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Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland

Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2015
Background and Aims Smartphone addiction, its association with smartphone use, and its predictors have not yet been studied in a European sample. This study investigated indicators of smartphone use, smartphone addiction, and their associations with ...
S. Haug, R. P. Castro, Min Kwon, A. Filler, T. Kowatsch, M. Schaub   +5 more
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icumonitoring.ch: a platform for short-term forecasting of intensive care unit occupancy during the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland.

Swiss medical weekly, 2020
In Switzerland, the COVID-19 epidemic is progressively slowing down owing to “social distancing” measures introduced by the Federal Council on 16 March 2020.
Cheng Zhao, Burcu Tepekule, Nicola G. Criscuolo, P. D. Wendel Garcia, M. Hilty, Risc-Icu Consortium Investigators In Switzerland, T. Fumeaux, T. V. Van Boeckel   +7 more
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Datenschutz in der Schweiz – eine quantitative Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Bedenken und Erwartungen an den Staat

Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences, 2021
Data protection protects citizens against misuse of their personal data. In particular, technological developments and the associated automation of data collection and processing require the revision of existing data protection regulation.
Katharina Guirguis, Lyn E. Pleger, Simone Dietrich, Alexander Mertes, Caroline Brüesch   +4 more
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Equal Outcomes, but Different Treatment – Subtle Discrimination in Email Responses From a Correspondence Test in Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2019
Correspondence tests on discrimination usually report only whether an applicant was invited for a job interview or not. Yet, data from a field experiment in Switzerland demonstrate that candidates with the same outcome are not necessarily treated equally.
Zschirnt Eva
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The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland

The American Economic Review, 2019
We study empirically how past exposure to conflict in origin countries makes migrants more violence-prone in their host country, focusing on asylum seekers in Switzerland. We exploit a novel and unique dataset on all crimes reported in Switzerland by the
M. Couttenier, Veronica Petrencu, D. Rohner, Mathias Thoenig   +3 more
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Serbia's security position in today's Europe: The concept of neutrality and the possibility of shaping Serbia's neutrality based on the model of Switzerland [PDF]

Војно дело, 2017
The paper discusses the security position of Serbia in today's Europe. It is specifically identified as impartial and neutral in relation to the current (geo)political crises, such as the one of Ukraine, which allows Serbia to build a position of a ...
Cvetićanin Neven, Beriša Hatidža
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Health-related quality of life in Switzerland: normative data for the SF-36v2 questionnaire

Quality of Life Research, 2019
PurposeHealth-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important concept to describe well-being of the general population and persons with diseases. The short form-36 (SF-36) is a widely used questionnaire assessing self-reported HRQOL in eight health ...
Katharina Roser, L. Mader, Julia Baenziger, G. Sommer, C. Kuehni, G. Michel   +5 more
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Non-Take-Up of Social Assistance: Regional Differences and the Role of Social Norms

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2019
This study estimates the prevalence of non-take-up of social assistance using administrative data from the Canton of Bern. Regional variation in non-take-up rates is then used to study the contextual effects of social norms with respect to welfare ...
Hümbelin Oliver
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The Size and Structure of the Swiss Occupational Therapy Workforce. A Survey Study / Anzahl und Struktur der Ergotherapie-Arbeitsplätze in der Schweiz: eine Online-Befragung

International Journal of Health Professions, 2023
As in other health professions, there is a shortage of skilled labour in the field of occupational therapy in Switzerland. To plan and implement effective measures to counter this shortage, empirical data on the size and structure of the Swiss ...
Ballmer Thomas, Kühne Nicolas, Petrig Andrea, Eggenberger Brigitte, Moioli Stefania, Gantschnig Brigitte E.   +5 more
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Living between Lakes and Alps: A Data Set of Bronze Age Archaeological Sites from the Canton of Bern, Switzerland (2200–800 BCE)

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The dataset contains all known Bronze Age sites in the present-day canton of Bern (Switzerland) up to December 2023, including evidence for settlements, burials, trade/transport, depositions and single finds. It was provided by the Archaeological Service
Cyrielle Aellen, Kristin Ismail-Meyer, Caroline Heitz, Wenke Schimmelpfennig, Regine Stapfer   +4 more
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