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Deliberating Risks Under Uncertainty: Experience, Trust, and Attitudes in a Swiss Nanotechnology Stakeholder Discussion Group

Burri, Regula

In: NanoEthics, 2007, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 143-154

Essays in macro-finance

Lopez, Pierlauro ; Trojani, Fabio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013ECO014.

This doctoral thesis explores the boundary between macroeconomics and finance by focusing on three questions: (i) the measure of the cost of aggregate uncertainty at different horizons and over time; (ii) the role of nominal rigidities in explaining stock-bond yield comovement; (iii) the role of stock prices in the conduct of monetary policy. The objective is to identify some of the...

Food vs money? Effects of hunger on mood and behavioral reactivity to reward in anorexia nervosa

Piccolo, Mayron ; Milos, Gabriella ; Bluemel, Sena ; Schumacher, Sonja ; Müller-Pfeiffer, Christoph ; Fried, Michael ; Ernst, Monique ; Martin-Soelch, Chantal

In: Appetite, 2019, vol. 134, p. 26-33

BACKGROUND: Previous studies using neuroimaging and behavioral measures reported altered reward processing in anorexia nervosa (AN). In addition, anhedonia states are frequently reported in AN, potentially due to the physiological stress produced by the permanent starvation. We investigated the effect of fasting and satiety on mood and reaction times to monetary rewards in AN patients and healthy...

Functional homogenization of bumblebee communities in alpine landscapes under projected climate change

Pradervand, Jean-Nicolas ; Pellissier, Loïc ; Randin, Christophe F. ; Guisan, Antoine

In: Climate Change Responses, 2014, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1

Background: Bumblebees represent an active pollinator group in mountain regions and assure the pollination of many different plant species from low to high elevations. Plant-pollinator interactions are mediated by functional traits. Shift in bumblebee functional structure under climate change may impact plant-pollinator interactions in mountains. Here, we estimated bumblebee upward shift in...

High uncertainty in 21st century runoff projections from glacierized basins

Huss, Matthias ; Zemp, Michael ; Joerg, Philip C. ; Salzmann, Nadine

In: Journal of Hydrology, 2014, vol. 510, p. 35–48

Glacier response to a changing climate and its impact on runoff is understood in general terms, but model-based projections are affected by considerable uncertainties. They originate from the driving climate model, input data quality, and simplifications in the glacio-hydrological model and hamper the reliability of the simulations. Here, an integrative assessment of the uncertainty in 21st...

In Situ Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR/FT-IR) Tribometry: A Powerful Tool for Investigating Tribochemistry at the Lubricant-Substrate Interface

Mangolini, Filippo ; Rossi, Antonella ; Spencer, Nicholas

In: Tribology Letters, 2012, vol. 45, no. 1, p. 207-218

Legal and illegal immigrants: an analysis of optimal saving behavior

Vinogradova, Alexandra

In: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 201-224

Life cycle assessment of two baby food packaging alternatives: glass jars vs. plastic pots

Humbert, Sebastien ; Rossi, Vincent ; Margni, Manuele ; Jolliet, Olivier ; Loerincik, Yves

In: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2009, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 95-106

Plume height, volume, and classification of explosive volcanic eruptions based on the Weibull function

Bonadonna, Costanza ; Costa, Antonio

In: Bulletin of Volcanology, 2013, vol. 75, no. 8, p. 1-19

Risk and risk prediction error signals in anterior insula

Bossaerts, Peter

In: Brain Structure and Function, 2010, vol. 214, no. 5-6, p. 645-653