The data recorded by an increasing number of sensors installed in cars, e-bikes, mobile phones etc. has the potential to revolutionize the field of accident research and prevention. The opportunities are limitless. But so are the challenges: Accident researchers and prevention specialists often do not have access ...

DNA repair proteins are interesting targets in cancer therapy. The objective of this project is the identification of a suitable target site in a DNA repair protein with the long-term goal of developing inhibitors against this protein.

A multi-imaging setup is developed for investigating lab-scale solar cells and for obtaining spatially resolved information about the cell quality. Machine learning is used to estimate parameters for a physical FEM model that serves as a digital twin for further optimization.

The city of Hamburg practices a systematic promotion of green roofs, in the context of which a scientific eco-faunal success control is to be carried out over several years. As part of the cooperation, biomonitoring is to be carried out on 6 green roofs using a comparable method (as currently practised in ...

The term ‘Blockchain Technology’ is currently a buzzword and is not always clearly defined. Different stakeholders have a different understanding of what it is and how it can be applied for fostering and enhancing the collaboration within business networks and ecosystems. Currently, we would define ‘blockchain’ as a ...

The architecture of the supplying brain blood vessels is believed to impact the occurrence and severity of common cerebrovascular diseases such as ischemic strokes or intracranial aneurysms. In this project, we study methods to efficiently quantify the variability in human cerebral vasculature and how this ...

Enterobacter bulb disease of onions (EBDO) is caused by members of the Enterobacter cloacae complex. This includes a diverse group of Enterobacter species that occur as clinical isolates and in the environment. Although EBDO has been known for several years, no systematic study has been conducted on their correct ...

Children born without hands or fingers and children who were victims of accidents in which they lost fingers or hands are the focus of our project. The goal of this work is to give them better fingers at a lower cost. The disadvantages of traditional designs are the high cost, weight, high forces to hold objects, ...

The project enhances Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and supports practitioners in the design and implementation of DAOs. For the first time, a DAO owning physical (and not only digital) assets is studied. For this, the No1s1 prototype is built – a physical space that owns and manages itself over an ...

The purpose of the parliamentary friendship group Switzerland-Japan is to promote contacts between parliamentarians of the two states.

The aim of this project is to implement a framework that facilitates the development of RL solutions for real-world applications. This is necessary since the academic literature usually focuses on specific algorithms and approaches differ widely for different regions in the highly complex RL problem space. ...

In this project, the following hypotheses will be investigated with experimental robot-based in vitro tests on human leg specimens: 1) Ramp lesion of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus leads to increased anterior translation and rotational instability in a knee with an ACL rupture. 2) In a knee with an ACL ...

The project aims to increase awareness and competence regarding gender-related health issues in the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing curricula by 1) identifying topics that need to be addressed with regard to sex and gender; 2) collecting the current status regarding sex and gender in the ...

SPPC (Swiss Process–Product Corpus of Student Writing Development) is a novel longitudinal corpus of L1 student writing, linking automatically annotated and aggregated process data with the resulting product (text) and competence data. It will facilitate the development of teaching interventions with appropriate ...

The TCM Medicinal Plant Garden was developed in 2016 by the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources in collaboration with the Swiss TCM Association and the Phytopharmacy and Natural Products Group of the Institute of Biotechnology and Chemistry at the ZHAW. To date, the garden comprises around 130 Chinese ...

The human skin is the interface between the environment and the body. The skin has several functions such as the thermoregulation, the protection from mechanical injuries, acting as a barrier against microorganisms and the tactile perception. In this project, we aim at developing an innovative artificial skin model ...

The GOAL (Unlocking the? Green ?Open? Access potentiaL? in scholarly and professional journals in Switzerland) project aims to promote so-called green road to Open Access to scholarly and application-oriented journals. These journals are particularly relevant to universities of applied sciences and universities of ...

CDR-Life is a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of highly tumor-specific immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its proprietary antibody-based T cell engager technology. The collaboration between the competence center for Biochemical Engineering and Cell Cultivation Technique at ZHAW and ...

In the WISER Flagship SP8 is the nexus to ensure the Problem-Solution Fit (PSF) and the Product-Market Fit (PMF) of the WIDS (i.e. the solution) with its intended target audiences. With SP8, we will take the necessary steps to explore business models that will provide the basis for the economic attractiveness to the ...

Individuals with an upper limp amputation often use a prosthesis to conduct activities of daily living and participate in society. However, the upper limb is challenging to replace, as the arm and hand have to conduct very complex gross and fine motor movements, with many degrees of freedom. In a survey with 307 ...

The objective of the project is to explore to what extent central developmental steps of school pedagogy from the mid-19th century are related to current debates in Switzerland. The hypothesis being investigated is that the school as an educational institution became the exposed object of the social statistics that ...