Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's population of 9 million are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts its largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Basel.Switzerland originates from the Old Swiss Confederacy established in the Late Middle Ages, following a series of military successes against Austria and Burgundy; the Federal Charter of 1291 is considered the country's founding document. Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognised in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Switzerland has maintained a policy of armed neutrality since the 16th century and has not fought an international war since 1815. It joined the United Nations only in 2002 but pursues an active foreign policy that includes frequent involvement in peace building.
Switzerland is the birthplace of the Red Cross and hosts the headquarters or offices of most major international institutions, including the WTO, the WHO, the ILO, FIFA, the WEF, and the UN. It is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), but not part of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area, or the eurozone; however, it participates in the European single market and the Schengen Area. Switzerland is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern.
Switzerland is one of the world's most developed countries, with the highest nominal wealth per adult and the eighth-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Switzerland performs highly on several international metrics, including economic competitiveness and democratic governance. Cities such as Zurich, Geneva and Basel rank among the highest in terms of quality of life, albeit with some of the highest costs of living. Switzerland holds an international reputation for its established banking sector, alongside its distinctive recognition for their watchmaking and chocolate production.
It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh. Although most Swiss are German-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared values such as federalism and direct democracy, and Alpine symbolism. Swiss identity transcends language, ethnicity, and religion, leading to Switzerland being described as a ("nation of volition") rather than a nation state. Provided by Wikipedia
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261by Deschodt, Mieke, Boland, Benoit, Lund, Cecilia M., Saks, Kai, Velonaki, Venetia-Sofia, Samuelsson, Olafur, Kennelly, Sean, Vassallo, Mark Anthony, Veninšek, Gregor, Flamaing, JohanContributors: “..., Switzerland Show more 3 UCLouvain, Clin Univ St Luc, Geriatr Med, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium 4 UCLouvain, Res...”
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262by Schmitz, B., Pujalte, V., Molina, E., Monechi, S., Orue-Etxebarria, X., Speijer, R. P., Alegret, L., Apellaniz, E., Arenillas, I., Aubry, M. P., Baceta, J. I., Berggren, W. A., Bernaola, G., Caballero, F., Clemmensen, A., Dinarès-Turell, J., Dupuis, C., Heilmann-Clausen, C., Orús, A. H., Knox, R., Martín-Rubio, M., Ortiz, S., Payros, A., Petrizzo, M. R., von Salis, K., Sprong, J., Steurbaut, E., Thomsen, E.Contributors: “...von Salis, K.; Via Maistra 9, CH-7513 Silvaplana, Switzerland...”
Published in Paleoceanography (2011)
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263by Weiner, Agnès K.M., Morard, Raphael, Weinkauf, Manuel, Darling, Kate F., Andre, Aurore, Quillévéré, Frédéric, Ujiié, Yurika, Douady, Christophe Jean, de Vargas, Colomban, Kucera, MichalContributors: “...University of Geneva Switzerland...”
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (2016)
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264by Weiner, Agnès K.M., Morard, Raphael, Weinkauf, Manuel, Darling, Kate F., Andre, Aurore, Quillévéré, Frédéric, Ujiié, Yurika, Douady, Christophe Jean, de Vargas, Colomban, Kucera, MichalContributors: “...University of Geneva Switzerland...”
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (2016)
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265by Baccolo, Giovanni, Delmonte, Barbara, Di Stefano, Elena, Cibin, Giannantonio, Crotti, Ilaria, Frezzotti, Massimo, Hampai, Dariush, Iizuka, Yoshinori, Marcelli, Augusto, Maggi, ValterContributors: “..., Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Logistic support is mainly provided by PNRA...”
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266by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
Published in Quaternary Research (2015)
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267by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
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268by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
Published in Quaternary Research (2015)
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269by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
Published in Quaternary Research (2015)
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270by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
Published in Quaternary Research (2015)
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271by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
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272by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
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273by Bean, Clive, Gibson, Rachel, McAllister, Ian, Plasser, Fritz, Lengauer, Günther, Kritzinger, Sylvia, Müller, Wolfgang C., Rotman, David, White, Stephen, Meneguello, Rachel, Young, Clifford, Melo de Almeida, Alberto Carlos, Maia, Marta, Gidengil, Elisabeth, Fournier, Patrick, Everitt, Joanna, Nevitte, Neil, Lagos, Marta, Zakosek, Nenad, Cular, Goran, Linek, Lukás, Andersen, Jørgen G., Stubager, Rune, Møller Hansen, Kasper, Ehin, Piret, Solvak, Mihkel, Paloheimo, Heikki, Karvonen, Lauri, Borg, Sami, Grönlund, Kimmo, Sauger, Nicolas, Weßels, Bernhard, Schmitt, Hermann, Rattinger, Hans, Roßteutscher, Sigrid, Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Andreadis, Ioannis, Chadjipadelis, Theodore, Teperoglou, Eftichia, Pang-kwong, Li, Hardarson, Olafur T., Önnudóttir, Eva H., Þórðarson, Einar M., Marsh, Michael, Sinnott, Richard, Shamir, Michal, Arian, Asher, Ikeda, Ken´ichi, Yamada, Masahiro, Nishizawa, Yoshitaka, Inamasu, Kazunori, Ikstens, Janis, Beltrán Ugarte, Ulises, Aarts, Kees, Kolk, Henk van der, Vowles, Jack, Aardal, Bernt, Sulmont, David, Martínez, Vania, Guerrero, Linda L., Licudine, Vladymir J., Markowski, Radoslaw, Grzelak, Pawel, Czesnik, Mikolaj, Kotnarowski, Michal, Barreto, António, Magalhães, Pedro, Costa Lobo, Marina, Comsa, Mircea, Gheorghita, Andrei, Stanus, Cristina, Vieru, Coca, Tufis, Claudiu D., Voicu, Bogdan, Voicu, Ovidiu, Gyarfasova, Olga, Butorova, Zora, Krivy, Vladimír, Tos, Niko, Malnar, Brina, Kurdija, Slavko, Mattes, Robert, Schulz-Herzenberg, Collette, Lee, Nam Y., Kim, Wook, Díez-Nicolás, Juan, Jaime-Castillo, Antonio M., Holmberg, Sören, Oscarsson, Henrik, Lutz, Georg, Huang, Chi, Yu, Ching-hsin, Bureekul, Thawilwadee, Tangkananurak, Tharada, Albritton, Robert B., Carkoglu, Ali, Kalaycioglu, Ersin, Donakowski, Darrell, Lupia, Arthur, Krosnick, Jon, Bottinelli, Oscar, Bottinelli, Eduardo, Mateo, NadiaContributors: “...Switzerland: LINK Institut, Luzern...”
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274by Baccolo, Giovanni, Delmonte, Barbara, Di Stefano, Elena, Cibin, Giannantonio, Crotti, Ilaria, Frezzotti, Massimo, Hampai, Dariush, Iizuka, Yoshinori, Marcelli, Augusto, Maggi, ValterContributors: “..., Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Logistic support is mainly provided by PNRA...”
Published in The Cryosphere (2021)
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275by Lamentowicz, Mariusz, Słowiński, Michał, Marcisz, Katarzyna, Zielińska, Małgorzata, Kaliszan, Karolina, Lapshina, Elena, Gilbert, Daniel, Buttler, Alexandre, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara, Jassey, Vincent E.J., Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima, Kołaczek, PiotrContributors: “...RE-FIRE SCIEX project 12.286 and grant PSPB-013/2010 from Switzerland through the Swiss...”
Published in Quaternary Research (2015)
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276by Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas, Bodin, Xavier, Delaloye, Reynald, Lambiel, Christophe, Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle, Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Mylène, Carturan, Luca, Damm, Bodo, Eulenstein, Julia, Fischer, Andrea, Hartl, Lea, Ikeda, Atsushi, Kaufmann, Viktor, Krainer, Karl, Matsuoka, Norikazu, Morra Di Cella, Umberto, Noetzli, Jeannette, Seppi, Roberto, Scapozza, Cristian, Schoeneich, Philippe, Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin, Thibert, Emmanuel, Zumiani, MatteoContributors: “... and Arts of Southern Switzerland Manno (SUPSI)...”
Published in Environmental Research Letters (2024)
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277by Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas, Bodin, Xavier, Delaloye, Reynald, Lambiel, Christophe, Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle, Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Mylène, Carturan, Luca, Damm, Bodo, Eulenstein, Julia, Fischer, Andrea, Hartl, Lea, Ikeda, Atsushi, Kaufmann, Viktor, Krainer, Karl, Matsuoka, Norikazu, Morra Di Cella, Umberto, Noetzli, Jeannette, Seppi, Roberto, Scapozza, Cristian, Schoeneich, Philippe, Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin, Thibert, Emmanuel, Zumiani, MatteoContributors: “... and Arts of Southern Switzerland Manno (SUPSI)...”
Published in Environmental Research Letters (2024)
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278by Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas, Bodin, Xavier, Delaloye, Reynald, Lambiel, Christophe, Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle, Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Mylène, Carturan, Luca, Damm, Bodo, Eulenstein, Julia, Fischer, Andrea, Hartl, Lea, Ikeda, Atsushi, Kaufmann, Viktor, Krainer, Karl, Matsuoka, Norikazu, Morra Di Cella, Umberto, Noetzli, Jeannette, Seppi, Roberto, Scapozza, Cristian, Schoeneich, Philippe, Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin, Thibert, Emmanuel, Zumiani, MatteoContributors: “... and Arts of Southern Switzerland Manno (SUPSI)...”
Published in Environmental Research Letters (2024)
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279by Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas, Bodin, Xavier, Delaloye, Reynald, Lambiel, Christophe, Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle, Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Mylène, Carturan, Luca, Damm, Bodo, Eulenstein, Julia, Fischer, Andrea, Hartl, Lea, Ikeda, Atsushi, Kaufmann, Viktor, Krainer, Karl, Matsuoka, Norikazu, Morra Di Cella, Umberto, Noetzli, Jeannette, Seppi, Roberto, Scapozza, Cristian, Schoeneich, Philippe, Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin, Thibert, Emmanuel, Zumiani, MatteoContributors: “... and Arts of Southern Switzerland Manno (SUPSI)...”
Published in Environmental Research Letters (2024)
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280by Grannas, A. M., Jones, A. E., Dibb, J., Ammann, M., Anastasio, C., Beine, H. J., Bergin, M., Bottenheim, J., Boxe, C. S., Carver, G., Chen, G., Crawford, J. H., Domine, F., Frey, M. M., Guzman, M. I., Heard, D. E., Helmig, D., Hoffmann, M. R., Honrath, R. E., Huey, L. G., Hutterli, M., Jacobi, H. W., Klan, P., Lefer, B., McConnell, J., Plane, J., Sander, R., Savarino, J., Shepson, P. B., Simpson, W. R., Sodeau, J. R., von Glasow, R., Weller, R., Wolff, E. W., Zhu, T.Contributors: “...Paul Scherrer Inst, Lab Radio & Environm Chem, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland....”
Published 2007
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