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Aqu@teach: innovative educational tools to promote learning among European
Aqu@teach responds to the lack of adequately skilled personnel to design and operate innovative aquaculture and aquaponics Technology, by equipping students with transversal skills that will provide them with a competitive Advantage in the labour market. This Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for Higher Education, ...
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Collection of normative data with a cluster and trunk marker model
Movement analyses using stereophotogrammetry are commonly conducted in order to assess pathologic or healthy movements under different conditions. The plug-in gait marker set, used so far at the movement laboratory at ZHAW, is depending on precise placement of markers on specific anatomical landmarks. However, when, ...
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Digital Parent Advisor
Parents and particularly young mothers increasingly use the internet to obtain information about child health and child development. In Switzerland there are no data on the prevalence of parents' use of digital information sources related to child health and development. Most importantly, in Switzerland as well ...
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Drone flight beyond visual line of sight
Research project to develop procedures for safe drone flight operations beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). The term BVLOS describes a flight or part of a flight during which the drone pilot does not have visual contact with the drone. For example, these can be flights at night, flights in poor visibility (fog) or ...
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HEPP - High Efficiency Power-to-Gas Plant
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Improving rural livelihoods through promoting high-quality coffee and coffee cherry products in the origin countries Colombia and Bolivia
To improve the livelihoods perspectives of smallholder coffee farmers, the project will generate and promote knowledge in origin countries on domestic quality markets, increased added value of coffee and coffee cherry products for coffee farmers and their organisations within origin countries and beyond. The project ...
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INTEND – Intentify Future Transport Research Needs
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NatalieDB: Natural Language Interface for Databases
Due to the success of relational databases, new trends in big data technologies and Open Data, the query languages SQL and SPARQL are the most-widely used techniques to access databases. Even though SQL and SPARQL are very powerful, significant technical knowledge and training is required. Today, business users ...
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PhD Network in Data Science
Swissuniversities project to promote PhD programs at ZHAW in the field of Data Science.
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The potential for ecologically sustainable agricultural production and ethologically responsible animal husbandry in Switzerland
Food is responsible for a large proportion of global consumption of natural resources and for many environmental impacts. The focus is on animal foods in particular. The high and growing consumption of meat and milk is a global challenge. Switzerland must also participate in the search for ways of achieving ...
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Trend analysis of nitrogen dioxide concentrations in Eastern Switzerland
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a component of air which, when too high in concentration, causes harmful effects to plants, over-fertilizes sensitive ecosystems, irritates eyes, respiratory system and skin. In addition, NO2 and volatile organic compounds form the educts that generate the pollutant ozone (O3). ...
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Positive selection detection of genome from Ralstonia bacterium
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SBB-Research Funds 'Automated Timetable Planning'
Within the next 5 to 10 years, public transport in Switzerland as well as in other European countries will experience major technological and organisational changes. However, changes will also take place on the customer side, resulting in different mobility behaviour and demand patterns. These changes will lead ...
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Analysis of Service Delivery of Albaniane Municipalities (Scoping Mission)
In the Albanian context of the territorial reform (375 LGUs merged into 61 municipalities) and the transfer of new functions to municipalities, the assessment identified opportunities for "Strong Municipalities" to support municipal service delivery all over the national territory. Given time and resources ...
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DIPEx Swiss - The Swiss Database of Health and Illness Experiences
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Dynamic conformal cooling improves injection molding
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Energy Discourses in Switzerland: How and whether multilingual sources (mis)represent monolingual discourses
The phenomenon of various areas of Switzerland exhibiting contrasting patterns of voting on societal issues has been linked to urbanization, to cultural diversity, to geographical proximity to other countries’ discourses, and to linguistic differences. For example, the results of a popular initiative relevant to ...
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Green Hospital
Which processes in a hospital are particularly resource-intensive? How can cost-efficiency in hospitals be increased and environmental impact be reduced? How can life cycle innovation be applied in the health care sector in order to increase its sustainability? The Life Cycle Assessment Research Group of the ...
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LeMiG – Food waste in Swiss green waste
The composition of separately collected green waste from Swiss households was determined by means of a survey campaign of green waste collections upon delivery to green waste recycling plants. The survey campaign took into account the urban, peri-urban and rural community typologies according to spatial ...
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Optical gas sensor with ceramic cell