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Alpine Farming and Tourism Canton Schwyz (AWUT SZ)
With around 400 farms, alpine farming in the Canton Schwyz is an important part of agricultural production, contributes to shaping the landscape and offers identification and identity. Summer tourism has gained importance in the Canton Schwyz over the last 20 years. There is increasing interaction between alpine ...
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Caring for Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases in Switzerland
Background and Problem Neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are rare genetic conditions that have very serious repercussions for affected individuals and their families. The management of NMD is complex and requires a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to care. At present, there is no primary causal treatment for the ...
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Certification of grease for Flex Shaft
Certification of a new grease, this process included the following steps: Definition of the test requirements Verification of the test processes Setup of the test Arrangements Execution of the Tests Analysis and preparation of the measurement data Preparation of the certification documents ...
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COVID-19 Social Monitor
See https://www.zhaw.ch/en/sml/institutes-centres/wig/projekte/covid-19-social-monitor/
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Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks
Clinical decisions in medicine and management decisions in facility management are regularly made on the basis of little evidence or extrapolations and are also influenced by subjective and economic aspects. While data is generated exponentially in medicine due to increasing digitization, there is no framework for ...
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Digitalization and Automated Tools in Biotech 4.0
Many biotech companies still struggle in exploiting the full potential offered by the rapid transformation towards automation, holistic use of data and implementation of digital tools. As compared to other industries, only few R&D labs and manufacturing plants already comply with 4.0 production concepts. This ...
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Fog-Cloud Continuum Framework for Near-Data Computing
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Hybrid Approach for Robust Identification and Measurement of Investors Driving Corporate Sustainability and Innovation. Design of Policy Tools for Evaluating the Impact of Specific Investors and Assessing the Quality of Companies’ Investor Bases.
Following several decades of profit-oriented research in finance and economics, we have recently been observing a profound transformation in investor perception and a visible shift towards a sustainable financial system. The list of UN PRI signatories includes already over 2,000 large asset owners and keeps ...
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Kyburz stress test rear suspension
The rear suspension of the DXP chassis is subjected to a stress test on the ZHAW test bench. The results are used by Kyburz to improve the life of the individual components and the overall system.
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Marketing insights from open/public data
The company's platform leverages public open data sources for marketing campaign optimisation. The effectiveness of such a campaign depends crucially on external factors such as political opinion, weather, surrounding demographics and even district-level trends. Research questions are: How can data sources be ...
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OptiPhish – Effective and Measurable Phishing Awareness Training
In this project, LUCY - a system for phishing awareness training - will be significantly extended in order to put such training on a scientific basis and to bring it to a new level of quality. The goal is to provide completely automated, effective and individualized phishing awareness training with measurable ...
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PiFoBake: Particel stabilized foams with high mechanical and thermal resiliance for the application in baked goods from non-wheat raw materials
Optimised properties of gluten free baked goods will be achieved through the formation of a foamed pre-mix stabilized with particles (pickering foam) and, thus, highly resistant against shear and temperature. This pre-mix is in a second step mixed with the other bread ingredients, kneaded and baked. ...
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Scaling Smart City Projects - from Individual pilots towards a Common strategy of industry Emergence (SPICE)
In the SPICE project "Scaling Smart City Projects - from Individual pilots towards a Common strategy of industry Emergence", UniFR, HSG and ZHAW analyse the problems for scaling Smart City (SC) solutions from different perspectives. The aim is to accelerate the scaling of SC solutions and the formation of an ...
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Smart policy-driven scanning of Docker images
Docker has become the de-facto standard for containerised application delivery. Hundreds of companies in Switzerland develop, deploy and operate Docker-packaged software regularly, often involving publicly available Docker images produced by third parties. For banks, insurances and other companies with high ...
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Strategies to reduce mycotoxins in grain side product streams enabling their reintroduction into the food value chain
Wheat is one of our key staple foods worldwide and offers high nutritional value, especially when consumed in the form of whole grain. Food safety has become a major challenge in crops in recent years: an estimated 25% of all global crops are affected by moulds1-2. Certain moulds produce mycotoxins, toxic compounds ...
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Fostering electrification of public transport in India
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Digitalisation non-bankable assets (specifically: art)
The art market is one of the last illiquid, intransparent and inefficient markets. KULT ART is a young venture born within, Helvetia Schweizer Versicherungsgesellschaft, one of the largest art insurance companies in Switzerland. KULT ART's vision is that art should be accessible to everyone, not only an ...
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Automatic Counting of Varroa Mites in Honey Bee Colonies
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Preproject Netz: Nutrient and Energy Technology Centre
The preliminary project "NETZ" develops strategies and concepts for tapping the sustainable, energetic potential of substrates of agricultural origin, in particular farmyard manure in Switzerland. The basic idea is based on a separate and efficient fermentation of solid and liquid substrates and includes a ...
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Re@dy4 sustainable electricity?
In recent years, consumers have become more willing to bear additional costs for ensuring a sustainable energy supply. Nevertheless, little is known about consumers' exact willingness to pay for renewable energies. In order to be able to provide an efficient energy mix that corresponds to customer preferences, it is ...