We describe the clinical course and postmortem pathological findings in a patient with essential tremor (ET) treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) for 12 years. This 75 year old woman had a 13-year history of progressive ET prior to implantation of bilateral quadripolar DBS electrodes in the region of her ventral intermediate thalamic nuclei in 1996, producing immediate relief of arm tremor...

We study the effects of diverse team composition on the survival and growth of new ventures using the Danish Linked Employer-Employee database. To get cleaner measures of diverse team composition, we focus on entrepreneurial dyads, and also investigate the asymmetric effects of team composition by distinguishing between the ‘primary’ and the ‘secondary’ founder. We complement existing work by s...

Women entrepreneurs have been facing various challenges in the sustenance of their enterprises. During COVID-19 lockdown India, vulnerability doubled due to financial distress. In backdrop this, paper measures direct and indirect impact via forward backward linkages women during lockdown. Further, it examines sustainability they faced The is based on primary data using a pre-structured question...

This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurship in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India’s software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who are based in cities with weaker formal institutions rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. Relyi...

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits—the Big Five—on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we also perform the analysis for different types of professions, namely, those classified as being in the “cre...

The two basic Escherichia coli proteins that inhibit ornithine and arginine decarboxylase and were named provisionally antizyme 1 and antizyme 2 (Heller, J.S., Rostomily, R., Kyriakidis, D.A., and Canellakis, E.S. (1983) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 5181-5184) are shown to have long identical sequences with the ribosomal proteins S20/L26 and L34, respectively. We have also isolated ribosom...

A case of signet-ring cell lymphoma affecting the bone marrow and diagnosed by bone marrow trephine biopsy is reported. Normal marrow was replaced totally by cells with large central vacuoles, many of which displaced the nucleus to the periphery of the cell, imparting a signet-ring appearance. Initially, the favoured morphological diagnosis was metastatic signet-ring adenocarcinoma, but on immu...

Most studies in the economics discourse argue that the impact of self-employment on job satisfaction is mediated by greater procedural freedom and autonomy. Values and personality traits are considered less likely to explain the utility difference between self-employed and salaried workers. Psychology scholars suggest that entrepreneurial satisfaction also depends, at least in part, on specific...

The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of relev...

By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some selfemployment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of selfemployment in the overall distribution of job...