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Novel Metrics Plastic to Oil Recycling
This project seeks to uncover the inherent economic potential of the plastic-to-oil technology itself, offering valuable insights for other entities in the plastic-to-oil sector.
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Open Strategy and Commitment - Empirical Study
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OsteoFusion: Highly osteoconductive and fast incorporating ceramic implant solutions for Sports Medicine (and Orthopedics)
In Sports Medicine, a faster return to full activity, a better cost-benefit ratio, and maximized patient comfort are paramount. OsteoFusion provides a solution with an innovative ceramic implant that transforms into bone being anchored by ultrasonic liquefaction of a fiber-reinforced biocomposite. ...
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SmartSenseAI
SmartSenseAI develops a robust, extremely low-cost, customizable, flexible multi-purpose skin for cobots, enhanced by cognitive information processing. This will significantly increase safety in physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC) and enable proactive, intuitive and reactive interaction. SmartSenseAI ...
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ZHAW Summer School for HealthTech Innovators
Planning, promotion and realisation of the 3rd ZHAW HealthTech Summer School according to the Stanford Biodesign innovation approach: 2.5 weeks in July with clinical immersions in three different medical application areas to develop disruptive Digital Health, DTx and MedTech solutions.
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Investigation of the Applicability of the Open-Source Software Decidim for Participatory Governance of Municipal Legislative Programs
To investigate the acceptance and applicability of Decidim for the participatory management of legislative programs, interviews were conducted with officials responsible for politics and participation from Swiss cities and municipalities.
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ESIT - Relief in the electricity grid through innovative grid tariffs
The increasing electrification of mobility and buildings will cause new local bottlenecks in the electricity grid of municipal utilities in the future. These bottlenecks will necessitate cost-intensive grid expansion. Dynamic price signals should prompt home energy management systems (HEMS) at end customers to ...
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ActinOmics: bioprospecting and genomics of actinobacteria isolated from the Marchica lagoon
The massive and excessive use of antibiotics in medicine has led to the emergence and spread of multi-resistant pathogens, rendering treatment with the usual antibiotics ineffective. Added to this phenomenon of antibiotic resistance is the emergence of new infectious diseases, often zoonotic, in humans. Hence the ...
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ACTS - Agroforestry Carbon Token System
Agroforestry has significant benefits for climate change mitigation and sustainable agroecosystems. For its valorisation as climate protection project, a new carbon certification scheme that allows continuous accounting of the CO2 removed by biomass carbon on a blockchain system is developed. ...
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Analysis and synthesis of policies for the digital transformation of a Swiss canton
The relevant strategic frameworks were analyzed to ensure the coherent management of digital transformation across organizational and federal borders. Using the steering levels (principles, fields of action, priorities, objectives) as a starting point, the frameworks were compared, and commonalities and gaps ...
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BioDeTox - Microbial reduction of zearalenone, a grain-relevant mycotoxin
Wheat is one of the world's most important staple foods and offers high nutritional value, especially as a whole grain. Especially with crops such as wheat, food safety faces a major challenge due to mould infestation: an estimated 25 % of all crops worldwide are infested with moulds, including species that ...
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Bridging the gap: Dialogues between scientists and the public, policymakers, and journalists about lost past pandemic experiences
Since COVID-19, interest in past pandemics has been greater than ever because lessons from history can contribute to a better understanding of the present. However, COVID-19 has revealed a flagrant memory gap about pandemics: Switzerland has lost its “collective memory” of 20th century epidemics. The experiences ...
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Computational Thinking Education for Diversity and Inclusion (CoTEDI)
This Erasmus+ project aims to identify, develop and implement a new common methodology for the application of computational thinking (CT) in a variety of educational settings with a focus on teacher professionalisation and student empowerment. Special attention will be paid to inclusion criteria, special ...
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Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice
Covers the advancements of 40 years of digital writing with precise descriptions of more than 20 key technologies Makes the state of the art in writing technology and its development accessible for both researchers and practitioners Discusses the implications of technological advancements for writing theory ...
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Exploration of Country-specific Barriers and Facilitators for the Implementation of Physical Activity according to the EULAR Physical Activity recommendations for people with Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Diseases in four different European countries
Personal barriers and facilitators to Physical activity (PA) have been reported in several studies conducted with patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases. They were generally very similar (e.g., symptoms, erroneous beliefs, social support). However, European countries differ on factors regarding ...
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HD.ng++ Automated Web Server Classification
The HD.ng++ project creates a system to support an analyst in a Security Operations Center (SOC). The developed system provides meta-information on domains and IP addresses to assist SOC-Analysts by the investigation of potentially malicious domains or IP addresses.
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High Speed Networking Switch for Surgical Research
For their novel surgical research and teaching centre OR-X, the university hospital of Balgrist is looking for a Data Hub solution, allowing to synchronise signals of TOF cameras, optical tracking systems and robots in a simulated operating room and exchange them with a central DGX server. ZHAW is developing a ...
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Innovative Immunotherapy Approach
The goal of this project is the synthesis of peptide loaded nanoparticles.
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MaM Monitoring of AV-Media
The monitoring of print and online media has been taking place more or less automatically for a long time. Since an ever greater proportion of new content is produced first or even exclusively for audiovisual (AV) media, the importance of monitoring these AV media has soared. Since the monitoring of AV media can ...
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Potentials of Advanced Text Technologies: Machine Learning-based Text Recognition (PATT)