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Importance of the UN Disability Rights Convention for the integration of people with disabilities
Examination of the contents of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as well as Analysis with regard to the (normative) significance of the Convention for the Swiss legal system. Publication of a legal commentary with various authors, targeting lawyers, Judges, administrative lawyers and ...
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4th Conference Finance and Industry 2019
Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Finance (4th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry in Switzerland). Thematic Sessions: Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Artificial Intelligence and Fintech challenges for the European banking and insurance Industry Artificial Intelligence in Industry: Artificial ...
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Biochar in greenroof substrates
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Evaluation of Fish and Feed Quality
The nutrition of less commonly reared fish species, such as the European perch (Perca fluviatilis), in aquaculture systems is not an easy task and suitable feed designed for this fish species are not available so far. Thus, feeds designed for other fish species are used which may not be healthy for the perches. A ...
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Floristic and vegetation-ecological analyses of the green roofs of the lake water plant
The water supply system of the city of Zurich is planning major construction works at the Moos plant. The green roofs with nature conservation value (> 100 years old, with botanical values of cantonal importance (Landolt 2001)) are to be preserved wherever possible. The Urban Ecology Research Group has developed a ...
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Integration of Vulnerable Groups in the Healthcare System
With this project we contribute to the improved integration of vulnerable groups into the healthcare system, which constitutes a central component of social participation and social security. The aim of the project is to identify the extent of systematic inequalities in health status and inadequate healthcare use ...
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Morbillivirus cell entry machinery: mechanisms, structures and antiviral drug discovery
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REFRACT – Repeat protein Function, Refinement, Annotation and Classification of Topologies
REFRACT is an international consortium aiming to extend our knowledge on the mechanism of tandem repeat protein (TRP) function and evolution, establishing a common classification and best practices. Starting from available state of the art computational tools and databases, it aims to drive a new level of ...
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Self-learning optical sensor
The goal is to build a compact and low-cost optical sensor that can learn to classify different vegetable oils based on fluorescence spectroscopy using machine learning. The innovative approach is to use a neural network which learns by examples to classify substances without using analytical ...
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The societal costs of Cystic Fibrosis in Switzerland
This study on the societal costs of cystic fibrosis (CF) in Switzerland aimed to estimate the different dimensions of CF disease burden, which are not generated by direct medical costs. CF has a high morbidity and mortality, as a consequence there is loss of quality of life as well as years of life. We thus ...
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Update Materiality Assessment Swiss Bank
The materiality assessment and matrices were updated for a Swiss bank, based on an internal and an external Survey.
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ACDC – Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores to Decipher Protein Function
ACDC will employ a rapidly expanding living technology platform of transformational artificial cell technologies towards the next generation of small molecule drug discovery, protein biophysics, and biochemical energy production. This will be executed through a future paradigm of sensory and synthesis regimes, based ...
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CarbonATE - microbiological methanation
The European Union aims at a transition towards a renewable energy system by strengthening biomass exploitation. Within P2G concept bio-methanation of CO2 from biomass conversion systems with H2 enables an overall emission reduction. For this methanation process the amount of gases serving as potential CO2 ...
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Coating for dressing material
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Market expansion and product strategy of the 'IBDoc Calprotectin home test' for B2B customers
Target group analysis and product requirement definition: Semi-structured interviews and web-based product demonstrations with clinical study nurses.
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Modeling and pricing of participating loans in the context of crowdlending
Development of a participatory loan instrument as a new form of growth financing for SME by a Crowdlending platform. The project includes a credit risk and pricing model as well as a contract model. The project is intended to create a new financing segment.
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Respect for human rights, a brief assessment of the largest German companies
The study assessed publicly available information of 20 German companies based on core indicators from the «Corporate Human Rights Benchmark» (CHRB) method, applicable across all sectors. The indicators cover three areas: «governance and policy commitments», «embedding respect for human rights and human rights due ...
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Robo Market Making Feasability Study
Feasability study for automated market making in blockchain-based secondary markets for loans
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SmartCareNet
The players in the Swiss healthcare system are facing major challenges. Overall, they are experiencing a transformation of the care system in two ways: On the one hand, through a shift from a purely supply-oriented to a demand-oriented system, and on the other hand, through digitalisation and the associated ...
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The effect of programmed ribosomal frameshifting on codon usage bias
The discovery of synonymous codon usage bias (CUB) –the unequal use of codons that code for the same amino-acid– has strengthened the notion that synonymous mutations can alter the fitness of organisms. Synonymous or silent mutations are mutations in DNA that do not alter the encoded amino acid sequence. Since CUB ...