We study the effect of family victimization and displacement during World War II on entrepreneurship and employment in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we document a limited impact of war exposure on overall employment rates, employment with a formal contract, or whether the respondent works in a high-skill industry. Ho...

di Corrado Magnani, Claudio Bianchi, Elisabetta Chellini, Dario Consonni, Bice Fubini, Valerio Gennaro, Alessandro Marinaccio, Massimo Menegozzo, Dario Mirabelli, Enzo Merler, Franco Merletti, Marina Musti, Enrico Oddone, Antonio Romanelli, Benedetto Terracini, Amerigo Zona, Carlo Zocchetti, Mariano Alessi, Antonio Baldassarre, Irma Dianzani, Milena Maule, Carolina Mensi, Stefano SilvestriIntro...

Antineoplastic drugs (ANPDs) are a heterogeneous group of chemicals that include alkylating agents (e.g., cyclophosphamide, melphalan, chlorambucil), antimetabolites (e.g., thioguanine, 5-fluorouracil, methotrexate), antibiotics (e.g., doxorubicin), mitotic spindle inhibitors (e.g., vincristine), hormones (e.g., diethylstilbestrol, free radical generators (e.g., bleomycin) and topoisomerase inh...

Development of IT-based services to support decision-making in healthcare should be guided by the following considerations: rigor, relevance, user-centered participation and inclusion of the best practices for IT-based service systems. In this paper, the balance between rigor and relevance is achieved by following the design science research methodology; user-centered participation is tackled f...

The biological and pharmacological characteristics of propolis, a substance elaborated by Apis mellifera L. from resins of a vegetable origin, have been the object of numerous research studies up to the present. The antimicrobial activity of this beehive product was tested, especially on the bacteria and the fungi which are pathogenous for man and for animals, and rarely, on microorganisms comi...

The relevance of the research is due to a change in strength, frequency and direction harmful weather stresses associated with climate change, which has an extremely negative effect on general condition productivity plants, disrupts conditions for exit plants from dormant stage, while accelerating rate spring development. rise positive temperatures autumn period delays entry into phase organic ...

[Collaboration is a recent trend in supply chain management (SCM) that focuses on joint planning, coordination, and process integration between suppliers, customers, and other partners in a supply chain. Its competitive benefits include cost reductions and increased return on assets, and increased reliability and responsiveness to market needs. Recent advances in inter-enterprise software and c...