Search
Results
-
Evaluating the potential Extended Producer Responsibility returns for plastic-packaging riverine waste in Durban, South Africa
(2023)The right to a healthy and non-harmful environment is deeply anchored in the South African Bill of Rights. The Environmental Right on Section 24 states that: “Everyone has the right a) to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being; and b) to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generation through reasonable legislative and other measures that...” This specifically imposes the ...Master Thesis -
Fundamental Understanding of Critical Parameters Enabling Lithium Metal Batteries
(2023)Doctoral Thesis -
-
Computer-Aided Experimentation for Human Behaviour Analysis
(2022)The implementation of behavioural experiments in various disciplines has relied on computers for the last five decades. Interestingly, the use of computers has both facilitated and hindered different aspects of the experimental process. Over time, frameworks have been developed that make it easier to design experiments and conduct them. At the same time, the multiplicity of frameworks and the lack of documentation have made the replication ...Doctoral Thesis -
Gender and Mathematics in Upper Secondary School: Sociocultural Stereotypes, Motivation, and Cognitive Activation
(2022)This doctoral dissertation is aimed at broadening the understanding of motivational and sociocultural influences within the Expectancy Value Theory (EVT) and Dimensional Comparison Theory (DCT) frameworks and investigating the potential positive impact of cognitive activation on students’ motivation, with a specific focus on gender differences. For this purpose, three studies were conducted. The first study focused on the presence of ...Doctoral Thesis -
Structural control in polymerization-induced phase separation in the solid-state
(2022)The micro- and nanostructure of materials determines their macroscopic properties. Currently, most synthetic methods used to control structure at these length scales consist of controlling the size and morphology of structural building blocks. Typically, these fabrication processes involves two distinct steps: the synthesis of the blocks, followed by their assembly. Instead, living systems generate structures across a broad range of length ...Doctoral Thesis -
Vergleichende Analytik von Spurenelementen und toxischen Metallen in humanem Probenmaterial
(2022)Nach Genehmigung durch die Ethikkommission der ETH Zürich erfolgte im Rahmen dieser Studie die Rekrutierung von insgesamt 83 Teilnehmenden, heterogen bezüglich Alter, Geschlecht, Rauchgewohnheiten und der Einnahme von Spurenelementen. Das Probenmaterial in Form von Venösem Blut (Vollblut, Erythrozyten, Serum) und Kopfhaar wird auf acht (Ultra-)Spurenelemente analysiert, und zwar jeweils auf vier toxische (--> As, Pb, Cd, Hg) sowie vier ...Master Thesis -
Analysis and Design of Monolithic III-V/Si Nanophotonic Devices
(2022)Monolithically integrated III-V/Si nanophotonic devices are highly desirable for many future applications such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR), photonic quantum information processing and optical interconnects, but the fabrication technology still remains challenging. The template-assisted selective epitaxy (TASE) method invented by IBM Research Europe - Zurich could be one promising solution, as it allows the growth of III-V ...Doctoral Thesis -
Optimal Stock Option Trading Strategies
(2022)Over the past decades, interest in finance, and more particularly interest in the evolution as well as the prediction of the markets, exploded. One aim that the automatic control laboratory at ETH Zürich would want to achieve is to use some of the robotic optimization models and to apply them to finance. During this internship, I only worked on the financial part of the problem. The main goal of my internship was to create some predictions ...Master Thesis -
Dynamic programming approaches for the mean-variance portfolio selection problem
(2022)Doctoral Thesis