In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2016, vol. 2, no. 2, p. Forum: 2.2
Der vorliegende Beitrag stützt sich auf die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Forschungs-arbeit über suffizient orientierte Lebensführungen in der Schweiz. Diese wurde im Rahmen eines zweijährigen Forschungspraktikums des Studienbereichs Soziologie, Sozialarbeit und Sozialpolitik der Universität Fribourg als Bachelorarbeit geschrie-ben. Die Studie befasst sich mit suffizient orientierten...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Forum:1.1
Jewish matchmaker play an important role in the traditional search for a partner. They can be positioned analytically between the individual, religion and the state, and their work has an impact at both the micro and macro levels. This article examines how Jewish matchmakers contribute to maintaining the transnational community of the Jewish diaspora network. It is shown that Jewish matchmaking...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 2, no. 3, p. Article: 2.3
While the issue of foreign fighting has been very present in Swiss public discourse in recent years, little is known about the actual trajectories of young men who engage in this particular form of political violence. Based primarily on face-to-face in-depth interviews with four Swiss male nationals who travelled to conflict zones in the Arab World, the present analysis offers insights into the...
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(Internal working papers DIUF ; 18-01)
This paper addresses the issue of selecting a suitable location for a fire station in canton of Fribourg, as a result of a fire brigades’merger, by applying Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods. Solving the problem of determining fire station locations through various methods has been analyzed in-‐depth by researchers. However, a different approach, based on application of...
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(Internal working papers DIUF ; 15-01)
Complementation of Büchi automata is well known for being difficult. In the worst case, a state-space growth of (0:76n)n is unavoidable. Recent studies suggest that “simpler” algorithms perform better than more involved ones on practical cases. In this paper, we present a simple “direct” algorithm for complementing Büchi automata. It involves a structured subset construction (using...
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In: Verbands-Management, 2018, vol. 44, no. 3, p. 6-13
Der Beitrag beschreibt vorerst die Besonderheiten der Finanzierung in Nonprofit- Organisationen und thematisiert die Vielfalt der Finanz- und Ressourcenquellen, die einer NPO zur Verfügung stehen. Anschliessend zeigt er auf, dass NPO gerade auch im Finanzbereich mit einer Reihe von Herausforderungen konfrontiert sind, welche dazu führen, dass ein systematisches und professionelles...
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(Working Papers SES ; 502)
In developing countries, the opportunity costs of children’s time can significantly hinder universal education. This paper studies one of these opportunity costs: we estimate the agricultural productivity of children aged 10 to 15 years old using the LSMS-ISA panel survey in Tanzania. Since child labor can be endogenous, we exploit the panel structure of the data and instrument child labor...
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(Working Papers SES ; 492)
When estimating local average and marginal treatment effects using instrumental variables (IV), multivalued endogenous treatments are frequently binarized based on a specific threshold in treatment support. However, such binarization introduces a violation of the IV exclusion if (i) the IV affects the multivalued treatment within support areas below and/or above the threshold and (ii) such...
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(Internal working papers DIUF ; 15-03)
This paper compares an emergent interaction modality for the In-Vehicle Infotainment System (IVIS), i.e., gesturing on the steering wheel, with two more popular modalities in modern cars: touch and speech. We conducted a betweensubjects experiment with 20 participants for each modality to assess the interaction performance with the IVIS and the impact on the driving performance. Moreover, we...
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