Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM008.
Die Themen Ernährung und Bewegung wurden in den letzten Jahren angesichts einer stetig wachsenden Übergewichtsproblematik vermehrt in die Gesundheits- und Lifestyle Diskussion aufgenommen. Forciert wird diese gesteigerte Aufmerksamkeit unter anderem durch verschiedenste Informationsquellen, insbesondere durch die Massenmedien. Im Zuge eines wachsenden Marktes von...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM007.
The fast integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is showing its deep impact onto society in every aspect. Each new technology – and also eLearning – needs to be accepted and integrated in everyday practices. The problem of eLearning acceptance is confirmed by data about abandonment and dropouts of eLearning activities and its relevance emerges clearly in a context...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM006.
Gli ombudsman della stampa sono particolarmente visibili nei paesi anglosassoni e in Svezia, ma sono presenti anche in altri paesi europei e in America latina. Sono state fatte numerose ricerche sulle origini, il ruolo e l’efficacia dei mediatori anglosassoni. Degli ombudsman attivi nel resto del mondo, invece, si sapeva poco. In occasione del suo quarantesimo compleanno - era il 1967 quando a...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM005.
A consistent branch of research in health communication has been focused on the study of the pharmacist - patient relationship. In past decades, the pharmacist and his role in the health care setting has shifted from a product oriented approach, where the primary focus was the production and compound of medicines, to a more patient oriented approach, with main focus becoming the understanding and...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007ECO002.
Come in ogni argomento di ricerca, anche intorno al contenuto "competenza" si sono formate scuole di pensiero che solo in parte convergono perché originano la loro riflessione da diversi contenuti culturali e da diversi livelli di indagine. In questi ultimi tempi si è certamente registrato un passaggio da una concezione "statica" del concetto di competenza ad una visione dinamica ed...
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This paper investigates socioeconomic determinants of outpatient antibiotic consumption in Europe. Comparable data on antibiotic use measured in the defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants (DID) are currently provided by the ESAC project. Results from applied econometric estimations for panel data reveal a link between antibiotic use and the per capita income, the demographic structure of the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005.
This is a study about discursive practices of problem solving within a team of professionals who rehabilitate people with psycho-social problems. The study community is the team of Centro a.D., an organization located in the South of Switzerland. The research combines an ethnographic study of Centro a.D. with a qualitative analysis of recorded talk during team meetings. In particular, narrative...
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In: Learning and Instruction, 2007, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 67-77
Can archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar's ideas through reading...
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In: DiPAV Quaderni : quadrimestrale di psicologia e antropologia culturale, 2006, vol. 17, p. 107-132
La ricerca qui presentata si è svolta nell’ambito di un progetto d’intervento regionale d’ingegneria contestuale, nel quale è attribuita particolare importanza alle rappresentazioni mentali degli e delle abitanti del territorio, come pure alle implicazioni economiche, sociali e culturali delle differenze di genere. Le interviste qualitative condotte con donne di una valle dell’Arco...
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In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 2004, vol. 66, no. 4, p. 893–908
Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models (GLLVM), as defined in Bartholomew and Knott (1999) enable modelling of relationships between manifest and latent variables. They extend structural equation modelling techniques, which are powerful tools in the social sciences. However, because of the complexity of the log-likelihood function of a GLLVM, an approximation such as numerical integration must...
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