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The author guides us expertly through the thickets of referendums (no fewer than fourteen from 1972) in which Swiss citizens have been given the opportunity to pass judgment on the European question. Most importantly, this volume explains why the Swiss still oppose joining the European Union. It examines the thorny questions of identity, reservations on policy matters (preserving...

The concept of external governance seeks to capture the expanding scope of EU rules beyond EU borders. This article elaborates the theoretical foundations of this concept, differentiates the various institutional modes through which external governance takes place and suggests a set of hypotheses addressing the conditions under which EU external governance is effective. Here, we...

Das Lehrbuch richtet sich an Praktiker, Treuhänderinnen und Treuhänder und an Wirtschaftsprüferinnen und Wirtschaftsprüfer, die am Verständnis eines Abschlusses nach Swiss GAAP FER interessiert sind sowie an Dozierende
und Studierende von Universitäten, Fachhochschulen und Berufsausbildungen.

Im Zentrum des Lehrbuchs stehen die Empfehlungen zur Rechnungslegung Swiss...

Reducing the externalities from energy use is crucial for sustainability. There are basically four ways to reduce
externalities from energy use: increasing technical efficiency (“energy input per unit energy service”), increasing economic efficiency (“internalising external costs”), using “clean” energy sources with few externalities, or sufficiency (“identifying ‘optimal’...

«Consolidated Financial Statements» is intended for accountants, auditors and university, polytechnic and executive students as well as other practitioners who are interested in gaining and understanding the subject.

This textbook concentrates on the theoretical and practical treatment of problems concerning consolidated financial statements, using an integrated and logical...

The book provides a simple, intuitive introduction to regression models for qualitative and discrete dependent variables, to sample selection models, and to event history models, all in the context of maximum likelihood estimation. It presents a wide range of commonly used models. The book thereby enables the reader to become a critical consumer of current empirical social science...

BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that some psychotic symptoms reflect ‘aberrant salience’, related to dysfunctional reward learning. To test this hypothesis we investigated whether patients with schizophrenia showed impaired learning of task-relevant stimulusreinforcement
associations in the presence of distracting task-irrelevant cues.

METHODS: We tested 20 medicated...

Dans un contexte en transformation, les systèmes nationaux de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur rencontrent des défis semblables : avènement de la société ou de l’économie du savoir, globalisation scientifique, compétitivité, évaluation et, enfin, acceptation sociale des sciences et des techniques. Les Etats (mais aussi les chercheurs) répondent toutefois à ces défis de façon...

In this paper, we provide evidence for functional asymmetries in forward and backward connections that
define hierarchical architectures in the brain. We exploit the fact that modulatory or nonlinear influences of
one neuronal system on another (i.e., effective connectivity) entail coupling between different frequencies.
Functional asymmetry in forward and backward...