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The culture of the self-employed

Sociología del Trabajo, 2017
The article presents the theoretical concept of the Life-Mode of the Self-Employed, worked out by Scandinavian investigators who design the basic principles of the culture of the independent “worker” in an innovative manner and by reconsidering the content of the Marxist argument.
Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed [PDF]

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and ...
Caliendo, Marco, Fossen, Frank M., Kritikos, Alexander S.   +2 more
core   +9 more sources

PolicySegNet: a policy-based reinforcement learning framework with pretrained embeddings and transformer decoder for joint brain tumors segmentation and classification in MRI

The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
PolicySegNet is a novel hybrid deep learning architecture developed for joint brain tumor segmentation and classification using MRI scans. It combines a pretrained SegFormer-B4 encoder (with a MiT backbone, originally trained on the ADE20K dataset) as a ...
Vishv Patel, Vandana Patel, Aakash Shinde   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-employed or not Self-employed? Working Conditions of ‘Economically Dependent Workers’ [PDF]

, 2013
In recent years, practices such as outsourcing and contracting-out have increasingly blurred the boundaries between dependent employment and self-employment.
Eurofound
core   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benefits versus toxicities of garlic (Allium sativum) in dogs

Pubvet
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a plant with therapeutic/toxic properties in dogs, depending on the variety, place of origin, its preparation method or extraction method of its compounds and the dose administered.
Andrea Ulisses Martins da Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Neither precarious nor entrepreneur: The subjective experience of hybrid self-employed workers

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2019
This article focuses on the ‘hybridity’ of solo self-employment by shedding light on the lived experiences and meanings of the subjects within their institutional and socio-economic contexts.
A. Murgia, V. Pulignano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle, Kiersten Ricci, Kelly Blache, Rebecca A. Marsh, Adrienne M. Hammill, Elissa Engel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The determinants and development of crowdfunding in the Central and Eastern Europe countries

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2017
Motivation: Crowdfunding (CF) is a method of raising money for projects and enterprises by online platforms. Since 2003 it is expanding and becoming a natural method of pre-financing for start-ups before reaching out to investors.
Joanna Bednarz, Magdalena Markiewicz, Agnieszka Płoska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source