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Monitoring Vaccination Discourse
The WHO identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the ten major threats to global health. It can be assumed that the public discourse has a significant influence on the individual vaccine decision. Thus, to understand and counter vaccine hesitancy, it is crucial to understand how media reports on vaccination, how ...
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NAFTAQ: Novel AFM Techniques for Autonomous Quality Control in Industrial Manufacturing
This project aims to fill technological gaps and develop key innovations critical to quality control with atomic force microscopy in high-throughput processes. It allows Nanosurf to offer new quality control solutions for industrial manufacturing, today's fastest-growing market segment.
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Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services (NATWORK)
The ambition of the EU NATWORK project funded by Horizon Europe - 6G SNS (2024-2026) is to set the foundations and deploy the very first economically realistic, energy efficient, and viable bio-inspired AI-based 6G cybersecurity and resilience framework for intelligent networking and services, taking a holistic ...
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Net4Cities – Real-Time Monitoring Networks and Transport Emissions for Tailored Zero Pollution Action Plans in European Cities
The EU Europe H2020 project Net4Cities aims to monitor and allocate traffic emissions of all kinds in order to enable their targeted reduction as part of the Zero Pollution Action Plan. To this end, new standards for monitoring air pollution and noise emissions are being developed in 11 European cities, ...
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Packaging technology, stability evaluation, and non-destructive testing for commercialization of perovskite solar modules (PACSTATE)
For commercialization of emerging perovskite solar modules, we aim to develop new encapsulation and anti-degradation materials, a commercial system for accelerated stability evaluation, advanced non-destructive testing and modeling methods for comprehensive solar module optimization.
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Product Market Fit Boost - Peace of Mind for Your Innovation Idea
A Product Market Fit (PMF) Boost for entrepreneurial ideas of ZHAW-related people (e.g., students, employees, start-ups) that provides innovators with peace of mind.
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Revolutionizing Skill Development: How AI Can Enhance Training for Decent Work and Climate Resilience
Climate change is affecting most of the world population faster than the population can adopt. This issue is present in daily lives, agriculture, urban planning and distribution of goods and utilities. Decisions need to be taken in real time, supported by knowledge captured in various data representations. The ...
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Smart urban green spaces
The importance of urban green spaces is growing the longer they are used to mitigate the effects of global warming (including an increase in hot & dry summers, and more intense heavy rainfall): ground-covering vegetation delays the drying out of unsealed surfaces, increases evaporation, improves the cooling function ...
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Strengthening ORD competences in the Applied Sciences: Open Educational Resources for Swiss-AL
Recent developments of platforms for Open Research Data (ORD) have led to a high demand for training materials that enable researchers to successfully use FAIR data. That is particularly true for platforms offering access to large collections of language data and the application of data-driven and distant-reading ...
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Swiss Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Action Plan and Implementation (SwissSTES)
Substituting fossil fuels with renewable energies will not be feasible without a massive expansion of seasonal energy storage. Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) can make a significant contribution here. To date, the importance of STES for improving security of supply has been overlooked, although it has a ...
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Unified Model for Evaluation of Text Generation Systems (UniVal)
We are developing a statistical model, how text generation system could be evaluated using a combination of human annotations and automatic (error-prone) metrics.
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Control platform for gallium nitride-based power converter
Feasibility assessment of a FPGA based control architecture suitable for GaN based power converters.
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Study on potential and challenges of blended and therefore homogenised biochar with consistent properties
Study on potential and challenges of blended and therefore homogenised biochar with consistent properties.
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AMIT – Assessment of multimodal interpreting technologies
Language barriers in healthcare can lead to lower patient satisfaction, longer consultation durations and even lower access to medical services. To overcome these barriers and ensure proper treatment for allophone patients, healthcare professionals rely on interpreting services that are delivered in-person, via ...
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Swiss Digital Circular Construction Ecosystem (SWIRCULAR)
The project aims at establishing a Swiss Circular Construction Digital Ecosystem to facilitate the paradigm shift towards a circular construction industry. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we will develop economic, legal, and technological innovations to aid adoption of circular practices in the Architecture, ...
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Calculation of an optimized freight configuration for aircraft
When loading an aircraft freight hold, the space should be used as efficiently as possible. For this it is important to take account of spatial dimension, volume and weight of goods such as pallets and crates. There is an excessively large number of possible arrangements, which is why packing optimization has ...
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A diagnostic tool for NMR CryoProbes
In this project, we aim to develop a diagnostic tool based on optical cryothermometry involving a suitable phosphor material to optically probe the temperature of NMR resonators very locally, via temperature dependent fluorescence lifetime measurements.
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ALIENCE - Alpine PV Competence
The realisation of alpine PV plants faces a special challenge compared to plants on the Swiss Plateau. In the Alps, wind loads are higher, snow drifts occur, temperature cycles are faster and temperature amplitudes are larger, and at the same time the irradiation of energy-rich UV light is increased. This results ...
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Automated research output retrieval and self-archiving notification service for authors (AURORA)
With the Swiss National Open Access (OA) Strategy’s goal of all research publications from public funding being freely accessible by 2024 drawing closer, actions generating immediate impact are of utmost importance. We believe that encouraging authors to self-archive their publications in professionally ...
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Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society (SWEET COSI)
CoSi is a research project funded by the "SWEET" program of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (call 1-2022) and carried out by the University of Basel. The project deals with the interactions between society and the energy system. To this end, various areas of social research (economics, social sciences and ...