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Université de Fribourg

A substantial discount on ski passes : a synthetic control analysis

Wallimann, Hannes

(Working Papers SES ; 507)

The synthetic control method serves as an appropriate and promising approach to do quantitative comparison research. However, the method is rarely used in the context of tourism. We fill this research gap by applying the method to the case of a Swiss mountain destination. Alpine tourist destinations have suffered from a declining demand in the last decade. Fewer tourist visit ski resorts....

Université de Fribourg

Seeing is better than believing: visualization of membrane transport in plants

Geisler, Markus

In: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2018, vol. 46, p. 104–112

Recently, the plant transport field has shifted their research focus toward a more integrative investigation of transport networks thought to provide the basis for long- range transport routes. Substantial progress was provided by of a series of elegant techniques that allow for a visualization or prediction of substrate movements in plant tissues in contrast to established quantitative...

Université de Fribourg

Passing-by 'Ca va?' checks in clinic corridors

González Martínez, Esther ; Bangerter, Adrian ; Lê Van, Kim

In: Semiotica, 2017, vol. 215, p. 1-42

We have conducted a video-based field study on work interactions between staff members in the corridors of a hospital outpatient clinic in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In this paper, we examine a specific mobile interactional configuration: passing-by interactions in which staff members get involved as they walk following close and parallel trajectories going in opposite...

Médiathèque Valais

Brieg and the Simplon

Wolf, Ferdinand Otto ; Weber, Johannes

Zürich : Orell Füssli, [1889]

(Illustrated Europe ; no 87/88. Valais and Chamounix ; part 2)