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SCCER-Mobility
The Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research - Efficient Technologies and Systems for Mobility (SCCER Mobility) is a research program, which initiated in January 2014 and received continued funding until 2020. The central aim of the program is to foster research and develop competences in selected thematic ...
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Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER CREST)
The Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition - CREST contributes to the energy transition in Switzerland by providing detailed, evidence-based recommendations on policies that help to reduce energy demand, foster innovation, and increase the share of renewables in a cost-efficient way. ...
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The Future of Swiss Hydropower: Distributional Effects of Water Fee Reform Options
This project is part of the NRP 70 joint project: «The future of Swiss hydropower». We analyze the revenue and expenditure situation of Swiss hydropower plants from 2015/2016 and estimate future developments on the basis of electricity price scenarios up to the year 2035. Various reform options for water interests ...
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Time Sensitive Networks (TSN)
TSN is a protocol suite developed by IEEE 802.1. As part of this order, the time synchronization protocol IEEE 802.1AS is implemented.
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Translating plain language summaries of Cochrane Reviews
We are translating into German plain language summaries of Cochrane reviews about midwifery geared towards a lay audience jointly with Cochrane Switzerland. These summaries are provided free of charge and can most easily be retrieved online via "Cochrane Kompakt”. The systematic reviews summarize all ...
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Sensory Gardens
Researchers in environmental psychology, health studies and urban design are interested in the relationship between the environment, behavior settings and emotions. A reliable investigation method is needed for detail exploration of soft fascination possible effects. Therefore, a suitable garden should be identified ...
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Mobility needs of clients with impairment using transport services
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Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions through Regional Competence Centers
In 2014, the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia launched the "Cultural Diversity in the Regions" initiative. One of the concerns of the initiative is, the strengthening of measures to improve the conditions for regional cultural production in the peripheral regions. Within the scope of this initiative, the ...
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Accurate Customer Identification on Digital Channels (AC/DC)
Every user has a unique digital signature with respect to typing, moving the mouse or accessing a web page. For instance, by analyzing the time between specific keystrokes of many users, we can verify whether user A really is user A or whether she/he has assumed the identity of another user. The goal of this project ...
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Bi-directional interactions of sensory perception, motor performance and fear of movement in the development of persistent low back pain
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major health problems, with a lifetime prevalence of 85%. While the majority of acute LBP patients recover within a few weeks, a small minority becomes chronic (pain lasts > 3 months) and represents a huge burden in terms of pain, suffering, health care and social costs. ...
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Decomposition of Health Care Spending in Switzerland
Our research project "Decomposition of Health Care Spending in Switzerland" aims to contribute to understanding the structure and drivers of healthcare spending in Switzerland. We decompose total spending according to Swiss National Health Accounts by major diseases, types of service, age groups and gender as well ...
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Development of Abrasive Blades for Wafer Dicing by Using Ceramic Tape Casting Technology (AbraCas)
Meister Abrasives AG and ZHAW intend to develop a completely new process for the production of dicing blades for wafers used in high tech industries (semiconductors, MEMS). With the new process based on ceramic tape casting technology adapted to vitreous bonded diamond abrasives limitations of the current production ...
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Ethinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy (RESTORE)
Sustainable buildings and facilities are critical to a future that is socially just, ecologically restorative, culturally rich and economically viable within the climate change context Despite over a decade of strategies and programmes, progress on built environment sustainability fails to address these key ...
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FarmAI – Artificial intelligence for Farming Simulator
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Identity Management for Heterogenous Wireless Networks
The project enables a secure authentication of resource-constrained wireless nodes in an IP-based mesh network for building automation. This authentication is an imperative requirement to connect wireless field devices directly to IT networks. An intelligent dual-mode software stack on the wireless node allows a ...
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PAN: prevention admission into nursing homes / retrospective data analysis
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Predicting investor behaviour in European bond markets through machine learning
ICMA Quarterly Report (11.7.2019), p.23: Predicting investor behaviour in European bond markets through machine learning The quant team of ESM is developing, in cooperation with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, a machine-learning based application to predict investor demand for syndicated bond issuances. A ...
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Small fungus with a big effect
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Stabilized Lipids from Microalgae
The sourcing of bioactive or other value-added compounds from microalgae is in the focus of this "green" biotech research sector for a long time already. In this project, we plan to establish new methods for a simultaneous optimization of different cell-physiological properties to enhance the bioavailability of such ...
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Swiss Agile Research Network – SARN
The Swiss Agile Research Network (SARN) brings together professionals from Swiss IT-companies and researchers in order to get a better understanding of Agile, Agile adoption and transformation, as well as Agile organization. Agile methodologies like, SCRUM, eXtreme Programming or Kanban have become mainstream in ...