All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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BCM, Dirty Bomb decon after CBRN incident
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) within a society and Business Continuity Management (BCM) within a company are only possible if its known how to act in extraordinary situations. Today where everything is possible, where a lorry can have used as a deadly weapon it is time to understand more about dirty bombs with ...
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Comparison of the suitability of soil and sand filters for the treatment of run-off water of heavily used roads.
Natural road runoff treatment facilities work with different substrates. These can be sand or soil filters. This project investigates the flow, filtration and retention behaviour for contaminants of these two substrates.
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Development process Future Strategy Muota Valley Region, Switzerland
Through the two regional development projects Regio Plus "Üses Muotital" 2005 to 2009 and "Netzwerk Muotatal" 2010 to 2012 within the framework of the New Regional Policy (NRP), increased regional cooperation across the three municipalities of Illgau, Morschach and Muotathal has been achieved over the last eight ...
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KJM – KleenlineJonmaster
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Nanoporous Hybrid Optical Fiber Platform
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ProPAT – Robust and affordable process control technologies for improving standards and optimising industrial operations
The Process Industries require a high degree of automation, monitoring, and advanced simulation and control for their often complex manufacturing processes and operations. Emphasis is on continuous or batch production, mixing, reaction and separation of materials of higher value. Indeed, increased globalisation ...
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Sustainable cultivation of microalgae for energy production
The Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research - Biomass for Swiss Energy Future (SCCER BIOSWEET) is a consortium of 15 Partners from acht Academic Institutions and more than 50 Cooperation Partners from private or public sector organizations. They focus on the engineering and implementation of biochemical and ...
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Phototrophic cultivation of microalgae on a pilot-scale
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City Farming – Urban Agriculture in Swiss Cities.
Agriculture in Switzerland is confronted with challenges concerning economic efficiency, food sovereignty, ecology and biodiversity. Furthermore agriculture should contribute to decentralized settlement of Switzerland. The project City Farming wants to figure out whether it is possible to uncouple these tasks and ...
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Global Greenhouse Impact Model
The carbon footprint of foodstuffs is a key factor for sustainable development of the food sector. One of the major factors contributing to the carbon footprint of foodstuffs is the heating of greenhouses. The required quantity of heating is highly variable depending on production season and local climatic ...
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Long-term stability of embedded ZeoFRET composites
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ZHAW Agri-food Database
The Agrifood database is collection of life cycle inventory data for agricultural and food products. This database can be used to analyse the environmental impacts of processes in the agricultural and food value chain and to determine the corresponding environmental hotspots. The Agrifood database includes life ...
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Biogas from Animal Byproducts
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DROPSA – Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens
The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The ...
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orchid green roof Natur- und Tierpark Goldau
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AQUA-SAFE: Enhancing safety and security of Aquaponics technology for fish and vegetable cultivation
The development of sustainable aquaculture is highly appreciated and supported by the EU and is also one of the priorities of the National Strategic Plan for Fisheries and Aquaculture of Bulgaria. Aquaponics is a sustainable aquaculture techology which combines fish and plant production in one recirculating system. ...
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Close-range & low-cost Remote Sensing for the Environmental Sciences
In the context of climate change, changing environmental conditions and increasing as well as conflicting demands on land use, environmental monitoring is of great importance at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The main objective of this project is the development of a Remote Sensing Monitoring Competence ...
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Development of antifungal protective cultures for cocoa bean fermentation
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High-throughput proteomics of Thiodictyon synthrophicum strain Cad16T
Our goal is to elucidate the proteome of Thiodictyon synthrophicum, a purpur sulphur Gram-negative bacterium, by a shotgun/bottom-up nanoUHPLC-MS/MS approach to better understand its role in the Cadagno Lake ecosystem.
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HIT to LEAD to Preclinical Candidate development of a Transcription Repressor Inhibitory Compound (TRIC) that increases antibiotic susceptibility of multidrug resistant staphylococci
A new and highly innovative treatment will be realized by a novel and patentable small molecule combinatorial drug candidate for the treatment of antibiotic resistance in multi-resistant, pathogenic staphylococci. The consortium integrates a screening platform, biophysical characterization of small molecules, ...
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OPTIFEL
Optilfel has as its ultimate goal to contribute to elders’ health by combating denutrition due to both physical capacities diminution and appetite loss. The concept of Optifel is to translate the knowledge on nutritional needs, food preferences and physical capacities into accurate specifications for food products ...
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Optimization of an anaerobic membrane digester
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Genomics and transcriptomics of Erwinia and Pantoea
We study the diversity, plasmid diversity and functionality, and evolution of the invasive bacterial pathogen Erwinia amylovora, cause of fire blight disease, and all related Erwinia species. Additionally, we investigate the biocontrol bacteria Pantoea agglomerans and Pantoea vagans using genomics and ...
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Occurence of grape phylloxera (Dactulosphaira vitifoliae) in Switzerland
Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, Fitch) was a major pest in European grape production until the consequent use of resistant rootstocks. Today phylloxera is found mostly on derelict vineyards and interspecific hybrids used mainly in organic grapewine production. This project aims to map the occurence of ...
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Comparative genomics of the plant pathogen Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni and related xanthomonads
Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni (Xap) causes bacterial spot and canker on a wide range of Prunus spp. (e.g., apricot, peach, plum, al-mond, cherry). Outbreaks on stone fruits can result in severe economic losses to fruit quality and yield, branch/tree dieback, and orchard devastation. Xap is endemic in the USA, NZ ...