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International 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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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 +3 more
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Dynamic models of residential electricity demand: evidence from Switzerland [PDF]
, 2017 We estimate the short- and long-run elasticities of electricity demand in Switzerland using a dynamic model of residential electricity consumption incorporating a correction introduced by Kiviet.
Boogen, Nina +2 more
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Popular Autobiography in Switzerland
European 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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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 +5 more
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Comparing Car-Sharing Schemes in Switzerland: User Groups and Usage Patterns
, 2016 Free-floating car-sharing schemes operate without fixed car-sharing stations, ahead reservationsor return trip requirements. Providing fast and convenient motorization, they attract both publictransport users and (former) car-owners.
H. Becker, Francesco Ciari, K. Axhausen
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SwissBERT: The Multilingual Language Model for Switzerland [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We present SwissBERT, a masked language model created specifically for processing Switzerland-related text. SwissBERT is a pre-trained model that we adapted to news articles written in the national languages of Switzerland -- German, French, Italian, and Romansh.
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Life expectancy in HIV-positive persons in Switzerland: matched comparison with general population
AIDS (London), 2016 Objectives: To estimate life expectancy over 25 years in HIV-positive people and to compare their life expectancy with recent estimates for the general population, by education.
Aysel Gueler +11 more
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A probe into the chaotic nature of total ozone time series by Correlation Dimension method [PDF]
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and
Applications, 2008, Volume 12, pages 1007-1012, 2006 Present paper deals with mean monthly total ozone concentration over Arosa, Switzerland. The basic rationale is to investigate the existence of chaos within the relevant time series. Method of correlation dimension is adopted here as the research methodology.
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Counting Young Carers in Switzerland - A Study of Prevalence
Children & society, 2018 An online survey of children in school grades 4–9 (mostly aged 10–15) was conducted in order to determine the prevalence of young carers in Switzerland using a 2‐stage stratified sampling approach. 4082 respondents were drawn from 230 schools. A total of
A. Leu +8 more
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