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Gray Matter Microstructure Measured Using Diffusion Imaging as a Biomarker of Severity in Lewy Body Diseases

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Despite widespread cortical involvement in Lewy body diseases, conventional gray matter magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows limited sensitivity. Diffusion‐weighted MRI‐derived microstructural measures have shown utility in Alzheimer's disease, but their application across the Lewy body disease spectrum remains limited ...
Angeliki Zarkali, Ivelina Dobreva, Naomi Hannaway, Rohan Bhome, George E.C. Thomas, Steffani Carrera, Amanda J. Heslegrave, Elena Veleva, Henrik Zetterberg, Rimona S. Weil   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations Between Cumulative Head Trauma and Self‐Reported Parkinsonism and Parkinson's Disease in Former Soccer Players

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Cumulative head trauma, encompassing repetitive head impacts (RHI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), has been associated with later‐life neurodegenerative disease. Studies on parkinsonism/Parkinson's disease (PD) have evaluated RHI and TBI in isolation, yielding mixed results.
Annalise E. Miner, Matthew J. Kmiecik, Niharika Namburi, Nathaniel Dunckley, Charles H. Adler, Erika D. Driver‐Dunckley, Christopher J. Nowinski, Joshua Gottesman, Yorghos Tripodis, Robert A. Stern, Ann C. McKee, Thor D. Stein, Jesse Mez, Farren B.S. Briggs, Michael L. Alosco   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Manganese‐Enhanced DCE‐MRI to Assess Blood‐Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier Transport

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose We developed a dynamic, heavily T2‐weighted (hT2w) FLAIR protocol to resolve acute Mn2+ transport kinetics, as a proxy for Ca2+, across the choroid plexus (ChP)—cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) interface, in vivo. By quantifying intercompartmental Mn2+ dynamics, and comparing these with Gd‐DOTA, we sought to characterize blood‐CSF‐barrier ...
Charith Perera, Zhiping Feng, Shereen Nizari, Phillip Muza, Christina Katsiva, Tammy L. Kalber, Mark F. Lythgoe, Ian F. Harrison, Daniel J. Stuckey, Jack A. Wells   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response: Commentary: Greater Emotional Gain from Giving in Older Adults: Age-Related Positivity Bias in Charitable Giving. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2016
Bjälkebring P, Västfjäll D, Dickert S, Slovic P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton, Michelle Benson, Chao Guo, Daniel G. Neely, Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Shujie Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the Black Box of Nonprofit Reputation and Volunteer Attraction With Supervised Machine Learning

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the aim to explore the potential of machine learning for nonprofit research, this article contrasts traditional linear regression with four contemporary supervised machine learning approaches. Concretely, we predict (1) reputation ratings and (2) the total number of volunteers for 4021 non‐profit organizations in the U.S.
Moritz Schmid, Hannes Lampe, Jurgen Willems   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo, Kaila Witkowski, Ratna Dougherty, Christa Remington   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fundraising as Contracting: Why Nonprofits Accept In‐Kind Donations

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In‐kind (nonmonetary) donations are a popular form of philanthropy that have received much less scholarly attention than monetary gifts. This study documents the prevalence of types of in‐kind giving and associated organizational practices, then explores links between the perceptions of nonprofit managers, organizational practices, and ...
Elizabeth Searing, Sarah Jacobson, Angela de Oliveira, Tianyi Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Practices Into Performance: The Role of Implementation in Board Recruitment and Selection

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recruiting and selecting board members in nonprofit organizations poses distinct challenges, given their reliance on volunteers and the difficulty of securing individuals who are both committed and capable of contributing to organizational performance.
William A. Brown, Nara Yoon, Mark Engle
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Role of Special Events in Relationship Fundraising

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship fundraising paradigm conceptualizes charitable giving as an outcome of ongoing interpersonal engagement between donors and organizations, often depicted in practice as a cyclical process with multiple phases. This study examines how special events—a widely used but understudied relationship fundraising tool—factor into this ...
Jason L. Jensen, Benjamin J. Kassow, Genevieve G. Shaker, Paul E. Sum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source