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• Self insurance — is a risk management method in which a calculated amount of money is set aside to compensate for the potential future loss. More colloquially, the term self insured is used as a euphemism for uninsured. [http://www.slate.com/id/2075714/] If self… …   Wikipedia

• Self-funded health care — describes a self insurance arrangement whereby an employer provides health or disability benefits to employees by assuming the direct risk for payment of their claims for benefits. The terms of eligibility and coverage are set forth in a plan… …   Wikipedia

• Self-categorization theory — Self categorization theory, sometimes referred to as the social identity theory of the group, seeks to explain the assumptions that need to be made about psychological group formation in order to understand social categorization studies on… …   Wikipedia

• Self-Defense — • The right of a private person to employ force against any one who unjustly attacks his life or person, his property or good name Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Self Defense     Self Defense …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Self-incompatibility in plants — Self incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms in angiosperms, which prevent self fertilization and thus encourage outcrossing. In plants with SI, when a pollen grain produced in a plant reaches a stigma of the same… …   Wikipedia

• Self-publishing — is the publishing of books and other media by the authors of those works, rather than by established, third party publishers. Although it represents a small percentage of the publishing industry in terms of sales, it has been present in one form… …   Wikipedia

• Self-employment — is the individual pursuit of capitalism. To be self employed, an individual is normally highly skilled in a trade or has a niche product or service for their local community. With the creation of the Internet the ability for an individual to… …   Wikipedia

• Self-creation cosmology — (SCC) theories are gravitational theories in which the mass of the universe is created out of its self contained gravitational and scalar fields, as opposed to the theory of continuous creation cosmology or the steady state theory which depend on …   Wikipedia

• Self-surgery — is the act of performing a surgical procedure on oneself. It can be a rare manifestation of a psychological disorder, an attempt to avoid embarrassment or legal action, or an act taken in extreme circumstances out of necessity. Genital By far the …   Wikipedia

• self-discharge — self disˈcharge noun (elec eng) 1. Loss of capacity of a primary cell or accumulator as a result of internal leakage 2. Loss of charge in a capacitor due to finite insulation resistance between plates • • • Main Entry: ↑self …   Useful english dictionary