultural production, contributes to shaping the landscape and offers identification and identity. Summer tourism has gained importance in the Canton Schwyz over the last 20 years. There is increasing interaction between alpine ...
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Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks
Clinical decisions in medicine and management decisions in facility management are regularly made on the basis of little evidence or extrapolations and are also influenced by subjective and economic aspects. While data is generated exponentially in medicine due to increasing digitization, there is no framework for ...
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Digitalization and Automated Tools in Biotech 4.0
Many biotech companies still struggle in exploiting the full potential offered by the rapid transformation towards automation, holistic use of data and implementation of digital tools. As compared to other industries, only few R&D labs and manufacturing plants already comply with 4.0 production concepts. This ...
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PiFoBake: Particel stabilized foams with high mechanical and thermal resiliance for the application in baked goods from non-wheat raw materials
Optimised properties of gluten free baked goods will be achieved through the formation of a foamed pre-mix stabilized with particles (pickering foam) and, thus, highly resistant against shear and temperature. This pre-mix is in a second step mixed with the other bread ingredients, kneaded and baked. ...
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Strategies to reduce mycotoxins in grain side product streams enabling their reintroduction into the food value chain
Wheat is one of our key staple foods worldwide and offers high nutritional value, especially when consumed in the form of whole grain. Food safety has become a major challenge in crops in recent years: an estimated 25% of all global crops are affected by moulds1-2. Certain moulds produce mycotoxins, toxic compounds ...
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Preproject Netz: Nutrient and Energy Technology Centre
The preliminary project "NETZ" develops strategies and concepts for tapping the sustainable, energetic potential of substrates of agricultural origin, in particular farmyard manure in Switzerland. The basic idea is based on a separate and efficient fermentation of solid and liquid substrates and includes a ...
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Determining the strategic need for action in the digitalization of hospitals on a normative, strategic and operational level
Increasing cost pressure and the required competitiveness are forcing Swiss hospitals to optimize their non-medical processes, in particular regarding efficiency and productivity. Digitalization introduces new opportunities for transforming business processes that meet future health policy requirements and support ...
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Climate-KIC Summer School
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GardenPark Hohrainli
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Julius Meinl Kaffee - The Golden Age of Coffee
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Novel membrane integrated Buss Loop Reactor for process intensification
This project is about the development of a novel membrane integrating Jet-Loop reactor to intensify a reaction by means of integration of an in situ pervaporation (PV) step.
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Softscope
Imaging techniques (photography, microscopy, tomography, etc.) have long since become indispensable in the life sciences. A manual evaluation of the images is still difficult to reproduce, due to the large number of high-resolution images, it is practically impossible to do so in time and is rarely statistically ...
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Transfer to large scale production of live vaccine against Campylobacter in chicken
In this project, the techno-economical basis for the industrial production of a new vaccine against Campylobacter in veterinary settings is to be established. Important tasks include bioprocess design and scale-up, as well as the development of advanced in-process monitoring and control technologies. [Further ...
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Evaluation of benefits and risk of assisted migration in Fagus species
Risk and benefits of assisted introduction of drought-resistant Fagus species in Europe European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is one of the economically most important broadleaved trees in Europe. Its natural geographical diffusion area is however expected to experience a major shift as a consequence of global warming. ...
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ChitinOMix – A multidisciplinary project to understand the effect of chitin soil amendment on the plant response, natural microbial community and the fate of human pathogenic bacteria
The consumption of fruit and vegetables are considered as important for a healthy and balanced diet and recognized as a significant source of vitamins and fibre. Authorities encourage the consumption of fresh plant produce, but food safety of fresh fruits and vegetables continues to be a major concern. By now it is ...
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KEF Strip - Preliminary Study on development of an "AgriStrip" for the Spotted Wing Drosophila, SWD
In cooperation with Bioreba AG, it is to be clarified whether it is possible to develop an "AgriStrip" (lateral flow device, such as pregnancy test) for the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii. This requires literature research and preliminary laboratory tests.
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SFOE mandate for the "Energy from biogas" working group of the International Energy Agency (2019-2021)
Urs Baier is the SFOE's mandate holder for the triennium 2019 - 2021 in the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Task 37 working group "Energy from Biogas". The aim of Task 37 is to exchange information and disseminate knowledge on the production of biogas and its use in energy production. The mandate represents an ...
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WWF Standards Evaluations
In 2015, the NGOs PUSCH, WWF and others published a comparison of food standards on the Swiss market in order to help consumers make informed purchasing decisions. This comparison is based on a multi-dimensional evaluation through indicators in environmental, social and governance aspects (Herrmann et al., 2015). ...
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Bioprinting of biofilms
Biofilm formation by microorganisms on surfaces is a natural phenomenon, but can also cause major problems in various fields of application. To evaluate measures for or against biofilm development, specifically developed test systems are often used. The reproducible production of biofilms is essential. By means of ...