Starting point and goal The Corona pandemic boosted digitization, but also revealed its limitations and backwardness. This was especially true of home schooling, which particularly disadvantaged those children and adolescents who were already disadvantaged. Likewise, the Corona pandemic led to an increase in the ...

Historical texts containing information of the medicinal use of plants, minerals and other natural products are highly interesting study objects for various disciplines, in sciences as well as in humanities. In particular, historical texts can provide rewarding starting points for natural product drug discovery, as ...

Preliminary/feasibility study for a comprehensive AI-based  solution in hospitals for demand-oriented assortment and efficient inventory Management ordering with a focus on security of supply and cost Efficiency planning of reprocessing planning of personnel deployment cost and income planning  ...

The RACOON project explores novel methods to compose online applications across the engineering lifecycle. In particular, it extends beyond the state of technology in user-friendly cloud application design, implementation and deployment. Furthermore, it investigates application scenarios for turning such methods ...

The Occupational Therapy Research Unit investigates the view of users of public transport-supplementary driving services on how and in which areas they experience restrictions in their mobility. Starting point Mobility plays an essential role in different areas of life. These include independent coping with everyday ...

Development of a user friendly Digital-Twin Software for multi-physics simulation based evaluation and optimization of powder coating processes.

Additive manufacturing for components repair or production for aviation application

Emerging Mobility As A Services (MAAS) are pushing the boundaries of DevOps practices and processes, with new challenges to handle for both practitioners and researchers. MAAS providers such as BOND (Bike ON Demand start-up in Switzerland) employ DevOps innovations to sustain the evolution of future MAAS services ...

Modelling degassing of coffee.

Implement a demo application to show that frame preemption according to IEEE 802.1Qbu and IEEE802.3br for 10BASE-T1L Single-Pair Ethernet Links. Purpose of the demonstration application is to support standardization efforts to amend the standard IEEE 802.3 to allow frame preemption for 10BASE-T1L links.  ...

The research project aims to develop a neural network based finite element (FE) approach for thermo-mechanically coupled problems. Such an approach holds the large potential to improve the computational performance of conventional FEM especially for large structures containing small local features (e.g. notches, ...

«Digital opportunities promoting inclusion in Academia (DigOPIA)» is a research project within the DIZH Fellowships. It deals with linguistic inclusion in the university context, focusing on hearing-impaired and deaf students. The project explores the repertoire of digital options available to students in higher ...

The project consists in developing a prototype for a ZHAW neural machine translation system trained on academic texts. Freely accessible systems such as DeepL and Google Translate are not specifically trained on scientific texts and therefore often present issues regarding terminology, text cohesion, pragmatics and ...

In many countries, renewable energy investment is starting to become economically viable without support. This disrupts the business of electric utilities and may result in significant grid expansion needs in order to accommodate the increasing amount of renewable electricity. A promising solution to this problem is ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease most frequently affecting the knee, hand and hip in older adults. It is a major cause of disability and leads to substantial social costs. The aim of our study is to investigate the epidemiology, treatment and costs of OA in Switzerland using different data ...

Due to the Corona pandemic, political measures to contain it have been adopted in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland) (period March 2020-current), which have a great influence on the living situation, the living environment and the coping with life of sex workers (e.g. occupational ban). Sex workers are socially and ...

Development of a cost-effective 3D printer for printing high-performance Plastics.

Up to now statistics on girls and young women affected by violence have been lacking in Switzerland. Furthermore, there has been no inventory of emergency and protective shelters and the future need for shelters for this group. This and the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and ...