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Infused Drinking Water from Dropz
The aim is to introduce a patentable technology that allows Dropz to dissolve quickly and naturally, with minimum additives (clean label), and that creats differentation towards competitors.
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Life Cycle Inventories of solid fossil fuels
The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) commissioned an update of the inventory data for the production of electricity from coal, peat or lignite and their process chains in the UVEK:2022 database. This update provides the upcoming version of the UVEK:2022 database with updated inventories for these types ...
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MaintAIn - AI supported hybrid Predictive Maintenance
Current PdM approaches need large datasets, complex modelling and many sensors which do not scale to machines with little or no historical data. MaintAIn offers a new approach without prior data collection, as few sensors as possible and as simple analytical models as possible.
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NeO2-Sens
One of the great challenges of the future for humanity is the continuous increase in the demand for food production as well as in the greater stress on resources like water or land. Monitoring water quality is essential for efficient food production and water resources monitoring against pollution. The most ...
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Promotion and Protection of Children's Rights: Analysis of the Current Situation and Need for Action
The motion Noser 19.3633 instructs the Federal Council to close gaps in the current landscape of services with regard to the promotion and protection of children's rights. This study, which was commissioned by the Federal Social Insurance Office, is intended to clarify the extent to which the tasks of an ...
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Sensitivity improvement techniques for Raman scattering measurements
Raman spectroscopy is an established measurement method in process and quality control. One of the major challenges in achieving good signal-to-noise ratios due to the weakness of the Raman signal. Since the effective cross-section is very small, interfering signals (such as stray light and interference ...
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«Beyond Public Management» - E-participation based on collective intelligence
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AWARE
The project AWARE aims to build a platform together with students and colleagues of the ICLS on the topics of sustainable studying in Wädenswil: everyday life design, use of resources, nutrition, housing and living. The contents of the platform are to be developed independently by students of the master course ...
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A Guide to Data Storytelling in the Public Sector
The Data Storytelling Guide is designed to support finance professionals working in the public domain to translate facts, numbers, and expert knowledge into understandable and relatable stories. It presents PFM specialists with a menu of options to realize their communication project by offering tips, tricks, and ...
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AUTODIDACT – Automated Video Data Annotation to Empower the ICU Cockpit Platform for Clinical Decision Support
Monitoring diverse sensor signals of patients in intensive care can be key to detect potentially fatal emergencies. But in order to perform the monitoring automatically, the monitoring system has to know what is currently happening to the patient: if the patient is for example currently being moved by medical staff, ...
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48th European Rotorcraft Forum
The European Rotorcraft Forum is one of the premier events in the rotorcraft community’s calendar bringing together manufacturers, research centres, academia, operators and regulatory agencies to discuss advances in research, development, design, manufacturing, testing and operation of rotorcraft. The 48th European ...
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ADHS-Digital: Testing of a «Roundtable-Boardgame»
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Competence for Cantonal Energy and Climate Policy ZHAW through expansion and communication of the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland (CEIS)
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Consumer Perceptions of Dark Patterns
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DEcarbonisation of Cities and Regions with Renewable GAses (DeCIRRA)
Decarbonisation of cities and regions is one challenge which needs to be addressed in order to achieve the Net Zero Target by 2050. In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary setting the Flagship DeCIRRA addresses the following questions: How might we decarbonise cities and regions? How might we make best use of ...
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Flow Chemistry für Enzymkaskaden
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JAMES Study
JAMES stands for Youth, Activities, Media - Swiss Survey (in German). The JAMES Study has been providing representative figures about the media use of young people in Switzerland since 2010 and is conducted by ZHAW every two years. Each time, the study surveys over 1,000 adolescents aged 12 to 19 in the three large ...
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Massive Decarbonisation of the Swiss Building Stock (RENOWAVE)
Buildings are a major source of Swiss CO2 emission, and the existing stock will represent the overwhelming part of the sectorial energy demand for yet several decades to come. Challenges to massive and efficient retrofit are numerous, multifaceted, interrelated and transdisciplinary, from scientific as well ...
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Monitoring Sustainability
Embracing Sustainability is an overarching goal in ZHAW’s strategic leadership, research and education. We contribute to this goal by: building a richly annotated text corpus on Swiss sustainability discourse (defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals), giving access to the corpus for all ZHAW members and ...
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Swiss Circular Economy of Skills and Competences (SCESC)
While automation is advancing and skills gaps are growing, value creation in vocational training is increasingly taking place outside Switzerland. The flagship SCESC, funded by Innosuisse, therefore aims to create a circular economy for skills and competencies. The initiative aims to enable individuals to gain fair ...