Università della Svizzera italiana

A psychometric analysis of the Daily Drinking Questionnaire in a nationally representative sample of young adults from a Mediterranean drinking culture

Piumatti, G. ; Aresi, G. ; Marta, E.

In: Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse, 2021, p. 1-19

Aims: To examine psychometric properties of the Daily Drinking Questionnaire (DDQ) in a Mediterranean “wet” drinking culture. Methods: Three studies were conducted using random samples drawn from a representative sample of Italian young adults (N¼5,955; females ¼ 62%; mean age ¼ 27): Study 1 explored the factorial structure of weekly alcohol consumption; in Study 2 multi-group...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Joint desirability foundations of social choice and opinion pooling

Casanova, Arianna ; Miranda, Enrique ; Zaffalon, Marco

In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2021, no. 89, p. 965–1011

We develop joint foundations for the fields of social choice and opinion pooling using coherent sets of desirable gambles, a general uncertainty model that allows to encompass both complete and incomplete preferences. This leads on the one hand to a new perspective of traditional results of social choice (in particular Arrow’s theorem as well as sufficient conditions for the existence of an...

Université de Fribourg

Just telling what is going to happen. The initial phase of a judicial social investigation interview

González Martínez, Esther

In: Nottingham French Studies, 2011, vol. 50, no. 2, p. 154-176

This article analyses the sequential and situated organisation of the initial phase of social investigator-suspect interviews in the framework of French accelerated criminal procedures. The social investigator starts the interview by introducing a preliminary telling activity in which she announces and presents it and the subsequent steps of the procedure to the suspect. This activity is...

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...

Université de Fribourg

Contextualizing gender and migration : Galician immigration to Switzerland

Richter, Marina

In: International Migration Review, 2004, vol. 38, no. 1, p. 263-286