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How Satisfaction with Running Business and Private Life Are Related to Small-Business Owners ’ Subjective Well-Being
This study examined how satisfaction with aspects of running the business as well as satisfaction with aspects of the private life are related to small-business owners' subjective well-being (SWB). Measures were obtained of both life satisfaction (LS) and emotional well-being (EWB) to investigate possible differences. Questionnaire data from a survey of small-business owners (n=614) showed that in the business domain LS is associated with satisfaction with revenues, EWB with satisfaction with customer and employee contacts, and both LS and EWB with satisfaction with working time. In the private life domain, LS is associate...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Analyzing sales of the Korean restaurant franchise during the COVID-19 pandemic with the mixed-effects model approach
by Changro Lee, Youngmo Koo Using point-of-sales (POS) data, the sales trends of 48 member stores of a Korean restaurant franchise during the COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed. As daily sales are nested in each member store of a franchise, the hierarchical structure of POS data was fully and effectively utilized by employing a mixed-effects model. The results showed that although sales volumes in all member stores were negatively affected by the pandemic, the level of impact varied according to store location: sales at some stores were drastically reduced, while a few others even achieved a slight increase in sales durin g ...
Source: PLoS One - October 18, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Changro Lee Source Type: research

Usability and feasibility of a take-home methadone web-application for opioid treatment program patients: A Small Business Innovation Research mixed methods study
Most patients in opioid treatment programs (OTPs) attend daily for observed dosing. A Stage IA (create and adapt) and a Stage IB (feasibility and pilot) mixed method studies tested a web-application (app) designed to facilitate access to take-home methadone. (Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment)
Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - October 17, 2023 Category: Addiction Authors: Michael Giles, Lucy Reynales, Avinash Jayaraman, Omer Kaplan, Kshitij Verma, Katharina Wiest, Samuel Denney, Cora Hart, Steffani R. Bailey, Dongseok Choi, Kim A. Hoffman, Mark P. McGovern, Dennis McCarty Source Type: research

Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 8448: DLTN-LOSP: A Novel Deep-Linear-Transition-Network-Based Resource Allocation Model with the Logic Overhead Security Protocol for Cloud Systems
r Abbas Cloud organizations now face a challenge in managing the enormous volume of data and various resources in the cloud due to the rapid growth of the virtualized environment with many service users, ranging from small business owners to large corporations. The performance of cloud computing may suffer from ineffective resource management. As a result, resources must be distributed fairly among various stakeholders without sacrificing the organization&rsquo;s profitability or the satisfaction of its customers. A customer&rsquo;s request cannot be put on hold indefinitely just because the necessary r...
Source: Sensors - October 13, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Divya Ramachandran Syed Muhammad Naqi Ganeshkumar Perumal Qaisar Abbas Tags: Article Source Type: research

56.3 Removing Barriers and Expanding Regional Access Through Collaborative Care in Community Pediatrics
The Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) in primary care has been shown to reduce disparities and improve access to quality mental health care. For CoCM to be effective, program developers must understand local resources and what is achievable given contextual factors present in primary care practices. To this point, a significant number of practicing pediatricians still work in small, independent practices, that operate like small businesses that face unique barriers to implementation of CoCM. Implementation of CoCM may require adaption of model elements to achieve programmatic objectives. (Source: Journal of the American Acad...
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rachel Ballard Source Type: research

Organizational life-cycle analysis of corporate offending: insights into how changes in business cycles interact with regulatory oversight to shape compliance and violations
AbstractThis paper showcases an organizational life-cycle analysis of corporate offending behavior in small businesses. It analyzes two small food and hospitality firms in China, drawing on deep ethnographic data collected during three years of fieldwork. The paper investigates these two businesses as they go through three phases: pre-existence, existence, and survival. The study shows that organizational life-course analysis is important for understanding the development and root causes of organizational offending. It finds that offending evolves alongside the development of the organization. It shows that an organization...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - September 16, 2023 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

A methodology to estimate postdisaster unmet housing needs using limited data: Application to the 2017 California wildfires
This article presents a methodology to estimate postdisaster unmet housing needs that is accurate and relies only on data obtained shortly after a disaster. Data on the number of damaged buildings are combined with models for expected repair costs. Statistical models for aid distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) are then developed and used to forecast funding provided by those agencies. With these forecasts, the unmet need to be funded by HUD is estimated. The approach can be used for multiple states and hazard types. As validation, the proposed methodolog...
Source: Risk Analysis - August 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rodrigo Costa, Jack W. Baker Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Sustainable recovery in small businesses: Analysis of sustainable practices and the goals for sustainable development
This article aims to present the analysis of sustainability practices and the objectives of sustainable development and recovery in small businesses carried out through survey research. The work was based on the understanding of how the theme applies to the objectives of sustainability in small businesses, using the application of a questionnaire in 24 social enterprises of the agribusiness industry in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), present at the largest Fair of Cooperativism in Latin America. The research was exploratory with an approach classified as descriptive, quantitative, and a data survey of 24 valid samples...
Source: Environmental Quality Management - July 27, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Lucas Veiga Avila, Andressa Germann Avila, Debora Londero Kieling, Diego Marques Cavalcante, Clayton Dos Santos Lima Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

The armory project: Partnering with firearm retailers to promote and provide voluntary out-of-home firearm storage
CONCLUSIONS: We discuss the potential benefits and limitations of a voluntary out-of-home storage network organized by public health professionals but run by firearm retailers.PMID:37449841 | DOI:10.1111/sltb.12977 (Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior)
Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior - July 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joseph I Constans Claire Houtsma Matthew Bailey Gala True Source Type: research