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Università della Svizzera italiana

Perceptions of job insecurity in Switzerland : evidence using verbal and numerical descriptors

Baruffini, Moreno

In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019, vol. 16, no. 10, p. 1785

The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of job insecurity among employees, applying a panel model that allows us to account for the business cycle. In addition, the data will enable the comparison of two measures of job insecurity, one with a cardinal scale, and one with an ordinal scale. First of all, this paper carries out a descriptive analysis of job insecurity, taking into...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The digital birth of an African city : the case of Douala

Pucciarelli, Marta ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019COM003.

This dissertation focuses on the online communication and representation of a digital city in Africa: Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon. In particular, it explores the evolution of the web-based reproduction (Couclelis, 2004) of Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon, from a chronological, spatial and representational perspective, with the purpose of...

Université de Fribourg

Learning with summaries: Effects of representation mode and type of learning activity on comprehension and transfer

Leopold, Claudia ; Sumfleth, Elke ; Leutner, Detlev

In: Learning and Instruction, 2013, vol. 27, p. 40-49

The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether students better understand a science text when they are asked to self-generate summaries or to study predefined summaries. Furthermore, we tested the effects of verbal and pictorial summaries. The experiment followed a 2 × 2 design with representation mode (verbal vs. pictorial) and learning activity (self-generating vs. studying) as...

Université de Fribourg

Little ice age glacier history of the central and western alps from pictorial documents

Zumbühl, Heinz J. ; Nussbaumer, Samuel U.

In: Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 2018, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 115–136

The Lower Grindelwald Glacier (Bernese Oberland, Switzerland) consists of two parts, the Ischmeer in the east (disconnected) and the Bernese Fiescher Glacier in the west. During the Little Ice Age (LIA), the glacier terminated either in the area of the “Schopffelsen” (landmark rock terraces) or advanced at least six times (ten times if we include early findings) even further down into the...