Journal articles: 'Swiss literature'

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Spycher, Peter, and H. M. Waidson. "Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature." World Literature Today 59, no. 4 (1985): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40142185.

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Rash, Felicity. "Language-use as a theme in German-language Swiss literature." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 9, no. 4 (November 2000): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700000900402.

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This article explores the treatment of the theme of language-use in germanophone Swiss fiction.1 I aim to show that the frequency with which this theme manifests itself in literature reflects a widespread interest in linguistic issues on the part of the German-speaking Swiss. The views on language expressed by literary characters discussed in this article are, in fact, no different from those voiced by the real-life Swiss - and most Swiss fiction is about Swiss characters. That the germanophone Swiss give so much attention to linguistic issues testifies to their sensitivity to the social function of language-use as well as to their respect for tradition. The ability to use language according to prescribed conventions is seen as more than merely desirable; it is recognized as a vital requirement of social cohesion and national identity. I conclude that the Swiss preoccupation with language has a political dimension. The unique linguistic situation of German-speaking Switzerland - that of a diglossic German-language community within a multilingual nation - is used by the germanophone Swiss as a means of asserting their individuality among other German-speaking populations.

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Skrine, Peter, and John L. Flood. "Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity." Modern Language Review 82, no. 1 (January 1987): 258. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3729995.

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Otremba, P. "The Swiss Are Coming! The Swiss Are Coming!" Minnesota review 2013, no. 81 (January 1, 2013): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-2331886.

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Williams, Seán M. "Home Truths and Uncomfortable Spaces: Swiss Hotels and Literature of the 1920s." Forum for Modern Language Studies 55, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 444–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz037.

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Abstract Switzerland was at the centre of the European grand hotel scene, geographically and discursively. This article considers Swiss hotel literature and life in the 1920s, a decade in which the country’s hotel landscape became politicized and, relatedly, was often portrayed in popular literature. Against the backdrop of more canonical and intellectual hotel literature set in Switzerland, the following reads Meinrad Inglin’s Grand Hotel Excelsior (1928) as a response to a contemporary ‘culture war’, and as an attempt at centrist cultural criticism. Drawing especially on magazine and other archival evidence, this article also uncovers the promotion, sponsorship and discussion of hotel literature by Swiss hotel lobbyists, which was concerned with increasing the commercial viability of hotels after the First World War, and improving their image at a time of polarized debates about the direction of Swiss society. Thus Inglin’s novel occupies a centre ground not only in its argument, but in a formal sense as well. Grand Hotel Excelsior is a literary means of mediating the problems of Swiss culture in the 1920s, manifest in hotels as actual spaces or subjects, rather than a novel written for, or adaptable to, vested interests, or a work that employs – in the vein of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse – the hotel as a material setting to explore abstract ideas.

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Brusadelli, Federico. "Swiss Enchantment." Asian Studies 9, no. 2 (May 7, 2021): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2021.9.2.145-164.

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A vast and hyper-centralized Asian empire built on the premise of an alleged cultural homogeneity. A small, federalist Alpine state sustained by the ideal of coexistence of different languages and religions. The differences between China and Switzerland could not be wider, and it is therefore understandable that the Swiss confederacy has been fascinating Chinese intellectuals in both the modern and contemporary era. In the late Qing and early Republican period, Switzerland was mentioned by prominent figures like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who praised its democracy, and in the 1920s the Swiss political system became a source of inspiration for “provincial patriots” in Hunan or for Chinese federalists such as Chen Jiongming. The present paper intends to survey these political encounters and perceptions, focusing on the transformation of the Swiss institutional model and historical experience into a “political concept”, and on the reasons for its final rejection as an unrealistic utopia unsuited for China.

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Southard, David. "German and Swiss Publications on Spanish Literature, 1982–1983." Kentucky Romance Quarterly 32, no. 4 (January 1985): 415–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03648664.1985.9928326.

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GOSNELL, JONATHAN K. "Resisting the Image: Heidi, Sheep and Swiss Trash." Australian Journal of French Studies: Volume 59, Issue 2 59, no. 2 (April 1, 2022): 198–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2022.16.

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The novel Swiss Trash, written by Dunia Miralles in 2000, interrogates stereotypes around immigration and nationhood in contemporary francophone Switzerland, with the intention of turning some notions on their head and letting others fester, uncomfortably. The French-language text underscores the divisions, the startling differences present within a seemingly perfect “Heidiland.” Its English title hints at complex and often equivocal cultural denotations extant within the Helvetic Confederation. A simultaneous reading of Swiss Trash and Heidi, of familiar Swiss citizens and intrusive immigrants, offers, this article contends, revealing visions of a dismal present/future and an idealized past. Read alongside works of literature, this essay examines powerful political images conveying a foreign threat on Swiss billboards during referenda in 2010-2011 in the city of Geneva. It compares divergent visual, journalistic and literary depictions of Swiss and other-ness, interpretations that investigate the oxymoron “Swiss Trash.”

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Eykman, Christoph. "The Intellectual in Contemporary German and Swiss Literature: Four Examples." Antioch Review 45, no. 3 (1987): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4611772.

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Haines, Brigid. "The Eastern Turn in Contemporary German, Swiss and Austrian Literature." Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 16, no. 2 (August 2008): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09651560802316899.

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Greco-Kaufmann, Heidy. "Comic Interludes within Swiss Saint Plays." European Medieval Drama 24 (January 2020): 117–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.emd.5.121755.

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Meyer, Roger. "Collections of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media and their Public Access." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 22, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2012vol22no1art1132.

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The Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media, Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM), an associated institute of the University of Zurich and the Swiss section of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), accommodates the only documentation centre of Switzerland, which collects children's literature and secondary literature of a wide range, with historical and contemporary interest. The main activities of the institute are research and documentation in the field of children’s and youth media and reading promotion. It cooperates with similar institutions in other European countries.

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Ullendorf, E. "A Swiss polyglot." Journal of Semitic Studies 42, no. 2 (September 1, 1997): 217–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jss/42.2.217.

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Zasluzhena, Alla. "The Concept of English Philologists’ Training at Swiss Universities." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 6, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 88–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rpp-2016-0024.

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Abstract The issue of plurilingual approach usage to the study of foreign languages has been made actual on case study of Swiss universities. Basic concepts of English philologists’ formation at Swiss universities have been determined. These components have been analyzed with relation to their relevance to the prospective philologist in English Linguistics and Literature. The attention has been focused on the effectiveness of Swisss higher education up to the indicator “skills” (Global Information Technological Report 2014, Networked Readinnes Index, NRI) according to the World Economic Forum on the development of information technologies in different countries. The emphasis has been made on mutual interaction between sectors of secondary and higher education, that contributes to the quality improvement of education in the country. Some steps in the process of modernization in primary and secondary education have been indicated, such as the usage of the Swiss version of the European Language Portfolio; development of “Profession-related Language Competence Profile for Foreign Language Teachers at Lower Secondary Schools”, “The Passepartout Language Teacher Profile”. Attention is paid to the following changes of teachers’ training: its belonging to tertiary study; mandatory practice-teach for English teachers in English-speaking countries, the required level of command of English language as admission to study in Bachelor and Master programs; capability to work in other linguistic regions, which in turn causes the requirements on quality assurance of particular region language proficiency according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

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Lips, M., D. Schmid, and P. Jan. "Labour-use pattern on Swiss dairy farms." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 59, No. 4 (April 25, 2013): 149–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/121/2012-agricecon.

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Abstract: Analysing the labour-use pattern on Swiss dairy farms, we apply a typology scheme with two criteria: on-farm wage labour and off-farm family labour. The resultant four farm types are analysed based on the data from the Swiss Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) as well as the spatial data on available jobs. Only 17% of dairy farms have neither on-farm wage labour nor off-farm family labour. 60 % have family members involved in off-farm activities. On average, 0.3 annual work units (AWU) are employed in off-farm activities, earning double the on-farm income per AWU. In line with the literature, we found that the likelihood of on-farm wage labour increases with the farm size and the degree of diversification. Involvement in off-farm activities is more likely if the farm manager is young and has a spouse with a non-agricultural education. Furthermore, private consumption per consumer unit has a positive marginal effect on the likelihood of off-farm work. Finally, no evidence was found of available jobs within a range of 10 kilometres acting as a proxy for the local labour demand for off-farm activities, leading us to the conclusion that involvement in off-farm work is an option for most of the analysed dairy farms.  

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Tronzano, Marco. "Optimal Portfolio Allocation between Global Stock Indexes and Safe Haven Assets: Gold versus the Swiss Franc (1999–2021)." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15, no. 6 (May 27, 2022): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15060241.

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This paper contributes to the literature on safe haven assets, analyzing gold and the Swiss Franc’s defensive properties inside various global stocks portfolios. The analysis relies on monthly data extending over the last two decades. Drawing on Multivariate Garch DCC models, the hedging effectiveness of bivariate Swiss Franc-hedged portfolios is found to be notably higher than that of gold-hedged portfolios. Value-at-Risk simulations, assuming equal or “optimal” portfolio weights, confirm these results inside a multivariate asset framework, while a regression approach with quantile dummies provides further support in this regard. Since the better hedge and safe haven properties of the Swiss Franc are likely to persist in the future, the main policy implication of the paper concerns asset allocation strategies giving relatively more weight to the Swiss currency in global stock portfolios.

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Hering, Janet G. "Women as leaders in academic institutions: personal experience and narrative literature review." Pure and Applied Chemistry 91, no. 2 (February 25, 2019): 331–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pac-2018-0603.

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Abstract For the last 12 years, I have had the pleasure and privilege to serve as the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Lausanne (EPFL). My affiliations have afforded me a rare opportunity to observe the structure and governance of academic institutions and to reflect on my own experience in institutional leadership. I have attempted to place my experience in the context of the literature on leadership, particularly that relating to women and academia. On the basis of my experience and reading, I make some recommendations for women faculty, for women in positions of institutional leadership in academia, and for academic institutions. I am deeply convinced that greater participation by women (and members of other under-represented groups) in institutional leadership is needed if academia is to make a meaningful contribution to addressing the huge challenges that face humanity.

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Baranovska, Lilia, and Alla Zasluzhena. "Content Peculiarities of Bachelors’ in English Language and Literature Training at Universities of Switzerland Confederation." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rpp-2015-0020.

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Abstract The article is devoted to the content-analysis of peculiarities of Bachelors’ in the English language and literature training at Swiss universities. It has been revealed that domestic scientists have not paid special attention to this problem as the issues of future teachers’ training and future foreign languages teachers’ training in foreign universities, in particular in Germany, USA, Finland, Mexico, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan have been more studied. The study of curricula at Swiss universities under conditions of credit-modular organization of educational process, which affects the structure of the content, choice of forms and methods of teaching and assessing students' academic achievements has allowed us to conclude that the student learning is based on the multicultural, competent and communicative approaches. English language learning in the context of general linguistic picture of the world, its style and dialect importance is content particularity of this training. The communicative aspect of English study by Bachelors first appears in content acquirement of subjects “Exploring Sociolinguistics”, “Sociophonetics”. English is taught in the context of its understanding as a means of interaction under conditions of educational and cultural integration of the nations and a means of constructive polylogue in the country, that represents multicultural vector of bachelors’ training in philology. The experience of Swiss universities can be adopted by native universities to create a multicultural and communicative personality of a future philologist.

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Haciyeva, Salatin, and Aybeniz Heyderova. "What Makes the Swiss Banks Special?" International Journal of Membrane Science and Technology 10, no. 4 (September 30, 2023): 1384–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15379/ijmst.v10i4.2254.

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The Swiss banking sector has long been famous for its success in attracting foreign assets and wealthy clients. This article aims to analyze the reasons behind the success of Swiss banks by considering various factors. The research paper includes a literature review, methodology, and examination of key elements such as foreign assets, Indian 'black money,' the largest Swiss banks, the impact of the coronavirus crisis, Swiss banking secrecy, overall country stability, stable currency, and globalization. The study reveals that Swiss banks have historically been a preferred destination for people from politically and economically unstable countries seeking secure storage for their wealth. The existence of banking secrecy laws, dating back to 1930s, has played a significant role in attracting international clients, although other factors have also contributed to the success of the sector. The analysis of foreign assets shows a substantial amount of money held in Swiss banks, accounting for a significant portion of global cross-border assets. Indian 'black money' has also found its way to Swiss banks, although efforts to disclose account information have been ongoing. The largest Swiss banks, including UBS and Credit Suisse, have played a pivotal role in the country's financial sector. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Swiss banking industry was analyzed, showing that despite challenges, the industry managed to offer new jobs and maintain profitability. The study emphasizes the importance of Swiss banking secrecy, which has been a key factor in attracting wealthy clients for centuries. However, it argues that secrecy alone does not fully explain the success of the Swiss banks. Other factors, such as overall country stability, a stable and easy convertible currency like the Swiss Franc, and the role of globalization in facilitating international operations, have all contributed to the sector's prominence. In conclusion, the success of Swiss banks is a result of multiple factors working together. While banking secrecy has played a significant role, other favorable conditions such as political stability, a strong currency, and global outreach have also contributed to Switzerland's status as a global financial hub. Understanding the interplay of these elements sheds light on the reasons behind the exceptional performance of the Swiss banking sector.

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Sambells, Chelsea. "Convenient and Conditional Humanitarianism: Evacuating French and French Jewish Children to Switzerland during the Second World War." Nottingham French Studies 59, no. 2 (July 2020): 174–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2020.0283.

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This article provides details of a relatively little-known Swiss initiative during the Second World War. From 1940, Swiss charities provided large-scale humanitarian aid to war-stricken children, offering short-stay evacuations of over 60,000 French, Belgian and Yugoslav children to Swiss families, including at least some French Jewish children. In summer 1942, however, when French authorities began the round-ups of Jews, this approach faltered. That September, when many French Jewish children were stranded after their parents' deportation, a meeting took place between the Swiss ambassador and the French Premier, Pierre Laval. A deal might have been struck to protect these French Jewish children from deportation and extermination, but was not the preferred policy. This article analyses that meeting, concluding that Swiss officials were bound by the view that their own self-mandated neutrality might be compromised, despite a pre-existing evacuation infrastructure and strong Swiss public support, and to the fatal detriment of thousands of French Jewish children.

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Battanta, Luca, and Francesca Magli. "RegTech: Analysis of the aggregators in the Swiss startups’ ecosystem during the pandemic." Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets and Institutions 13, no. 3 (2023): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/rgcv13i3p4.

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Following the Great Financial Crisis, the emergence of digital technologies and the end of banking secrecy (“Swiss say goodbye to banking secrecy”, 2017), financial technology (FinTech) and regulatory technology (RegTech) startups have been offering products in the financial regulatory sector. This trend has increased since the outbreak of COVID-19. Most of the studies on RegTech have focused on reviewing the literature on the macro context and the issues of vast amount of regulation (Arner et al., 2017). Today the academic literature about case studies in regulatory technology is not proposing any solution of cooperation or aggregation of RegTech’s startups in Switzerland. Due to the lack of papers about RegTech in Switzerland, we adopt an approach already used for case studies in the FinTech area (Foster & Heeks, 2013; Burtch et al., 2013) through exploratory investigation through interviews and literature review. The findings of our article have allowed us to analyse the topics and the applications in the RegTech ecosystem provided by startups to Swiss banks. We examine also the aggregations, incubators, and associations active in Switzerland Swisscom, International RegTech Association (IRTA), and F10 (a Swiss FinTech incubator based in Zurich) to examine how they can bring RegTech solutions of the RegTech startups into the banks.

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Karsanova, E. S., and O. S. Volgin. "Attitide to the European Union: the risk of disrupting the Swiss society." Journal of Law and Administration, no. 2 (October 26, 2018): 70–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2018-2-47-70-78.

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Introduction.The processes that are going on now in Europe make a research of the social, cultural and political peculiarities of the Swiss electorate a timely issue due to their ambiguous attitude to the perspective of Switzerland joining the European Union. Materials and methods.The research is based on the theoretical and empirical analysis of Swiss appropriate sources and literature by using the methods of historical, system and behavioral approach, that allowed us to define a causal relationship and differential signs of German-speaking Swiss community as a particular ethnic group, to display most important factors that make the greatest influence on this group in terms of their attitude to EU. The results of the research.The Swiss electorate is deeply committed to the Swiss political institutions. The principles of neutrality, federalism and direct democracy are supported by all population of Switzerland irrelatively of their ethno-linguistic diversity. That is why many Swiss Eurosceptic argue that the membership in the EU is incompatible with political traditions of the Swiss Confederation. The repudiation of the EU membership is mostly peculiar to a great number of the German-speaking Swiss due to their political and cultural habits. On the contrary French-speaking Swiss mostly stay for joining the EU. We presuppose that a sufficiently high level of repudiation of the EU membership by the German-speaking Swiss can be explained by two main reasons: on the one hand, all Swiss belong to the state that has no general cultural (ethnical) attributes that make them more vulnerable to the institutional ambitions of the EU, on the other hand, being German-speaking Swiss they belong to the ethno-linguistic and territorial unit which has no institutional support and vivid cultural articulation. Being squeezed from both sides by the political and linguistic factors the German-speaking Swiss electorate possess a latent feeling of vulnerability and a nation-exclusive type of identity, which is the reason of their Euroscepticism. Discussions and conclusion:the European Union wants to clarify the outlines of its relations with Switzerland. But the more resolute its political line becomes in this respect the more definitely the German-speaking Swiss electorate will perceive that this policy is a danger to their identity and the stronger their willingness to stay outside the EU will become. If we take into account that the German-speaking Swiss population is three times as big as the francophone Swiss population, Switzerland will apparently remain outside the EU in the foreseeable future.

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Bishop, Paul. "Jung’s Dialogue with Swiss Intellectuals." Oxford German Studies 47, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 51–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2018.1409509.

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Volet, Jean-Marie. "From Autobiography to Fiction: Swiss Author Anne Cuneo." World Literature Today 70, no. 2 (1996): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40152046.

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Skrine, Peter, and Malcolm Pender. "Contemporary Images of Death and Sickness: A Theme in German-Swiss Literature." Modern Language Review 95, no. 4 (October 2000): 1144. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3736699.

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Tyurina, Tatiana Valeryevna. "Modern Swiss Literature: Fanny Wobmann’s Novel “Naked in a Glass of Water”." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 4 (April 2022): 1060–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20220160.

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Classen, Albrecht. "Ulrich Bonerius - A Swiss-German Boccaccio?" Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 122, no. 1-2 (January 4, 2022): 105–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.51814/nm.103088.

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The Dominican Priest from Bern, Ulrich Bonerius, composed his collection of fables, Der Edelstein, at exactly the same time when Boccaccio created his collection of tales, Decameron, 1350. Even though there is no direct evidence of any kind of personal contacts between these two poets, the strong similarities between both works in formal and conceptual terms prove to be striking. This article illustrates the reasons why we would be justified to call Bonerius, more than just playfully, a German-language Boccaccio, since he created the first major compilation of narratives (in verse), framed by a prologue and an epilogue, in the history of late medieval German literature. While Boccaccio has ten story-tellers entertain each other over ten days (ten stories per day = 100) reflecting on eroticism, love, adventures, or anti-clericalism, Bonerius offers one hundred didactic fables illustrating human failings, shortcomings, and vices. Both contemporaries thus aimed at criticizing and improving their society through surprisingly similar literary means. Bonerius thus emerges as one of the most important fourteenth-century poets in the German tongue who deserves to be placed close to Boccaccio.

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GROSJEAN, FRANÇOIS, SÉVERINE CARRARD, CORALIE GODIO, LYSIANE GROSJEAN, and JEAN-YVES DOMMERGUES. "Long and short vowels in Swiss French: Their production and perception." Journal of French Language Studies 17, no. 1 (February 9, 2007): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269506002626.

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Contrary to what is stated in much of the literature which is based in large part on Parisian French, many dialects of French still have long and short vowels (e.g. in Switzerland and Belgium). This study had two aims. The first was to show that Swiss French speakers, as opposed to Parisian French speakers, produce long vowels with durations that are markedly different from those of short vowels. The second aim was to show that, for these two groups, vowel duration has a different impact on word recognition. A production study showed that Swiss French speakers make a clear duration difference between short and long vowels (the latter are more than twice the length of the former on average) whereas the Parisian French do not. In an identification study which used stimuli pronounced in Swiss French, it was shown that words articulated with long vowels created no recognition problem for Swiss French listeners whereas they did so for Parisian French listeners. These results are discussed in terms of models of speech perception and word recognition.

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Tsimkhes, I. "Surgical treatment of nephritis. Denk (Wien, med, Wochenschr. 1931, no. 40)." Kazan medical journal 29, no. 4 (November 19, 2021): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/kazmj88619.

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Denk (Wien, med, Wochenschr. 1931, no. 40) collected 915 pages from the literature of the last 10 years and questionnaires from German, Austrian and Swiss surgeons. surgical treatment of nephritis and results.

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Atca Gorgun, Ozenc, and Bert Wolfs. "Impact of the new digital competitors on Swiss banking business models." International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478) 10, no. 2 (March 21, 2021): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v10i2.1055.

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This study examines the impact of new digital-only competitors on the Swiss banking business models and value chain. Despite various studies and articles available in the literature about the impact of new digital competitors on the banking industry, there is little research focusing on the Swiss market. The comprehensive research conducted in this study and the data collected through the survey provides a foundation to gauge the impact of the new digital competitors’ pressure on business models and value chain in the Swiss banking industry. The design of the research instrument employed for collecting the primary data has been achieved through a survey shared with 75 managers and experts working in the Swiss banking industry including Swiss banks, FinTechs, BigTechs, and other financial services and consultancy firms. One sample z-test and descriptive statistics have been applied to the survey results to gain a deeper understanding. The outcome of the analysis suggests that the competitive pressure of BigTechs and FinTechs is expected to have a significant impact on the Swiss banking industry, and mainly BigTechs are anticipated to be significantly dominant with disruptive impact. The obtained results also strongly indicate that the cross-industry ecosystems and close partnerships with the new digital competitors are the potential key strategies to be pursued as the future Swiss banking business models. Besides, the disruptive new market entrants are anticipated to be highly likely to gain significant market share in certain market segments of the banking industry and also to create an “ecosystem” accordingly. The area of Personal and Corporate Banking is found out to be more vulnerable to digital disruption in comparison with the other banking areas.

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Spater, Jeremy, and Isak Tranvik. "The Protestant Ethic Reexamined: Calvinism and Industrialization." Comparative Political Studies 52, no. 13-14 (September 18, 2019): 1963–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414019830721.

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Can cultural differences affect economic change? Max Weber famously argued that ascetic Protestants’ religious commitments—specifically their work ethic—inspired them to develop capitalist economic systems conducive to rapid economic change. Yet today, scholars continue to debate the empirical validity of Weber’s claims, which address a vibrant literature in political economy on the relationship between culture and economic change. We revisit the link between religion and economic change in Reformed Europe. To do so, we leverage a quasi-experiment in Western Switzerland, where certain regions had Reformed Protestant beliefs imposed on them by local authorities during the Swiss Reformation, while other regions remained Catholic. Using 19th-century Swiss census data, we perform a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design to test Weber’s hypothesis and find that the Swiss Protestants in the Canton of Vaud industrialized faster than their Catholic neighbors in Fribourg.

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Germann, Christoph, Michael Geiser, and Matthias Borer. "A review of the Chrysolina species – subgenus Stichoptera Motschulsky, 1860 – in Switzerland, with notes on distribution, conservation and preimaginal stages (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)." Alpine Entomology 7 (July 7, 2023): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/alpento.7.105937.

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The species of the subgenus Stichoptera occurring in Switzerland are revised, based on a combination of literature data, old museum specimens and recent material. Four species, one with two subspecies, Chrysolina kuesteri (Helliesen, 1912), Ch. latecincta latecincta (Demaison, 1896), Ch. latecincta norica (Holdhaus, 1914), Ch. rossia (Illiger, 1802) and Ch. sanguinolenta (Linnaeus, 1758) are confirmed to occur in Switzerland, while Ch. gypsophilae (Küster, 1845) has to be excluded from the Swiss fauna due to insufficient evidence. Errors and unclarities in the older literature are discussed. Ch. kuesteri was found abundantly in central Valais, allowing some notes on its larval biology. Larvae of the alpine Ch. latecincta are also illustrated, along with notes on its habitat and some past and present distribution records. Illustrations for all Swiss members of the subgenus, as well as distribution maps with all confirmed records, are provided.

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Amslinger, Julia, and Nathalie Emmenegger. "„Zucht und lehr“ – Johann Wilhelm Simlers Teutsche Gedichte (1648)." Artes 2, no. 2 (September 18, 2023): 343–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/27727629-20230014.

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Abstract Swiss literature between Niklaus Manuel as an example of a 16th century poet and Albrecht von Haller as a writer of the Age of Enlightenment has been little researched – despite the fact that a large body of literature dealing with a particularly ‘Swiss’ language, culture, and poetry can be linked to the political status of the sovereign confederation in the 17th century. This article presents the book Teutsche Gedichte by the Zurich author Johann Wilhelm Simler in the context of its creation as well as its reception. The work was first published in 1648, the year of the separation of the Confederate cantons from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and at the end of the Thirty Years’ War. Due to its resounding success, it was reprinted three times until 1688. In addition to various epigrams, doctrinal and occasional poems, the collection consists mainly of sacred and secular songs, printed in four-part notation. The melodies were written by various composers. As well as working with musicians, Simler also collaborated closely with the Zurich engraver Conrad Meyer. We would like to highlight Simler’s work as a cultural broker in the cultural scene of his city and for Swiss poetry in the German-speaking world.

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Stark, Elisabeth, and Petra Meier. "Argument Drop in Swiss WhatsApp Messages." Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 127, no. 3 (2017): 224–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.25162/zfsl-2017-0006.

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Iammarino, Marco, Giovanna Berardi, Valeria Vita, Antonio Elia, Giulia Conversa, and Aurelia Di Taranto. "Determination of Nitrate and Nitrite in Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris L. subsp. vulgaris) and Wild Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC.) and Food Safety Evaluations." Foods 11, no. 17 (August 25, 2022): 2571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11172571.

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Nitrite and nitrate levels in vegetables are a matter of concern due to their toxicity at high levels and nitrate high accumulation. Moreover, there is a lack of knowledge about their levels in some types of widely consumed vegetables such as chard and rocket. In this study, 124 Swiss chard and wild rocket samples were analyzed for determining nitrite and nitrate using validated and accredited analytical methods by ion chromatography with conductivity detection. High nitrite concentrations, up to 219.5 mg kg−1 f.w., were detected in one Swiss chard and three wild rocket samples. One Margin of Safety (MoS) value was <1. Regarding nitrate, in Swiss chard samples the mean concentration (2522.6 mg kg−1) was slightly higher than those reported in the literature for spinach and lettuce. No MoS was <1, but 83% of values were <100. Nitrate concentrations higher than the legal limit were quantified in 11 rucola samples. The verification of 25% of wild rocket samples with nitrate concentration higher than the legal limit confirmed the need for official control. This study also suggests the introduction of legal limits for nitrite/nitrate in Swiss chard and nitrite in wild rocket.

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Herrmann, Irene. "Woe of Tale? The emergence, vicissitudes and (over-) efficiency of the Swiss narrative of democracy." Journal of Modern European History 17, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1611894419835740.

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The Swiss narrative of democracy is a well-known and well-studied topic. Not only is it still used by current—mostly populist and xenophobic—political actors, but it has been explored by at least two generations of historians who have tracked its development before the French Revolution and, to a lesser extent, during the 19th century, a period during which Swiss democracy was undergoing dramatic changes. This literature shows that this narrative was first an account of Swiss liberty before focusing on democracy per se. It also demonstrates that the democracy it depicts has very little to do with its medieval counterpart. However, historians mostly overlook a crucial element, which is highlighted in this volume, as they fail to truly analyse the use of the narrative form—and the consequences of its use, per se. By focusing first on the emergence of this narrative and then by thoroughly exploring its development during the post-revolutionary period, along with the evolution of democracy itself, this article seeks to prove the importance of the narrative (form) for the evolution of Swiss modern democracy—even today.

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Ackfeld, Theresa, Thomas Schmutz, Youcef Guechi, and Christophe Le Terrier. "Blood Transfusion Reactions—A Comprehensive Review of the Literature including a Swiss Perspective." Journal of Clinical Medicine 11, no. 10 (May 19, 2022): 2859. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11102859.

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Blood transfusions have been the cornerstone of life support since the introduction of the ABO classification in the 20th century. The physiologic goal is to restore adequate tissue oxygenation when the demand exceeds the offer. Although it can be a life-saving therapy, blood transfusions can lead to serious adverse effects, and it is essential that physicians remain up to date with the current literature and are aware of the pathophysiology, initial management and risks of each type of transfusion reaction. We aim to provide a structured overview of the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic approach and management of acute transfusion reactions based on the literature available in 2022. The numbers of blood transfusions, transfusion reactions and the reporting rate of transfusion reactions differ between countries in Europe. The most frequent transfusion reactions in 2020 were alloimmunizations, febrile non-hemolytic transfusion reactions and allergic transfusion reactions. Transfusion-related acute lung injury, transfusion-associated circulatory overload and septic transfusion reactions were less frequent. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the healthcare system with decreasing blood donations and blood supplies, as well as rising concerns within the medical community but also in patients about blood safety and transfusion reactions in COVID-19 patients. The best way to prevent transfusion reactions is to avoid unnecessary blood transfusions and maintain a transfusion-restrictive strategy. Any symptom occurring within 24 h of a blood transfusion should be considered a transfusion reaction and referred to the hemovigilance reporting system. The initial management of blood transfusion reactions requires early identification, immediate interruption of the transfusion, early consultation of the hematologic and ICU departments and fluid resuscitation.

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Zeller, Sara. "Centering the Periphery: Reassessing Swiss Graphic Design Through the Prism of Regional Characteristics." Design Issues 37, no. 1 (January 2021): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00625.

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In the literature, the history of Swiss graphic design is regularly told as a linear development from illustrative tendencies to Modernist abstraction. Recent research has shown that these narratives were constructed and disseminated by a group of Modernist graphic designers through journals and their own publications. By the mid-1950s, the Modernists themselves began dividing designers of the time into two camps: the individual or illustrative versus the abstract or Modern. This dichotomy, which established itself quickly, continues to shape the narrative of Swiss graphic design to this day. However, this article argues that the reality of graphic design practice in Switzerland in the 1950s was more diverse than previously assumed. Outside an exclusive circle of practitioners, illustration and abstraction were understood more as design methods than as attitudes. Taking this as its starting point, this article looks beyond this dichotomy by drawing on unpublished sources of the time and, thereby, challenges the traditional understanding of Swiss graphic design.

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Cosandey, Vivien, Yannick Chittaro, and Andreas Sanchez. "Annotated checklist of the Hydrophiloidea of Switzerland (Coleoptera)." Alpine Entomology 7 (October 6, 2023): 167–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/alpento.7.111147.

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Access to large, high-quality databases is one of the major needs in biodiversity studies. Faunistical data are essential but are often scarce and have to be compiled from various sources. On the basis of more than 30,000 occurrences obtained from specimens held in museum and private collections, as well as from literature data, we present the first updated checklist of the Swiss species of Hydrophiloidea (Georissidae, Helophoridae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, and Spercheidae) since 1900. In total, 105 species are retained as part of the Swiss fauna, while 16 species, which were recorded from Switzerland in the past, are excluded from this list, either due to insufficient documentation or because their records were based on misidentified material. Cercyon alpinus, Cercyon castaneipennis, Cercyon tatricus, Helophorus montenegrinus, Megasternum immaculatum, Pachysternum capense, and Paracymus scutellaris are recorded for the first time in Switzerland. This work is a further step towards the comprehension of the whole Swiss beetle fauna.

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Jerchower, Seth, and Heidi Lerner. "Johann Heinrich Hottinger and the Systematic Organization of Jewish Literature." Judaica Librarianship 13, no. 1 (December 31, 2007): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.14263/2330-2976.1080.

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The authors explore the influence of the Swiss theologian, Orientalist, and Christian Hebraist, Johann Heinrich Hottinger, who preceded Shabbetai Bass in developing and implementing a classified Hebraica-Judaica bibliography. His ideas and theories have heretofore not been closely examined by Judaica bibliographers or researchers of Jewish intellectual history. Hottinger’s innovation was his degree of abstraction: that of analyzing a collection according to its contents. A study of his theories and classification systems can stimulate and encourage a renewed look at early practices and offer insights that can be relevant to current research. Unless otherwise noted, translations from the original Latin, Hebrew, and other languages are the authors’.

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Björkstrand, Christel. "Politeness and social utopia in Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell." Literary Linguistics 3, no. 1 (June 3, 2013): 34–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.3.1.03bjo.

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This paper is an interdisciplinary analysis of Friedrich Schiller’s play Wilhelm Tell (1804). An initial study of its dramatic structure suggests a change in the relationship between the Swiss peasants and nobles. A further analysis, based on Brown’s and Levinson’s politeness theory confirms the development of a social utopia in the play, but also reveals that Wilhelm Tell plays a minor role in the social development described. The comparison of the play with earlier versions of the Tell legend highlights the roles of peasants and nobles in the establishment of the Swiss Confederation and suggests that Schiller elaborated extensively on the idea of a ‘common ground’ among the Swiss from different classes. The comparison between Schiller’s play and the contemporary German philosopher Johann Benjamin Erhard’s essay Über das Recht des Volks zu einer Revolution illustrates that Schiller’s social utopia develops in accordance with contemporary social visions. However, Tell’s act of murder separates him from the other Swiss protagonists in Schiller’s attempt to outline a righteous revolution, different from the one in France.

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Nasrallah, Nawal. "Kubbat Ḥamuḍ Shalgham: Turnip and Swiss Chard Chowder, Iraqi Style." World Literature Today 97, no. 3 (May 2023): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2023.0103.

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Häuptli, Daniel. "Schweizer Wald als Geldanlage: Win-win-Strategie für Waldwirtschaft und Pensionskassen? (Essay) | Swiss forest as an investment opportunity: a win-win situation for both the forestry sector and pension funds? (Essay)." Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 162, no. 2 (February 1, 2011): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2011.0027.

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Could there be a win-win situation for both pension funds and the Swiss forestry sector? On the one hand, developments in the forestry sector suggest that the Swiss forest presents a new lucrative investment opportunity. If this is so, then pension funds could be particularly interested, as the low correlation between Swiss forest and other classes of investment, and the long investment periods involved are ideal for pension fund portfolios. On the other hand, large investments made by pension funds could mean that existing problems in Swiss forestry, in connection with its fragmented nature, could be more rapidly solved, and the potential for rationalization in the wood value chain could be fully realized. This would in turn make investments in the forest even more profitable. This hypothesis was investigated through a comprehensive literature analysis, yield calculations for private forestry enterprises of over 50 ha made by the Swiss Federal Office for Statistics 2004–2008, and an interview with the investments director of a large Swiss pension fund. Despite the optimistic assumption that the greater efficiency gained by the investment of pension funds into the forestry sector could lead to costs lower by 50% and a 20% increase in profits, the hypothesis must be rejected, because a calculated annual return of only 0.82% is too low for pension funds. The conclusion is that the price for forest land is high, and forest owners are not only interested in the monetary value of holding forest. Other immaterial values influence prices. It is suggested that a greater emphasis on socioscientific studies concerning the link between the price of forest land and the motivation to buy and sell forest could lead to some important findings.

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Würnschimmel, Christoph, Dominik Menges, Maciej Kwiatkowski, Silvan Sigg, Lukas Prause, Agostino Mattei, Daniel Engeler, et al. "Prostate cancer screening in Switzerland: a literature review and consensus statement from the Swiss Society of Urology." Swiss Medical Weekly 154, no. 5 (May 31, 2024): 3626. http://dx.doi.org/10.57187/s.3626.

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Over a decade ago, the United States Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) recommended against prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer in all men, which considerably influenced prostate cancer screening policies worldwide after that. Consequently, the world has seen increasing numbers of advanced stages and prostate cancer deaths, which later led the USPSTF to withdraw its initial statement. Meanwhile, the European Union has elaborated a directive to address the problem of implementing prostate cancer screening in “Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan”. In Switzerland, concerned urologists formed an open Swiss Prostate Cancer Screening Group to improve the early detection of prostate cancer. On the 20th of September 2023, during the annual general assembly of the Swiss Society of Urology (SGU/SSU) in Lausanne, members positively voted for a stepwise approach to evaluate the feasibility of implementing organised prostate cancer screening programs in Switzerland. The following article will summarise the events and scientific advances in the last decade during which evidence and promising additional modalities to complement PSA-based prostate cancer screening have emerged. It also aims to provide an overview of contemporary strategies and their potential harms and benefits.

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Klauck, H.-J. "Religion without fear. Plutarch on superstition and Early Christian Literature." Verbum et Ecclesia 18, no. 1 (July 19, 1997): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v18i1.1128.

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After some introductory remarks on the role of fear in religious discourse. Plutarch’s treatise On Superstition is analysed according to its rhetorical outline. Questions of authenticity are discussed and answered by locating the essay in Plutarch’s early career. Then we ask for the place of “fear of God” in biblical teaching and theology, compare it to Plutarch and show some limits in Plutarch’s youthful thinking, which doesn't yet pay due respect to the life values of myth. We conclude with two New Testament passages, Romans 8:15, masterfully interpreted by Martin Luther, and 1 John 4:17f excellently explained by 20th century’s Swiss theologian and psychologian Oskar Pfister, and we show that these texts are propagating “belief without fear”.

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Lévy, B. "Les demeures de Hermann Hesse : essai de géographie existentielle." Geographica Helvetica 45, no. 1 (March 31, 1990): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-45-7-1990.

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Abstract. The article deals with the successive home of Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), a German writer made Swiss Citizen. Abiographic and existential method is applied to investigate the places of dwelling of the poet, in relationship with lived space appearing in his autobiographic and imaginative literature.

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Courbage, Christophe, and Christina Nicolas. "On the Association between Insurance Deductibles and Prevention Behaviour: Evidence from the Swiss Health System." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14040150.

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Many studies have attempted to investigate the drivers of preventive behaviour. This study contributes to this strand of literature by examining the association between higher insurance deductibles in the Swiss health system and preventive behaviour that allows for maintaining a good diet, exercising and limiting/abstaining from smoking and alcohol consumption. To conduct our study, we made use of the 2017 Swiss Health Survey and employed an ordered probit model with each prevention aspect as a dependant variable. Our results show that, except for alcohol consumption, higher insurance deductibles were significantly associated with higher behavioural prevention. Our study also highlighted how numerous other factors influenced prevention and offered some guidance for public policies to further incentivise prevention decisions.

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Matuszewska, Karolina. "Past and present in the german-speaking swiss literature – two anthologies by an international research team." Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia 25 (2016): 357–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.18276/cgs.2016.25-19.

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Sharma Pandey, Joshi, Rajbhandari, Kansakar, Dhakal, and Fingerhut. "Newborn Screening for Selected Disorders in Nepal: A Pilot Study." International Journal of Neonatal Screening 5, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijns5020018.

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The prevalence of metabolic disorders in Nepal is yet unknown, although many case reports occur in literature. Heel-prick blood samples from newborns were collected on Dried Blood Spot (DBS) collection cards and tested through Tandem Mass Spectroscopy and fluorescence assays for disorders included in the Swiss neonatal screening program; two cases of hypothyroidism and one case of cystic fibrosis were identified. Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), immuoreactive trypsinogen (IRT), hydroxyprogesterone (OHP), tyrosine (Tyr), and octanoylcarnitine (C8) showed significant differences with gestation age. Most of the parameters were positively correlated with each other except galactose, galactose 1 phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT), and biotinidase. First and ninety-ninth percentiles in the Nepalese newborns were found to be different when compared with the Swiss newborns. Congenital hypothyroidism and cystic fibrosis are candidates to be considered for a newborn screening program in Nepal. Differences between the Nepalese and Swiss newborns in parametric values that change with gestation age can be attributed to a higher survival rate of pre-term babies in Switzerland. Others could be explained in part by early and exclusive breastfeeding in Nepalese newborns.

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Laganà, Francesco. "Blocked mobility or unemployment risk? Labour market transitions of natives and immigrants in Switzerland." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 52, no. 4 (July 28, 2011): 327–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020715211412115.

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Cross-sectional literature has shown that in Switzerland as elsewhere immigrants are more penalized than the native-born population both considering the unemployment risk and their position in the employment structure. Using a longitudinal framework, the present article focuses on a comparison between male immigrants and natives in the Swiss labour market, analysing two risks: the risk of unemployment and the risk of entrapment in unskilled occupations. In the first part of the article, using a dynamic random effect models, we show that immigrants present less state dependence than natives considering both unemployment and the risk of entrapment in unskilled positions. In the second part, using Heckman selection models, we show that less state dependence of immigrants corresponds to a higher mobility towards the skilled working class that is limited to the secondary labour market. We explain these differences with the interplay of Swiss labour market characteristics, in particular, the need for high flexibility and the positive selection of immigrants whose access to the Swiss labour market is generally realized through the bottom of employment structure.

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