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Università della Svizzera italiana

Teaching architecture : Peter Zumthor and the foundations of composition

De Conti Lorentz, Rafael ; Angonese, Walter (Dir.) ; Rakowitz, Gundula (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ARC003.

In 1996, the newly founded Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio invited Peter Zumthor to be the professor in charge of one of the school’s first three design studios. What took form from that was a singular educational experience, conducted by Zumthor as a didactic project spanning a three-year period - the academic years of 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 - and comprehending a sequence of 19...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Robots and nonparticipation in the US : where have all the workers gone?

Lerch, Benjamin

This paper analyzes the impact of one of the leading automation technologies of the last decades, industrial robots, on the declining labor force participation in the US. Exploiting exogenous variation in the adoption of robots across local labor markets and over time, I find that, on average, one additional robot drives two workers out of the labor force. Despite the adverse impact of robots,...

Université de Fribourg

Cross-cultural preliminary validation of a measure of social vulnerability in people with intellectual disabilities

Tabin, Mireille ; Diacquenod, Cindy ; De Palma, Nicola ; Gerber, Fabienne ; Straccia, Claudio ; Wilson, Carlene ; Kosel, Markus ; Petitpierre, Geneviève

In: Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020, p. 1-13

Background: Social vulnerability refers to the ways in which an individual is at risk of being victimised. The Test of Interpersonal Competences and Personal Vulnerability [TICPV] is an Australian assessment tool designed for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) [Wilson et al. (1996). Vulnerability to criminal exploitation: Influence of interpersonal competence differences among people with...

Université de Fribourg

Effectiveness of an extracurricular program for struggling readers: A comparative study with parent tutors and volunteer tutors

Villiger, Caroline ; Hauri, Silke ; Tettenborn, Annette ; Hartmann, Erich ; Näpflin, Catherine ; Hugener, Isabelle ; Niggli, Alois

In: Learning and Instruction, 2019, vol. 60, p. 54-65

This study reviews the effectiveness of an extracurricular paired reading program to enhance the reading of struggling readers. For the first time, two program conditions are compared within one study: parent tutors and volunteer tutors. The program was implemented within a randomized controlled field trial; its effects on reading fluency and reading ability were investigated on a sample of...