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Sepsis-Associated Microorganisms in Brazilian Ambulatories (SAMBA)
Fifty-six cases of bloodstream infections caused by contaminated total parenteral nutrition were recorded between November 2013 and July 2014 in four Brazilian states resulting in 15 deaths. One of the bacteria involved, albeit repeatedly causing similar outbreaks, is habitually misidentified in clinical diagnostics ...
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Smart Door
The door control for the smart door communicates via BLE and can thus be operated with dedicated buttons as well as smartphone applications.
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Swiss Agile Study 2016
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Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce (SJCC)
Dominique Ursprung was appointed Managing Director of the Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce (SJCC) in December 2015. Ursprung led the SJCC office at the ZHAW from 2016 to 2021, closing all six years with a profit. At the time of handing over the mandate, the association's assets were 40% higher than at the time of ...
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The potential of aging workforce
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Touristic e-mobility in the lake constance region
E-mobility plays an important role for future mobility systems and their sustainability. The main advantages of this technology are its low contribution to climate change, at least as long as the energy consumed is generated from renewable sources. In the tourism sector especially the journey to and from the ...
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Value Grading®
Developing a job evaluation system
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Vision inspection systems for process optimization and quality assurance in the manufacturing of technology components for textile machines
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Writing Interpreting in (Chinese) TNE Environments
Within education, the 2000’s have been synonymous with the growth of Transnational Education (TNE), which is typically associated with the exporting of English medium instruction (EMI) education and educational models. TNE can be identified as one element of the internationalization of educationTo date, there ...
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Mission and Strategy of the Promotion of Culture in the Municipality of Thalwil
Since 2005, the Culture Department of the Municipality of Thalwil has been working successfully on the basis of the Conduct and the Funding Concept developed in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Management (ZKM). After about ten years, the municipality of Thalwil would like to evaluate, rework and reorientate ...
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Occupational Therapy Interest Group for Displaced Persons (ENOTHE)
The European interest group "Occupational Therapy for Displaced Persons" networks all interested occupational therapists from education, research and practice. In the first step, a situation analysis of occupational therapy in refugee aid in the European area was carried out. Occupational therapy is ...
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Social Positioning in the context of migration and adolescence
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The Role-Checklist QP:V2 as a measure of participation according to the ICF
Backgroud: The Role Checklist V2:QP is an assessment for Occupational Therapists to assess participation, satisfaction with role performance, and role desirability for ten common roles of their clients. It is based on the original Role Checklist (Oakley et al., 1986). The Role Checklist V2:QP is theoretically based ...
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Audio Processing in OpenCL
Studer's professional audio mixing consoles are well accepted but require expensive components. A new innovation of using the open computing language (OpenCL) for digital audio processing on graphic processors (GPUs) and on FPGAs allow to reuse the existing software investment of Studer's high-end products also for ...
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Battery-less energy source for standard Wireless Embedded Systems
We will investigate and develop technologies to allow the use of the Dynapic Piezo as sole energy source for Wireless Systems based on standard protocols. Features such as very low-power encryption, multi-key and display will be supported. Results will take the form of appropriate concepts, models, circuits, ...
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Developement of new heating elements for hot air blowers
Aim of the project was the development of a new generation of heat blowers for industrial applications with a significantly increased performance and reduced production costs. This was enabled by application of new production technologies for functional ceramics like 3D printing in combination with computer models, ...
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Facility Management goes independently: SLA Good Practice for Facility Management in Healthcare
Up until now, work in hospitals has been carried out more or less when called upon and rarely on the basis of systematic, written Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Due to increasing cost pressures and the resulting need for greater efficiency and quality in healthcare, the topic of SLAs is becoming ...
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Global site assessment for hazelnut production
Currently, 64% of the world's hazelnut production comes from Turkey. A further 13% is produced in Italy. This concentration on a small number of countries poses a risk for the long-term safeguarding of the hazelnut supply. In order to ensure the procurement of hazelnuts in the long term, hazelnut production must be ...
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Implementation of BIM for a new building - cantonal hospital Baden
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On-Site Configurable Safe and Redundant Technology for Distributed Nodes in Rail Applications
Modern rolling-stock requires a mixture of standard-technology as well as safe and dependable distributed nodes. The latter are expensive due to high validation and certification costs. To reduce costs and increase application flexibility whilst reducing probabilities of failure and enhancing safety, a HW-SW suite ...