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Promoting Precarity or Creating Cushions? Examining Canadians' Experiences With Financialization and Insecurity Across the Life Course

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines experiences and perceptions of economic insecurity across individual social trajectories within the context of pervasive financialization in Canada. Drawing on a comprehensive pan‐Canadian survey (n = 7483) and set of interviews (n = 127) collected as part of the Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS), we use a mixed‐methods ...
Michelle Maroto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Platformed Atmospheres: How Digital Platforms Reshape the Felt Experience of Family Life

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of platformed atmospheres to address how digital platforms reshape domestic life. Platformed atmospheres are defined as the multisensory and affective environments that emerge when platforms become infrastructural to family life, shaping not only what families communicate but the felt, sensory, and temporal ...
Iulia Clara Cirdan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Index Insurance and Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Southern Mali

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate extremes increasingly threaten food security in low‐ and middle‐income countries, where vulnerable smallholder farmers often lack access to risk mitigation tools. Although index‐based insurance has been promoted as a promising adaptation measure to climate shocks, evidence on its welfare effects, especially on food security, remains ...
Anna Mader, Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Burst-by-burst Adaptive Joint-Detection CDMA/H.26L Based Wireless Video Telephony using TTCM and LDPC Codes

open access: yes, 2003
A low bit-rate video coding techniques using the H.26L standard codec for robust transmission in mobile multimedia environments are presented. For the sake of achieving error resilience, the source codec has to make provisions for error detection ...
Ng, S.X.   +3 more
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Global HRM and Transnational Networks: Unpacking the Micro‐Behavioral Process Supporting Global HRM Integration Using a Quantitative Multi‐Source, Multi‐Level Design

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing global HRM integration.
Olga Tregaskis   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Superior Hypogastric Nerve Block in Uterine Artery Embolisation Protocols for Symptomatic Fibroids: An Australian Single‐Centre Experience

open access: yesJournal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Assessment of the safety of Superior Hypogastric Nerve Block (SHNB) in uterine artery embolisation (UAE) for symptomatic fibroids. Method Retrospective single tertiary centre analysis of patients who underwent UAE with SHNB (n = 40). Outcomes include assessment of pain scores, overnight stays and complications.
Nessa Kellegher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diffusion of Digital Mobile Telephony - Are Devoloping Countries Different?

open access: yes
mobile telephony, technology diffusion, Gompertz model, developing ...
Rouvinen, Petri
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