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Recommendations on screen time, sleep and physical activity : associations with academic achievement in Swiss adolescents

Marciano, Laura ; Camerini, Anne-Linda

In: Public health, 2021, vol. 198, p. 211-217

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate how meeting international recommendations for screen time (<2 h/day), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA; at least 60 min/day) and sleep (8e10 h/night), as well as media multitasking (MMI) as a form of screen time, impact academic achievement in early adolescence. Study design: A prospective design was used, where self-report measures...

"Impact Engineering” or Social Responsibility? : A Debate on the Responsibilities of Academics and Ways to Combine Scientific with Practice Impact

Frank, Ulrich ; Winter, Robert ; Mertens, Peter ; König, Wolfgang ; Scheer, August-Wilhelm ; Buhl, Hans ; Buxmann, Peter ; Legner, Christine ; Suhl, Leena

In: Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2015, vol. 57, no. 4, p. 279-292

Augmented-feedback training improves cognitive motor performance of soccer players

Hicheur, Halim ; Chauvin, Alan ; Cavin, Vincent ; Fuchslocher, Joerg ; Tschopp, Markus ; Taube, Wolfgang

In: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2020, vol. 52, no. 1, p. 141–152

Purpose In this study, we tested the hypothesis that augmented feedback (AF) training can improve both perceptual–cognitive and/or motor skills specific to soccer.Methods Three groups of young elite players (U14–U15 categories) performed a test consisting in passing the ball as accurately and as quickly as possible toward a visual target moving briefly across a large screen located at 6 m...

Complementary medicine provision in an academic hospital: evaluation and structuring project

Rodondi, Pierre-Yves ; Lüthi, Emmanuelle ; Dubois, Julie ; Roy, Edith ; Burnand, Bernard ; Grass, Geneviève

In: The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2019, vol. 25, no. 6, p. 606–612

Objectives: Complementary medicine (CM) has become increasingly available in hospital settings in several countries. Nonetheless, there are disparities in the provision and organization of CM between hospitals and even within a single hospital. This was the case at Lausanne University Hospital, where neither a registry of CM practices nor homogeneous guidelines for the provision of CM...

Patenting government funded innovations as a strategy to increase budget for academic vaccine R&D

Songane, Mario

(Working Papers SES ; 509)

Vaccine development is a lengthy, expensive and risky venture, with the research and development (R&D) process costing billions of dollars. The pre-clinical stage of vaccine R&D is largely performed by academic research institutions, then continued by the pharmaceutical industry though licensing agreements, taking the most promising candidates to the clinical testing stage. Governments play a...

Preparing pupils to cooperate during cooperative controversy in grade 6: a way to increase positive interactions and learning?

Golub, Mijal ; Buchs, Céline

In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2014, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 453-466

Rethinking Reader and Writer Responsibility in Academic English

MacKenzie, Ian

In: Applied Linguistics Review, 2015, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 1-21

The habitat factor in ELF(A) - English as a Lingua Franca (in Academic settings) - and English for Plurilingual Academic Purposes

Schaller-Schwaner, Iris

In: Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 329-351

Social inequality and smoking in young Swiss men: intergenerational transmission of cultural capital and health orientation

Schori, Dominik ; Hofmann, Karen ; Abel, Thomas

In: International Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 261-270

Multimodal Integration of Dynamic Audio-Visual Cues in the Communication of Agreement and Disagreement

Mehu, Marc ; van der Maaten, Laurens

In: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2014, vol. 38, no. 4, p. 569-597