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LOFT – Local food for the future
The project aims to improve vertical farming production and operational efficiency by combining innovative production know-how and technologies with enhanced sustainability. The approach will establish the feasibility and profitability of sustainable, year-round production of high-quality crops. ...
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Multifunctional Super-Continuum-Laser-Equipped Electro-Optical Probestation for Advanced Device Characterization
Emerging optoelectronic materials are one of the main drivers of innovations in the fields of sustainable energy supply, advanced lighting and display technology. Development of such materials and in particular their application in electronic devices requires a detailed optoelectronic characterization, both ...
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Turf Pathogen Screening System using Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification
The objective is the development of a real-time pathogen screening system for a group of global relevant turf grass diseases using loop mediated isothermal amplification, LAMP technology. From a turf sample, DNA isolated and amplified using LAMP. Pathogen occurrence in the sample will be detected directly with the ...
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Water Storage System for Lunar Life Support and Exploration
Early technology development of water storage system for lunar life support and exploration. Define hydraulic architecture, including electric and thermal budgets Develop a dynamic numerical model of the system (hydraulics, electric components, thermal behavior, control and instrumentation). Testing of scaled ...
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Optimizing plant health in indoor farming using reinforcement learning
The research question we tackle in this project is "How can we automatically optimize the growth path of indoor-farming plants?". To achieve this goal, we develop new algorithms to measure plant health and growth. We then evaluate reinforcement learning based approaches to optimize these metrics. ...
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Impulse: New Constant Quality JunFunori®
JunFunori® a sustainable restoration product made from Japanese algae is subject to natural, climate-induced variations in quality. The pre-treatment, extraction and drying processes to be developed will result in the only standardised Funori consolidant for art and cultural property.
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Efficiency analysis of multiple sclerosis therapies
In this project, various questions regarding the efficacy of approved multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies were analyzed. This included descriptive analyses of various medical metrics, as well as time-to-event models corrected for real-world biases. The analysis is based on the real-world data of NTD. ...
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Breaking Security for Fun and Profit – Educational Bug Bounties for Micro Enterprises
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3D Time-of-Flight in Sensor Fusion
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Advanced Optimization Algorithm
The project is about identifying advanced algorithms that can optimize production process parameters in the light of applying MSCC Massive Simultaneous Cloud Computing, numerical simulation as well as methods in regard to machine learning.
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Challenging or Reproducing the Status Quo?
From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, architecture in Italy and in particular in Milan was strongly bound and motivated by political conviction. In history books, though, all that is left of this intense period of intellectual and professional activity seems to be the sole figure of Aldo Rossi, especially in ...
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Denner-Mobile: Sustainable Shopping Mobility
Analysis of the shopping behaviour of Denner customers and derivation of measures to promote sustainable mobility behaviour. This subproject examines the current state of Denner's shopping traffic.
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Development of Customizable ESG-compliant Financial Products for Swiss Asset Owners and Managers
Development of forward-looking ESG-compliant methods for systematic strategies on equities, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, responsible shorting, and option overlays.
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Development of multi-functional, modular green wall systems with 3D rapid prototyping for circular cities
This project aims to advance green wall technology and systems by combining innovative production know-how (3D printing, material development) with ecological aspects to close water loops and expand green infrastructure in cities. Together with an international company, a modular approach will be taken to create ...
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Development of new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of cancer
Further therapeutic approaches are urgently needed for the treatment of cancer. The aim of this project is to synthesize active substances that interact with biological target proteins relevant in cancer therapy. For this purpose, multi-step organic syntheses are carried out and the active substances are ...
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End-to-End Low-Resource Speech Translation for Swiss German Dialects
This project investigates the application of recent findings in Speech Translation to Swiss German. Speech Translation (ST) is the task of translating spoken utterances in one language into written text in a different language. It serves as an essential tool for breaking down language barriers in various ...
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Online Retailer Survey 2022
The Swiss Online Retailer Survey 2022 is the fifth online retail survey the first author has conducted. A total of 625 online retailers participated in it, including business-to-consumer (88%), business-to-business (43%), and direct-toconsumer (13%) companies. In addition to 496 Swiss retailers, 109 Austrian online ...
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Process development and biomass production of S. cerevisiae spiked with heavy water
In this project, process development, media optimization, and scale-up of yeasts of the genus S. cerevisiae are investigated. The aim is to achieve maximum biomass yield.
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ProdUse – Closing the gap between model-based energy scenarios and its potential users to support evidence-based decision-making for the transformation of the Swiss energy system
Model-based energy scenarios can guide decision-making under considerable uncertainty by conceptualizing multiple pathways and assessing associated trade-offs. Although energy transitions require various actors to make long-term and resource-intensive decisions with low margins of error, empirical evidence of ...
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Social work in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality technologies allow users to immerse themselves in computer-generated worlds. For social work, this offers new possibilities for practice, teaching, and research. With our study we want to explore the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) for a specific scenario concerning the topic of couple conflicts in ...