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Università della Svizzera italiana

Argumentation between parents and children : A study of family discussions at mealtime

Bova, Antonio ; Rigotti, Eddo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM005.

In recent years, the family context has emerged as one of the most important contexts for the study of argumentation. The activity of mealtime, in particular, represents a privileged moment for studying how parents and children interact with each other, because it is one of the few moments during the day in which all family members come together and engage in intensive verbal interaction....

Université de Fribourg

Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism : School-to-Work Transitions of Disabled Youth in Switzerland and the United States

Tschanz, Christoph ; Powell, Justin J. W.

In: Social inclusion, 2020, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 155-167

Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers...

Università della Svizzera italiana

ELearning acceptance in hospitals : continuing medical education of healthcare professionals

Bachmann, Larissa ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.

ELearning provides healthcare professionals an interesting alternative of participating to Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities. It offers the possibility to attend courses at a distance, and it allows creating personal learning schedules without needing to leave the job or the family. Hospitals can choose to organize CME activities for their employees and therefore may also opt to...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Knowledge accumulation in family firms : Evidence from four case studies

Chirico, Francesco

In: International small business journal, 2008, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 433-462

Le but que se propose le présent article est d'aider à mieux faire comprendre comment il est possible d'accumuler les connaissances au sein d'une entreprise familiale. Quatre entreprises familiales, de Suisse et d'Italie, ont accepté de participer à cette étude. La documentation existante, renforcée par l'analyse de ces études de cas, a abouti à la mise en place d'un modèle de...

Université de Fribourg

Laparoscopic training on Thiel human cadavers: A model to teach advanced laparoscopic procedures

Frésard, Isabelle ; Häfliger, André ; Bergmann, Mathias ; Krähenbühl, Lukas

In: Surgical Endoscopy, 2008, vol. 22, no. 4, p. 901-906

Background: Nowadays, the laparoscopic approach represents the gold standard for a wide range of various basic and advanced procedures. To reduce the learning curve in advanced laparoscopic surgery, the search for new teaching tools is of utmost importance. Our experiences with a new teaching tool to train advanced laparoscopic procedures are reported. Methods: Hands-on training courses in...

Università della Svizzera italiana

LoDE - Learners of Digital Era : From the analysis of the current debate to an empirical study emphasising the learners’ perspective

Rapetti, Emanuele ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM006.

Since the 1990s, a wide debate has been generated around the "learners-new media dichotomy", with a consequent journalistic reverberation. In particular, expressions like “digital natives”, “Y” generation, or “net-generation” contributed to diffuse the hypothesis that– since the 1980s – a generation of learners with typical characteristics related to their great familiarity with...