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Green!Tea: Renewable Energy for the Vietnamese tea sector
Vietnam is one of Southeast Asia’s economic powerhouses. It aspires to high-quality agricultural production with a view to lucrative export markets, while transitioning towards more renewable forms of energy production to meet COP26 commitments. Solar power and biomass from productive forests are meant to support ...
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Improving the well-being of residents in care homes by making catering services more flexible with the help of technology
It was known from previous projects that catering services in retirement and nursing homes are currently strongly geared towards working hours and the presence of employees. With the increasing individualisation of society, it can be assumed that future residents will demand more flexible catering options. It can ...
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Inhibitors targeting SARS-CoV-2 proteases
So far, vaccines are available to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, which can protect against a severe course, although part of society also does not want to be vaccinated or cannot do so due to pre-existing conditions. With a drug that can fight the virus in the organism, infected patients with severe symptoms would ...
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Measurement and quantification of inertia on electrical power systems to support integration of renewables (QUINPORTION)
The ever-increasing integration of renewable energy sources within modern power systems has significant benefits from the economic and environmental point of view, but poses also some technological challenges that shall be addressed to guarantee a safe and continuous service. Distributed energy resources ...
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Natural Malagasy Plant Dyes
With the Natural Malagasy Plants Dyes the international project team with researchers from the University of Antananarivo and from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences supported by Flexknit as project partner intends to develop a sustainable dyeing processes which is based on the sustainable use of Madagascar’s ...
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Road Safety Key Performance Indicator System for Switzerland
In Switzerland, certain Key Performance Indicators (KPI) on road user behaviour are collected and evaluated annually. This is mainly done through observations or surveys regarding self-described behaviour. It is in the nature of things that some procedures are rather time-consuming and error-prone. In the areas of ...
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Robotic Digital Manufacturing – Shaping Product Market Fit
Robotic Digital Manufacturing – Shaping Product Market Fit.
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The effect of fear appeals on online privacy protection behavior
It has been shown repeatedly that the degree to which individuals are willing to disclose personal information appears to be independent or only weakly related to their individual privacy concerns or their intentions. In the domain of data privacy, this gap between attitudes and intentions on the one hand and ...
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The Impact of Personal Therapy on the Sense of Coherence and Quality of Life of Psychotherapy Students
Most of the psychotherapy research considers clients with psychic diseases and symptoms as outcome measures. Complementary to that, the present study takes a salutogenic perspective and addresses the question, how personal therapy of psychotherapists in training (who are a healthy population) affects their Sense ...
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Triggering conditions for autonomous cars
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Valorization of Swiss Agri-Food Side Streams
Food waste is a topic of concern worldwide as substantial amount of food ends up as waste along the food value chain. This represents not only a resource problem but also an environmental and economic one, on top of being a moral challenge for the modern society. The production of food waste covers all the food life ...
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International Business Innovation
Joint student teams from MSc International Business at ZHAW School of Management and Law and the legendary ME-310 course at Stanford University collaborate in an unique format to develop extensive new domain knowledge and numerous functional and business model prototypes. They engineer and strategize solutions ...
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Food-Save Hub
The foodwaste problem is receiving increasing attention and there are more and more initiatives by individual players. Experience has shown that efficient foodsaving and upcycling of foodstuffs are primarily hampered by challenges in logistics. This leads to competitive disadvantages compared to ...
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Fault Prognostics under Data Scarcity: Data Augmentation using Transfer Learning
In this project we will develop methods for fault prognostics of process sensors. In particular, we will focus on the transferability and generalization of these methods for various types of process sensors in different field applications of these sensors and under diverse operatiive conditions. The methods combine ...
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Mobile Inclusion Lab
We create a Real-Lab (Mobile Inclusion Lab, “MobILe”) that enables experimental development of sustainable rehabilitation and assistive (R&A) technologies for people with disabilities. By providing a toolkit (hardware and software, e.g., 3D-printing, sensors, motors, human-computer interfaces) with teaching ...
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Active modified surfaces for contained drug release
In this project, a protocol for immobilization of novel anti-fibrotic drug compounds within electrospun meshes of polymer fibres will be established. These meshes will allow for a local and sustained release of the incorporated drug molecules for the treatment of chronic wounds or to prevent implant ...
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Smart UMH: Smart urban multihub concept: Sustainable and liveable cities with low logistics visibility
Cities suffer from too much traffic, leading to congestion, air and noise pollution. Increased e-commerce popularity intensifies these challenges further. The Covid crisis has proven that our urban logistics systems are neither reliable, resilient, nor sustainable. Our objective is to develop a future urban ...
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The cost and value of physiotherapy in Switzerland: a health systems perspective
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Highly efficient and CO2-neutral power generation from biomass
The project analyzes the potential of a new process for highly efficient electricity generation from biomass in Switzerland. The innovative process uses high-pressure steam-gasification of biomass and is currently being developed by Phoenix Biopower. In addition to various types of biomass, hydrogen can also be used ...
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Algorithmic fairness in child protection decision-making
The field of child protection is faced with two major challenges: One is to identify children who need to be protected from child abuse and neglect, the other is to select the most promising intervention once a case of child maltreatment has been identified. In recent years, new approaches to statistical prediction ...