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Charity Begins at Home: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Charitable Giving

Games, 2018
Charities operate at different levels: national, state, or local. We test the effect of the level of the organization on charitable giving in a sample of adults in two Texas communities.
Catherine C. Eckel, Benjamin A. Priday, Rick K. Wilson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tissue‐Specific and Spatially Dependent Metabolic Signatures Perturbed by Injury in Male and Female Mice

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Osteoarthritis, the leading cause of disability worldwide, disproportionately affects women, yet sex remains an overlooked determinant. This disparity stems from sex‐specific differences in injury susceptibility—a major risk factor for disease.
Hope D. Welhaven, Avery H. Welfley, Priyanka P. Brahmachary, Mark Greenwood, Donald F. Smith, Brian Bothner, Ronald K. June   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-profit Sector and Charity Financing: Mapping the Field

Littera Scripta, 2015
The issue of charitable giving has been central to the interest of researchers in the international field for several decades. Charitable giving is closely connected with economic policy and directly affects issues within civil society with regards to ...
Marie Hladká, Vladimír Hyánek
doaj  

Is Prosocial Behavior Associated With Increased Registration for Deceased Organ Donation? A Cross-sectional Study of Ontario, Canada

Transplantation Direct, 2020
Background. A community that promotes prosocial behaviors such as organ donor registration or charitable giving could reinforce those behaviors among its residents. Understanding the nature of the relationship between prosocial behaviors at the community
Piotr Wilk, PhD, Lucie Richard, MA, Alexandra M. Ouédraogo, MSc, Amit X. Garg, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Alana Maltby, MSc, Salimah Z. Shariff, PhD   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The human foundations of anatomy at The University of Sydney: One hundred and one years of body procurement

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Body procurement at The University of Sydney has a long history. Anatomy legislation (1881 Anatomy Act) modeled on the British Anatomy Act 1832 legalized procurement of unclaimed bodies from public institutions for anatomical dissection at licensed Schools of Anatomy, effectively conferring the University of Sydney an exclusive license until ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

Charitable Giving by the Poor: A Field Experiment in Kyrgyzstan

Management Science
In a large-scale natural field experiment, we partnered with a microlending company in Kyrgyzstan that asked over 180,000 of its clients for donations to social projects as a form of corporate philanthropy. In a 2 × 2 design, we explored two main (preregistered) hypotheses about giving by the poor.
Maja Adena, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Steffen Huck   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Integrating collaborative virtual reality into medical neuroanatomy selectively enhances short‐term spatial understanding of brain structure

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning neuroanatomy presents a major challenge for medical students due to the brain's high spatial complexity and the limitations of traditional two‐dimensional instruction methods. Virtual reality (VR) provides immersive three‐dimensional visualization which may enhance spatial understanding, yet its effectiveness when implemented ...
Michal Bernstein‐Eliav, Tamar Ben‐David, Maya Schmeidler, Niv Tik, Alla Bronshtein, Ido Tavor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) shortage on prescribing in England: Analysis of national data

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) is essential for the management of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Since June 2023, the United Kingdom has been affected by a global shortage of PERT. We investigated the impact of this shortage on national prescribing trends for Creon, Nutrizym, Pancrex and Pangrol.
Teena S. Varghese, Mary E. Phillips, Louis Fisher, Helen Fitt, Adam Frampton, Christopher Wood, Agnieszka Lemanska   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source