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The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). I. Survey overview and first data release [PDF]

, 2015
We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of ten massive clusters of galaxies at redshift z=0.308-0.686, including the Hubble ...
Bradač, M., Brammer, G. B., Dijkstra, M., Dressler, A., Fontana, A., Gavazzi, R., Henry, A. L., Hoag, A., Huang, K. H., Jones, T. A., Kelly, P. L., Malkan, M. A., Mason, C., Pentericci, L., Poggianti, B., Schmidt, K. B., Stiavelli, M., Trenti, M., Treu, T., von der Linden, A., Vulcani, B., Wang, X.   +21 more
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Gig work as migrant work: The platformization of migration infrastructure

Environment and Planning, 2021
With markets concentrating predominantly in and around large cities, gig platforms across the globe seem to depend as much on the cheap labor of migrants and minorities as on investment capital and permissive governments. Accordingly, we argue that there
Niels van Doorn, Darsana Vijay
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The health of workers in the global gig economy

Globalization and Health, 2018
Background The “gig” economy connects consumers with contractors (or workers) through online platform businesses to perform tasks (or “gigs”). This innovation in technology provides businesses and consumers access to low-cost, on-demand labour, but gig ...
Uttam Bajwa, Denise Gastaldo, Erica Di Ruggiero, Lilian Knorr   +3 more
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On an inequivalence criterion for cocyclic Hadamard matrices [PDF]

, 2010
Given two Hadamard matrices of the same order, it can be quite difficult to decide whether or not they are equivalent. There are some criteria to determine Hadamard inequivalence.
Armario Sampalo, José Andrés
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The mediatization of work? Gig workers and gig apps in Sweden

New Media & Society
This article presents a study of how and to what extent gig workers in Sweden experience a mediatization of work. We contend that previous mediatization research has assumed extensive and unified effects of mediatization, and that previous gig work research has focused on users of large-scale, transnational platforms. We conducted a set of qualitative,
Henrik Örnebring, Elizabeth Van Couvering, David Regin Öborn, Robert MacKenzie   +3 more
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Labour law: the medium and the message [PDF]

, 2018
From the contract of employment to the ‘gig economy’, attention has been fixed on the medium through which personal work relationships have been facilitated.
Mangan, D.
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Gig work: Does it get you more happiness?

Managerial and Decision Economics
Gig work is one of the fastest‐growing trends in the labor market, one that accelerated during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It is therefore important to understand its impact on individual happiness.
Galit Klein, Doron Klunover, T. Shavit
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Education level as a catalyst: exploring the relationship between job autonomy, joy of work, and performance among low-skilled physical gig workers in Malaysia

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
The gig economy has experienced a rise due to the prominence of digital platforms and the worldwide pandemic, leading to many individuals losing their regular income and joining the gig economy.
Mei Peng Low, Mumtaz Ali Memon
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National survey of mental health and life satisfaction of gig workers: the role of loneliness and financial precarity

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To compare the mental health and life satisfaction of those employed in the gig work and contingent work with those in full-time or part-time work and the unemployed in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore the possible mechanisms of
Adam Coutts, Senhu Wang, Lambert Zixin Li   +2 more
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Mixtures of Common Skew-t Factor Analyzers [PDF]

, 2013
A mixture of common skew-t factor analyzers model is introduced for model-based clustering of high-dimensional data. By assuming common component factor loadings, this model allows clustering to be performed in the presence of a large number of mixture ...
Browne, Ryan P., McNicholas, Paul D., Murray, Paula M.   +2 more
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