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Analysis and Evaluation of Public Financial Management Systems in Ecuador
Assisting the Inter-American Development Bank in assessing public financial management and current accounting policies in Ecuador in close cooperation with the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (MEF). Analysis of current financial management software and accounting processes as well as comparative studies on ...
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Analysis on integrated financial management systems in Ecuador
The study is mainly concerned with integrated financial management in the public sector in the Republic of Ecuador. The focus lies on the four elements: budget, accounting, auditing and government financial statistics. Public financial management can be considered as integrated if all four elements are coordinated ...
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Food for Future
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Nursing DRG external evaluation 2016
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Participative Foresight for Smarter Cities
Recently, the smart city concepts have gained increasing importance in current energy and city planning. Various smart city projects which have been realized show that a systemic, integrative approach is crucial. However, in the projects the delineation of boundaries for integrative planning and the realization of ...
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Personality and Psychopathology in Psychotherapy
This project examines changes in personality traits and their association with psychopathological syndromes during the course of a psychotherapeutic intervention.
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Psycho-social Care and Support
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Quantitative trading strategies
Research on quantitative trading strategies for equities, government bonds and currencies
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Research evidence to support the work of the professional association
The professional association physioswiss assigned a group of researchers from the ZHAW and the HES-SO with the study “research topics to support occupational policy”. The aim of the study was to collect evidence on the population of Swiss physiotherapists and the health care structures, in which they are active. On ...
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StereO2 – Low-power optical oxygen sensor
Development of the next-generation optical sensor for the measurement of the oxygen gas concentration with very low power consumption. The measuring principle is based on the quenching of the luminescence by oxygen molecules.
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XoSoft – soft modular biomimetic exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments
Background: Between 2000 and 2050, the older population (80 years+) is projected to almost quadruple from approximately 100 million to 395 million people worldwide. Many of the elderly and patient groups such as stroke sufferers or patients with incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries (SCIs) experience varying degrees of ...
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DIWA – Drone Interaction with Wild Animals
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Car sharing system
New techniques will be investigated and developed for car rental/sharing systems. These techniques will give more comfort, convenience and security to the different users while enabling car rental/sharing firms to better control the leasing and tracking of their vehicles.
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AdCurriculum
The Center for Human Capital Management supported an international IT company by developing professional career tracks, job evaluation and salary bands.
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Communication tools in addiction prevention
Together with those responsible for the Addiction Prevention Center Zurich Oberland, suitable communication tools are being developed in a transdisciplinary research project that focus on successful public storytelling. The goal is to sensitize the stakeholder groups comprehensively and appropriately to the topic of ...
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Developing a Rotor Model of a Novel Lighter-Than-Air System of a Wind Power Turbine
The technology of Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) aims to develop new systems that operate to harvest strong wind power at several hundred meters above ground level. At that altitude, wind currents are stronger and much more stable than those close to ground level. For the installation of the wind power system at that ...
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Informed Consent and Comprehensibility Issues
Informed Consent and Comprehensibility Issues Research involving humans as subjects can be problematic from an ethical standpoint, because people’s welfare and personal sphere should be protected. For this reason, legislation regulates that potential participants must be informed about research procedures and any ...
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IPSAS implementation Kyrgyz Republic
Supporting the Worldbank with an IPSAS Gap assessment and subsequent implementation of IPSASs in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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Measurement and Architecture for a Middleboxed Internet (MAMI)
The Internet is full of middleboxes that change packets and flows. In fact, there is probably no IP or TCP header that is not affected by at least one middlebox. Obviously, middleboxes impede path transparency, i.e., the idea that an exchange of messages results in more or less the same packets, no matter what path ...
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Safety benchmarking
How safe do Swiss citizens feels in their municipalities? The Winterthur Institute of Public Management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been conducting extensive research on this issue. The findings provide the participating cities and towns with insight on necessary adaptations for the next ...