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enjoy biodiversity - reality laboratory
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Foodscape.ch – A serious game on the Swiss food system as a teaching unit
Agricultural production, consumption, trade of food, etc -- the Swiss food system is as complex as it is central to our daily lives. Our food supply has a greater impact on the environment, economy and society than almost any other area of life. And yet we are not very familiar with the structures and mechanisms ...
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Local Water Loop
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Preservation of Central Asian fruit tree forest ecosystems from bacterial pathogen Erwinia amylovora (fire blight)
Fire blight is a severe bacterial disease of apple and pear that can quickly destroy whole orchards. In the last few years it arrived also in Central Asia, where pomaceous fruit plants represent the dominant species in mid-altitude forests and constitute a critical foundation for the entire ecosystem. Fire blight is ...
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Smart City potential analysis in Meilen ZH
Energie und Wasser Meilen AG (EWM AG) supplies the municipality of Meilen ZH with electrical energy and drinking water. With a publicly accessible "Open Access" fiber-optic network, it ensures a high-quality telecom supply in the community of Meilen ZH. In cooperation with the ZHAW Institute for Sustainable ...
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Swiss Payment Monitor 2019
While the Swiss payment market has developed only slowly over the years and cash has been the main means of payment for many, there has been some movement in recent times – partly due to the increasing internationali- zation and digitization of the means of payment market. As a result, new providers are constantly ...
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The Coffee Blockchain – From Field to Cup
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The impact of standardized tools on child protection assessment
In Switzerland, public child protection agencies are mandated to intervene if a child’s well-being is harmed or threatened and parents are unwilling or unable to remedy the <>situation. Child and Adult Protection Authorities (CAPA) decide upon enacting child protection orders (e.g. deputyships) based on a ...
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Validation of crude and mineral oil life cycle inventory datasets
ESU-services Ltd. has updated the Life Cycle Inventory models for crude and mineral oil products. Before the Life Cycle Inventory models are implemented in the KBOB database v2.2:2016 of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), it is necessary to validate ...
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Behavioral Design for Sustainable Development
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Translation of a novel questionnaire for borderline personality disorder
A novel situational judgement test to assess borderline personality disorder is translated from english to German and evaluated.
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Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT)
English has become the first truly global lingua franca. Even in multilingual Switzerland, English as a lingua franca (ELF) is replacing the four Swiss languages not only in international but also in intra-national communication. What appears at first glance to be a practical solution to communication problems in ...
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Digital communication strategies for the cultural sector in the Lake Constance region
This research project will investigate how a communication strategy for the marketing and communication of the diverse cultural activities and sites in the Lake Constance region could be shaped. For a sustainable strategy development the digitization of the communication, by which also the cultural sector has ...
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InnoBUN - Development and application of a multifunctional sourdough in buns
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MinION2FixID: fast and reliable legume root nodule bacteria identification using nanopore sequencing technology
Rhizobia are bacterial symbionts associated with legumes that are of paramount importance for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen in the soil. The success of this process (and ultimately the performance of the plant) depends on the type of root nodule bacteria, which should be adequate to each plant species. ...
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MOBIS: Promoting Sustainable Mobility Behaviour through Mobility Pricing and Informational Measures
Influencing travel behaviour is an important strategy in view of a number of transport-related societal challenges, on the one hand with regard to the capacity of the transport system and its financing in the face of increasing demand, but also in the pursuit of energy, urban development or health policy ...
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SORA Planning Tool for the approval of civil drone missions
Development of a SORA planning tool (SORA Tool) with focus on the evaluation of ground risks. The dynamic population density, airspaces, airfields, external landing sites as well as safety-critical objects (e.g. nuclear power plants or embassies) are to be represented in map form. The FOCA, the cantons and ...
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Study on the implementation of the new own risk and solvency assessment ORSA, public disclosure for Swiss insurers
The ORSA study examines the implementation progress of the ORSA at Swiss direct-, re- and health insurance companies. The findings from expert interviews and anonymized questionnaires show that ORSA has been established as a planning tool and is used as a reporting tool for the management and the Board of ...
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Tools for statistical Analysis of Accident Occurrences
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Regionalised Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment
The start-up financed project is a research cooperation of the research groups Life Cycle Assessment, Geography of Food and Geoinformatics for the development of a competence focus "Regionalised Agricultural LCA". The feasibility of a regionalised life cycle assessment will be examined with regard to technical ...