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Conviviality Under Pressure of Market-Modernist Expertocracy: The Case of Water Commons in Rural Switzerland

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2023
Citizens outside of the built-up zone in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland are self-responsible to establish and maintain their water services. In response many independent, collective water schemes emerged in rural areas.
Moritz Hofstetter   +2 more
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Popular Autobiography in Switzerland

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2018
Switzerland has a very old and lively tradition of working-class writing, including outstanding examples such as Augustin Güntzer, Ulrich Bräker or the weavers Matthias and Heinrich Senn.
Fabian Brändle
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Oderisia Knechtle (1900-1978): a pioneer for a holistic approach in religious education

open access: yesРоссийский журнал истории Церкви, 2022
Sr. Oderisia Knechtle developed the symbolic approach to religious education while working with disadvantaged and disabled children in Germany from 1925 onwards.
Monika Jakobs
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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

open access: yesInternational 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   +5 more
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Data from the Mixed Methods Project PICE (Parental Investment in Children’s Education)

open access: yesJournal of Open Psychology Data, 2023
The Parental Investment in Children’s Education (PICE) study focuses on Switzerland and investigates parental strategies, resources, and aspirations and how they shape their children’s educational pathways.
Marieke Heers   +3 more
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The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland

open access: yesThe 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   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health-related quality of life in Switzerland: normative data for the SF-36v2 questionnaire

open access: yesQuality 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   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ecological and seasonal patterns in the diversity of a species-rich bee assemblage (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2005
Meaningful ecological studies on insect communities require sampling protocols that take into consideration temporal fluctuations in abundance and species composition. Bees with their specific requirements for nutrition and nesting are good indicators of
Sabine OERTLI   +2 more
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Banning burkas and niqabs? Exploring perceptions of bias in media coverage of Islam and Muslims in Switzerland and their relation to people’s voting intention concerning the burka-initiative

open access: yesStudies in Communication Sciences, 2021
In Switzerland, Islam and Muslims are repeatedly the subject of political debates and, thus, of media reporting. While content analyses show a certain bias in Western media coverage of Islam and Muslims, relatively little is known about the audience’s ...
Dorothee Arlt
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon footprints and reduction requirements: the Swiss real estate sector

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2020
The real estate sector and its supply chains, 'i.e.' up- and downstream processes, are responsible for a significant share of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in most countries.
Rolf Frischknecht   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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