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Positive Energy Districts as a Suitable Instrument to govern the Swiss Energy Transition (PEDSET)
“Positive Energy Districts” (PEDs) are energy-efficient and flexible urban areas or interconnected groups of buildings that produce net zero greenhouse gas emissions and actively manage local or regional surplus annual renewable energy production. They require the integration of different systems and ...
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Smallest and most affordable intraoral scanner in the world, based on the latest optoelectronic components and innovative algorithms
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Use of machine translation in healthcare
The current migration crises as well as the necessity to recruit healthcare staff from abroad highlight the need for healthcare providers to deal with language barriers in a way that is efficient and patient-centred. Machine translation (MT) opens up new possibilities for multilingual communication and is ...
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Where am I? A video game about building culture integration and mourning for Ukrainian children and young people in Zurich
An innovative video game aims to help refugee children from Ukraine integrate and feel at home in Zurich. They can playfully explore the city of Zurich in a virtual way and at the same time establish local references to their hometown. In a 3D model of the city of Zurich, defining buildings are modeled, e.g. the ...
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ZHAW Digital Culture Assessment: After the Pandemic
After surveying staff, faculty, and students, we found an interesting relationship between organizational culture and business-IT alignment at ZHAW. This project aims to show what it looks like two years later, after a rollercoaster ride of corona measures, online and hybrid forms of lectures, exams, and ...
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An experimental framework to allow evidence-based sustainability policymaking
This research project evaluates the feasibility of using a mathematical decision framework (based on the 2019 Nobel laureates in Economy who developed an experimental approach for improving policy in poverty through field experiments) in sustainability policy, and achieving a software-supported and ...
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SUPER-B: Supervised preoperative rehabilitation in patients scheduled for lumbar spinal surgery – A scoping review
Background: Prehabilitation before lumbar spine surgery may pose a valuable contribution to patients' perioperative pathways by improving physical capacity and reducing pain to withstand both, physical and mental stress caused by surgery. Reduced complication rates, faster recovery and sustainable patient-relevant ...
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Service User Involvement in Social Work Education
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AC3T – AI powered CBCT for improved Combination Cancer Therapy
The project enables a novel, combined, adaptive cancer therapy combining tumor treating field and radiation therapy due to significantly improved static (3D) and time-resolved (4D) low dose Cone Beam Computer Tomography images based on artificial intelligence image reconstruction algorithms. ...
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DECIDE - Digital Enabling of Circularity, Innovation, Development and Environment (UNEP)
The goal of this project is to lay the technological foundations for empowering various stakeholders to make fact-based decisions to achieve sustainable consumption and production. In particular, we will evaluate how various data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods can be used to extract ...
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Development of a metalfree System for external prestressing of the cpc concrete structures
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Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government in Europe: Dynamics and Effects from a Cross-Countries and Over-Time Comparative Perspective (DIGILOG)
Background: Digital transformation constitutes one of the most important innovations at the local level of government and is expected to reshape local service delivery, public administration, and governance in Europe fundamentally. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fundamental importance of a ...
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Drone Alarm
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Food Chain Model for sustainable food chains and food waste prevention
The main product of this project includes five modules (toolboxes), which together form the Sustainable Food Chain Model (FCM) and enable the modeling of the environmental effects of entire food value chains. This makes it possible to model scenarios of value chains with their impact on the environment, which is ...
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Gender Pay Gap Analysis
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Omnichannel country study for international MedTech company in the dental sector
Development of an omnichannel marketing strategy for servitisation services of a dental MedTech manufacturer: literature research on international best practices, semi-structured interviews with dentists and dental laboratories as well as recommendations for action for the international management. ...
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Performance, Operation & Reliability of Photovoltaic-Systems
The overall objectives of the International Energy Agency Task 13 are to: Gather the most up-to-date information from each member country on a variety of technical issues related to PV performance and reliability. This will include summaries of different practices from each country, experiences with a variety of PV ...
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Surgical Proficiency – Data-driven transformation of surgical education for proficiency-based performance
Training on patients according to the principle of “see one, do one and teach one” no longer corresponds to today’s requirements and technical opportunities regarding education of surgical residents. During the Covid-19 pandemic, most hands-on training had to be discontinued, leading to an almost complete ...
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Sustainable Packaging Architecture
The goal of the project is to develop an interdisciplinary approach (packaging technology and materials, packaging design, environmental psychology and sustainability) to develop sustainable packaging concepts for existing or new products. Thereby different know-how and experiences in material development, food ...
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SWEET SWICE - Sustainable Wellbeing for the Individual and the Collectivity in the Energy transition
Spatial and temporal boundaries between living and working have become blurred by social processes of flexibilization and digitalization and accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. These dynamics impact energy consumption in both the mobility sector (avoiding trips, reducing distances travelled, shifting trips ...