All projects from the School of Management and Law
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UNCTAD Strategic Foresight
This report identifies, analyses and presents for discussion key issues concerning the role of strategic foresight for policymakers, particularly in developing countries. Chapter II provides an introduction to strategic foresight and its use around the world. Chapter III presents key trends related to science, ...
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Filmfestival audience survey - Audience Development
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Development of an IT supported assessment tool and a corresponding introduction manual for the relevant Facility Management process applications in hospitals on the basis of an adaptive reference model
The introduction of the diagnosis-related groups/Swiss DRG causes amongst other things a greater demand for transparency, including in non-medical support services [FM] in hospitals. In order to meet this, it is necessary to have a systematic way of measuring and comparing services in order to come up with specific ...
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Operational risks of pension funds
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Epidemiology and costs of ovarian cancer in Switzerland
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Evaluation of Public Financial Management Reforms in Peru
Supporting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in evaluating the Public Financial Management reforms in Peru. The focus was on the integration of the various systems (Budgeting, Accounting, Internal/External Control, GFS), as well as on the situation within budgeting, accounting and internal control. ...
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Study on the accrual of the withholding tax in the State of Zurich
The purpose of this study is to work on and answer three questions related to a change of system to accrual accounting, namely the accounting effects, the impact on the payment behavior of the taxpayers and any impact on the state and municipal accounts of the State of Zurich and the State of Zurich Municipalities ...
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Incidence and costs of hypoglycemia in insulin-treated diabetes mellitus in Switzerland
Insulin is essential to the treatment of diabetes but may lead to hypoglycemic events. These events do not only represent a considerable burden for diabetes patients, but also lead to substantial economic costs. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of severe and non-severe hypoglycemic episodes in ...
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E-Tutor
e-Tutor is an open educational resource created for the professional development of faculty members on teaching online. Originally developed by Ankara University’s Distance Learning Centre in Turkey, e-Tutor was adapted to English, Russian and Ukrainian under the framework of a project funded by the Swiss National ...
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NRP71: Promoting energy-sufficient behaviour in cities
Cities will be key agents of change in the upcoming energy turnaround in Switzerland. They promote technical efficiency measures and behavioural change for saving energy, both as role models and by addressing consumers. A crucial question is how cities can best motivate private consumers to change their behaviour, ...
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Practically-oriented modelling of competency frameworks
A competency framework is a matrix defining competency-oriented objectives for study programs. Simply put, it is designed to highlight what students are supposed to be able to do after they complete their studies. Competency frameworks form the basis for a differentiated assessment of students’ professional, ...
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ExpAct
As part of the European research project, a standard software was developed for the easy and rapid implementation of skills assessments and mediation platforms for older people.By recording the experiences of older people, transparency is created on the labour market about the unused experience and human capital. If ...
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Impact of EU-labour law an international labour law on Swiss labour law
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Multi-Dimensional Versioning for Information Systems
In this project, we identified challenges and designed solution approaches for implementing a line based version control system to manage object-oriented data. The system was developed to bring typical features of version control systems (VCS) such as branching, diffing and merging to the world of structured, ...
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Accounting and Financial Reporting for Intergovernmental Organizations
The European Southern Observatory (ESO), an inter-governmental astronomy organization which is currently supported by 15 Member States (MS), aims to construct the E-ELT, an extremely large optical telescope. To finance this project, ESO would potentially depend on a long term loan. Hence respective frame agreements ...
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Business Valuation
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Comprehensive Sales Forecasting for Supply Chain Optimization in Food Industry
The main objective of the project was a significant improvement of sales forecasting algorithms with an application focus on food industry and retail, where food waste and stock-out situations are challenging for the planning process. The main product of the project is an intelligent planning software, whose ...
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Cooperational platform for urban logictis
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BI Survey
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TARPSY
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Multi-Asset Investment Process using Bayes Ensembles of Trading Models
Since 2009, low interest rates and asset purchases by central banks are severely distorting investment opportunities and trends in financial markets. The performance of active investment strategies decreased substantially since then. This project aims to provide an investment process that finds the optimal ...
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SpeQua - Community Energy Storage System
Energy storage systems will play a cengtral role in the future smart regions with a high penetration by renewable energy sources. IN this project, different energy storage systems were investigated, compared, characterized and simulated in a realistic simulation scenarios of a AEW smart region in Rheinfelden. ...
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Visitor Study Swiss Science Center Technorama
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Regional Cultural Strategies in the Cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau
Preparation of a short report with analysis of the following organizational aspects: achievement of the cultural strategic objectives, task and organizational analysis, use of the instruments of the public relations work, process analysis of contributions, mission statement and performance order. Methods: Desk top ...
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Towards Smart Energy Regions: Exploring Future Energy-Systems
In support of the development towards smart energy regions, this project wants to explore integrated transition approaches on the demand and supply side, evaluating the most promising elements from behaviour change programmes, business initiatives, policy strategies, measures, and technologies at regional level. ...