All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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HistoRiCH: Historical river change – Planning for the future by exploring the mapped past
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Local Colours – Industrial Natural Dyeing based on plant dyes from waste
The Local Colours project aims to sustainably dye local textiles with natural dyes from local plant waste or plants. The sustainable dyeing of textiles on an industrial scale is the core of the project, which uses the advances in chemistry without depleting fossil resources. The aim is a circular economic approach, ...
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MOVING – Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth
MOVING aims to build capacities and co-develop policy frameworks across Europe for the establishment of new or upgraded and upscaled value chains, contributing to resilience and sustainability of mountain areas, valorising local assets, and delivering private and public goods. In this framework, the ZHAW team treats ...
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Thermoplan - Nachweis Marker-Verbindungen Milch
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Detection of drone signals
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Alternative Monitoring of Spotted Wing Drosophila SWD
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Cocoa in Numbers – from data to knowledge
Nowadays consumers of cocoa and chocolate products are not only interested in safe high-quality products but also in products which are sustainable and produced under fair ecological and social conditions. The demand for transparency of information on the condition of cultivation, production and trade as well as on ...
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CarbonVALUE
Hydrothermal carbonisation HTC of sewage sludge under high pressures and temperatures causes the carbon compounds in the sludge to be converted into biochar. This carbon can be used both as an energy source and materially as a soil conditioner or as a substitute for fossil carbon products. Compared to the ...
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Development of a web-based food frequency questionnaire
The aim of this study is to develop a web-based food frequency questionnaire (eFFQ-CH), using the menuCH photo book and the framework of a food frequency questionnaire developed at ZHAW Wädenswil (the ZHAW FFQ). The development work will follow a unique approach based on the results of the menuCH Survey, the first ...
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Development of a validated questionnaire for the assessment of sleep quality based on a cosmetics line
The aim of this project was to develop a care product that demonstrably improves the quality of life. This forms the basis for a new innovative product group in the personal care sector. In use, the pilot product's formulation, texture and novel combination of active ingredients (neurofragrance) demonstrated a ...
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Molecular mechanism of bacteriophage tail spike proteins in bacterial infection
Antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms is rapidly increasing worldwide which urgently calls for novel agents and innovative solutions for the treatment of bacterial infections. Bacteriophages (phages) infect and inactivate bacteria in a highly specific manner. Therefore, exploitation of phages represents ...
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NanoPAT – Process Analytical Technologies for Industrial Nanoparticle Production
Nano-scaled materials are abundant in different stages of industrial manufacturing. Physical and chemical properties of these materials are strongly dependent on their size. Characterisation of mean size, size distribution, and shape of nano-scaled particles is very critical for the quality and efficiency of ...
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Prototypes for the Sustainable Digitisation of University Teaching
The COVID-19 Pandemy has forced higher education into fast forwarding their digitisation across the board. This creates valuable and relevant information for the sustainable digitization beyond the crisis mode. The project structures evidence-based digital teaching exsperiences and digital competences at the ...
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AFBioPro - Prozesstechnologische Optimierung von Schutzkulturen
Protective cultures find broad application in various food product classes, yet mostly on an empirical basis without systematic optimization. This project is dedicated to the evaluation of process-technological means to enhance the performance-critical features of protective cultures, while taking into account ...
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Post-harvesting of cocoa in Ecuador: Set-up of farmers' and suppliers' trainings
Based on different fermentation approaches, which are accompanied by comprehensive process recordings (microbiological-chemical-physical), a training for cocoa farmers and suppliers in Ecuador is being developed. The training will be continuously verified and expanded.
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Healing architecture in mental health-care facilities
Systematic literature review on users’ health & well-being in inpatient mental health-care facilities.
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Acceptance of an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 in the Swiss population
The survey of 1929 adults in Switzerland in the period from 17 - 26 April 2020 suggests that a large majority of the population in any case or probably intends to a) install an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2, b) report infections in the app and c) comply with the app's request for contact reduction or ...
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Anaerobic Treatment of Industrial Wastewater (Siegfried AG)
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CV plus: more power of «Corporate Volunteering» in Swiss Parks
This study analyses the practical experience of the programm of corporate volunteering in Swiss Parks during the last eight years. It focuses the different regional impacts and benefits for a better understanding of the sustainable effects for the development in rural areas. Main interests are the impacts for the ...
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EXTRA - Extreme weather events in agriculture
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Homeworking during COVID-19 lockdown: Relationships between physical and social environments at home, work fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and future teleworking inclinations
Background This study examines the impact on workers of the rapid migration to homeworking during the COVID-19 pandemic. During lockdown many workers have worked from home while managing additional demands (e.g. childcare, shared homeworking spaces) and often in the absence of adequate ergonomic equipment, such as ...
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Cleaning Isolation rooms used by Covid-19 patients
The Institute for Facility Management (IFM), together with stakeholders from the healthcare and cleaning sectors has produced a series of training videos on cleaning the isolation rooms used by COVID-19 patients. To train cleaners on how to clean isolation rooms with COVID-19 patients and ensure their safety. This ...
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Alpine Farming and Tourism Canton Schwyz (AWUT SZ)
With around 400 farms, alpine farming in the Canton Schwyz is an important part of agricultural production, contributes to shaping the landscape and offers identification and identity. Summer tourism has gained importance in the Canton Schwyz over the last 20 years. There is increasing interaction between alpine ...
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Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks
Clinical decisions in medicine and management decisions in facility management are regularly made on the basis of little evidence or extrapolations and are also influenced by subjective and economic aspects. While data is generated exponentially in medicine due to increasing digitization, there is no framework for ...
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Digitalization and Automated Tools in Biotech 4.0
Many biotech companies still struggle in exploiting the full potential offered by the rapid transformation towards automation, holistic use of data and implementation of digital tools. As compared to other industries, only few R&D labs and manufacturing plants already comply with 4.0 production concepts. This ...