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New antileishmanial and antitrypanosomal drugs
The aim is to develop a natural product derived LEAD compound with unrivalled potency against a parasitic disease into a clinical drug candidate, through preclinical development. This includes the establishment of a detailed structure-activity relationship (SAR), medicinal chemistry and organic synthesis, ADME-Tox ...
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NOVANIMAL Innovations in nutrition
AbstractPeople around the world are consuming increasing amounts of meat and dairy products, nutrition-related health risks and pressures on the environment are on the rise. This project aims to identify innovations along the value chains that would reduce the negative impacts of producing and consuming animal-based ...
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Psychoneuroendocrinology
This project examines temporal associations between hormone levels, affectivity and cognitive functions.h
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Rationing – Missed Nursing care: An international and multidimensional problem
Background: Rationing of nursing care occurs when resources are not sufficient to provide necessary care to all patients. The reasons that lead to this phenomenon include staff reductions, in-creased demands for care due to the technological advancements, more treatment options, more informed service users, all ...
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Risk Based Maintenance for safety equipment of Swiss National roads
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Software for the thermohydraulic design of solar systems
Solar thermal energy offers efficient solutions for many thermal applications. However, as a prerequisite for the realization of its potential, the costs have to be reduced significantly. In a project funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE a thermal-hydraulic software tool has been developed. The tool ...
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True Color Pigments für Textilien (TCP4tex)
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Analysis of potential for Internet of Things (IoT) to act as an enabler for climate protection and the Energy Strategy 2050
The aim of this project is to quantify, based on different use cases, the contribution of the Internet of Things (IoT) to an increased energy efficiency and climate protection. Moreover, the total contribution to the energy efficiency and climate protection goals of Switzerland shall be evaluated. In-depth analysis ...
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AusTEr – Pedagogical responsibilities and competencies in extended education
The SNSF project AusTEr – Processes of negotiating pedagogic responsibilities at all-day schools in the public education environment – examines processes of negotiating pedagogic responsibilities in multi-professional teams at all-day schools, as well as existing specific interpretations of all-day education. This ...
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Breakfast cereals by extrusion of fermented milling by-products
By-products of the milling process are traditionally transferred to the production of feed and thus lost in the human food chain. This project is a feasability study, in which a two-phasic approach for the production of cereals dervied from milling by-products will be evaluated: 1) microbial fermentation of the ...
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Development of porous monomodal ceramic spheres as chromatography materials (CerChroMat)
The aim of the project was the development of synthesis and processes routes for the production of spherical, mechanically and chemically stable monomodal ceramic particles with controlled porosity for the use as chromatography materials. The targeted properties were: Chemical stability against high and low ...
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Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform (ECRP)
The ECRP project combines cutting edge robotics technology from Rapyuta Robotics (RR), an ETH Zurich spinoff, and novel cloud development from the Service Prototyping (SPLab) and InIT Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLab) at ZHAW.With ICCLab, RR will transform its existing open source robotics platform from a prototype to ...
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Evaluation Via Pilot-Project Fall Prevention
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How do architects think and design space
The research project pursues one fundamental question: “how do architects think about space?” It builds upon the (yet unproven) assumption that architects have high spatial abilities and spatial knowledge, and asks what the nature of these abilities is. To answer this, we will study spatial abilities among ...
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novoSUN
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Professional communication in religious matters
In a transdisciplinary research collaboration, suitable tools are being developed with which the Swiss Pastoral Sociological Institute SPI can increasingly inform and communicate externally and in a target group-oriented manner about its work, projects and research results.
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Wood Gasification Aberta Nova
Development of a novel type of wood gasification device to gasify any type of arbitrarily damp wood waste at high efficiencies.
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Written Communication in Dialogical Situations
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Architectural Renovation of Kendox InfoShare (ARKIS)
ARKIS aims at going beyond the current trend of “just” moving data and document management into the cloud by defining a cloud-native architecture for managing documents reliably and with scale in an ecosystem of third-party services around a document management system. Business-critical aspects such as ...
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DeepScore: Digital Music Stand with Musical Understanding via Active Sheet Technology
_Management AbstractPlaying and enjoying music is amongst the most rewarding recreational activities of humankind for individuals as well as in group settings. Visiting concerts or sending one’s kids to music lessons - thus being enabled to discuss and co-shape the musical part of our culture - are hence important ...