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NanoPAT – Process Analytical Technologies for Industrial Nanoparticle Production
Nano-scaled materials are abundant in different stages of industrial manufacturing. Physical and chemical properties of these materials are strongly dependent on their size. Characterisation of mean size, size distribution, and shape of nano-scaled particles is very critical for the quality and efficiency of ...
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One-Click energy simulation for architects
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Public COVID-19 pandemic discourses
The containment of the COVID19 pandemic relies heavily on the communication between public health organizations and individual social groups. Therefore, public discourses and discursive practices of specific audiences play a crucial role in the policy implementation during a pandemic. Through discourse analysis ...
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Smart Cities & Regions Services Enablement (SCReSE)
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Socially acceptable AI and fairness trade-offs in predictive analytics
Fairness and non-discrimination are basic requirements for socially acceptable implementations of AI, as these are basic values of our society. However, the relation between statistical fairness concepts, the fairness perception of human stakeholders, and principles discussed in philosophical ethics is not ...
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Sustainability? Who cares?
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Thermophoretic Simulator
We are developing a novel type of nano-particle-collector. It will collect nano-particles in a very controlled fashion out of ambient air. Extending and applying an in-house Eulerian Lagrangian OpenFoam solver, simulations are used to optimize the device in terms of particle-deposition characteristics. ...
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COVID-AIR: Influence of the COVID-19-lockdown on Swiss air quality
In order to manage the corona pandemic, the number of aircraft movements was reduced worldwide. Before the Federal Council's decided to release the first relaxation measures, only 10% of scheduled flights took off at the end of April at Zurich Airport. But road traffic also fell sharply in the Zurich region: ...
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Digital Transfer Platform for COVID-19 Research
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic force researchers to identify and classify the many different events and developments during the crisis period within a short period of time in order to develop and work on targeted research questions on COVID-19. The data and digital tools of corpus and discourse linguistics ...
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Digital transformation and everyday life in families during the corona pandemic: Impact on well-being of ZHAW employees and their children
The coronavirus has accelerated the digital transformation at the ZHAW: Main buildings have been closed, in return home offices have opened from dawn till dusk. We are interested in how ZHAW employees and their children live and experience these changes. We are particularly interested in the children's perspective: ...
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Distance leadership
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Prototypes for the Sustainable Digitisation of University Teaching
The COVID-19 Pandemy has forced higher education into fast forwarding their digitisation across the board. This creates valuable and relevant information for the sustainable digitization beyond the crisis mode. The project structures evidence-based digital teaching exsperiences and digital competences at ...
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Remote, Hands On Computer Networks Lab
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Synthetic data generation of CoVID-19 CT/X-rays images for enabling fast triage of healthy vs. unhealthy patients
The automatic analysis of X-ray/CT images through artificial intelligence models can be useful to automate the clinical scanning procedure. Nonetheless, the limited access to real COVID patient data leads to the need of synthesizing image samples. The goal of this project is to use existing CT/X-ray image datasets ...
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Use of digital tools for socially isolated people in home care and their relatives during social distancing – digital support against social isolation (DASI)
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ZHAW Digital Culture Assessment
What role does IT management play in digitalization, and with what impact on organizational culture? In the Corona crisis, we observe that IT provided necessary solutions for contactless teaching "overnight." How did it accomplish this? Which cultural dispositions were critical to succeed in this respect? And ...
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Predictive replenishment of urban distribution centres for the decentralised food supply
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High speed communication link for atomic force microscope instrumentation
SPECS Zurich is a supplier of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) Controller Systems. A new high-speed communication architecture will be designed and a proof of concept will be built. The new link will be able to transmit up to 16 Gbps with extremely low jitter and high synchronicity between different devices. ...
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ADHD digital - Scientific counselling and evaluation of a pilot project.
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AFBioPro - Prozesstechnologische Optimierung von Schutzkulturen
Protective cultures find broad application in various food product classes, yet mostly on an empirical basis without systematic optimization. This project is dedicated to the evaluation of process-technological means to enhance the performance-critical features of protective cultures, while taking into account ...