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The Nmin method in Switzerland: potential for improvement and development in the context of digitalization
(2022)Nitrogen (N) fertilization is of paramount importance for crop productivity and thus for nurturing an ever-growing world population. However, untargeted N fertilization can result in damage to natural ecosystems and threats to human health. Notably, the contamination of groundwater used as drinking water with excessive amounts of nitrate (NO₃⁻) constitutes a serious problem in the Swiss Central Plains and worldwide. The Nmin method ...Master Thesis -
Evidence Use and Policy Post-Exceptionalism in Swiss Pesticide Policymaking
(2022)Agricultural sectors have been treated differently than other sectors in western democracies due to the importance of agriculture for food security and welfare. This fostered productivist farming models that rely on inputs such as plant protection products and mineral fertilizers. However, these inputs cause negative effects in other sectors. This poses a sustainability challenge that has increasingly become politicized as the unwanted ...Master 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 -
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 -
Process-as-a-Service Computing on Modern Serverless Platforms
(2022)Current serverless and FaaS offerings provide developers with a platform that frees them from the burden of infrastructure management while scaling automatically to demand. This made them increasingly popular, and as such there have been multiple initiatives to build cost-effective large-scale computational systems on top of it. Unfortunately, current platforms have severe limitations, especially around communication, that prevent these ...Master Thesis -
Sizing, Cost, and Emissions of Vehicle to Grid Coupled PV at District Scale
(2022)This thesis investigates the potential of PV and V2G coupling for the city of Singapore. Using Singapore’s 55 planning areas as spatial unit an optimization model is developed to determine economically optimal PV scaling and charge/discharge strategies. Mobility flows between planning areas are assessed using a large set of mobile phone records, and local electricity demand and solar potentials are modeled using a bottomup approach based ...Master Thesis -
Interpreting and Understanding Latent Spaces
(2022)A common strategy to investigate the global structure of a representation space is to consider which human-interpretable concepts are aligned with its axes. However, a well-known result states that assuming axis alignment of interpretable concepts is not suitable. Moreover, many quantities of interest are inherently multi-dimensional (for example, colour), meaning they cannot be represented in a one-dimensional linear subspace. To enable ...Master Thesis -
How many people do coastal ecosystems protect from tropical cyclones globally?
(2022)Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) are key to climate change mitigation, but can also deliver important co-benefits, such as disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. Previous research has used a variety of methods to assess NCS and ecosystem-based risk reduction. The overarching question this thesis aims to answer is: How many people do coastal ecosystems protect from the impacts of tropical cyclones and resulting storm ...Master Thesis -
Scalable adaptive model predictive control with parameterized tubes
(2022)This work considers linear systems with uncertain parameters and additive disturbance. Two frameworks for the adaptive model predictive controller (MPC) with different tube parameterizations are introduced to guarantee robustness for uncertain parameters and disturbances. The set membership identification approach, which uses a membership set to bound the uncertain parameter set, is applied to reduce the uncertainty. Moreover, a method ...Master Thesis -
Texture Optimization for 6 DoF Pose Estimation
(2022)6 DoF pose estimation from monocular RGB images is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision. However, its accuracy is often limited due to the lack of textures on the objects. In this thesis, we present a novel method to optimize the textures of the objects for pose estimation tasks. Our method is based on deep learning, and we use an end-to-end pipeline to optimize the object’s texture and the pose estimator simultaneously. The ...Master Thesis