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Selective Laser Melting (SLM) in tool and product development
Additive manufacturing of medical instruments in stainless steel using selective laser melting. Investigation of post-processing methods to improve the Surface (Ra < 0.1micro).
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Advanced CharacTerIsation of Fuel cell stacks for automotive applications (ACTIF)
The project ACTIF aims at optimized operational strategies for fuel cell systems regarding the three main aspects efficiency, life-time and costs on the stack level. This will be enabled by enhanced understanding of fuel cell stacks on the basis of advanced time-resolved characterization techniques and ...
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Conception of an Accommodation Platform to Combat the Vacancy Rate in Switzerland
Conception of an Accommodation Platform to Combat the Vacancy Rate in Switzerland.
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Criteria and indicators for sustainable and resilient GLDC-based farming and livelihood systems
Many small farmers in Africa suffer from soil infertility and dependence on chemical fertilizers. However, no method shows how bad the situation is and to what extent the farmers are prepared for such problems. The aim of this project is to develop criticality indicators for agricultural livelihood systems ...
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Currency hedging for SMEs and pension funds
Swiss corporates and pensions funds have been exposed to substantial currency risks in the last few years. We will build a new open-source innovation for currency trading strategies, that will be incorporated into a new product which can be used as protection against currency fluctuations. ...
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Data-based analytics & predictions to increase overall wind plant revenues under market conditions
We develop and implement a cloud-based revenue optimization system for wind plant operators. By combining data analysis of real-time plant data with revenue schemes, revenue losses due to failures and sub-optimum control can be avoided, and profit can be increased by improved bidding strategies. ...
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Facility Management compensation and industry study 2019
Longitudinal study on the compensation of specialists and executives in the Facility Management market in Switzerland, as well as their influencing factors on behalf of the industry association fmpro. It is designed as a quantitatively online survey for the targeted 1,000 participants in the form of a multi-factor ...
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Feasibility Study Reinforcement Learning for Heating Systems
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Improved LPWAN
This project will investigate and test methods aimed at improving the performance of current popular LPWAN IoT systems. The improvements target several areas such as determinism, latency and energy. They enable new applications that are currently not possible.
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Intelligent IoT Solution to Increase Efficiency in Outpatient and Inpatient (Geriatric) Care
Intelligent IoT Solution to Increase Efficiency in Outpatient and Inpatient (Geriatric) Care
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Local bioColours
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Managing tool for libraries
The ZHAW Institute of Public Management has been involved with operational numbers of libraries for several years. Next to the yearly libraries benchmarking, the institute does research on controlling tools, or performance measurement systems respectively. Operational numbers are rarely interpreted according to ...
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MyFoodChoice: Personal values for sustainable consumption
Consumption decisions are personal and based on one's own preferences, possibilities and values. Everyone has his or her own consumer ethical values and ideas according to which he or she wishes to act. But are they being implemented? A large proportion of Swiss people state that they also pay attention to ...
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Neuronal Growth Modelling (BioDynaMo Initial Project)
The aim of the project is to create a simulation module in the BioDynaMo framework for three-dimensional modeling of the structural development of a part of the human cortex. The implementation is based on an existing model. This project serves an initial contribution to the BioDynaMo consortium. ...
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Pre-Study on Generation of Hockey News
Tamedia would like to develop a software system that automatically generates news articles from hockey game data. ZHAW will explore the different state-of-the-art technologies to evaluate the feasibility of developing a natural language system that generates rich contextual ice hockey game report and, if so, how ...
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Swiss UAS-Compensation Study 2019
Longitudinal study in all three national languages on the wages of university graduates in Switzerland, primarily the graduates form the Universities of Applied Sciences. It is based on a quantitatively online survey with about 10,000 participants, designed as a a multi-factor analysis, which is based on a ...
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The influence of market structure and regulation on carbon markets
The project «The influence of market structure and regulation on carbon markets» analyzes the impact of different market structures and regulatory approaches on carbon markets. This includes the market structure and regulation of the carbon market itself as well as of product, in particular energy, and financial ...
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«How we see this» – The perspective of children in residential care
Evidences from current research and practice indicate clearly: even today, young people are only marginally involved in the decision-making processes that affect them. However, the legal and professional claim to participation is undisputed and thus nearly always an explicit part of formal mission statements and ...
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Advice on developing marketing concept
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Regulatory impact assessment of FINMA Circulars
An interdisciplinary research team (Department of Banking, Finance, Insurance and Center for Corporate and Tax Law) headed by the Institute for Public Management is currently conducting a regulatory impact assessment of FINMA Circulars. The aim is to identify the costs for banks and insurance companies ...