Journal articles on the topic 'Banca della Svizzera Italiana'

Zusammenfassung. Die Fakultät für Biomedizinische Wissenschaften (Fakultät) der Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) wurde 2014 gegründet mit dem Ziel, einen Beitrag zur Lösung eines schweizweiten Problems zu leisten: der Mangel an in der Schweiz ausgebildeten Ärztinnen und Ärzten. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, bietet die Fakultät seit 2017 in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Basel eine limitierte Anzahl Bachelorstudienplätze an, und im Herbst 2020 startet der neue Studiengang Master in Humanmedizin im Tessin. Auf akademischer Seite arbeitet die Fakultät eng mit der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), der Universität Basel (UNIBAS) und der Universität Zürich (UZH) zusammen, und für die klinische Ausbildung bestehen Kooperationen mit verschiedenen klinischen Institutionen im Tessin. Durch die Kombination von klinischer Praxis, wissenschaftlicher Ausbildung und kommunikativen Fähigkeiten geht der Master auf die heutigen Herausforderungen des Ärzteberufs ein.

Nei lavori sociolinguistici sull'emigrazione italiana nella Svizzera germano fona sono stati approfonditi diversi aspetti del comportamento linguistico sia della prima che della seconda generazione, ma ci si è concentrati per lo più sulle caratteristiche dell'italiano o sul fenomeno della commutazione di codice, e manca sinora un quadro globale e analitico dell'insieme delle varietà di lingua possedute e utilizza­ te e della configurazione del repertorio di italofoni in un ambiente germanofono e plurilingue.

Zusammenfassung Die beiden Bibliotheken Biblioteca dell’Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio (BAAM) und Biblioteca universitaria Lugano (BUL) bilden zusammen die Biblioteche dell’Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). In den letzten Jahren haben sie gemeinsame, aber auch autonome Projekte durchgeführt. Die BUL hat zur Schaffung der BiblioAgorà auf dem neuen Campus Lugano-Viganello beigetragen, einem Raum, der die Bibliotheksdienste von USI und Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI) beherbergen soll. Die BAAM hat im Januar 2021, nach mehrjährigen Renovierungsarbeiten den 1. Stock des Palazzo Turconi, eines Krankenhausbaus aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, bezogen. Die Konzeption der neuen Bibliothek auf 1 800 qm, die über sehr heterogene Bestände und Sondersammlungen, wie Autorenbibliotheken, Archivalien, Fotografie- und Graphikbestände und eine Rarasammlung verfügt, wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Architekturbüro Cube aus Lausanne erarbeitet. Ziel war die Freihandaufstellung und Zugänglichmachung möglichst aller Bestände unter Beibehaltung optimaler konservatorischer Bedingungen.

In Italia, la regolamentazione dei contratti bancari in Italia è divisa tra codice civile e legislazione speciale. Il primo, risalente al 1942,ha dato riconoscimento alle principali operazioni bancaria e le ha disciplinate, la seconda, invece, ha introdotto varie forme di tutela del cliente della banca, considerato soggetto “debole” e, quindi, a rischio di un esito contrattuale per lui svantaggioso. Lo scritto si propone di ricostruire, in modo rapido ma organico, la disciplina dei diversi contratti bancari e le principali forme di tutela del cliente di Banca.

L'indagine "Minori in Internet e comportamenti a rischio" raccoglie e analizza le risposte di 750 allievi della scuola dell'obbligo di 35 classi di 11 diverse sedi scolastiche di scuola elementare e media della Svizzera italiana, di etŕ compresa tra 8 e 16 anni, in merito ai loro comportamenti nel web, all'uso della rete Internet e, piů in generale, sull'uso del personal computer. I risultati attestano: (1) un uso capillarmente diffuso e quotidiano del PC e di Internet per tutta la fascia d'etŕ indagata, (2) una percezione relativa o parziale di rischi e reati e (3) forme di reazione e di valutazione molto personali, sovente poco ponderate e ingenue, rispetto alle situazioni che si verificano in rete.

Zusammenfassung. Wir stellen im Folgenden die wichtigsten veröffentlichten Informationen zum Humanmedizinstudium der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich zusammen (Stand 8.6.2020), mit einer kurzen Übersicht des «Bildungsnetzwerks» (www.medunet.ch) der sechs beteiligten Standorte mit den Universitäten Zürich, Basel, St. Gallen, Luzern, der Università della Svizzera italiana und der ETH Zürich. Innerhalb des Bildungsnetzwerks bieten die Universitäten Luzern und St. Gallen für je 40 Medizinstudierende den sog. «Luzerner Track» bzw. «St. Galler Track» an als gemeinsamen Masterstudiengang mit der Universität Zürich. Die beiden Partner stellen ihr Curriculum in separaten Artikeln vor. Abschliessend folgen die Informationen zur laufenden Curriculumrevision unter dem Label ZH Med4, das für die profilierenden Schwerpunkte Digitalisierung, Forschung, Vernetzung und Grundversorgung steht.

Un docente di liceo, che si descrive come “lombardo di origine e sempre vissuto in Lombardia” segnala di essersi accorto con sorpresa del fatto che la parola cala, nel significato di ‘spazzaneve’, non è nota al di fuori della Regione. Vale la pena di riportare quasi per intero la sua formulazione: “Stupito perché per trentacinque anni mi era parsa una parola italiana standard, ho cercato notizie [...]; ho trovato solo due articoli che la registrano come parola ticinese. Ora, effettivamente vivo molto vicino al confine, e da sempre mi è chiaro il confronto con l’italiano parlato in Svizzera: percepisco alcune forme come marcatamente ticinesi, ma non questa. Esistono studi che siano in grado di ricostruire la storia della parola, se sia effettivamente ticinese e passata nell’italiano delle zone di confine o, viceversa, propria dei dialetti lombardi occidentali in genere e non solo di quelli ticinesi?”

Questi due volumi, pubblicati sulla collana «Studi e ricerche» del Mulino, sono legati per diverse ragioni. In primo luogo presentano un'analisi per molti versi simile, pur approfondendo aspetti distinti dell'economia pubblica italiana negli ultimi decenni. In secondo luogo propongono il lavoro di due economisti del Servizio Studi della Banca d'Italia impegnati da tempo in un gruppo di ricerca su questo settore che ha già dato alcuni frutti (fra cui il recente lavoro a cura dell'Ente Einaudi e pubblicato dal Mulino sul Disavanzo Pubblico in Italia). Infine prendono spunto da una riflessione comune relativa al carattere peculiare della finanza pubblica in questo paese, caratterizzata da una lunga fase di espansione ma anche da una grande incontrollabilità che ha causato a più riprese problemi ben noti come lo sperpero di risorse e l'eccezionale disavanzo pubblico.

Ada Ferrari and Gaia Giusto (eds.), Milano città della radio televisione (Milan: Francoangeli, 2000) 139pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-1721-6.Chiara Giaccardi, Anna Manzato and Giorgio Simonelli, Il paese catodico. Televisione e identità nazionale in Gran Bretagna, Italia e Svizzera Italiana (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1998) 135pp., L 24,000 (pb) ISBN 88-464-0734-2.Ralph Negrine, Television and the Press since 1945 Documents in Contemporary History, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), 212pp., £12.99 (pb) ISBN 0-7190-4921-0.Jeffrey S. Miller, Something Completely Different. British Television and American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 208pp., £12.99 (pb), ISBN 0-8166-3241-3, £31.00 (hb) 0-1866-3240-5.Marie-Francoise Lévy (ed.), La Télévision dans la République. Les années 50, Collection ‘Histoire du temps present’ (Paris: IHTP/CNRS, Editions complexe, 1999), 242pp (pb), €18.30, ISBN 2-87027-730-X.Francesca Anania, Davanti allo schermo. Storia del pubblico televisivo (Rome: Carocci, 1997), 152pp., L 30,000 (pb), ISBN 88-430-0535-9.

Der vorliegende Artikel stellt die wesentlichen Erkenntnisse aus einer regionalen Studie vor, welche zwischen 2001 und 2005 an den Tessiner Maturitätsschulen sowie an der Fachhochschule durchgeführt wurde. In der ersten Phase ging es primär darum, das vorhandene quantitative und qualitative Potenzial der Maturanden aus Berufsschule und Gymnasium im Hinblick auf die Einführung der Informatikfakultät an der Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) zu evaluieren. In der zweiten Phase wurde der Fokus auf die Berufsmaturität einschliesslich eines Vergleichs mit der gymnasialen Maturität gerichtet: Anhand einer Gesamterhebung wurde u.a. der Frage des Kompetenzprofils der Maturanden und der Unterschiede je nach Studienrichtung nachgegangen. Neben qualitativen Interviews mit den Lehrpersonen, Fragebögen sowie Leistungs- und Intelligenztests wurde eigens ein spezifisches Instrument zur Erfassung kultureller Kompetenzen entwickelt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen für die Berufsschulmaturanden ein durchzogenes und ambivalentes Bild: Sie weisen in einigen Kompetenzbereichen Ressourcen auf, die durchaus mit den Gymnasiasten vergleichbar sind, etwa ihr kognitives, «sprachunabhängiges» Intelligenzpotenzial. Hingegen sind im Bereich der sprachlichen und kulturellen Ressourcen deutliche Defizite erkennbar. Vergleicht man die Berufsmaturitätsrichtungen, so sind Schwierigkeiten v.a. bei den Absolventen der kaufmännischen Berufsmatura auszumachen.

Six years have passed since China unveiled the Belt and Road Initiative (Yidai Yilu一带一路, formally called One Belt One Road), which was initiated to reconnect China with countries in Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Africa and to improve regional cooperation through better connectivity, enhanced trade exchange, and shared opportunity. By understanding the importance of Europe as the destination of both the “Belt”—a more developed inland connectivity and the “Road”—a more enhanced sea routes network; and observing the mixed information flow of acceptance—resistance, cooperation—dispute, and agreement—disagreement in different countries along the silk road, China Media Observatory of Institute of Media and Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano) is editing this special symposium as a collection of the papers include studies of different media narratives that shape public understanding of Belt and Road Initiative and discuss how Belt and Road Initiative and China’s vision of connecting different stakeholders for international collaborations are reported in both legacy news media and social media.

Abstract Gli studi attinenti alla «politica della concorrenza” sono uno dei settori nei quali da maggior tempo collaborano economisti e giuristi, dato che, in assenza di questa cooperazione, i soli strumenti di cui dispone l’economista, senza quelli del giurista, non sono sufficienti ad interpretare ed applicare le norme antitrust.Soprattutto sulla spinta di queste esigenze si è sviluppato nelle Università americane l’insegnamento di corsi di «Law and Economics», disciplina ormai consolidata.Da un punto di vista intellettuale, pertanto, non vi è dubbio che il tema della concorrenza sia di particolare interesse.Peraltro, già da qualche tempo le opinioni degli studiosi circa gli effetti della politica della concorrenza e, quindi, sull’opportunità di introdurre una specifica legge al riguardo e, poi, di applicarla in modo rigoroso, non sono molto concordi.L’atteggiamento critico nei riguardi dell’intervento pubblico che caratterizza l’epoca attuale e che si può sintetizzare nella nozione di «fallimento dello Stato», non ha risparmiato neppure la politica della concorrenza, sui cui effetti sono state avanzate, e permangono, numerose incertezze.Peraltro, se un atteggiamento critico poteva avere un suo fondamento apprezzabile nei momento in cui si discuteva dell’opportunity o meno di introdurre questa legge, non vi è dubbio che, una volta che questa sia entrata in vigore, essa debba essere oggetto di studio, sempre critico, ma costruttivo.Per questo motivo, è apparsa molto utile la pubblicazione su questo numero di Economia delle Scelte Pubbliche degli atti di un convegno internazionale, organizzato a Reggio Calabria nei dicembre del 1990 dall’Istituto Superiore Europeo di Studi Politici, che ha avuto come oggetto la nuova legge italiana della concorrenza, confrontata con le normative già in vigore presso altri Paesi OCSE, oltre che con la normativa CEE.Assieme ai testi delle relazioni, viene anche pubblicato il testo della legge, sia nella traduzione inglese che in quella francese (ambedue non ufficiali).L’ordine di pubblicazione dei diversi contributi segue il seguente schema: dopo questa presentazione della legge italiana, segue l’articolo di Claudio Menis sulle relazioni tra legislazione CEE e legge italiana. Successivamente, vengono pubblicati (seguendo l’ordine alfabetico per paese) gli scritti che riflettono valutazioni della legge italiana alla luce dell’esperienza nazionale di ciascuno dei Paesi OCSE rappresentati: Belgio (van Meerhaeghe), Francia (Charrier), Germania (Ruppelt), Spagna (Canivell), Svizzera (Baldi) e Regno Unito (Howe).Infine, un articolo di Eric Lacey confronta i lineamenti essenziali della struttura della legge italiana con quelli della media dei Paesi OCSE.La presentazione della legge italiana, non è compito facile per un economista, per la necessità di ricorrere a termini giuridici molto specialistici.La legge considera tre principali fattispecie che sono suscettibili di danneggiare la concorrenza: i cartelli che restringono la libertà di concorrenza, l’abuso di posizione dominante e le concentrazioni.I «cartelli” (o «intese») sono definiti dalla legge come «gli accordi e/o le pratiche concordati tra le imprese, nonché le deliberazioni, anche se adottate ai sensi di disposizioni statutarie o regolamentari, di consorzi, associazioni di imprese ed altri organismi similari». Esse sono vietate quando «abbiano per oggetto, o per effetto, di impedire, restringere o falsare in maniera consistente il gioco della concorrenza all’interno del mercato nazionale o in una sua parte rilevante” (art. 1).L’«abuso di posizione dominante” è vietato dall’art. 3, che include anche una casistica, peraltro non del tutto esauriente, circa situazioni identificabili come abuso di posizione dominante.Le «operazioni di concentrazione», d’altra parte, hanno luogo, secondo l’art. 5, «quando due o più imprese procedono a fusione», «quando uno o più soggetti in posizione di controllo di almeno un’impresa ovvero una o più imprese acquisiscono direttamente o indirettamente [...], il controllo dell’insieme o di parti di una o più imprese», e «quando due o più imprese procedono, attraverso la costituzione di una nuova società, alla costituzione di un’impresa comune». Sulla base dell’art. 6, tali operazioni sono vietate quando costituiscono o rafforzino una posizione dominante sul mercato.L’organo che ha il compito di garantire l’appHcazione della legge è l’Autorità, che è stata creata appositamente e che è composta da quattro membri, più il presidente, nominati sulla base di una determinazione adottata d’intesa dai presidenti dei due rami del Parlamento.Una caratteristica fondamentale del nuovo organo per la tutela della concorrenza è la sua indipendenza dal potere politico, che viene attenuata soltanto a proposito delle operazioni di concentrazione. Come afferma, infatti, l’art. 25, il Consiglio dei Ministri può elaborare criteri di carattere generate che autorizzino operazioni che sarebbero vietate ai sensi dell’art. 6 e, inoltre, può anche vietare specifiche operazioni di concentrazione qualora vi partecipino «enti o imprese di Stati che non tutelano l’indipendenza degli enti o delle imprese con norme di effetto equivalente a quello dei precedenti titoli o applicano disposizioni discriminatorie o impongono clausole aventi effetti analoghi nei confronti di acquisizioni da parte di imprese o enti italiani».Oltre ai poteri d’istruttoria e decisione nei riguardi delle tre fattispecie di cui si è detto, con la possibilità d’imporre anche sanzioni pecuniarie, l’Autorità ha anche poteri conoscitivi e consultivi, sulla cui base può esprimere pareri, o di sua iniziativa o su richiesta del presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find econometric evidence of a negative influence of educational mismatch on either wage or job satisfaction, once potential sources of bias are adequately considered. The analysis attempts to answer the question: do wage or job satisfaction really depends on educational mismatch? Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a panel data of 1690 early career Master graduates from Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. First, a wage equation with dummies representing educational mismatch and other control variables is estimated. On the other hand, a regression in which the dependent variable is the degree of self-assessed job satisfaction is run in order to identify the effect of mismatch on job satisfaction. Findings The analysis finds no robust econometric evidence of a negative influence of educational mismatch on either wage or job satisfaction, once potential sources of bias are adequately considered. Research limitations/implications The estimates have been conducted on a specific sub-population, i.e. a limited sample of Master graduates from a single Swiss university in the years 2006–2016; it is then not straightforward that results can be generalised to the whole population. Originality/value The influence of educational mismatch on job satisfaction has been extensively studied in the previous literature; however, most of the existing studies are likely to report biased results due to unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error. The authors address these two serious econometric issues by proposing a new instrumental variable for a self-assessed mismatch, i.e. time spent in job search after graduation.

<p>Uscito a pezzi dalla pesante crisi finanziaria e industriale del 1907, che aveva messo a nudo i limiti della struttura economica del Paese, il capitalismo industriale italiano elaborò un programma, portato avanti fino al primo dopoguerra, che prevedeva l’instaurazione di un governo di tecnocrati. Questo avrebbe dovuto trainare il Paese fuori dalla crisi, pianificarne l’economia e trasformarlo in una grande potenza industriale, con forti connotazioni imperialistiche. Segnali in tale direzione si erano registrati anche nei decenni precedenti, tra fine Ottocento e inizi Novecento, quando ebbe inizio un processo di concentrazione nel settore siderurgico e meccanico. Un percorso peraltro stimolato dalle commesse statali sempre più consistenti (Galli Della Loggia, 1970; Battilossi, 1999; Amatori e Colli, 1999; Bolchini, 2002). La crisi industriale e finanziaria del 1907 e la recessione a livello mondiale che ne seguì, accelerarono la soluzione tecnocratica, che prevedeva un’alleanza, più o meno stretta, con una parte della classe politica e l’entrata in guerra. Negli anni immediatamente seguenti il conflitto, il potere dei tecnocrati sulla scena politica italiana sembrò accrescersi notevolmente, soprattutto quando il governo progettò un programma di espansione economica nelle regioni del Caucaso, nei Balcani e nel Levante ex ottomano, territori in grado di fornire materie prime e di assorbire la produzione italiana in eccesso rispetto alle richieste di un mercato interno asfittico. La collaborazione tra mondo imprenditoriale, bancario e politico non produsse il risultato sperato. La caduta del governo Nitti e il ruolo destabilizzante e filotedesco della Banca Commerciale Italiana nell’Est europeo e nel Caucaso furono tra le cause principali che impedirono il decollo del progetto tecnocratico,<strong> </strong>provocando una dura reazione da parte dei fratelli Perrone alla guida del gruppo Ansaldo.</p><p>Heavily Weakened by the financial and industrial crisis of 1907, which showed all the limits of the economic structure of Italy, the Italian industrial capitalism developed a program that continued until the early after World War, which was taking into account the establishment of a government of technocrats.</p><p>This should had to take the country out of crisis, establish an economical plan and turn it into a major industrial power, with strong imperialist characteristics. Signals in this direction were also recorded in the previous decades, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when a process of concentration of the main groups of entrepreneurs and capitalists began in the steel and mechanical industry. A path anyway enhanced by more and more orders from the government (Galli Della Loggia, 1970; Battilossi, 1999; Amatori and Colli, 1999; Boldrini, 2002). The industrial and financial crisis of 1907 and the global recession that followed, accelerated the technocratic solution, which were looking for a more or less closer alliance, with a part of the political class and going into war. Soon after the war, the political power of the technocrats in Italy seemed to grow significantly, especially when the Government developed a program of economic expansion in the regions of the Caucasus, Balkans and on the countries of the ex East Ottoman, these territories could provide raw materials and, with respect of an internal market completely saturated, to absorb the exceeding Italian production. The collaboration within the world of business, banking and politics did not produce the desired result. The fall of the Nitti´s Government and the pro German and destabilizing role of the Italian Commercial Bank in Eastern Europe and on the Caucasus were the major drivers against the launch of the technocratic project, inducing a though reaction by the Perrone brothers leading the group Ansaldo.</p>

The syndrome of emotional burnout is developed in people whose profession requires a lot of communication, and the effectiveness of their work depends on its quality. The aim of our study was to determine the influence of burnout on relational maintenance strategies.8 professors of università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland participated in this research. We used Maslach Burnout Inventory and The relational maintenance strategies scale. Moderate level of emotional exhaustion was detected in the majority of the participants. This condition is characterized by the urge towards finding a place to stay alone and get some rest from everything and everybody. It is accompanied by the feeling of emptiness, depression, and apathy. These indicate pronounced tiredness, disappointment, and unwillingness to work among our participants. The high level of Lack of personal accomplishments phase is being developed in all the participants. It indicates the pronounced doubts in the necessity to keep performing the work and in the fact that the work is needed and recognized by other people. We demonstrated that among the professors with burnout such strategies as conflict management, openness, assurances and positivism are the most widespread. Our data indicate that the readiness to work together on certain project or scientific problem (Openness), the willingness to support a student (Advice Giving) and the help to find necessary support outside of current academic environment (Social Networks) decreases with the development of emotional burnout. Understating the level of one's self-appraisal, observed during the development of burnout, ruins effective collaboration between professors and their PhD students, and formalizes their relationships. Thus, burnout is an important mediating variable between interpersonal aspects of work environment.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Background Several mobile apps have been designed for patients with a diagnosis of cancer. Unfortunately, despite the promising potential and impressive spread, their effectiveness often remains unclear. Most mobile apps are developed without any medical professional involvement and quality evidence-based assessment. Furthermore, they are often implemented in clinical care before any research is performed to confirm usability, appreciation, and clinical benefits for patients. Objective We aimed to develop a new smartphone app (Centro di Senologia della Svizzera Italiana [CSSI]) specifically designed by breast care specialists and patients together to help breast cancer patients better understand and organize their journey through the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. We describe the development of the app and present assessments to evaluate its feasibility, usefulness, and capability to improve patient empowerment. Methods A mixed method study with brief longitudinal quantitative data collection and subsequent qualitative semistructured interviews was designed. Twenty breast cancer patients participated in the study (mean age 51 years, SD 10 years). The usability of the app, the user experience, and empowerment were measured after 1 month. The semistructured interviews measured the utility of the app and the necessary improvements. Results The app received good responses from the patients in terms of positive perception of the purpose of the app (7/20, 35%), organizing the cure path and being aware of the steps in cancer management (5/20, 25%), facilitating doctor-patient communication (4/20, 20%), and having detailed information about the resources offered by the hospital (2/20, 10%). Correlation and regression analyses showed that user experience increased the level of empowerment of patients (B=0.31, 95% CI 0.22-0.69; P=.009). The interviews suggested the need to constantly keep the app updated and to synchronize it with the hospital’s electronic agenda, and carefully selecting the best time to offer the tool to final users was considered crucial. Conclusions Despite the very small number of participants in this study, the findings demonstrate the potential of the app and support a fully powered trial to evaluate the empowering effect of the mobile health app. More data will be gathered with an improved version of the app in the second phase involving a larger study sample.

Global DEMs are fundamental for global applications and are necessary also at the local scale, in regions where local models are not available. Local DEMs are preferred when they are available and if are characterized by better accuracies and resolutions. <br><br> In general, two problems arise. Firstly, an interest region could be patched by several partly overlapping DEMs that present similar accuracies and spatial resolutions: they should be merged in a unified model. Moreover, even when the interest region is covered by one unified DEM, local DEMs with better accuracy could be available and should be used to locally improve it. <br><br> All these problems have been addressed within HELI-DEM project. HELI-DEM (HELvetia-Italy Digital Elevation Model) is a project that has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the Italy-Switzerland cooperation program. It started in 2010 and finished at the end of 2013. The involved institutions in the project were Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Regione Lombardia, Regione Piemonte and Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana. One specific aim of the project was the creation and the publication of a unified Digital Elevation Model for the part of the Alps between Italy and Switzerland. <br><br> The interest area is prevalently mountainous, with heights that range from about 200 m to 4600 m. Three low Resolution DTMs (20&ndash;25&ndash;50 m of resolution) are available that partly overlap and patch the whole project area: they are characterized by accuracies of some meters. Also High Resolution DTMs (1&ndash;5 m) are available: they have accuracies of some decimeters but cover limited areas of the project. The various models are available in different reference frames (the European ETRF89 and the Italian Roma40) and are gridded either in cartographic or geographic coordinates. Before merging them, a validation of the input data has been performed in three steps: cross validation of LR DTMs, validation of LR DTMs by HR DTMs and final check by geodetic techniques. The comparisons confirm the accuracy of HR data and the presence of few local anomalies in LR DTMs. <br><br> Considering the goal of the project and the previous results, two different DTMs have been produced. Both of them cover the whole project area (boundaries: λ = 7.80° East and λ = 10.70° East, φ = 45.10° North e φ = 46.70° North). They are gridded in ETRF2000 geographical coordinates and their spatial resolution is 2 × 10^&minus;4 degrees. <br><br> The former has been obtained by interpolating and merging all the input LR DTMs on a new common grid. This DTM has been called HD-1. HD-1 presents the same local anomalies of the LR DTMs used as input for the interpolation: therefore, at least in areas where better data (HR DTMs) are available, its correction was needed. In order to avoid sharp discontinuities, corrections obtained by HR DTMs have been filtered by a numerical FFT approach before applying them. The result of this correction has been called HD-2. HD-1 and HD-2 have already been published by an open access geoservice.

Gli approcci seguiti nell’insegnamento della letteratura italiana nei licei della Svizzera tedesca si riflettono nell’eterogeneità delle proposte didattiche dei manuali prodotti sul territorio e degli scenari e dossier condivisi sulla piattaforma collaborativa italianoascuola.ch. In alcuni, si può notare una tendenza a un approccio ermeneutico che ben si concilia con la scelta prevalente di trattare approfonditamente poche letture integrali, ma non restano isolati canoni orientati a criteri storico-biografici e perlomeno parziali trattazioni di testi in forma antologica. Anche se mancano dati rappresentativi sulle tipologie di testi letti e di attività didattiche svolte, sono diverse le fonti attraverso le quali è possibile rilevare perlomeno una selezione dei testi più letti. Keywords: letteratura di lingua italiana, insegnamento dell’italiano LS, manualistica, reti tra insegnanti, piattaforma partecipativa

4° Workshop Internazionale sui Paesaggi Sonori La Società Svizzera di Studi Teatrali, in collaborazione con l’Accademia Teatro Dimitri e il Dipartimento Formazione e Apprendimento della Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana e con il sostegno della Accademia Svizzera di Scienze Umane e Sociali, nell’ambito della rassegna di manifestazioni “La Suisse existe - La Suisse n’existe pas / Raum - Espace” ha promosso la realizzazione del 4° Workshop Internazionale sui Paesaggi Sonori, che si è svolto il 13 e 14 giugno 2019 tra Verscio e Locarno (CH).

Il rapporto tra scrittrici e scrittori e la radio risale agli albori di questo media: dizioni, conferenze, corsi, organizzazione culturale, la loro presenza accompagna l’evoluzione della radio, in sintonia con i mutamenti che la cultura e i suoi rappresentanti vivono nello spazio pubblico. Con l’avvento della televisione, un altro possibile luogo di parola si apre. La presenza degli scrittori e, parzialmente, delle scrittrici, è trasversale alle trasmissioni culturali radiotelevisive; questo saggio si interessa però in particolar modo ai diversi aspetti delle interviste letterarie alla radio, partendo da alcuni esempi tratti dagli archivi della Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana (RSI). Keywords: intervista letteraria, oralità, genere, posture letterarie, Radio svizzera di lingua italiana (rsi).

Per Elisa Gorla, che ci scrive da Neuchâtel (Svizzera) per chiederci quale sia "esattamente la differenza tra prelievo e prelevamento, e per G.M. che ritiene che "in banca debba e possa dirsi solo prelevamento", mentre prelievo "si addice più al prelievo di sangue", pubblichiamo la risposta di Domenico Proietti apparsa sul n. 43 della Crusca per voi (ottobre 2011).

SComS is an international open access journal of communication research that is jointly edited by the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACMR) and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano). It is published twice a year with the support of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS).SComS aims to build bridges between different research cultures, and publishes high-quality original articles in English, German, French, and Italian. As a general forum for communication scholarship, the journal is especially interested in research that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

SComS is an international open access journal of communication research that is jointly edited by the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACMR) and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano). It is published twice a year with the support of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS).SComS aims to build bridges between different research cultures, and publishes high-quality original articles in English, German, French, and Italian. As a general forum for communication scholarship, the journal is especially interested in research that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

The ECREA 2018 special panel “Rediscussing centers and peripheries: communication lenses on migration” was held at the ECREA conference on 2 November 2018, in the beautiful venue of a frescoed room at Villa Ciani. The panel was co-organized by the two authors of this report, Jolanta Drzewiecka and Sara Greco, both from USI Università della Svizzera italiana. As the organizers, we provide a brief report of the rationale, aims and expectations that we had for this panel. We then include a discussion on how the panel exceeded our expectations by encouraging profoundly critical communication lenses on migration.

This thematic section is devoted to the 7th Conference of the European Communication and Research Association (ECREA), held in Lugano from October 31st to November 3rd, 2018. The section contains three different parts: three conference keynote speakers’ papers translated into Italian language, six reports of special panels on topics related to the conference theme that were chosen by the local organizing committee of USI Università della Svizzera italiana, and, finally, a conference report written by Fiona Fehlmann. The reports on special panels are written in English language, the conference report in German and French language. This thematic section thus fully embraces the flexibility with respect to publication languages offered by Studies in Communication Sciences.

Il contributo offerto dal lessicografo e traduttore John Florio e da suo padre Michelangelo alla cultura italiana in esilio nell’Inghilterra rinascimentale è stato particolarmente rilevante. Dopo un lungo peregrinare che lo portò dalle carceri di Tor di Nona sino a Londra, dove si trattenne per un tempo assai breve, parlando solo italiano e latino, poi a Strasburgo ed infine sui monti della Bregaglia, Michelangelo Florio si spense sicuramente a Soglio nel 1566, insieme alla propria moglie, lasciando tre figli in tenera età. Da «Soi», John partì, ancora adolescente, nuovamente alla volta dell’Inghilterra. Le indagini archivistiche condotte in primo luogo in Svizzera, ma anche in Italia, Francia, Germania e Inghilterra, hanno permesso di seguire le tracce dei due Florio, di cui si fornirà qui una breve panoramica. Keywords: Michelangelo Florio, John Florio, William Shakespeare.

The publication of issue 20(2) of SComS marks an important occasion, namely the 20th anniversary of our journal, which was founded at USI – Università della Svizzera italiana twenty years ago, and consequently published its first issue in early 2001. As you might know, SComS was merged with Medienwissenschaft Schweiz (a publication by the SACM – Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research) in 2007, keeping the name Studies in Communication Sciences. Seizing the occasion of this achievement, we would like to share some important information with you. First, speaking about the history of our journal, we remind you that the early issues of SComS and of Medienwissenschaft Schweiz are fully accessible on our website (section “Archives”), thanks to our collaboration with e-periodica. Second, we are happy to announce that SComS now has an online first publishing policy, meaning that articles are quickly made available online. This policy increases the pace and visibility of articles published in SComS, which is a clear advantage for both our authors and readers. Finally, if you wish to receive regular updates on news, thematic sections and articles published, we encourage you to follow SComS on Twitter (@SComS_Journal). Moving on to discuss the contents of SComS 20(2), we are pleased to announce that this issue contains a variety of topics and perspectives in our field. Alongside a General Section and a Thematic Section, it also contains a Community Section, in which we publish a summary of the PhD thesis that has won the SACM Dissertation Award 2020. Finally, this issue includes a Reviews and Reports Section that comprises two book reviews of recent publications in our field and a report on a scientific workshop held in Zurich.

3D printing for rapid prototyping and production of unique objects is being actively developed. Consumer-grade printers are now commonly available for a range of purposes, while increasingly advanced techniques allow us to fabricate novel shapes, mechanical properties, and appearances. The printers’ capabilities have improved dramatically from printing single-material objects to producing detailed structures with pervoxel material variation. Since the 2010s, it is possible to fabricate full-colour 3D objects with resolutions of hundreds of DPI (voxels’ dimensions are in the order of 10 μm). Such capabilities are most prominent in printers based on the photo-polymer jetting process. Ideally, it should be possible now to produce photorealistic appearances or visually indistinguishable objects copies for, e.g., cultural-heritage applications.However, the resins used as print materials in commercial devices are inherently translucent, i.e., exhibit significant sub-surface scattering. This serves effective colour mixing in full-colour print processes, thus commercial printer drivers offer high-quality colour reproduction. At the same time, the resulting light diffusion leads to over-blurring and potential colour bleeding when printingspatially-varying colour textures. This translucent ‘crosstalk’ between surface points also strongly depends on the internal structure of the volume surrounding each surface point.Previously existing scattering-aware methods used simplified models for light diffusion and accepted the visual blur as an immutable property of the print medium.In this talk, we present the series of works conducted by a consortium of several institutes (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany; Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; Institute of Science and Technology, Austria; University Col-lege London, United Kingdom; Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland; The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Russia). Our work counteracts heterogeneous scattering to obtain the impression of a crisp albedo texture on top of the 3D print, by optimizing for a fully volumetric material distribution that preserves the target appearance.We build our iterative method on top of a general Monte-Carlo simulation of heterogeneous scattering. We find out that a certain arrangement of materials expands the gamut of achievable appearances and makes it possible to produce sharp textures. This knowledge built-in into the volume-update step enables convergence justafter 10–15 iterations. We verify these findings using an established stochastic gradient-descent optimization for small canonical objects where it is feasible computationally.Expansion of our method to fabrication of arbitrary 3D objects with the translucent resins opens a set of problems of achievable colour combinations on the two sides of thin shapes, in the extreme convex and concave shapes. Physically correct lighting simulation enables exploration of these extreme cases where no ideal solution is possible. It turns out that a re-formulation of established gamut-mapping methods is needed for the medium with the inherent cross-talk properties such as the scattering resins of the modern full-colour 3D printers.Elaborating further ideas from we also propose a fast forward predictor of the object's surface appearance based on a neural network to replace the Monte-Carlo simulation in order to speed up the preparation of the model by 300 times. The achieved acceleration allows to reduce simulation time to minutes for a single, GPU-equipped workstation.Thismakesthe print preparation timings practical.

The variable “actors” records individuals or collectives, who appear as a source for assertions of facts and evaluations and whose actions, interests or demands are addressed in an article (Hillebrand, 2005). In the case of media self-coverage, and especially when dealing with media policy issues, media organizations themselves might be affected by them. Hence, media organizations may strategically use their privileged access to the public to promote their own interests, for example by selecting actors and positions that will be publicly heard. Several studies have found a predominance of “opportune actors” and experts representing a position that supports media organization’s own interests (Kemner, Scherer, & Weinacht, 2008; Lichtenstein, 2011; Maier & Dogruel, 2016). Field of application/theoretical foundation The variable serves to identify the actors involved in specific media discourses and can serve as an indicator for attempted influence by media organizations through biased selection. Example study Pedrazzi. 2020 Information on Pedrazzi, 2020 Research interest: Pedrazzi (2020) investigates Swiss media coverage of media policy, public service in general and the Swiss public service organization SRG SSR in the context of the referendum on the revision of the Federal Act on Radio and Television (RTVA) in 2015 and the No-Billag initiative in 2018. Object of analysis: Representative samples of articles covering each the revision of the RTVA and the No-Billag initiative in twelve regional and national Swiss German print and online publications with different ownership. Time frame of analysis: January 1, 2010 to March 4, 2018 Information about variable Level of analysis: article Operationalization/Coding instructions: “The main actor and the two most important secondary actors mentioned in the article and who speak directly or indirectly on media policy issues, i.e. either on one of the proposals (revision of RTVA and/or No-Billag initiative) and its consequences, on the subject of public service, on Swiss public service organization SRG SSR or on the media market, are recorded. However, if an actor is only mentioned - without an explanation of his/her views - he/she is not coded. The main actor is the one who is presented as central in the title, subtitle and/or lead. The title, subtitle (if available) and lead are the first criteria for the assignment. If several actors appear in the same text subunit, the order is decisive. If no clear assignment can be made due to title/subtitle/lead, the entire contribution is used. The main actor is then the most extensively presented actor in terms of volume. The most important secondary actor is determined according to the same criteria as the main actor (if the main actor is not taken into account). The second most important secondary actor is determined according to the same criteria as the main actor (if the main actor and the most important secondary actor are not considered). The journalist can also be coded as an actor if he/she reveals his/her opinion. In the case of commentaries/columns, the author counts as the main actor. In the case of interviews, the interviewee counts as the main actor, but not the journalist.” Values: Pedrazzi (2020) Government, administration, parliament or courts as a body or institution and/or individual representatives of the executive, legislative or judiciary system (however, not individual politicians speaking for themselves or their party) Federal Council Federal Council as a whole or individual members Federal departments, authorities and commissions Departments (e.g. DETEC), federal offices (e.g. OFCOM) authorities and commissions (e.g. ComCom) and their representatives National Council and Council of States Parliament or commissions, including commission presidents or spokespersons when acting in this capacity. Note: Individual parliamentarians must be coded as members of their parties. Cantonal government Cantonal Government as a whole or individual members acting in this capacity Cantonal administration Cantonal administration and their representatives Cantonal parliament Cantonal parliaments Municipalities Members of the municipal council, administration, etc.) Courts Federal court / cantonal court / district court etc. as well as judges acting in their function Other bodies or institutions of the government, administration, parliament or justice Parties and party representatives (incl. party subsections) BDP, Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei Junge BDP CVP, Christlich-demokratische Volkspartei (inkl. CSP) Junge CVP EVP, Evangelische Volkspartei Junge EVP FDP, die Liberalen (inkl. LPS/Liberale Partei der Schweiz) Jungfreisinnige GLP, Grünliberale Partei Junge Grünliberale GPS, Grüne Partei der Schweiz Junge Grüne SP, Sozialdemokratische Partei JUSO SVP, Schweizerische Volkspartei Junge SVP Lega dei Ticinesi Mouvement Citoyens Romand Independents Other parties Initiative, referendum and counter committees Referendum Committee against the revision of the RTVG Committee "Ja zum RTVG" Committee "Nein zur neuen Billag-Mediensteuer" Initiative Committee No Billag incl. Olivier Kessler Committee "NEIN zu No-Billag" Committee "Nein zum Sendeschluss" Other initiative, referendum and counter committees Media, telecommunications and advertising companies and their representatives (incl. owners, editors) SRG SSR incl. SRF, RTS, RSI, RTR NZZ Mediengruppe incl. Radio FM1, TVO, Tele 1, Radio Pilatus, etc. Tamedia Ringier incl. Radio NRJ AZ Medien incl. Radio Argovia, Radio 24, Radio 32, Tele M1, Tele Züri, Tele Bärn, etc. Somedia incl. Radio Südostschweiz, Tele Südostschweiz, etc. Basler Zeitung Medien 3+ Gruppe ProSieben Sat.1 Gruppe RTL Gruppe Teleclub/Swisscom UPC Cablecom Sunrise Orange/Salt Publisuisse Goldbach Medien Other private media companies Media associations and their representatives Verband Schweizer Medien – Médias Suisses – Stampa Svizzera VSP - Verband Schweizer Privatradios RRR - Radio Régionales Romandes Unikom – Union nicht-kommerzorientierter Lokalradios Telesuisse - Verband der Schweizer Regionalsender impressum – Schweizer JournalistInnen Syndicom SSM – Schweizer Syndikat Medienschaffender Swisscable asut Schweizer Werbung – Publicité Suisse – Publicità Svizzera Other media associations Other associations (economic, cultural, civil society, etc.) economiesuisse Schweizerischer Gewerbeverband Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband avenir suisse Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund Kaufmännischer Verband KV Schweiz Travail Suisse Stiftung für Konsumentenschutz Konsumentenforum Fédération romande des consommateurs Associazione consumatrici della Svizzera italiana Think tanks Cultural associations Incl. film and music professionals Sports associations Civil society organizations and associations Other associations Other economic or socio-cultural actors Industry experts Companies not operating in the media, telecommunications or advertising industry Science, research Celebrities From sports, culture, show business, etc. Members of the audience (viewers, readers, users) or simple citizens (without representative function) Author (in case of op-ed articles) Other actors Intercoder reliability: Intercoder reliability (Krippendorff’s Alpha) coefficient of .77 across categories (9 coders) Codebook available at (last accessed on 09.12.2020): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4312912 Information on Hillebrand, 2005 Research interest: Hillebrand (2005) examines how print media outlets report on television (which content, actors, concerns and ways of addressing issues dominate in the coverage and to what extent it includes criticism).Object of analysis: Purposive sample (four times two weeks around media-relevant events) of articles containing a reference to television in six national daily newspapers, two national weekly newspapers, three television magazines and two media trade journals from Germany. Time frame of analysis: August 1, 2002 to July 31, 2003 Information about variable Level of analysis: article Operationalization/Coding instructions: Hillebrand (2005, Anhang A, own translation):“Coding is intended to record the actors, sources and witnesses appearing in the article. A main actor and a secondary actor (if applicable) are coded.Main actor: Who is at the center of the article? Whose actions or statements, interests or preferences are at the core of the article? Who takes up the most space? Whose actions or statements form the reference point to which others then react? Who appears as the ‘source’ for statements of facts or for evaluations?The author(s) of an article are not considered as actors! This also applies in cases where TV celebrities such as Kalkofe (TV-Spielfilm) or Beckmann (Zeit) have permanent columns. As actor is recorded the person or collective, who is reported on, whose actions are commented on, etc.Secondary actor: Who else is it about? Same codes to be used as for the main actor.” Values: Hillebrand (2005) Members of the audience (viewers, readers, users), participants, simple citizens (without representative function) Media companies, media executives, journalists, celebrities of the media industry Politicians and all members of the executive and judiciary system Companies (outside the media industry) Interest groups (of companies or professions outside the media industry, e.g. from the environmental sector, etc.), churches, etc. Interest groups (of companies or professions outside the media industry, e.g. from the environmental sector, etc.), churches, etc. Science, experts, interpreters (writers etc.) - from research and scientific institutions or as self-employed, formally independent from companies, political parties and interest groups Others No secondary actor/not decidable Intercoder reliability: Intercoder reliability coefficient of .84 across categories (4 coders), not specified for individual categoryCodebook available at (last accessed on 09.12.2020): https://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/uploads/media/Publikationen/cms/media/d666beb1d9130d241ec01915684342eb582b3d42.pdf.ReferencesHillebrand, C. (2005). Das Fernsehen im Spiegel der Printmedien – Konturen der Berichterstattung. In R. Weiß (Ed.), Zur Kritik der Medienkritik. Wie Zeitungen das Fernsehen beobachten (pp. 33-81). Berlin: Vistas.Kemner, B., Scherer, H., & Weinacht, S. (2008). Unter der Tarnkappe. Publizistik, 53(1), 65-84. doi:10.1007/s11616-008-0006-9Lichtenstein, D. (2011). Kommerzialisierung des Medienjournalismus? Eine empirische Untersuchung zum „Fall Berliner Zeitung“. M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 59(2), 216-234. doi:10.5771/1615-634x-2011-2-216Maier, D., & Dogruel, L. (2016). Akteursbeziehungen in der Zeitungsberichterstattung über die Online-Aktivitäten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks. Publizistik, 61(2), 145-166. doi:10.1007/s11616-016-0258-8 Pedrazzi, S. (2020). Codebuch zur Studie «Eigeninteressen in der Berichterstattung über medienpolitische Vorlagen und den Service public in der Schweiz». Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4312912