All projects from the School of Management and Law
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Sleep Coach
Quality of sleep has an impact on mental and physical health and thus on general well-being. several factors that influence sleep quality exert their effect in the hours before falling asleep. Activities that promote or hinder sleep quality during this time are commonly subsumed under the term "sleep hygiene". ...
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Dark Rates in Crime
Logobject is interested in addressing the question: for every illegal incident detected, how many illegal incidents are left undetected? The research partners at ZHAW develop a novel statistical method to estimate the dark rate of illegal activity. Logobject will use this method to provide their customers with ...
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Employing Natural Language Processing to identify inconsistencies in companies’ non-financial communication
NLP &ML tools for Swiss asset managers and owners for identifying inconsistencies in companies’ financial and non-financial communication
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Quantitative decision model for sustainable corporate financing
This project aims to develop a quantified and scalable decision model for sustainable corporate financing. Findings from various sub-disciplines of finance and financing practice are to be integrated into an overall model. At the same time, a validation with capital market data is to be implemented so that the model ...
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Square Kilometre Array: Mock-observations via generative deep learning
In this project we use generative deep learning methods (GANs and VAEs) to produce realistic astronomical mock-observations of numerically simulated astrophysical objects, as they will be obseved by the Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA). This project contributes to the Swiss-wide activities for SKA of the SKACH ...
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Tech4SDG – Guiding Swiss Asset Managers towards High-Impact SMEs
High-impact, social SMEs remain broadly unknown to impact investors and asset managers due to limited information and identification problems. To overcome the asymmetry of information and provide reliable guidance to Swiss asset managers, we aim to create an automated big data platform for the identification, ...
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Energy Startup Day
The Energy and Cleantech Startup Day is a yearly event where startups and pre-startups in the energy and cleantech sector can explore cooperation potential with established companies and public institutions (technology companies, utilities, municipalities) as well as energy researchers and initiate cooperation and ...
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How to Digitize a Textbook?
The challenge: Books are still essential as knowledge carriers and also for teaching at the ZHAW. Nevertheless, digitization in this area is mostly limited to administrative aspects (e.g., eBooks, databases), whereas the content potential through interactive and multimedia elements is largely neglected. The ...
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Sustainability Reporting
Sustainability in terms of ecology, social commitment and corporate governance aspects (ESG) is a highly relevant topic in practice. The scientific community is involved as a discussion partner and develops well-founded solutions for various related issues. The Institute for Financial Management, for example, is ...
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TikTok privacy behaviour of Swiss young people
The social media app TikTok is heavily used by young people worldwide and is also very popular among Swiss young people. However, the app has been criticised for its low level of data protection, prompting the app provider Bytedance to step up its efforts in this area (e.g. function restrictions for people under ...
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Collaborative Workshop Solution in Augmented and Virtual Reality
Identify relevant elements for the successful implementation of workshops in augmented and virtual reality with participants who take part decentrally in the workshop.
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Digital Companion
To increase patient adherence, the Digital Companion combines electronic medical records with a patient app to create a highly integrated system, closing the loop from one consultation to the next. Helmedica is thus gearing up against foreign competition.
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Health Technology Assessment: Medicines for Dementia due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
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Supernodes in the dHealth Network
The dHealth Network is a decentralized blockchain based on NEM's open source technology and primarily designed for the healthcare market (specifically the pharmaceutical industry). As part of the network, the operation of a supernode will be enabled by ZHAW. Such a supernode is already used by the Blockchain Center ...
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The ZHAW Partner Guide
The challenge: External stakeholders such as industrial companies or start-ups are usually not familiar with the ZHAW's performance mandate and organizational structure. Therefore, these stakeholders often have a lack of information regarding possible forms of collaboration, available R&D and service offerings, as ...
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SWEET DeCarbCH – Decarbonisation of Cooling and Heating in Switzerland
DeCarbCH is a research project sponsored by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy’s “SWEET” programme (Call 1-2020) and coordinated by the University of Geneva. The DeCarbCH project addresses the colossal challenge of decarbonisation of heating and cooling in Switzerland within three decades and it prepares the grounds ...
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Distance Interaction beyond Zoom
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Marketing Automation Report 2022
Around two-thirds of Swiss companies rate marketing automation technologies as relevant or very relevant for their own operations. This means that the importance of such solutions has increased significantly in the recent past: In the previous year's study, only 40 percent of companies said they used marketing ...
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Case Management using Propensity Score Matching
The effectiveness of case management (CM) is estimated using propensity score matching. A core element of the methodology is the elimination of differences in observable characteristics between the comparison groups. In particular, it will be analyzed how the reintegration rate of cases with CM differs from that of ...
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Omnichannel-Benchmark Study for an international Pharmaceutical Company
Benchmark study on omnichannel marketing in the pharmaceutical sector, including literature research on international best practices, semi-structured HCP customer interviews in three different indication areas and comparative HCP platform analysis.
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Touchless Robotic Gripper based on Acoustic Levitation
Touchless Robotic Gripper based on Acoustic Levitation.
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A standardized Sustainable Energy Finance solution for SMEs’ implementation of low-carbon energy solutions
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Digital Certificates for Luxury Goods – From Product to Ecosystem
Digital Certificates for Luxury Goods – From Product to Ecosystem.
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Environmental and Social Assessment at Mine Sites using Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics
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Decentralized Registration and Trading Platform for Emission Certificates
The Fair Recycling Foundation is involved in refrigerator recycling and operates a refrigerator recycling factory in Cabreúva (Brazil), which extracts toxic CFCs from old refrigerators and destroys them in an environmentally friendly manner. If these refrigerators were disposed of and destroyed in normal car ...