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Leaving peace for war : An exploratory study of Swiss men’s trajectories toward engagement in Arab conflicts

Ajil, Ahmed

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...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Explaining IMF lending decisions after the Cold War

Moser, Christoph ; Sturm, Jan-Egbert

In: The Review of International Organizations, 2011, vol. 6, no. 3-4, p. 307-340

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Tug-of-war over reproduction in a cooperatively breeding cichlid

Heg, Dik ; Hamilton, Ian

In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2008, vol. 62, no. 8, p. 1249-1257

Université de Fribourg

Automating the timed up and go test using a depth camera

Dubois, Amandine ; Bihl, Titus ; Bresciani, Jean-Pierre

In: Sensors, 2017, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 14

Fall prevention is a human, economic and social issue. The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is widely used to identify individuals with a high fall risk. However, this test has been criticized because its “diagnostic” is too dependent on the conditions in which it is performed and on the healthcare professionals running it. We used the Microsoft Kinect ambient sensor to automate this test in...